Sep 24, 2020 - Sale 2546

Sale 2546 - Lot 129

Price Realized: $ 688
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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(LAW.) Acts and Laws of His Majesty's English Colony of Connecticut, bound with 4 short supplements. 271 pages. Folio, contemporary calf, worn; contents worn, finger-soiling, minor dampstaining, leaves S3-4 defective with some loss of text; extensive manuscript notes to endpapers. New London, CT: Timothy Green, 1750-53
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"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 4 continuations: Evans 6653, 6830, 6831, and 6981.
Several of the rear flyleaves have been removed, but the 4 remaining leaves contain some interesting notes, including a 13-point chronology of the American Revolution on a partial leaf extending through 1780; a list of 14 men headed "This book belongs to these men hereafter named according to their list," each apparently annotated with their tax rate; and a 1781 note on life philosophy: "The thought said oft is to keep what you got, and git what you can." Laid in is an amusing 5-page letter by an unnamed descendant dated 1995, laying out some family history and describing this book as "the WASP Talmud: 23,000 rules or more as the crows fly, to constrain the constituents from complete abandon in their pursuit of happiness, liberty and life."