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Paper Currency in the British Plantations in America

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Paper Currency in the British Plantations in America
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Swift, Lindsay [editor], et al. HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. NUMBER ONE. Boston: Published by the Trustees, 1900. 4to, contemporary brown quarter morocco, gilt, with mottled boards. Blank leaf, vii, (1), 28 pages, blank leaf; title vignette. Binding just a trifle rubbed. Near fine. Ex libris Harold Bowditch. One of only 250 copies issued. Three manuscripts are printed verbatim et literatum, including one entitled "Paper Currency in the British Plantations in America, 1741 (?)." According to a footnote, this manuscript was submitted to Andrew McFarland Davis who opined "that it was a memorial, prepared in 1741, and either written by William Douglass, the author of 'A discourse concerning the currencies of the British plantations in America,' or was based on material obtained from him." Ex Kolbe Sale 60, lot 447.