Acts of the General Assembly of the State of South-Carolina, from February, 1791, to December, 1794, Both Inclusive [from December, 1795, to December 1804, Both Inclusive].

Columbia, SC: Printed by D. & J.J. Faust, state printers, 1808. 8vo. 2 volumes: (2), (80), 394, (9); 568, (13) pp. Contemporary law sheep (rubbed, skinned around edges), gilt rules and leather labels on spines; foxed, in places quite heavily, else a good solid copy. (Item ID: 47802)

$3,500.00

First edition. South Carolina lawyer Lionel H. Kennedy's copy, with his ownership signature in each volume and annotated by him throughout. Kennedy, who practiced law in Charleston for several decades during the early part of the nineteenth century, was one of the two presiding magistrates at the Denmark Vesey insurrection trials, passing along to Vesey his death sentence, and, along with Thomas Parker who served with him, wrote the official report on the trial (An Official Report of the Trials of Sundry Negroes, charged with an attempt to raise an Insurrection in the State of South Carolina … Prepared and published at the request of the court by Lionel H. Kennedy and Thomas Parker, members of the Charleston Bar, and Presiding Magistrates of the Court. Charleston: Printed by James Schenck, 1822); Kennedy was also a member of the Society of the Cincinnati and published a Fourth of July oration that he delivered in St. Philip's Church in 1813. Of particular note among the annotations are detailed marginal notes on several pages concerning the operation of magistrate's courts in Charleston and an addition to the table of contents in the section headed "Negroes": "Persons, connected with insurrection, guilty of treason against the State. a.a. 1805. P. 49." Sabin 87683. American Imprints 16222. Turnbull I, p. 438.

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