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[Parliament, Great Britain]; Anne, Queen of EnglandBiblio.com

ANNO REGNI ANNAE REGINAE MAGNA BRITANNIAE FRANCIAE & HIBERNIAE DUODECIMO Thirty-Nine Acts of Parliament Passed in the Twelfth Year of Queen Anne's Reign

1713Best.-Nr. 1394685London: Printed by John Baskett 1713-1717. First Editions. Hardcover. Folio 61-174 2179-191 6 203-206 2 211-218 2 223-270 2 275-357 3 361-362 2 367-382 2 387-422 4. In Good minus condition. Bound in full contemporary calf with banded spine and tooling to boards. Boards show moderate wear to edges moderate plus wear and bumping to corners and several gouges to the front board. Cracking to leather along joint of front board. A clear lacquer appears to have been applied to the boards. Text block has light age toning to edges. Ex-Library institutional plate appears on front paste down. Ex libris of former owner appears on front pastedown. Several ink "doodles" in an 18th-century hand appear on the front paste down and front free end page. Square-inch tear to fore-edge of front free end page. Pages tightly trimmed by binder impacting some of the printed marginal annotations. BB Consignment. Shelved in Room A Oversized. Appears to contain two collections of public statutes passed in 1713 and 1714 but printed between 1713 and 1717 each with a closing contents page. The first collection contains Acts II - XVIII of 18 acts and the second contains Acts II - XXIII of 23 acts. The acts cover a range of topics including duties tariffs and taxes; the paying and management of military personnel and militias; and the management of churches. The most significant of the acts however is Act 15 of the second set of acts entitled "An Act for Providing a Publick Reward for such Person or Persons as shall Discover the Longitude at Sea". This formally established the Commissioners of the Longitude and the reward of £20000 for "the first Author or Authors Discoverer or Discoverers of any such method ." that to the satisfaction of the committee accurately determined a ship's longitude at sea accurate to within 20 geographical miles. This reward would not be claimed until 1765 when clockmaker John Harrison developed his "time-keeper" or marine chronometer. 1394685. Special Collections - Upstairs. Printed by John Baskett hardcover

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ENGLAND Parliament Laws & StatutesBiblio.com

Anno Regni Caroli II.Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae & Hibernie Decimo Quinto. At theParliament begun at Westminster the eighth da of May Anno Dom. 1661.In the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of our most Gracious Soveraign LordCharles by the Grace of God of England Scotland France; and IrelandKing Defender of the Faith &c

Best.-Nr. 34690London. Printed by John Bill andChristopher Barker. 1663. Hardcover. folio iv312p. black letter ornatechapter devices decorated initial letters in contemp dark calf realraised bands top spine edge and corner chipped or bumped very goodinternally fine. cgc - An Act for Repairing the Highways within theCounties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington. - An Act for thePunishment of unlawful Cutting or Stealing or Spoiling of Wood andUnder-wood and Destroyers o young Timber-Trees. - An Act to explain andsupply a former Act for distribution of Threescore thousand poundsamongst the truly Loyal and Indigent Commission Officers.- AnAdditional Act for the better Ordering the Forces in the several Countiesof this Kingdom. - An Act for Regulating Select Vestries. - An Act forRelief of such Persons as by Sickness or other Impediment were disabledfrom Subscribing the Declaration in the Act of Uniformity andExplanation of part of the said Act. - An Act for the Encouragement ofTrade - An Act to prevent the selling of live fat Cattel by Butchers. - An Act for granting Four intire Subsidies to His Majesty by theTemporalty. pp91-207. - An Act for Confirming of Four Subsidies Grantedby the Clergy. - An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collectingthe Duty of Excise and preventing the Abuses therein. - An AdditionalAct for the better Ordering and Collecting the Revenue arising byHearth-Money. - An Act for Setling the Profits of the Post-Office andPower of Granting Wine-Licenses on his Royal Highness the Duke of Yorkand the Heirs Males of his Body. - An Act for Encouraging theManufactures of making Linen Cloth and Tapistry. - An Act for regulatingthe Herring and other Fisheries. And for Repeal of the Act concerningMadder. London. Printed by John Bill andChristopher Barker. 1663 hardcover

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