Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Large group of Parliamentary acts relating to America. 59 items. Folio, disbound; condition generally strong. London, 1739-72

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Two highlights are "An Act for Granting Certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America" (a.k.a. the Sugar Act, 4 George III, Cap. XV, 1764) and "An Act for the Better Recruiting His Majesty's Forces on the Continent of America" (29 George II, 1756). Most of the others also relate to taxation, trade, and the military.