Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 321

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(WEST INDIES.) Group of Acts of Parliament regarding the sugar and rum trade. 12 items. Folio, disbound; the final act lacking a title page; each with a small modern bookplate on the final page. London, 1758-99
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Includes several acts passed in reaction to the American Revolution. such as "An Act . . . as Relates to the Preventing the Clandestine Conveyance of Sugar and Paneles from the British Colonies and Plantations in America into Great Britain" (1778), "An Act to Continue Several Laws relating to the Giving Further Encouragement for the Importation of Naval Stores from the British Colonies in America, to the Landing of Rum or Spirits of the British Sugar Plantations . . . and to Allowing a Drawback of the Duties on Rum" (1779), and "An Act . . . Preventing the Clandestine Conveyance of Sugar and Paneles from the British Colonies and Plantations in America into Great Britain" (1780). Complete list upon request.