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TEN LETTERS, ENTIRELY IN INK MANUSCRIPT, TO ALABAMA GOVERNOR ANDREW B. MOORE, DURING JANUARY -...

TEN LETTERS, ENTIRELY IN INK MANUSCRIPT, TO ALABAMA GOVERNOR ANDREW B. MOORE, DURING JANUARY - APRIL 1861, SEEKING APPOINTMENTS TO OFFICES IN ALABAMA'S POST-SECESSION GOVERNMENT.

January - April 1861. Each letter 1-4 pp, in legible ink manuscript, and usually docketed. The supplicants write from Demopolis, Marion, Montgomery, Haynesville, the Exchange Hotel [Montgomery]. Very Good. Alabama seceded on January 11, 1861. Our first letter is dated January 28, from several Demopolis citizens [Nathan B. Whitefield, Howard..... More

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TWELVE SESSIONS OF THE FLORIDA GENERAL ASSEMBLY, PRINTED BEFORE, DURING, AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER...

TWELVE SESSIONS OF THE FLORIDA GENERAL ASSEMBLY, PRINTED BEFORE, DURING, AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE CIVIL WAR.

Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian: Printed by Samuel S. Sibley. 1846 [i.e., 1847]. Nine bound volumes, containing twelve legislative sessions, bound in later cloth except as otherwise noted. Some institutional marks, overall Very Good. We offer the following: a] SECOND SESSION. THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF..... More

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PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S "LAST PUBLIC ADDRESS," THE EVENING OF 11 APRIL 1865, PRINTED IN THE NEW-YORK...

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S "LAST PUBLIC ADDRESS," THE EVENING OF 11 APRIL 1865, PRINTED IN THE NEW-YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1865.

New York: April 12, 1865. Elephant Folio. 8pp. Each page printed in six columns. Uncut at top edge. Very Good. A contemporary hand has written in pencil at the top blank margin, "His last Proclamation. Keep this Paper." This was Lincoln's "Last Public Address" [Abraham Lincoln Online]. This issue of..... More

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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, FROM WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA, 6 JANUARY 1829, TO COLONEL ROGER JONES OF...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, FROM WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA, 6 JANUARY 1829, TO COLONEL ROGER JONES OF WASHINGTON, D.C., THE BROTHER OF THOMAS AP CATESBY JONES, ABOUT MISSING SLAVE SAM LEE; AND AN UNRELATED LAW CASE ABOUT DIVISION OF THE "FAIRFIELD NEGROES, " IN WHICH COLONEL JONES AND WIFE HAVE AN INTEREST. "I HAVE JUST LEARNED THAT NEGRO SAM LEE LEFT THIS PLACE SOME TIME BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND HAS NOT RETURNED. IT SEEMS THAT HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO THE CITY TO SEE HIS MASTER MEANING AS I UNDERSTAND MR. THOMAS APP. C. JONES, SUPPOSED TO BE NOW AT THE CITY . I HAVE THOUGHT IT BEST TO WRITE TO YOU ON THE SUBJECT AS THERE MAY BE SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO COM. JONES BEING AT THE CITY: AND IT IS PROBABLE THAT IF SAM DID GO TO THE CITY HE PAID YOU A VISIT. IT IS SAID HE HIRED A HORSE OF A MAN HERE, WHO IS UNEASY ABOUT THE HORSE, FEARING SAM HAS GONE OFF NOT TO RETURN . . . I AM NOT CERTAINLY ADVISED, WHO SAM DOES BELONG TO: THE LAST HIRE I PAID FOR HIM, WAS PAID ON THE ORDER OF MR. JOHN MURPHEY, ACTING AS AGENT FOR MRS. ANN TURBERVILLE WHO CLAIMS HIM . I HAVE RECEIVED HIS HIRE FOR LAST YEAR (FORTY DOLLARS) . RESPECTFULLY YOURS, OBED WAITE. "P.S. IN PASSING OVER THE CHANCERY DOCKET THIS DAY IN THE COUNTY COURT, A SUIT WHICH HAS BEEN LONG ON THE DOCKET IN THE NAME OF YOURSELF AND WIFE, AGAINST THE OTHER HEIRS OF WILLIAM B. PAGE DECD WAS CALLED - THIS IS A SUIT FOR A DIVISION OF THE SLAVES BELONGING TO THAT ESTATE . . ."

Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia: 1829. Folio, 8-1/4" x 13-1/4". [3], [1] p. Completely in ink manuscript. Addressed on final page to "Col. Roger Jones | City of Washington" and light postal cancel dated Jan. 9 at Winchester; with manuscript docket note in a different hand: "On the subject of the..... More

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THE HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, FROM ITS FIRST EUROPEAN DISCOVERY TO ITS ERECTION INTO A REPUBLIC:...

THE HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, FROM ITS FIRST EUROPEAN DISCOVERY TO ITS ERECTION INTO A REPUBLIC: WITH A SUPPLEMENTARY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS TO THE PRESENT TIME.

Charleston: Printed by S. Babcock, 1840. [2], viii, [9]-355, [1 blank] pp. Lightly foxed, endpapers dusted, bound in modern buckram [no institutional marks]. Except as noted, Very Good. This first edition [BAL's Printing 'A'] is unusual in the marketplace today. Simms, as DAB describes him, "had a strong bent toward..... More

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A COLLECTION OF ALL SUCH ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, OF VIRGINIA, OF A PUBLIC AND PERMANENT...

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 TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL MATTERS. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, AND CONSTITUTION, OR FORM OF GOVERNMENT.

Richmond: Augustine Davis, 1794. Folio. Bound in sturdy 20th century cloth. 380pp. Except for several institutional stamps on the title page, Very Good. A compilation of all Virginia Laws through December 1794, with a detailed alphabetical table of contents. "On Dec. 28, 1792, an act providing for the publication..... More

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