Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 92

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CONNECTICUT.) Acts and Laws of His Majesty's English Colony of Connecticut. Folio, contemporary calf, rebacked; faint dampstaining throughout, closed tears on S2 and U4, bound with 22 dampstained blank leaves (some with early inscriptions); inscriptions of early owners Francis Bloodgood and Samuel Robbins on endpapers and title page. New London, CT, 1750-51

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Early owner Samuel Robbins has inscribed a bit of non-legal advice on the front free endpaper: "If overnight's debauch does hurtfull prove / A glass next morning will your pains remove."
"The variations in known copies of this edition of the Laws are numerous partly owing to the manner in which it was issued"--Evans 6479. Bound with 5 continuations: Evans 6480, 6653, 6830, 6831, and 6981. with--Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut. Folio, contemporary calf. Defective copy, with last 6 leaves torn out and other flaws. Evans 18410, 18412, 18414, 18964. New London, 1784-85.