[Rarebooks] FS: New Jersey Laws, 1776 folio

[Charles Agvent]

[NEW  JERSEY  LAW] ALLINSON, Samuel (compiler). ACTS  OF
          THE GENERAL  ASSEMBLY OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW-JERSEY, FROM THE
          SURRENDER  OF  THE GOVERNMENT TO QUEEN  ANNE....  Burlington:
          Isaac Collins  1776. First Edition. Folio (8-3/4" x  13-1/8")
          bound in  modern  buckram with an older leather spine  label.
          viii, 493,  [1],  6,  6, 4, 4, 3, [1], 15, [1]  pages.  Small
          stamp from  the Harvard Law Library on the title page and two
          text pages.  Covers  the period from 1702 to 14 January  1776
          with the  ordinance for regulating and establishing the  fees
          of the  court  of chancery and three alphabetical tables  and
          an index.  With  numerous acts described including  those  on
          regulating  slaves, taverns, fire arms, the militia, gambling
          and horse  races,  as  well  as  acts  dividing  and  forming
          counties.  A  wonderful compendium of colonial laws right  up
          to the  colonies'  declaration of independence from  England.
          Small,  18th  century bookplate of Du Ponceau pasted  to  the
          bottom  blank  of the title page. Minor tears, light  foxing.
          Very Good in a sturdy binding.                       $2000.00


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