Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 346

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(NEW JERSEY.) Wilson, Peter; compiler. Acts of the General Assembly of the State of New-Jersey. Folio, contemporary calf, worn, detached boards; minor dampstaining, intermittent foxing and toning, lacking flyleaf; original owner's signature on front free endpaper, library bookplate and inked notes on front pastedown. (JMR) Trenton, NJ: Isaac Collins, 1784

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first issue, with uncorrected title, of the first compilation of laws under New Jersey's July 1776 Constitution. This copy was issued to Joshua M. Wallace, a Burlington merchant who three years later served at the state convention which ratified the United States Constitution in New Jersey. Evans 18632; Felcone, Printing in New Jersey 394; Sabin 53048. with--a copy of the more common second issue, with the corrected title Acts of the Council and General Assembly of the State of New-Jersey. Contemporary 1/4 calf, dampstaining, issued to the Assessor of Deptford.