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- An Act to amend and render more effectual, in His Majesty's Dominions in America . . . An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for . . . extending the Provisions of the said Act to His Majesty's Marine Forces in America [15 Geo III c.15]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan [etc.], London, 1775.
- Description:
- A rare separate printing of the extension of the Quartering Acts to marine forces as well as those on land, increasing the existing tensions with the American colonies, and ultimately one of the grievances stated in the Declaration of Independence
- Condition:
- Modern green wraps, title + pages 383-406, light browning, else well-preserved with ample margins; four copies in ESTC, one in England
- Book No.:
- W-76282
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- Acts, colonies, military law
- Author:
- Title:
- Reasons for a Registry: Shewing briefly The great Benefits and Advantages that may accrew to this Nation thereby. And Likewise Reconciling those mistaken Inconveniences which many have conceived thereof. Wing R486. 4to
- Publisher:
- Printed for Charles Harper . . . in Fleetstreet, London, 1678.
- Description:
- Part of the centuries' long debate, first bruited by Henry VIII, whether to require registration of title or of conveyances (or of neither), not finally resolved in England until the mid-19th century and, comprehensively, the 20th century
- Condition:
- Modern boards, printed paper label, browned, else quite sound with untrimmed edges and both blanks, the first chipped and soiled; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79651
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- colonies, Connecticut, conveyancing, Real Property
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act to amend and render more effectual, in His Majesty's Dominions in America . . . An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters [5 Geo III c.33]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Mark Baskett . . . and . . . Assigns of Robert Baskett, London, 1765.
- Description:
- A rare separate printing of the first Quartering Act, leading to increased tension with the American colonies, disputed by them as mandating taxation without representation and subventioning a standing army in peacetime; one copy in England in ESTC
- Condition:
- General title + pages 579-596, light browning, disbound, else a very good untrimmed copy with generous margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-76116
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- Acts, colonies, military law
- Author:
- Title:
- An Abstract of All the Acts Passed In the Fifth Session of the Seventh Parliament of Great Britain, and the Fifth Year of the Reign of our most Gracious Sovereign Lord King George the Second. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Baskett [etc.], London, 1732.
- Description:
- A rare example of an annual, official publication abstracting the just enacted Parliamentary legislation, in this case, some thirty-three acts, including two affecting justices of the peace and several pertaining to colonies in this hemisphere
- Condition:
- Modern marbled wraps, some browning and foxing, else a sound copy, with the final leaf itemizing separately printed, available acts; four copies in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-76939
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Acts, Abridgements, justices of peace, colonies
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act for restraining and preventing several unwarrantable Schemes and Undertakings in His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America [14 Geo II c.37]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Baskett [etc.], London, 1741.
- Description:
- The extension to the American colonies of the famous act passed in the midst of the South Sea Bubble economic crisis of 1720, the original act described by Maitland as one which "seems to scream at us from the statute book"; no copy in the UK in ESTC
- Condition:
- ?Original sewn wraps, disbound, title page + pages 683 to 687, a very little marginal staining, else quite clean with good margins; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79435
- Price:
- $ 325.00
- Category:
- Acts, colonies, fraud, Law and the stockmarket
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