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LEAMING, Aaron (1715-1780) and Jacob SPICER (1716-1765). The Grants, Concessions & Original Constitutions of the Province of New Jersey. The Acts Passed during the Proprietary Governments, & other Material Transactions before the Surrender, thereof to Queen Anne. The instrument of surrender, and her formal acceptance thereof. Lord Cornbury's commission and instructions... Philadelphia: W[illiam] Bradford, [1758].
LEAMING, Aaron (1715-1780) and Jacob SPICER (1716-1765). The Grants, Concessions & Original Constitutions of the Province of New Jersey. The Acts Passed during the Proprietary Governments, & other Material Transactions before the Surrender, thereof to Queen Anne. The instrument of surrender, and her formal acceptance thereof. Lord Cornbury's commission and instructions... Philadelphia: W[illiam] Bradford, [1758]. Folio (11 1/8 x 7 1/8 in). (4) 763 pages. Title within rule border, decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces. (Title with small tape stain and neat mends to edges). (Rebound in polished brown calf, period style, preserving original paste-downs and free endpapers, gilt-lettered morocco spine label). Provenance : W.H. Vanderburgh, early ownership inscription on title. FIRST EDITION. A highly important compilation of the fundamental New Jersey charters and session laws of the proprietary period (1664 to 1702), up to Lord Cornbury's commission and instructions as Royal Governor, when New Jersey became a crown colony under Queen Anne. Publication was ordered by the New Jersey Assembly in 1752, but two years were required to collect the documents to be included, while the typesetting and printing took Bradford an additional three. By the date of publication, some 170 copies had been subscribed. The imposing 763-page folio constitutes the largest volume ever issued from Bradford's press (and one of the largest from any eighteenth-century American press). Evans 8205; Felcone 156; Hildeburn 1596; Sabin 39527.