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SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY PRIVATE SALE CATALOGUE<br />

54. Acts of Parliament for <strong>1<strong>66</strong>6</strong>, a highly <strong>in</strong>terest<strong>in</strong>g and important collection of the Acts of<br />

Parliament passed <strong>in</strong> the year <strong>1<strong>66</strong>6</strong> The volume conta<strong>in</strong>s the complete through-paged set of<br />

acts with a collective table, which <strong>in</strong>cludes acts concern<strong>in</strong>g the Anglo-Dutch war,<br />

1<strong>66</strong>4-1<strong>66</strong>7; An Act for Encourag<strong>in</strong>g Coynage [sic.] acts relat<strong>in</strong>g to the ‘late fire which<br />

happened <strong>in</strong> London’ and ‘An Act for Rebuild<strong>in</strong>g the City of London’. Together with Sir<br />

Edward Turnor’s speech respond<strong>in</strong>g to the K<strong>in</strong>g’s speech also concern<strong>in</strong>g the Great Fire of<br />

London of <strong>1<strong>66</strong>6</strong>. Bound <strong>in</strong> a contemporary full-calf b<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g, bl<strong>in</strong>d ruled and titled <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>k on<br />

the front board ‘18 Jan: <strong>66</strong>’.<br />

With a contemporary ownership <strong>in</strong>scription on the front endpaper which reads ‘Ex Dono<br />

Rob[er]t Holt Bart. July 7 1<strong>66</strong>7’.<br />

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