William and Queen Mary to the Inhabitants of the Pro-
vince of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, Boston,
in New-England, printed by Bartholomew Green and John
Allen (printers to His Excellency the Governour & Council)
for and sold by Michael Perry and Benjamin Eliot, 1699—
Acts and Laws of His Majesties Province of the Mas-
sachusetts-Bay, in New-England [royal arms], Boston,
printed by Bartholomew Green and John Allen (printers to
His Excellency the Governour and Council) for and sold by
Michael Perry at his Shop over against the Town-House,
and Benjamin Eliot, under the West-End of the Town-
House, 1699, together 2 vol., as issued, in one, orig. panelled
cf. (rebacked, cracked at hinges), stencilled library stamp
on first title, Boston, 1699, sm. folio (118 by 71), (107),
Feb. 27, American Art Association
$650

[Collation: Title to charter, one leaf, verso blank; charter, pp. 3-15, verso of last blank, but with autograph signature of Samuel Browne; title to acts, one leaf, verso authorization of printing; acts, pp. 3-158; table, 4 pp. Ford and Matthews, page 30; Sabin, No. 45566, where additional Session laws are apparently included, making 192 pages; Evans, Nos. 867 and 868; Tower, No. 148; Church, Nos. 781 and 782.]

America. New Jersey. The Laws and Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesties Province of Nova Cæsarea, or New-Jersey, as they were enacted by the Governour, Council and General Assembly, for the time being, in divers Sessions, the first of which began in November, 1703, contemp. cf., rebacked (title repaired, a few marginal tears and time-stained, with ancient writing on title and fly-leaves), Printed and sold by William Bradford, 1717, folio (916), May 2, Anderson Galleries $1,500

[Of excessive rarity. Not in the Benedict collection, nor is it in the Tower collection in this state. There are no pages 23 and 44. Tower No. 551 ends with p. 60, and No. 552 carries the Acts on to p. 78. From here on, the present copy differs with Tower collation of Nos. 553 and 554. In the latter number, the collation is given as pp. 95-123, whereas in the present copy the Act called for in Tower begins on p. 79, and continues to p. 101, with further laws for 1720, occupying pp. 102 to 115. These last do not appear to be mentioned by Tower.] America. New York Laws, 1694. The Laws and Acts of the General Assembly for Their Majesties Province of New-York, as they were enacted in divers Sessions, the first of which began April the 9th, Annoq. Domini 1691, orange mor., by Bradstreet, At New-York, printed and sold by William Bradford, printer to their Majesties, King William and Queen Mary, 1694, sm. folio (11 by 67), (311), Feb. 27, American Art Association $3,000

[The only copy known to be in a private collection. Collation: Title (in exact facsimile), one leaf, verso

blank; table, 2 pp.; Acts, pp. 1-84 (pages 58 and 59 wrongly numbered 57 and 58); catalogue of fees, pp. 11, verso of last blank; several new blank leaves added at end. Hasse, No. 20; Tower, No. 575; Evans, No. 703; Church, No. 750; Sabin, No. 53726; Grolier Club Exhibition, 1893, No. 21.] America. New York Laws, 1710. The Laws of Her Majesties Colony of New-York, as they were enacted by the Governour, Council and General Assembly, for the time being, in divers Sessions, the first of which began April the 9th, Annoq. Dom. 1691, to which is added, His Excellency's Speeches and Messages to the General Assembly, and a Journal of the Votes and Addresses of the House during the Administrations of the Rt. Honorable the Lord Cornburry, Lord Lovelace and the honourable Coll. Richard Ingoldesby, Esq., Governors of said Colony, to the 12th of November, 1709 [royal arms], orig. panelled sheep, [New York], printed by William Bradford, printer to the Queens most Excellent Majesty for the Colony of NewYork, 1710, sm. folio (11 by 71). (326), Feb. 27, American Art Association $2,100

[The rare second revision of the laws of the Colony of New York, with the original end-papers at front and back, and the autograph signature of Lawrence Reade, a prominent merchant of New York, whose name appeared on several of the currency bills of credit issued by the colony in 1709 to defray the expenses of the colony in the proposed expedition against Canada. The De Puy copy. Another copy, Lot 327, $1,400.]

America. New York Laws, 1713. The Laws of Her Majesties Colony of New-York, as they were enacted by the Governour, Council and General Assembly for the time being, in divers Sessions, the first of which began April the 9th, Annoq. Dom. 1691 [royal arms], orig. panelled sheep (some of the pages water-stained, a few 11. cockled, first 2 11. of Acts damaged), [New York], printed by William Bradford, printer to the Queens most Excellent Majesty for the Colony of New-York, 1713, sm. folio (11 by 7), (328), Feb. 27, American Art Association

$900

[The very rare third revision of the Colonial Laws of New York. An almost perfect copy, with Additional Laws of 1714 to 1717, two ordinances, "The Fee Ordinance of 1710" and The Ordinance of October 20th, 1715," bound in. Hasse, No. 192; Tower, No. 600. Not in Grolier Club Exhibition, 1893.

"

America. Pennsylvania Laws, 1714. The Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania collected into one volume, by order of the Governour and Assembly of the said Province, orig. panelled cf. (cracked at hinges, slight tears into margins of 5 11.), in cl. folder and red levant mor. back slip-case, Printed and sold by Andr. Bradford in

Philadelphia, 1714, sm. folio (12 by 72), (435), Feb. 27,
American Art Association
$1,000

[First collected Laws of Pennsylvania. With the
original binding and the original end-paper at front.
Collation: Blank leaf; title, one leaf, verso, advertise-
ment to the reader; contents, 2 pp.; Acts, 89 leaves,
numbered irregularly, as follows: 1-13, 12, 13, 16-32,
34-37, 43, 40-54, 52, 56, 57, 58, 69-77, 76, 77, 80-96, 95,
96, 93, 94, 99-130, 127-142, 139, 144-175, 172, 177-184
blank leaf. Tower, No. 643; Hildeburn, No. 128;
Sabin, No. 60192; Evans, No. 1712; Church, No. 860.]
America. The Laws of the British Plantations in America
relating to the Church and the Clergy, Religion and
Learning, collected in one volume, by Nicholas Trott,
LL.D., Chief Justice of the Province of South Carolina
[crown above rose bud and branch], rebound in hf. red
levant mor., gt. back and edges (slight tears in margin of
title repaired), London, printed for B. Crouse . . . MDCCXXI.
[1721], folio (148 by 9), (3), Feb. 27, American Art Asso-
ciation
$225

[The only known copy with this imprint and date.
The New York Public Library copy, from which Miss
Hasse took her information, has title-page dated 1725
and with imprint of another printer.]
America. Acts and Laws of His Majesty's Colony of Rhode
Island and Providence Plantations in New England,
1752, folio (1054), Nov. 7, Dowell
£15 IOS.
America. Statement respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settle-
ment of Kildonan, with appendix-Macdonald's Narra-
tive respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement upon Red
River A Sketch of the British Fur Trade-A Narrative
of the Occurrences in the Indian Countries of N. America,
with appendix-A Letter from the Earl of Liverpool to
the Earl of Selkirk (inscribed copy), with appendix—
M'Dowell's Narrative of Transactions in the Red River
Country, map-Statement respecting the Earl of Sel-
kirk's Settlement upon the Red River, maps and appen-
dix-Report of the Proceedings connected with the Dis-
putes between the Earl of Selkirk and N.-W. Company-
Trial of John Cooper and Hugh Bannerman, together 2
vol., hf. cf., v.y. (441), March 13, Dowell
£50
America. Papers presented to the Committee appointed to
inquire into the state and condition of the Countries ad-
joining to Hudson's Bay and of the Trade carried on
there, 1749-Report from the Committee, 1749, 2 parts
in I vol., old bds., uncut, folio (8), Feb. 13, Sotheby
Quaritch, £36
America. Georgia. The Resolutions of the Trustees for
Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America. . . relat-
ing to the Grants and Tenure of Lands within the said
Colony, 4 pp., 8 March, 1741, sm. folio-The Hard Case
of the Distressed People of Georgia, 4 pp., 26 April, 1742,

sm. folio (part of margins of both cut close), unbd. (231),
Nov. 30, Hodgson
£15 15S.
America. American Revolution. A Short Narrative of the
Horrid Massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the Evening of
the fifth of March, 1770, by Soldiers of the XXIXth
Regiment, which with the XIVth Regiment were then
quartered there, with some Observations on the state of
things prior to that Catastrophe, pp. 48-Appendix,
subject of it, pp. 80-An Index to the Appendix, pp.
81-83 [and the additional pages containing] a copy of the
letter wrote by the Committee to the Duke of Richmond,
pp. 86-88, and signed by James Bowdoin, Samuel Pem-
berton and Joseph Warren, hf. mor., Printed by order of
the town of Boston, 1770, 8vo. (22), Dec. 6, American Art
Association
$105

[Rare second issue, with the subsequently printed
matter which was intended for the Boston issue only.]
America. American Revolution. Broadside. In Provincial
Congress, Cambridge, October 22, 1774. ... It is resolved,
as the sense of this Congress, that it is highly proper that
a Day of Public Thanksgiving should be observed through-
out this Province, and it is accordingly recommended.
that Thursday, the fifteenth day of December next, be
observed as a Day of Thanksgiving. . . . by order of the
Provincial Congress, John Hancock, President, untrimmed
edges [Boston, printed by Edes and Gill, 1774], folio (31),
Dec. 6, American Art Association
$105

[The first proclamation issued by the first Provincial
Congress of Massachusetts, and the first to be issued
without the sanction of a Royal Governor in the colonies.
Conciliatory in tone towards Great Britain and the
troubles of this period so shortly before the outbreak of
the Revolution.]

America.

American Revolution. Broadside. In Congress,
July 4, 1776. Declaration by the Representatives of
the United States of America in General Congress As-
sembled [two columns], signed by order and in behalf of
the Congress, John Hancock, President; attest, Charles
Thompson [sic], Secretary, neatly backed with gauze
(three or four letters damaged), [Boston, printed by John
Gill and Powers and Willis, in Queen-Street, 1776], folio
(45), Dec. 6, American Art Association

$300

[The official Massachusetts issue of the Declaration of
Independence. One of three copies known.]

America. The Present State of New-England with respect to
the Indian War, wherein is an Account of the true reason
thereof... together with most of the remarkable passages
that have happened from the 20th of June till the 10th
of November, 1675, faithfully composed by a Merchant
of Boston, the first of the rare New England tracts [by
a writer who signs himself "N. S." in the other two, but
whose real name is unknown], original ed. (small rust-

hole in one leaf and stamp on title and 2 II.), 10 ll., bds., D. Newman, 1675, sm. folio (593), May 10, Hodgson £47 America. A collection of Tracts on the subjects of Taxing the British Colonies in America and Regulating their Trade, 4 vol., hf. cf., Printed for J. Almon, Lond., 177366-69 (934), Oct. 10, Dowell

America.

£41

A Primer for the Use of the Mohawk Children, aquatint front. by J. Peachey (library stamp on title and 2 11.), old cf., C. Buckton, 1786, sq. 12mo. (501), Jan. 25, Hodgson £19 103. America, a Prophecy, orig. coloured issue, title and 16 pages, fine copy, in wrappers, preserved in a brown mor. slipcase (wants front.), Lambeth, printed by William Blake in the year 1793, folio (1153), July 3, Sotheby Dobell, £90 America. American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, full-page steel engravings, Vol. i.-xv., in the original parts, as issued, 15 vol., wrappers, uncut, in cl. slip-cases, Baltimore and New York, 1829-1844, 8vo. (31), April 3, Anderson Galleries $1,000

[The present copy is in a remarkable state considering the ephemeral nature of the work and its reference value, and, while some of the wrappers are worn and a plate or two loose, it is in all probability as nearly perfect a copy as will ever be offered. We give as follows the major defects-Vol. i., Nos. 5, 7 and 11 missing, three covers and one plate lacking; Vol. ii., two covers lacking; Vol. iii., one plate and two covers trimmed; Vol. iv., lacks index and title-page; Vol. vii., No. 12 missing; Vol. viii., Index and title-page missing: Vol. ix., Nos. 4, 6, 7, 8 and 12 missing; Vol. x., No. 9 missing; Vol xi., one plate missing; Vol. xii., No. 4 missing; Vol. xiii., lacks four covers and title-page to Vol. xii.; Vol. xiv., lacks title-page and index for Vol. xiii.; Vol. xv., one plate missing. This oldest and most important American sporting periodical was founded in September, 1829, by John S. Skinner. In his introduction to No. 1, Vol. i., he said: "The want of a repository in this country, like the English Sporting Magazine, to serve as an authentic record of the performances and pedigrees of the bred horses will be admitted by all. . Skinner sold the American Turf Register in 1835, after six volumes had been published, to Gideon B. Smith, who carried it on for four years, and the publication then fell into the hands of Wm. T. Porter, who carried it on to 1844, when it came to an end.] America. Cambridge (Mass.) A Platform of Church-Discipline gathered out of the Word of God, and agreed upon by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in N.E., pp. (12), 33 (1), hf. mor. (top margins cut bias, shaving in some instances the head or caption line), early signatures in ink of William Hubart and Thomas Spence, Cambridge, printed by Mar