Acts of Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania...

Item #81195

(PENNSYLVANIA). The Acts of Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania...Together with the Royal, Proprietary, City and Borough Charters...Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Hall and Sellers, 1775. xxi,536,22,[12]pp. Folio. Orig. calf, rebacked in period-style leather, raised spine bands, original red morocco spine label laid downlight foxing and toning, else very good. $1,500.00[a] Tower Collection 754. Sabin 59820. Hildeburn 3147. Evans 14364. NAIP w006509. An important and useful one-volume digest of the colonial laws of Pennsylvania, collecting all of the acts of the Pennsylvania assembly still in force, beginning in 1700 and running through September 1775. This major law book effectively became the basis for all provincial law as it translated to the new state. Also given are the short titles of expired laws. Edited by the Pennsylvania Assembly member and eventual Loyalist, Joseph Galloway. The twenty-two-page appendix has a separate titlepage. Ownership signature "Stephen Chambers, 1777" at head of title page, with a few marginal annotations in the same hand and Chambers' bookplate on front pastedown. Chambers was a very distinguished lawyer of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He used a printed book-label, surrounded by a border of typographical ornaments, reading: "Stephen Chambers' Property." Chambers was killed in 1789, in a duel, by Dr. Rieger.

Price: $1,500.00