1797 Josiah COLLINS Letter, Edenton, NORTH CAROLINA Merchant, Federalist NC
1797. ALS – Letter of Josiah Collins, postdated Edenton, 4 October 1797 regarding the visit of a friend.
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1874 Wesleyan Female College Steamship BROADSIDE Murfreesboro, N. Carolina
1874. 1874 Wesleyan Female College Commencement Travel on Steamer Bertie: BROADSIDE, Murfreesboro, North Carolina Approx. 10-5/8” x 14-1/2” Broadside. Printed single-sided. Folded down the middle. Some tape repairs and some loss, primarily along the fold line. SCARCE. I’ve not been able to locate a record of another one anywhere.....
Acts for the Regulation of the Town of Wilmington (N.C.)
1835. A collection of three different printings pertaining to the early government of Wilmington, N.C., bound together in marbled boards and ¾ leather with gilt title on spine. Acts for the Regulation of the Town of Wilmington: 1. An Act, for the Regulation of the Town of Wilmington.....
Battle Guilford Courthouse Revolutionary War 1781 Edinburgh Advertiser Newspaper
1781. The Edinburgh Advertiser Newspaper, June 1781. Published: June 8-12, 1781. 8 pp. Original Revolutionary War era newspaper from Edinburgh that contains a first hand account of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse by Lieutenant General Earl Cornwallis and also a first-hand report of the Battle by General Nathaniel.....
Journals of the Tennessee House & Senate 1821, 1823, 1824 and 1826. Lot of 4 Volumes.
Tennessee: 1821. Four (4) Journals of the Tennessee Senate and House of Representatives. 1st item: Journal of the Senate at the First Session of the Fourteenth General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, 1821. Printed by George Wilson, Nashville. 12mo, 344 pages, rebound in tan cloth, red leather.....
The Mecklenburg North Carolina Declaration of Independence Handbill
Tennessee: 1835. 19th-century printed handbill of the text of the so-called "Mecklenburg (N.C.) Declaration of Independence," including its four resolutions and the names of its 27 signers. The text is framed by a decorative Classical style border and features a central cartouche of an eagle over an image of two.....
Small Broadside Announcing the First Number of the "Evangelical Mission" and of "The Virginia and North carolina Presbyterian Preacher" to Subscribers. Dated January 14th, 1828 in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
1828. Small Broadside Announcing the First Number of the "Evangelical Mission" and of "The Virginia and North carolina Presbyterian Preacher" to Subscribers. Dated January 14th, 1828 in Fayetteville, NC. Published: 1828 Single sheet, measures 7-34/" x 9-1/2". Some closed tears and separation along the old fold lines.....
A Treatise on Obligations, Considered in a Moral and Legal View
Newbern, North Carolina: Martin & Ogden, 1802. Two volumes bound as one. [xii], 364; [x], 315, [1] pp. Full leather binding. New leather spine label with gilt title recently added. Text is complete. Two small sections clipped from title page (see pic), though not affecting the text. Presumably this was.....
1759 Land Grant SIGNED by Arthur Dobbs, Royal Governor of NORTH CAROLINA, Craven County
1759. Land Grant to Samuel Wynn for 100 acres acres in Craven County on the South Side of Neuse River. Dated 1 September 1759 and signed by Arthur Dobbs. Single sheet with old fold lines. Completely handwritten. Document measures approximately 5" x 7". Exceptionally scarce early NC Land Grant...
The Man of Business, or, Every Man's Law Book : showing how to execute properly all deeds and writings obligatory, with approved forms and precedents suited to every class of cases according to modern practice : interspersed with legal advice, useful statistics, tables for reference, improving anecdotes, scientific suggestions, &c. &c. : the whole intended to form a book of convenient reference and a safe guide to all classes in the community, whether public officers, or private citizens
New Salem, North Carolina: 1833. Two volumes. 440, 418 pp. Volume I has a New Salem, NC imprint. Volume 2 has a Greensborough, NC imprint. Volume 2 is lacking pages at the rear (see pic), complete text ends on p. 418. An unusual and early North Carolina compilation.....
The Rural Carolinian: An Illustrated Magazine of Agriculture, Horticulture and the Arts.
Charleston, South Carolina: Walker, Evans & Cogswell, 1869. 784 pp. Hardcover in original purple cloth with gilt embossed cover. All 12 issues of Volume One, bound together. These can occasionally be found loose as individual issues, but I've never seen all 12 issues of Volume One bound neatly together in.....
Blum's farmers' and planters' almanac, for the year 1863: being the third after bissextile or leap year, containing 365 days.
Salem, North Carolina: Published and sold by L.V. & E.T. Blum, 1862. 17 pp. Original wraps, now professionally bound in marbled boards and leather spine, with gilt title. 2-17 pages illustrations Cover title. At head of title: 2nd edition. Title within ornamental border. Calendar for.....
Gales's North Carolina Almanac, for the year of our Lord 1830; being the Fifty-Fourth-Fifty-Fifth of American Independence, adapted to the meridian of Chapel-Hill
Raleigh, North Carolina: J. Gales & Son, 1829. 36 pp. Original wraps, now bound professionally bound in marbled boards with leather spine and gilt title on spine. A truly beautiful copy of this exceptionally SCARCE early NC almanac. Not Ex-Lib.
Bericht der Verrichtungen der Evan. Lutherischen Tennessee Synode, Während ihrer Neun und Zwanzigsten Sitzung, gehalten in der Beck's Kirche, Davidson County, N.C. von 20sten bis 25sten October, 1849
Salem, North Carolina: Gedruckt bey Blum und Sohn, 1849. 8pp., original printed paper wraps. Text in German. Stained throughout, foxed, soiled, edge worn (including small losses & tears), several corners turned, worn but still serviceable. Existing as a separate body from 1820 to 1920, the Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee.....
A History of Buncombe County North Carolina In Two Volumes
Asheville, North Carolina: Advocate Printing Co., 1930. Two Volume Set. Original 1st edition printing. Hardcover in original bindings. SCARCE title.
History of North Carolina; With maps and Illustrations
Fayetteville, North Carolina: E.J. Hale & Son, 1858. Previous owner bookplates on ffep. Not Ex-Lib. Two volumes: 254; 591 pp. Portrait plate, eight maps, five folding. Contemporary brown half-sheep (rubbed) and marbled boards (edges bumped), endpapers, and edges, leather spine labels. Previous owner bookplates on ffep. Not Ex-Lib...
Revolutionary History of North Carolina, in Three Lectures; To which Is Appended, a Preliminary Sketch of the Battle of Alamance.
Raleigh, North Carolina: Cooke and Putnam, 1853. 237 pp. Illustrated, 5 plates. Hardcover bound in brown publisher's cloth. The binding shows rubbing and wear, with chipping to the extremities of the spine, and ordinary wear to the corners. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Text is tone and foxed.....
Bondage: A Moral Institution, Sanctioned by the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, and the Preaching and Practice of the Saviour and His Apostles. By a Southern Farmer.
Macon, GA: Griffin & Purse, 1837. 78 pp.; the frontispiece is ostensibly wanting; original printed green wrappers; front wrapper trimmed in the fore-margin, back wrapper becoming loose and chipped in the gutter; all else good and sound. "A bold attack on the Northern Abolitionists and a clever example of Southern.....
Concise System of Instruction Arranged and Adapted for the Volunteer Cavalry of the United States
Savannah, Georgia: Published for the Author, 1842. 318 pp. Very Good hardcover edition, has a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Text is very foxed throughout. Cover has wear to the spine ends and corner tips. Spine title label is faded and worn at the edges. Binding is tight.....
Why North Carolinians Believe in the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence of May 20th, 1775.
Charlotte, NC: Queen City Printing and Paper Co., 1895. 43 pp. Disbound from a larger volume of collected pamphlets. Inscribed by authors on front cover (see pic). SCARCE printing. Not Ex-Lib.
UNPUBLISHED Confederate Civil War Memoir War Record of J.S. Bartlett, A Private in Company E, First Regiment of N.C. Volunteers: From Yorktown to the Appomatox.
This is an early (possibly original) typescript for an unpublished Civil War Memoir. 17 single-sided print, loose typed pages. Unbound, though two-hole punched at the top. No date, ca. 1917, based on the first line of text. A remarkable piece of history with war content within the text. Unpublished and.....
Autograph Album of University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) Students, 1858-1860. Including Future Civil War Confederate Soldiers, Robert Johnston, Henry K. Burgwyn and many more...
Hayes & Zell, 1858. Compiled by James Augustus Graham, Class of 1860. Hardcover in full black morocco leather, decorated in gilt and blind. The outer binding is in good shape overall, with secure hinges and fully intact attached boards and very little wear to the outer leather. Internally quite sound.....
A Digest of the Cases Decided in the Law Court of Appeals of the State of South-Carolina, from June Term, 1835, to December Term 1854.
Charleston, South Carolina: James, Williams & Gitsinger, 1855. xxvii, 486 pp. Hardcover in full leather binding. Text is complete, clean and unmarked. An exquisite copy. SIGNED by the author on front pastedown. Conner's signature is scarce to find on the market. I'm not aware of any other signed copies.....
The South Carolina Jockey Club
Charleston, South Carolina: Russell & Jones, 1857. 211 pp. Hardcover in original cloth binding with gilt horse and rider on front cover. Not Ex-Lib. Scarce work on the history of the turf in South Carolina, with illustration and diagram of the Washington Course, Charleston. Howes I-78.
The Natural History of North-Carolina. With an account of the trade, manners, and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c.
Raleigh, North Carolina: Reprinted by authority of the Trustees of the public libraries, 1911. 417 pp. Hardcover in original cloth. 1911 Facsimile reprint of the 1737 original. Folding map. Not Ex-Lib. Brickell accompanied provincial governor George Burrington to North Carolina in 1724, remaining in the region for six years.....