E-Sylum reader Adri�n Gonz�lez forwarded a link to an interesting item for sale on eBay.

As described in the seller's listing (IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS!!!!), the book is:

Other descriptions include:

The contemporary illustrations of circulating coins are important clues for numismatic researchers, but what most caught my eye was the claim that the book contains the first printed representation of the U.S. dollar sign ($). Is that true? The seller didn't list his source for the claim, but knowing that our friend Eric Newman researched the topic, I reached for a copy of his paper, which was published in the proceedings of the 1993 Coinage of the Americas conference at the American Numismatic Society in New York.

Newman does cite and illustrate the 1797 Lee book. Newman writes:

Sorry, eBay seller - your description isn't accurate. Still, it's a neat item worth of inclusion in a numismatic library.Readers, check out Newman's monograph. It's meticulously researched and very well written, illustrated and annotated.

Joel Orosz adds:

To view the complete eBay fixed-price listing, see:1797 AMERICAN ACCOMPTANT FEDERAL MATH 1ST USE OF $ SIGN(cgi.ebay.com/1797-AMERICAN-ACCOMPTANT-
FEDERAL-MATH-1ST-USE-SIGN-/290575151885?pt=Antiquarian_Collectible
&hash=item43a7a0f30d)