Beschreibung:

NEW YORK] The laws of His 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 . Printed by William Bradford printer to the Queeens [sic] Most Excellent Majesty for the Colony of New-York: [New York], 1713. Later brown pebbled calf, edges sprinkled red. 11 1/4 x 7 inches (28.5 x 17.5 cm); [2] (title with royal arms), [4] (contents, possibly supplied or cancels), 88, 151-[167] (a section mispaginated, verso of last leaf unnumbered, blank), 168-245 (actually 253) pp. (again, erratic pagination is present throughout, partially corrected in ink in an old hand). Light binding wear, the title an 1/8 inch narrow but not necessarily supplied, the 4 pp. table of laws with what appears to be pasted-on cancels, with a jagged cut at the foot and to signature A; some toning and browning, with a small rust-hole with partial loss of a letter on signature S (p. 174-5 if correctly paginated), faint Bar Association stamp to the head of the title. As with the 1719 laws, the pagination of these laws is erratic (with a similar gap after p. 88), in part because they are composites of Bradford's various official publications of New York laws. The first section appears to correspond to Evans 1636, including the "Queeens" error in the imprint; pp. 168-169 are Evans 1637; pp. 170-182 [i.e. 170-181, as p. 174 is omitted] is Evans 1638 etc. A similar compendium of laws was sold by Sotheby's New York, June 21 2007. The only other copy of this work we can trace at auction is in the Murphy sale of 1884. C The New York City Bar Association