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Sat, Sep 15, 2018 09:00AM EDT
Lot 1048

A Collection of Several Pieces of Mr. John Locke

Estimate: $300 - $600

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Never Before Printed, or Not Extant in His Works, London: Printed by J. Bettenham for R. Francklin, 1720, first edition, contains Locke's Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, the distinguished beginnings of the Carolina constitution, and apparently the first attempt to create a written constitution (Streeter II: 1119), Sabin 41726, recently rebound in quarter leather over marbled boards, five raised bands, blind-stamped, morocco spine label

, Provenance: The Collection of Thomas A. Gray

Condition

some minor dampstaining to pages otherwise very good, binding as new

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