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1852194391852. The 1852 Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia document the legislative priorities of a slaveholding state at mid-century capturing the intersection of racial control economic expansion and governance in the decades preceding the Civil War. Among the statutes is a revealing law titled "An Act to suppress Gambling by Negroes and white persons together" which legislates interracial interaction itself as a site of state concern demonstrating how Virginia authorities sought to regulate not only labor and movement but also informal social contact between Black and white populations. Such measures reflect the broader legal architecture of slavery-era society where anxieties over racial hierarchy and social boundaries were codified into everyday law. Alongside this the volume contains extensive acts related to taxation and fiscal policy as well as numerous charters and provisions for navigation companies steamship enterprises and other internal improvements-evidence of Virginia's participation in the wider market expansion and infrastructural development characteristic of the antebellum United States. The juxtaposition of economic modernization with increasingly codified racial restriction underscores the dual priorities of growth and control that defined Southern governance in this period.<br /> <br /> Richmond: William F. Ritchie Public Printer 1852. First Edition. 8vo. Half legal calf over marbled boards with spine label; 3 4-403 pages including index. The volume compiles the full legislative output of the Virginia General Assembly for the year with sections devoted to taxation corporate charters transportation infrastructure and social regulation. The presence of laws governing interracial conduct situates the work within the legal history of race relations in the United States while the extensive material on navigation and steamship companies reflects the Commonwealth's investment in regional and national economic integration during a period of rapid territorial and commercial expansion. Binding shows a crack at the front board gutter but remains holding; moderate wear to leather and boards consistent with age and use. Interior generally clean with expected toning. Overall condition is very good. unknown
1838elala1148Toronto: R.Stanton 1838. 1838. 8vo. pp. 63 16. original printed front wr. present disbound wrs. stained staining to upper margins through first gatherings. An investigation into "the causes which have led to the recent unnatural revolt in this portion of Her Majestys Dominions; the evils that have resulted from it; and the measures necessary to guard and protect us from the recurrence of a like calamity" p. 3 preceded by a short review of the political history of the Provinces since they became a part of the Dominions of the British Crown. The report is dated February 8 1838 and the appendix contains documents dating from December 13 1837 to January 26 1838. Fleming 1267 lacking title. TPL 2228. Casey I 1655. Gagnon I 2993. Lande 2249. [Toronto]: R.Stanton, 1838. unknown
18511376181851. Hardcover. Good. From the 20th day of May to the 30th Day of August both days inclusive And in the Fourteenth & Fifteenth years of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria. Being the 4th Session of the 3d Provincial Parliament of Canada. Unpaginated. 35 cm. Fold-out partial colour plan of Port Hope Harbour and a Plan for a New Harbour. Half leather with mabled paper boads. Corners worn. Spine tearing away from rear hinge. Especially scuffed on rear. Some foxing. Small tear and light spotting to plan. <br/><br/>Of significance is this scarce plan of Port Hope Harbour surveyed and planned by Peter Fleming January 1846. Fleming's proposed "improvements" shown in pink the proposed sections of the Board of Works shown in green and the "present" sections of the Harbour Lands and Piers shown in yellow. Map is 45 x 55 cm when unfolded. hardcover
1820159893<p>Quebec: Printed and Sold by John Neilson 1820-21. Hardcover. Fair. Vol. 30. 44 cm. Bound in brown cloth. Lettering on spine reads "Journals House of Assembly Lower Canada 1820-21." New endpapers. Remains of original blue covers at both ends. Dampstains to top corners of first and last pages and lighter stains to margins elsewhere. <br /><br />"In the First and Second Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth. Being the Eleventh Provincial Parliament of this Province. Sess. 1820---21."</p> Printed and Sold by John Neilson hardcover
1821159892<p>Quebec: Printed and Sold by John Neilson 1821-22. Hardcover. Fair. Vol. 31. 44 cm. Fold-out chart at rear. Bound in brown cloth. Lettering on spine reads "Journals House of Assembly Lower Canada 1821-22." New endpapers. Stains to bottom margins of both title pages and approx. first 10 p. gradually diminishing. Also stains to edges of rear chart and approx. last 10 p. Other stains to margins throughout. Stains do not affect legibility. Text in English and French. <br /><br />"In the Second and Third Years of the Reign of King George the Fourth. Being the Second Session of the Eleventh Provincial Parliament of this Province. Sess. 1821-22."</p> Printed and Sold by John Neilson hardcover
1823159891<p>Quebec: Printed and Sold by Neilson and Cowan 1823-24. Hardcover. Very good. Vol. 33. 44 cm. Bound in brown cloth. Lettering on spine reads "Journals House of Assembly Lower Canada 1823-24." Some marks on cloth. New endpapers. French title page has chipped bottom corner. Text in English and French. <br /><br />"In the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of King George the Fourth. Being the Fourth Session of the Eleventh Provincial Parliament of this Province. Sess. 1823-24."</p> Printed and Sold by Neilson and Cowan hardcover
18369235Annapolis MD: William M'Neir 1836. Wrappers. Very Good binding. Octavo. 77 3 pp. First edition. In contemporary plain wrappers. Wrappers are detached and chipped; contents are generally foxed; small and early institutional stamp in the bottom margin of one page deep in the pamphlet; minor crease throughout the pamphlet from a vertical fold; dog-eared pages. <br /> <br /> Quite a presentable copy of a scarce publication on the Baltimore Bank Riots of 1835 which grew out of the failure of the Bank of Maryland. There was a belief that its impending bankruptcy was anticipated by its officers leading to civil unrest. The issues at trial were whether Baltimore officials had reacted appropriately and adequately when unrest began and rioting actually broke out. This pamphlet gives numerous depositions as to events in the city during this extended period of civil violence. American Imprints identifies another issue of this with slight differences to the title page that was issued the same year. Despite there being two issues it remains remarkably rare in commerce. Henkels offered it in 1915; beyond this there are no other auctions or offerings noted by the usual sources. OCLC locates barely a dozen copies of both issues together. American Imprints 38812. William M'Neir unknown
1877344Sydney: Government printer for the Parliament of NSW 1877. Foolscap quarto string bound as issued 14 pp. last blank with an appendix of six maps of which one is folding. Near-fine condition. A scarce and historically significant report prepared by the Parliament of New South Wales detailing major changes to the design of Circular Quay in Sydney Harbour. Government printer for the Parliament of NSW unknown
188239678N.P.: Privately printed 1882. 1882. 2nd and best edition - revised and corrected. 8 1/2" x 5 3/4" in tan pictorial wrappers. 47 pp. illustrations preface contents introduction. Useful information for the British Emigrant to include who should emigrate when to come what to do upon one's arrival what is required to start with and what is the cost of a home cost of working the land cost of fencing and herding information on tree culture how to prepare the soil methods for planting and cultivation public and private lands railroad lands the soil and its agricultural capacity stock raising climate dairy farming Canadian land regulations floor plan of a typical home etc. Ex-library copy with library stamp to two interior pages and to the front wrapper. Light soiling and wear to the extremities along with neat reinforcement to spine. Very good. An interesting booklet filled with valuable information. Privately printed, 1882. unknown
1878PCT78VIC97Melbourne: John Ferres Government Printer 1878. 1878. folio. pp. 80. folding lithographed map. several text illus. disbound scattered library rubberstamps. Including the journal of exploration of Port Phillip made by Charles Grimes Surveyor-General of New South Wales 1802-03 together with a copy of his map the order book of Lieutenant-Governor Collins during the stay at Port Phillip 1803-04 and the journal of the Rev. Robert Knopwood Chaplain to the settlement 24 April 1803 to 31 December 1804 &c. cfFerguson 15655. Soft cover. Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, [1878]. Paperback
1831elala1146York: James Baxter Printer 1831. 1831. 8vo. pp. 5. text in double columns. modern cloth-backed bds. foxing to title. Rare. Concerning the establishment of a school fund from the sale of Crown lands set aside for the purpose. The committee was chaired by William Morris 1786-1858 who by the late 1820s "had become a recognized authority on the distressing state of schooling in Upper Canada. " DCB VIII p. 640 Fleming 583 Public Archives copy only. Casey I 1334. Not in TPL. Hardcover. York: James Baxter, Printer, 1831. Hardcover
1839elala1150Toronto: Printed At The Patriot Office 1839. 1839. 8vo. pp. 87. old half sheep binding worn spine damaged foxing to outer leaves margins closely trimmed. The first half of the report dated April 30 1839 is concerned with the American involvement in the Rebellion: the raids conducted by sympathizers in the northern states including extensive discussion of the seizure and burning of the steamer Sir Robert Peel. The second half constitutes a commentary on Lord Durhams report. The last four pages contain the draft of an address to the Queen requesting continued support and protection. Fleming 1373. TPL 2334. Casey I 1727. Lande S2250. Toronto: Printed At The Patriot Office, 1839. unknown
1832159890<p>Quebec: Printed and Sold by Neilson and Cowan 1832-33. Hardcover. Fair. Vol. 42. 44 cm. Bound in brown cloth. Lettering on spine reads "Journals House of Assembly Lower Canada 1832-33 Appendix." New endpapers. Front free endpaper has light dampstain to bottom corner. English and French title pages have professional repair to bottom near margin. Some thumbing to pages. Certain sections have wrinkling and staining; approx. the last 60 leaves are more stained. Last 4 leaves have stuck together and last leaf has holes. Very last page of text is illegible in places due to sticking. <br /><br />"From the 15th November 1832 to the 3d April 1833. In the Third year of the Reign of King William the Fourth. Being the Third Session of the Fourteenth Provincial Parliament of This Province." Includes reference to the May 21 election riots in Montreal. On that occasion three supporters of Daniel Tracey of the Parti Patriote were shot dead by government troops. Colonel MacIntosh and Captain Temple are arrested for ordering the shooting. The next day it was announced that Tracey had been elected to the Legislative Assembly for Montreal West. Appendix M approx. 140 p. of this volume pertains to correspondence concerning these events in both English and French. There was also a cholera epidemic in Quebec that year and Appendix D refers to sickness and burials at the Quarantine Station at Grosse Isle.</p> Printed and Sold by Neilson and Cowan hardcover
183643732Providence: Printed by William Simons Jr. 1836. Stitched self wrappers. A very good uncut unopened and untrimmed copy signed on front and rear wrappers edges worn light dampstain on lower fore-margin contents lightly soiled. 112 pp. 8vo. Signed in ink by Henry Bowen as "Sec'ry" on the rear under "True copy-witness." Henry Bowen 1785-1867 son of Jabez Bowen Jr was R.I. Secretary of State from 1819 to 1849. William Simons Jr. was appointed state printer during the May 1836 session of the General Assembly. Noted on the front cover: "Town Clerk Glocester." Rare. Not in American Imprints or Sabin. OCLC locates only one copy of this document at the American Antiquarian Society but without any notation of a signature OCLC: 83805212. [Printed by William Simons, Jr.] unknown
183643732Providence: Printed by William Simons Jr. 1836. Stitched self wrappers. A very good uncut unopened and untrimmed copy signed on front and rear wrappers edges worn light dampstain on lower fore-margin contents lightly soiled. 112 pp. 8vo. Signed in ink by Henry Bowen as "Sec'ry" on the rear under "True copy-witness." Henry Bowen 1785-1867 son of Jabez Bowen Jr was R.I. Secretary of State from 1819 to 1849. William Simons Jr. was appointed state printer during the May 1836 session of the General Assembly. Noted on the front cover: "Town Clerk Glocester." Rare. Not in American Imprints or Sabin. OCLC locates only one copy of this document at the American Antiquarian Society but without any notation of a signature OCLC: 83805212. [Printed by William Simons, Jr.] unknown books
1808List2316Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin 1808. Letterpress broadside measuring 13 x 7 ¾ inches. Some slight toning near fine overall. Fine. A broadside announcing the candidates for the United States House of Representatives a list which includes Noah Webster. Webster received 212 votes in the preliminary election in May enough to get him a spot on the ballot but lost in the general election in a generally difficult time for Federalist politicians. Webster experienced a religious conversion during this period after being a not particularly devout Congregationalist earlier in his life and embraced the church completely perhaps due to the death of his infant son in 1806. Webster would run again for U.S. Representative in 1810 1812 and 1816 losing each time and eventually abandoned politics his last office held being in the Connecticut House of Representatives ending in 1807 shortly before his first campaign for national office. We find no record of this broadside in OCLC or other ephemera relating to Webster’s political career in Connecticut in the trade. The collected acts from this session were published in octavo format but we find no other record of this broadside printing. Hudson and Goodwin unknown
1836elala1147<p>Toronto: R.Reynolds Printer 1836. 1836. 8vo. pp. 256 4. original cloth-backed bds. short split in upper front joint covers spotted some scattered light foxing. A scarce and important report. Charles Duncombe a prominent American-born physician and politician in Upper Canada was appointed in 1835 to visit and report upon the systems of education pursued in the United States and to offer recommendations for the educational institutions of Upper Canada. His report pp. 68 in which he stresses the need for practical education and adequate financial support for common schools and teacher education is followed by a lengthy appendix of supporting documentation pp. 69-256. Although Duncombe's proposals were not immediately implemented many would be introduced under the administration of Egerton Ryerson and would form the basis of Ontario educational policy until 1871 i.e. local assessment elective school boards female education the creation of normal schools non-sectarian religious instruction &c. Fleming 1059. Gagnon I 1201. Sabin 21268. TPL 2011. DCB IX pp. 228-32. Hardcover.</p> Toronto: R.Reynolds, Printer, 1836. hardcover
183325791San Salvador: No publisher/printer 1833. Small 8vo. 1 p. <br><br>In this early Salvadoran broadside the legislature nullifies the appointment of Lic. Urrutia to the Supreme Court and places Lic. Jose Felix Quiros on the bench instead.<br>Â Â Â Â Printing seems to have arrived in El Salvador in 1825 placing this in the first decade of that art there.<br>Â Â Â Â Apparently rare: We trace no copy via NUC Pre-1956 WorldCat CCILA or METABASE. Removed from a nonce volume. A few small holds from insect damage a few of the few repaired with archival tissue. Old bibliographical notations in pencil in margins. Light waterstaining in upper outer corner. No publisher/printer unknown books
1881111818Olympia WA.: Published by Authority / C. B. Bagby Public Printer 1881. Full-Leather -- Good -- Rebacked -- Other than wear at corners exposing boads book is clean and tight 580 pages plus 44 pages of index. Code of Washington -- 1881 -- Containing All Acts of a General Nature -- Revised and Ammended by the Legislature Assembly of the Territory of Washington During the Eighth Biennial Session. And the Extra Session Ending December 7 1881; The Constitution of the United States and Ammendments thereto; The Acts of Congress Applicable to the Territory of Washington; and the Naturalization Laws. Full-Leather. Good. Published by Authority / C. B. Bagby, Public Printer Hardcover
1829elala1084np: 1829. 1829. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l. 3index 4-255. modern calf covers bit discoloured. The majority of the grievances were directed at the authoritarian regime of Lord Dalhousie as governor of Lower Canada and Governor-in-Chief of British North America 1820-28 when he was recalled. Included are grievances relating to Dalhousies establishment of a new Quebec Gazette his censure of Sir Francis Burton for having sanctioned a Bill of Supply his dismissal of militia officers and exercise of intimidation during elections his dismissal of justices of the peace and the unfair manner of jury selection. "Among other things the Montreal petitioners complained that contrary to the laws of England juries both grand and petty and both King's Bench and Quarter Sessions were being drawn exclusively from the town of Montreal rather than from the district at large. The committee chaired by Denis-Benjamin Viger concluded that this practice of jurors being "selected or as it were packed - summoned exclusively from among the inhabitants of a particular place or from a particular class - cannot be more compatible with liberty than it is with the rules of impartial justice. It is repugnant to every principle of our government and can only tend to the overthrow of the constitution of the country .The executive's control over the process of selecting juries became for the Patriotes yet another symbol of despotism and of the attempted exclusion of canadiens from their democratic rights given that they predominated in the countryside; a number of highly political jury trials for libel and sedition did nothing to help matters. The controversy only began to die down from 1830 when James Kempt ordered that jurors be drawn from the body of the district; the denouement came in 1832 when the legislature adopted a law regulating the qualification and selection of jurors " Donald Fyson Grand Juries Political Power And Citizenship In Quebec And Lower Canada 1764-1830 a paper for the 77th annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association Ottawa May 1998TPL 1549. Sabin 10568. cfCasey I 1279. Not in Dionne Gagnon or Lande. np: 1829. unknown
1832339004New Haven: Palladium and Republican Office 1832. First edition of Rules for 1832. Broadside 1 page. Printed recto only. Text is printed in two columns within elemental border; printed area including ornamental border. circa 11-1/4 by 1- 7/16 inches. Paper is moderately foxed folded twice with light wear along folds bit of creasing at corners else a very good copy of a scarce broadside. First edition of Rules for 1832. Broadside 1 page. Printed recto only. Text is printed in two columns within elemental border; printed area including ornamental border. circa 11-1/4 by 1- 7/16 inches. OCLC lists no worldwide holdings. Not in American Imprints; not in OCLC Palladium and Republican Office unknown
1871020376San Francisco CA: Francis & Valentine printers 1871. Book. Good condition. Paper Wrappers. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 32 pages of text; complete. A very worn and ragged example of this rare imprint. Ex-library with rectangular ink stamp on the title page and five numbers handwritten on the blank verso. Title page and final page of text are chipped torn soiled. A couple other pages of text with smaller chips. Most but not all pages are discolored from exposure to damp. Three leaves have archival Japanese tissue repairs. Protected in archival mylar. Enclosed in a leather-backed four flap enclosure with gilt-stamped spine. On November 8 1870 Marcus D. Dobbins was elected to the House of Representatives of the Sixth Arizona Legislature and was elected as the Speaker of the House. Howes D372. First edition. Francis & Valentine, printers Paperback
1871145981871 Angers, aux bureaux de la publication, 1871, 1 vol. fort in-8° (187 x 132 mm, épaisseur 85 mm !), relié plein maroquin rouge, dos à 5 nerfs, titre doré, double filet doré sur les coupes, riche guirlande dorée encadrant les plats intérieurs, toutes tranches dorées (BELZ-NIÉDRÉE), de 340 pp.Dos légèrement insolé, rousseurs éparses, quelques épidermures de surface au papier du texte, bel exemplaire luxueusement relié par Belz Niédrée par ailleurs.
