£500 - £700
COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND. A COLLECTION OF THE SEVERAL ACTS, ORDINANCES AND ORDERS AS WELL AS PARLIAMENT AS OF HIS HIGHNESS THE LORD PROTECTOR (NOW IN PORT) FOR THE LEVYING OF MONIES BY WAY OF EXCISE AND NEW-IMPOST partly black letter, title in double frame line facing arms, woodcut initials and headpieces, John Macock & Gartrude Dawson 1655 bound with An Additional Act for the Better Improvement and Advancing the Receipts of the Excise and New-Impost, 1657 including [separate title] A Book of Values of Merchadising Imported According to which Excize is to be Paid by the First Buyer, An Act and Declaration Touching Several Acts and Ordinances made since the twentieth of April 1653 and before the third of September 1654 and other Acts, etc at the Parliaments begun at Westminster the seventeenth day of September 1656, 1657 and An Act for the Improvement of the Revenue of the Customs & Excise, original mid 17th century plain dark brown morocco with narrow gilt filets and small corner ornaments, aeg, uncommonly fine
Includes an Act prohibiting the planting of tobacco in England and another for the charging of tobacco brought from New England.
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24% inc VAT*
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25.8% inc VAT*
