The <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Clash&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Clash</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles?query=signed&amp;locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">autographed</a> London Calling 12-inch single.<ul><li>A 12-inch vinyl pressing of the 1979 Clash single London Calling autographed on the front of the sleeve by the group.</li><li>Paul Simonon, Topper Headon and Mick Jones have signed in blue pen.</li><li>Joe Strummer has signed in black pen.&nbsp;</li></ul>

The Clash Autographed London Calling Single

A vinyl pressing of the 1977 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=the%20clash&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Clash</a> single Remote Control/London’s Burning autographed on the front cover by John Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon in blue ballpoint pen. <ul><li>The signatures date to the late 1970s. </li></ul>

The Clash Autographed Remote Control Single

The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin

Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 The Constitution of the Common-Wealth of Pennsylvania, as established by the General Convention elected for that purpose, and held at Philadelphia, July 15th, 1776, and continued by Adjournments to September 28, 1776. Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap, in Market-Street, M,DCC,LXXVII (1777) 8vo (168 x 100 mm). Second printing, retaining the terminal blank leaf; Some staining, mostly to the first three leaves, with a pale circular stain on the title-page, and a dark (printer's ink?) stain on the following leaf, a few expert restorations, including a strip of Japanese tissue reattaching the title-page, a repaired corner, and closed edge tears. Bound in modern drab paper boards, printed spine label. The rare second printing of the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776, published by John Dunlap. The Pennsylvania Convention was held between 15 July and 28 September 1776, with the proceedings beginning just eleven days after the Declaration of Independence was passed. It was drafted by a group of ninety-six delegates, with eight each from the eleven counties and eight from Philadelphia, and was led by Benjamin Franklin. After the constitution was ratified, Dunlap printed it first in 1776 and again in 1777, just weeks before British forces occupied the city. "The attempt to form a new constitution in Pennsylvania was apparently a part of the general movement to throw off the yoke of Great Britain. But in reality it was far more than that! It was the outgrowth of years of patient suffering and smouldering antagonism; the culmination of class rivalry and sectional strife; the development of the spirit of democracy. The struggle over the first constitution framed in 1776 was caused not merely by political questions—theories of sovereignty, checks and balances, the doctrine of the separation of powers—but also by the clash of economic, ethnic, religious, social, and sectional interests" (Selsam, p. 1). As a result of this revolutionary milieu, Pennsylvania drafted what is often deemed the most liberal of all early state constitutions. It consisted of three parts—a preamble, a declaration of rights, and a frame of government. The first two were directly influenced by the Declaration of Independence, setting forth the state's objections to the crown and the basic rights of its citizens. The third part was ultimately a rejection of most past forms of republican government—a radical experiment in democracy, but ultimately a failed attempt at state-building. First and foremost, it included broad suffrage for all taxpaying men over the age of twenty-one, unlike many other states that restricted voting to landowners. As such, it was "an exceedingly democratic constitution" that enfranchised common people all throughout the state (Selsam, p. 3). The government consisted of a unicameral legislature and a twelve-member Supreme Executive Council, who would together annually elect the President, a weak executive without veto power. Other notable features included a Council of Censors that met to review whether the legislature had acted in accordance with the constitution, an unprecedented level of government transparency with all legislative meetings held in public, a prohibition against debtors prisons, and a public school system. This constitution, which gave too much power to the legislature, proved unsuccessful and, in 1790, a new constitution was ratified. For the minutes of the Pennsylvania Convention of 1776, see preceding lot, and for a political cartoon satirizing the debate surrounding the constitution, see lot 139. Both Dunlap printings are rare: just three copies of the 1776 edition, and no copies of this 1777 edition, appear in Rare Book Hub for the past fifty years. REFERENCES ESTC W10041; Evans 15512; Sabin 60014; Hildeburn 3535; J. Paul Selsam, The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 (Philadelphia, 1936)

View 1 of Lot 115: Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 | The rare second printing of the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776

pennsylvania constitution of 1776 | the rare second printing of the pennsylvania constitution of 1776

New Jersey [New Jersey Session Laws] Anno Regni Georgii II. … At a General Assembly of the Colony of New-Jersey, continued by the Adjournments to the 17th Day of November, Anno Domini 1747, and then begun and holden at Burlington, being the fifth sitting of the second Session of this present Assembly. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty for the province of New-Jersey, M,DCC,XLVIII (1748) Folio (310 x 185). Woodcut arms of George II on title-page; disbound, light spotting, a few minor creases, small chips, splits at the ends of the folds, and short edge-tears, the title, the upper corner of p. 3, and the last page lightly dust-soiled, paper repairs to the upper corners of the title, the top edge of the final leaf, and the lower corners of the final three leaves, with no losses to printing. Black cloth slipcase, chemise. A collection of 16 laws passed by the General Assembly of New Jersey in 1747–1748, the year Jonathan Belcher was appointed governor of the colony. The acts deal with a variety of topics, including livestock, infrastructure, slander, the punishment of counterfeiters, the importation of rum, and more. Two of the acts deal directly with the 1746 Land Riots, one being a pardon for the insurrectionists, known as the "Clinker Lot Right Men," and the other aimed at suppressing further unrest. Robert Morris was Chief Justice of the Colony of New Jersey when these laws were printed. Later on, as the deputy Governor of Pennsylvania, acting on behalf of the Penn family, he repeatedly clashed with Franklin and the Pennsylvania Assembly over the taxation of Penn family lands. His father, Lewis Morris, had been the colonial Governor of New Jersey until his death in 1746. This is the final piece of official printing that Franklin executed for the Province of New Jersey before Bradford took over. Franklin is mentioned on page 35, in a section detailing payments to the colony's official printers. For more on the Clinker Lot Right Men, see lot 41. Rare — only one copy of these laws has been sold at auction, the Ogden Goelet sale at Anderson Galleries in 1935, per RareBookHub. This copy includes an accompanying letter, evidently from a New York Bar Association librarian and laid into the clamshell case, referencing the Goelet sale and the fact that this copy was purchased from Newark Galleries. ESTC locates just four examples in institutional collections. REFERENCES Miller 449; ESTC W6242; Evans 6200; Hildeburn PROVENANCE Robert Hunter Morris (signature on title-page) — New York City Bar Association (purchased from Newark Galleries, 1935; Doyle Auctions, November 24 2014, lot 43)

View 1 of Lot 44: New Jersey Session Laws | Acts passed by the General Assembly of New Jersey in 1747-48, printed by Franklin

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