Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Aug 2024, 2024
ISBN 10: 1022503596 ISBN 13: 9781022503595
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This fascinating historical document provides a snapshot of life in early colonial America. The Blue Laws were a strict set of regulations imposed by the Puritan government of Connecticut, governing everything from dress and speech to religious observance and behavior in public. This book offers a glimpse into the lives of the first settlers in New England and their austere way of life.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Jul 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1020376902 ISBN 13: 9781020376900
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Duane Rulison, Phila, 1861
Anbieter: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, USA
Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Original blindstamped dark brown cloth with gilt banner lettering front cover; respined in black half-leather lettered in gilt. 235 pps. plus publisher's ads, with index and appendix being the first collection of laws adopted in the Colony of Massachusetts. Scarce work collecting the original "blue laws" of Connecticut Colony beginning with selections from the 1630s. The records were compiled from both printed and manuscript sources with transcriptions of judicial proceedings from manuscript court records. The author's preface mentions that there was a "long out of print" first editon of the work but we have been unable confirm its existance. A tight copy, generally very good, foxing to the prelims and title page.