£500
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Auction: 19 February 2020 at 10:00 GMT
An Act for the more easy and speedy Trial of such Persons as have levied, or shall levy War; An Act to impower His Majesty to secure and detain such Persons as His Majesty shall suspect are conspiring against His Person; An Act to make it High Treason to hold Correspondence with the Sons of the Pretender; Jesse, John H. Memoirs of the Pretenders and their Adherents. Boston: Page, 1901, 3 volumes; MacAllester, Oliver. A Series of Letters, Discovering the Scheme Projected by France for an Intended Invasion upon England... The Secret Adventures of the Young Pretender. London: for the Author, 1767. First edition, 4to, 2 volumes in one, contemporary calf, wormhole in lower margin not affecting text, some spotting, rubbed; and 34 others (41)