Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 189

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(LAW.) [The Report of an Action of Assault, Battery, and Wounding, Tried] in the Supreme Court of . . . New-York. iv, 66 (of 68) pages. 4to, disbound; moderate dampstaining, lacking half title, final leaf, and top third of title page. New York: John Holt, 1764 [1765]

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A record of the important Forsey v Cunningham case, relating to the sanctity of a jury verdict. Bristol B2464; Sabin 25124. Only one other copy known at auction since 1944 (at Swann, 12 January 1989, lot 74, $1,200).