The Lambert / Lambeth Family of North Carolina
Greensboro, NC: Lambeth Family Connection : Order from S.T. Lambeth, Lambeth Construction Co., 1974. 945 pages. Hardcover in original binding. Not Ex-Lib. SCARCE title.
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Random Thoughts and the Musings of a Mountaineer
Salisbury, NC: Rowan Printing Company, 1941. 539 pp., Hardcover in original blue cloth boards. SIGNED by author on ffep. Not Ex-Lib. An interesting title covering lots of topics central to Southern Americana and the mountains of North Carolina.
Defence of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence An Exhaustive Review of and Answer to All Attacks on the Declaration
Raleigh, NC: Edwards & Broughton, 1908. 157 pp. Hardcover in original cloth with gilt title on spine. Excellent condition. SCARCE title. Ex-Lib., though with minimal markings. Pack Library bookplate on front pastedown.
THE WAR. "Stonewall" Jackson, his Campaigns and Battles, the Regiment as I Saw Them.
Cumberland, MD: Eddy Press, 1910. [10], 181 pp., frontis, plates, portraits. First edition. As issued, in publisher's cloth with title in gold on the front cover and spine. Corners are bumped and there is some minor soiling, otherwise quite clean internally.. A Captain of Company D, 37th Virginia.....
"Our Women in the War." The Lives They Lived; The Deaths They Died.
Charleston, SC: News and Courier Book Presses, 1885. 482 pp. Hardcover in original cloth binding. Not Ex-Lib.
History of the Granite Industry of New England. Two Volume Set.
Boston, MA: National Association of Granite Industries, 1913. Two Volume Set. Hardcover in original bindings. SCARCE set. Not Ex-Lib.
A Chronological History of New England, in the Form of Annals, Five Volumes
Edinburgh: Privately printed by Edmund Goldsmid, 1887. Hardcover in cloth binding with some loss to the spine. Limited to 275 small-paper or 75 large-paper copies. I believe this to be one of the small-paper sizes. Vol I [5]+6-48p,facs Facsimile of 1736 Tp., Vol II 92 pages, III=84 pages, IV=74pages and.....
1795 North Carolina Land Grant, witnessed by Samuel Johnston, granting to Joseph Stacy one hundred acres of land in Montgomery County on Little Town Creek
1795. North Carolina Land Grant witnessed by Samuel Johnston (signature missing) and dated 26 November (year missing) granting to Joseph Stacy one hundred acres of land in Montgomery County on Little Town Creek, registered 29 March 1795. Condition: Section missing (see pics). Original linen paper essentially separated horizontally into.....
The History of the Shuler Family
2005. 709 pp. Hardcover in original binding. Revised and updated 2005 edition of the 1973 original. Not Ex-Lib. SCARCE Family History with no copies found in OCLC.
The Lodge of Washington: A History of the Alexandria Washington Lodge, No. 22, A.F and A.M. of Alexandria, VA., 1783-1876 : compiled from the original records of the lodge
Alexandria, Virginia: George E. French, 1876. xvi, 220 pages: illustrations. Hardcover in original green cloth with gilt designs. Condition is a little rough, as the front board is bowed, which affects the inner hinge on the front board. Front endpapers chipped and detached. Handwritten notes on endpapers. SCARCE title...
A Defence of the Revolutionary History of the State of North Carolina from the Aspersions of Mr. Jefferson
Boston & Raleigh: Bowen & Turner, 1834. xii, 343pp. Hardcover bound in marbled boards and black leather compartmentalized spine. The text is Good, but there is light to moderate foxing. Not Ex-Lib. Relates largely the history of the administration of Josiah Martin, the last of the royal governors in.....
ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA PASSED AT CALLED SESSION, 1863, IN THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH.[with] ACT OF OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PASSED AT SESSION OF 1863--4 IN THE EIGHTY EIGHTH YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH
Richmond, Virginia: William F. Ritchie, Public Printer, 1864. This copy belonging to Sergeant Samuel H. Parsons, a deputy clerk of Louisa County who served in Co. D. of the 13th Virginia Infantry with his signature so identifying himself on the rear pastedown. He added his initials in large block letters.....
A Treatise Of Pathology and Therapeutics, Volume 1.
Lexington, Kentucky: 1828. 566 pp. Hardcover in full leather w/ gilt on red title label at spine 'Cooke's Pathology & Therapeutics'. This is Volume One Only of a Three Volume set. Volume One is complete in itself. The preface describes the other volumes."The solicitations of many of the medical class.....
RICHMOND HOWITZERS IN THE WAR. FOUR YEARS CAMPAIGNING WITH THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
Richmond, Virginia: 1891. 155 pp. Hardcover in later library buckram binding. original binding. First edition, interior is tight, some pages tape repaired, bound, originally issued in wraps. Frederick Daniel's Richmond Howitzers in the War is described in the Nevins bibliography as "a strictly military history of one of.....
Southern History of the War: Complete Four-Volume Set.
New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1863. Four Volume Set. Hardcover in original bindings. Volumes 3 and 4 have chipping and tape repairs along the spines. Scarce to find all four volumes together.
Defence of Freemasonry; An Address Delivered on the 24th of June, 1851, Before Catawba Valley Lodge at Morganton, North Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina: Published by Request of the Lodge, 1851. 16 pp. Softcover, disbound from a larger volume. SCARCE Southern Masonic pamphlet. Not Ex-Lib. Native Charlestonian Albert G. Mackey, MD, lectured frequently and authored numerous books on Freemasonry. He served as Grand Secretary of The Grand Lodge of South.....
BY-LAWS AND LIST OF MEMBERS OF RICHMOND RANDOLPH LODGE. NO. XIX, ANCIENT YORK MASONS.
Richmond, Virginia: James E. Goode, 1864. Original Sewn Wrappers. First Confederate Edition. A Confederate imprint. A copy of the First Confederate Edition of the By-Laws and List of Members of the Richmond Randolph Lodge, no. XIX. Original sewn paper wrappers, toned. Very Good. SCARCE title.
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.
Helps to the Study of Presbyterianism or, An Unsophisticated Exposition of Calvinism, with Hopkinsian Modifications and Policy, with a View to a More Easy Interpretation of the Same. [Together with]: A Brief Account of the Li fe and Travels of the Author
Knoxville, Tennessee: F. S. Heiskell, 1834. xiii, [blank], [15]-299 pp. Hardcover in orange paper-wrapped boards and leather spine with leather spine label and gilt title. Text is complete. Pages show aging and foxing/oxidation throughout, but still very easy to read. Early owner gift inscription of ffep, dated August 1839...
The History of South Carolina from Its European Discovery to Its Erection Into a Republic with a Supplementary Book Bringing the Narrative Down to the Present Time
Charleston, South Carolina: Russell & Jones, 1860. 437 pp. + 5 pp. ads in rear. Hardcover in original cloth with leather spine label and gilt title. Light to medium toning and foxing (see pics). Some heavier toning and brittleness to the endpapers and title page. It appears a letter was.....
The Virginia Springs, Comprising an Account of All the Principal Mineral Springs of West Virginia, with Remarks on the Nature and Medical Applicability of Each.
Richmond, Virginia: J.W. Randolph, 1855. 319 pp. Hardcover in original embossed. Spine is taped. Illustrated with 2 Folding maps and several engraved plates. Interior tight, some foxing, plates excellent and crisp. A really nice copy of this SCARCE work. Not Ex-Lib.
KING'S MOUNTAIN AND ITS HEROES: History of the Battle of King's Mountain, October 7th, 1780, and the Events Which Led to It.
Cincinnati, Ohio: Peter G. Thomson, 1881. 612 pp. Hardcover in original decorated binding. Text is complete. Boards attached, but loose as the hinges are cracked (front board is looser than the rear board). Toning to the pages and some staining to the top edge and top of the text block.....
Practical Treatise On Locomotive Engines Upon Railways
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836. 304 pp. w/ 4 foldout plates. Hardcover, rebound with original blindstamped cloth pasted to front board. Toning, foxing to leaves, A few inches of dampstain to lower fore-corner of several signatures and plates at rear. Tears to folds and foxing to.....
Historical Collections of South Carolina Embracing Many Rare and Valuable Pamphlets and Other Documents, Relating to the History of That State from its Discovery Until its Independence in 1776. Two volumes
Harper & Brothers, 1836. Two volumes. [2],lxxx,[9]-533;576pp. includes the folding map. Full leather binding. Boards loosening and leather is a bit dry/dusty. Light scattered foxing but internally quite clean. No Ex-Lib. I did not unfold the map entirely for the picture. It appears to be complete, but is fragile along.....
Histoire des contes d'Hollande et estat et gouvernement des provinces unies du Pays Bas. (History of the Tales of Holland and Estat and Government of the United Provinces of the Netherlands)
The Hague: A. Vlaq, 1664. 424 pp. Hardcover in original full leather binding. Spine cover is heavily chipped. Front board is detached. Old "Library of Charleston" (South Carolina, dated 1837)) bookplate on front pastedown. First edition of a work in French on the history and politics of the Dutch.....