Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 212

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(MASSACHUSETTS.) The Charter Granted by their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to . . . Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, bound with Acts and Laws of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay as issued, and supplements. [1], 14, 17, [2], 626 pages. Folio, later calf, joints repaired and broken; title page defective and laid down on paper, minor dampstaining to inner margins, early manuscript additions to Table of Contents leaves, intermittent foxing, closed tears to a few leaves; early owner's signatures on flyleaf and title page. Boston: B. Green, et al., 1726-37

Additional Details

Includes the charter (bound first), the full 1726 laws in 347 pages, and 30 separately-printed supplements all of the session laws printed through 7 July 1737. Charlemagne Tower 215-245; Evans 2762, 2900-2, 3054-7, 3182, 3306-7, 3440-2, 3564-5, 3679-82, 3790-2, 3923-5, 4034-6, 4157-8.