Oct 10, 2002 - Sale 1946

Sale 1946 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 1,725
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Massachusetts Bay. [Act and Laws, of her Majesties Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.] 12, vi, 252 pages; lacks both titles and the last text leaf of The Charter. bound with:<> Acts and Laws Passed by the Great and General Court of Assembly . . . Twenty-fifth of May, 1715.<> 253-254 pages * . . . the Twentieth Day of July following, and then Met.<> 255-258 pages * . . . the Twenty-third Day of November following, and then Met.<> 259-268 pages * . . . the Thirtieth of May, 1716.<> 269-278 pages * . . . the Seventh Day of November following, and then Met.<> 279-286 pages * . . . the Twenty-ninth of May 1717.<> 287-289 pages * . . . the Twenty-third of October following, and then Met.<> 291-294 pages * . . . the Sixth Day of February following, and then Met.<> 295-298 pages * . . . the Twenty-eight of May, 1718.<> 299-309 pages * . . . the Twenty-ninth Day of October following, and then Met.<> 311-314 pages * . . . the Twenty-seventh Day of May, 1719.<> 315-318 pages * . . . the Fourth Day of November following, and then Met.<> 319-326 pages. Together, 13 parts in one. 4to, early calf, needs rebinding; several defective leaves including some loss. Boston: Green, 1714-19

Additional Details



A very uncommon collection of colonial laws, but because of its condition<