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LOTTO 46:
JONAS B. PHILLIPS. Light May the Boat Row. Duett ...
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400
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Commissione per la casa d'aste: 25%
IVA: 8.875%
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JONAS B. PHILLIPS. Light May the Boat Row. Duett, sung with the most enthusiastic applause by Mrs. and Miss Watson, at the Park Theatre, concerts &c.
Second edition.
pp. 5. Foxed, small tears at inner edge. Unbound. Folio.
New York, Atwill’s Music Salon, n.d.
Jonas B. Phillips (1805-69) was a member of an illustrious American-Jewish family, especially prominent in New York and Philadelphia, and descends back to the first Jonas Phillips, who emigrated from Germany to England in 1751 and thence to America in 1756.
In later life Phillips turned to law and was appointed assistant district attorney for the county of New York, retaining that position under several successive administrations.
