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(ANGLO-AMERICAN JUDAICA). - (Two British Parliamentary Acts). An Act for Naturalizing such Foreign Protestants, and others therein mentioned, as are Settled, or shall Settle in any of His Majesty’s Colonies in America (13 George II, c. 7). London, 1739.       * WITH: An Extension of the above Act (20 George II c. 44). London, 1747.. Together, two Acts. Unbound. Folio. Est: $2,000 - $3,000 First Emancipation Act for the Jews of America.      This 1739 Act, admitting Jews to naturalization in the Colonies after seven years of residence is a landmark in the history of Jewish emancipation.      The 1747 was an extension of the Act and benefitted other Foreign Protestants