An Act for the Amendment of the Laws with Respect to Wills; Passed 3d July 1837.
Dublin: Printed by George and John Grierson, 1828. First edition (?). 8vo. 16 pp. Not recorded on OCLC. Disbound pamphlet. Very good. More
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ACTS OF ASSEMBLY NOW IN FORCE IN THE COLONY OF VIRGINIA. With an exact table.
Williamsburg, (VA): Published by order of the General Assembly. Printed by W. Rind, A. Purdie, and J. Dixon, 1769. Third and final compilation of the laws of colonial Virginia to be printed in Virginia, all Williamsburg imprints, 1733, 1752, and 1769, respectively; prior to these, the compiled laws of Virginia..... More
ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, from February, 1791, to December 1794, Both Inclusive [and:] Acts of the General Assembly of the State of South-Carolina, from December, 1795, to December 1804, Both Inclusive.
Columbia, (SC): Printed by D. & J. J. Faust, State printers, 1808. First edition. Thick 8vo. Two volumes bound in one: (2, title page), (80, index), 394, (9, titles of the acts); 567, (13, titles of the acts) pp. The index prints 34 entries under "Negroes," almost all pertaining to..... More
ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA, PASSED AT THE SESSION OF 1836-37, COMMENCING 5th DECEMBER, 1836, AND ENDING 31st MARCH, 1837. IN THE SIXTY-FIRST YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
Richmond [VA]: printed by Thomas Ritchie, 1837. 8vo.; 338pp. Bound with ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA, PASSED AT THE EXTRA SESSION, COMMENCING ON THE 12th, AND TERMINATING ON THE 24th JUNE, 1837... Richmond: printed by Thomas Ritchie, 1837. 8vo.; 270pp. Full leather; gilt stamped leather spine label (gilt..... More
ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, PASSED AT THE EXTRA SESSION, HELD JULY FIRST, 1861, AT THE CITY OF WHEELING.
Wheeling: Printed at the Daily Press Book and Job Office, 1861. 8vo. 65 pp. Self-wrappers, stitched (lacks outer printed wrappers); some foxing, a little staining, but very good. First edition. Includes the ordinances of the convention, with a separate title page. More
ACTS OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO, TWENTY-EIGHTH SESSION.....
Santa Fe, N. M. New Mexican Printing Company, 1889. First edition. 8vo. xv, 408 pp. Among the acts passed this session: a bill to prevent women from entering saloons for drinking or other reasons; protection and propagation of fish; an act preventing adulterated food or drugs being sold in the..... More
Acts of the Province of Maryland, Made and Passed at a Session of Assembly, Begun and Held at the City of Annapolis, on Wednesday the Twenty-second Day of November, in the Eighth Year of the Dominion of the Right Honourable Frederick, Lord Baron of Baltimore, Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon, &c. Annoqye Domini 1758
Annapolis: Printed by Jonas Green, 1758. First edition. Folio. 8 pp. Rare; various bibliographies and reference sources locate a total of five copies. Not in Evans. Shipton & Mooney 40968 (Maryland Diocesan Library). Bristol B-1957 (Library of Congress, Harvard-Law, Peabody Institute, Maryland Historical Society). Wroth "History of Printing in Colonial..... More
Acts passed at the eighth session of the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas : which was begun and held at the town of Little Rock, on Monday, the seventh day of October, and ended on Saturday, the sixteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Little Rock: Printed by William E. Woodruff, Printer to the Territory, 1834. 20 cm. 119, iii pp. Stitched signatures, unopened and untrimmed. Very good. ALLEN 33 OCLC: AAS, Univ. of AR Fayetteville, Univ. of AR Law, Georgetown Univ., Georgetown Univ. Law, Law Library of LA, Univ. of Houston, Univ. of..... More
ACTS PASSED AT THE EIGHTH SESSION of the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas : which was begun and held at the town of Little Rock, on Monday, the seventh day of October, and ended on Saturday, the sixteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Little Rock (A.T.): Printed by William E. Woodruff, Printer to the Territory, 1834. 20 cm. 119, iii pp. American Imprints 22999. Allen 32. OCLC locates 17 copies, six in Arkansas (Arkansas State, Arkansas Supreme Court Library, Arkansas Little Rock Law, Central Arkansas, Hendrix, Arkansas-Mullins) and 11 others (Yale Law, Yale..... More
Acts Passed at the First Session of the Ninth Legislature of the State of Louisiana; Begun and Held in the City of New Orleans, on Monday the Eighth Day of December, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-Eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the Fifty-Second.
New-Orleans, (LA): John Gibson, State Printer, 1829. First edition. 8vo. 200, 21 pp. Printed in English and French, the same text on facing pages; the second section prints the "Constitution or Form of Government of the State of Louisiana." Includes various acts related to slavery. American Imprints 39326. Persistent light..... More
ACTS PASSED AT THE THIRD SESSION OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON... ON THE NINETEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN.
Washington: Rapine & Elliott, 1815. 202pp., 30pp. table of contents & index. Included is the official printing of the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812. Original plain wraps (chipped). Spine reinforced with paper tape contemporarily, now mostly chipped away. Faint old staining to early pages, some foxing. Text..... More
ADDRESSES AT THE UNVEILING AND PRESENTATION to the State of the Statue of Thomas Ruffin by the North Carolina Bar Association.
Raleigh, (NC): Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1915. First edition. 8vo. 25, (1) pp. Frontispiece of the statue. Cover title: "Thomas Ruffin / 1787-1870." Ruffin, a native of Virginia, graduated from Princeton before studying law in North Carolina under Archibald Murphey, commencing his practice in Hillsborough where he was elected..... More
THE BANK CASE: A Report on the Cases of the Bank of South Carolina and the Bank of Charleston, upon "Scire Facias" to Vacate Their Charters, for Suspending Specie Payments, with the Final Argument and Determination thereof, in the Court for the Correction of Errors of South Carolina, in the Years 1842, and 1843. Printed by order of the Legislature of South Carolina.
Charleston, (SC): W. Riley, November 1844. First edition. Large 8vo. v, (2), 550 pp. Speculation helped create the Panic of 1837 which was followed by five years of recession, during which time business and farming bankruptcies were common and banks across the nation failed. The Bank of South Carolina and..... More
Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey. A bill in chancery of New-Jersey, at the suit of John earl of Stair, and others, proprietors of the Eastern-division of New Jersey; against Benjamin Bond, and some other persons of Elizabeth-Town, distinguished by the name of the Clinker Lot Right Men. To which is added; the publications of the Council of Proprietors of East New-Jersey, and Mr. Nevill's speeches to the general assembly, concerning the riots committed in New-Jersey, and the pretences of the rioters, and their seducers. These papers will give a better light into the history and constitution of New-Jersey, than any thing hitherto published, the matters whereof have been chiefly collected from records. With three large maps, done from copper-plates. Published by subscription.
New York: Printed by James Parker and a few copies are to be sold by him, and Benjamin Franklin, in Philadelphia, 1747. First edition. Folio. 124, 39, (5) pp. Complete with the three folding maps by Lewis Evans, engraved by James Turner of Boston, two with hand-colored outline on linen..... More
BY-LAWS OF KEYSVILLE LODGE, A.F. & A.M. NO. 154, ADOPTED JANUARY 10, 1874.
Charlotte C. H. Charlotte Gazette Printing Office, 1874. 16mo. 10 pp. Original printed blue wrappers. Very good. First edition (?). Includes a list of the lodge's officers. Scarce; apparently unrecorded on OCLC. More
The Case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court: The Full Opinions of Chief Justice Taney and Justice Curtis, and Abstracts of the Opinions of the Other Judges; With an Analysis of the Points Ruled, and Some Concluding Observations.
NY: The Tribune Association, 1860. 8vo. 104 pp. Self-wrappers (a little soiled), stitched. Very good. One of three reprint editions published in 1860 for use in the 1860 political campaigns (first published in 1857). Sabin 70258. Blockson Catalogue 2556 (for the first edition). No edition in Work. More
THE CHARTER GRANTED BY THEIR MAJESTIES KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY, to the Inhabitants of the Province of Masachusetts-Bay in New England. [And] Acts and Laws, of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England.
Boston, in New-England: S. Kneeland, 1759 [i.e., 1761?]. Two parts in one, complete. Folio. [1 leaf], 14; 24, 396 pp. Later 3/4 calf, marbled boards. Library stamps, some browning, but crisp. Includes Acts through 1761. Ownership signature of Moses Bliss; a few scattered annotations in the margins. A few Acts..... More
CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. CLEMENT W. BENNETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND AGENTS FOR CLAIMS, CORNER OF H AND 11th STREETS, WASHINGTON, D.C. Approximately 1854.
4 pp. promotional letter offering sevices for Revolutionary claims and pensions. Was folded in letter format and bears postmark. Some small tears at folds, else very good. More
CODE CIVIL DE L'ETAT DE LA LOUISIANE. TRAITE DE CESSION DE CET ETAT PAR LA FRANCE; CONSTITUTION DE CET ETAT; CONSTITUTION DES ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE.
[Paris, France]: Publie par un Citoyen de la Louisiane [Impr. de E. Duverger], 1825. First edition in French. 21cm. xvi, 792, [2] pp. Half title: Tresor Legislatif. Recent quarter leather and marbled boards. Old staining to portions of lower margins of last several leaves in the index, not affecting text..... More
CODE OF LAWS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Prepared under the Authority of the Act of Congress of the 29th of April, 1816, Entitled "An Act Authorizing the Judges of the Circuit Court, and the Attorney for the District of Columbia. to Prepare a Code of Jurisprudence for the Said District."
Washington, (DC): Printed by Davis & Force, 1819. First edition. 8vo. 575 pp. Ownership signature of James F. Haliday, who served on the District's Common Council in the early 1840s, at the head of the title page. Sabin 20300. American Imprints 47836. Cohen 10307. Original paper-backed drab boards (rubbed), printed..... More
A Collection of All Such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a Public and Permanent Nature, as Are Now in Force. With a New and Complete Index; to which are prefixed the Declaration of Rights, and Constitution, or Form of Government
Richmond, (VA): Printed by Samuel Pleasants, Jun., and Henry Pace, 1803. 4to. (2), v, 454, 72 [Index] pp. With a nice Virginia provenance, inscribed by an early owner at the head of the title page "M. C. [?] Fitzhugh his Book / Bot. of General John Hungerford / Price 6#..... More
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY EIGHT. AN ACT TO PREVENT PROFANE CURSING AND SWEARING. [caption title] [followed by 63 lines of text]
[Boston: Printed by Young & Minns, 1798] Imprint supplied by Evans. Broadside. 46 x 28 cm. Old fold lines, overall toning of sheet, old tidelines and small rust marks and holes at edges (likely from having been posted), chipping to margins, especially along the right edge, but no loss of..... More
CONSTITUCION POLITICA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO
Mexico: Imp. de I. Cumplido, 1870. First edition. 8vo. 31 pp. The first constitution of the Mexican state of Hidalgo which was created January 15, 1869. In 1861 a plan to create the new state of Hidalgo out of parts of the state of Mexico was advanced by Federal deputies;..... More
THE CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK; TO WHICH ARE ADDED, THE ACT OF INCORPORATION, AND THE LAWS OF THE CORPORATION AND STATE RELATING TO FIRES.
NY: Printed by Vanderpool & Cole, 1826. 8vo. 41, (1) pp. Original plain brown wrappers, stitched; old ink calculations on blank rear endpaper, corners of some leaves curled, but a very good untrimmed copy, virtually as issued. First edition to incorporate the laws passed 1813-1824. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 25535. OCLC locates..... More
Constitution of the State of North-Carolina, Together with the Ordinances and Resolutions of the Constitutional Convention, Assembled in the City of Raleigh, Jan. 14th, 1868
Raleigh, NC: Joseph W. Holden, Convention Printer, 1868. First edition. 8vo. 129, iv pp. "A relatively progressive document that borrowed from the previous state constitutions and added new provisions. It abolished slavery and provided for universal male suffrage … voters' rights were increased, with male citizens no longer required to..... More