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Lot 59
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
9:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[BARKER, Christopher]. By the King a Proclamation Concerning the Times of holding this Summer Assizes. London: John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1660.
Broadside (363 x 253 mm). Woodcut seal in upper margin, woodcut border around initial, printed on one side. (Some chipping to seal and upper margin with minor losses.) Provenance: Harvard College Library (library stamp, deaccession stamp, pencil note dated Sept. 2, 1878).
FIRST EDITION, including a list of times and places for the courts in the six circuits. ESTC R212486; Wing C-3274. RARE: according to online records, no copy of this broadside as appeared at auction in the last 40 years.
Property from the Estate of Richardson and Janice Spofford, Chicago, Illinois
Property from the Estate of Richardson and Janice Spofford, Chicago, Illinois