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Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis... Decimo Sexto.
At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth Day of November, Anno Domini 1774... And from thence continued... to the Twenty-sixth Day of October, 1775... An Act to prohibit all Trade and Intercourse with the Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Three Lower Counties on Delaware, Maryland,Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia during the Continuance of the present Rebellion within the said Colonies respectively...
Publisher: London, Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1776
Stock code: 42963
Price: £650 Currency Conversion
First edition. In a final attempt to bring to heel the "Many Persons" in the above states who have "set themselves in Open Rebellion and Defiance to the just and legal Authority of the King and Parliament of Great Britain" by economic sanctions, this Act prohibited all trade with the Colonies on pain of forfeiture of ships and their cargoes.
Quarto. disbound. Large wood-engraving of the Royal Arms to the title page. Light browning, some foxing, but overall very good.
