(MASSACHUSETTS) Acts and Laws Passed by the Great and Genera

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(MASSACHUSETTS.) Acts and Laws Passed by the Great and General Court . . . of the Massachusetts Bay. 349-728 pages. 39 printings in one volume. Folio, early 20th-century 1/2 morocco, moderate wear, gilt-stamped "Association of the Bar" on backstrip; moderate dampstaining and foxing, leaf 6P bound out of order, lacking leaf 7D2; inked library stamps to first page. Boston: B. Green and others, 1727-41

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A compilation of 39 separate printings with continuous pagination and signatures, a complete run except for one missing leaf. Engravings of the colony's new currency appear on page 625. Evans 2900-2, 3054-7, 3182, 3306-7, 3440-2, 3564-5, 3679-82, 3790-2, 3923, 4034-6, 4157-8, 4265-7, 4383-4, 4547-51 (4549 incomplete), 4743. Provenance: Doyle's New York Bar Association sale, 15 April 2015, lot 11.