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Rare original 1849 NANTUCKET INQUIRER newspaper pre Civil War - 172 years old
Rare original 1849 NANTUCKET INQUIRER newspaper pre Civil War - 172 years old
Rare original 1849 NANTUCKET INQUIRER newspaper pre Civil War - 172 years old

Rare original 1849 NANTUCKET INQUIRER newspaper pre Civil War - 172 years old

$ 14.78

Availability: 10 in stock
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  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Condition: Used

    Description

    Rare original 1849
    NANTUCKET INQUIRER
    newspaper pre Civil War - 170 years old -
    inv # 7T-215 & Generic
    Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction.
    SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
    Nantucket Inquirer
    (MA) dated in 1849.
    This newspaper contains coverage of national and international news as well as
    LOCAL
    Nantucket news and ads from 170 years ago.
    The exact date in 1849 is selected at random from our inventory of this title.
    Nantucket is an island about 30 miles
    by ferry south from Cape Cod, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town of Nantucket, and the conterminous Nantucket County. The region of Surfside on Nantucket is the southernmost settlement in Massachusetts.
    In his 1835 history of Nantucket Island, Obed Macy wrote that in the early pre-1672 colony, a whale of the kind called "scragg" entered the harbor and was pursued and killed by the settlers. This event started the Nantucket whaling industry. A. B. Van Deinse points out that the "scrag whale", described by P. Dudley in 1725 as one of the species hunted by early New England whalers, was almost certainly the gray whale, which has flourished on the west coast of North America in modern times with protection from whaling. Nantucket's dependence on trade with England, derived from its whaling and supporting industries, influenced its leading citizens to remain neutral during the American Revolutionary War, favoring neither the British nor those supporting revolution.
    Herman Melville commented on Nantucket's whaling dominance in Moby-Dick, Chapter 14: "Two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires". The Moby-Dick characters Ahab and Starbuck are both from Nantucket. The tragedy that inspired Melville to write his famous novel Moby-Dick was the Final Voyage of the Essex.
    Very good condition. This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. U.S. buyers pay  priority mail postage which includes waterproof plastic and a heavy cardboard flat to protect your purchase from damage in the mail. International postage is quoted when we are informed as to where the package is to be sent. We do combine postage (to reduce postage costs) for multiple purchases sent in the same package.
    We list thousands of rare newspapers with dates from 1570 through 2004 on Ebay each week. This is truly SIX CENTURIES OF HISTORY that YOU CAN OWN!
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