Charleston: Printed by Peter Timothy, 1759. 58,[1]pp. Expertly bound to style in period marbled paper wrappers. Very good. Laws include acts to tax transient persons, revise the election laws, regulate auctions, prevent the spreading of "malignant and contagious Distempers," and an act "for the more effectual Relief of insolvent Debtors.".....
[Philadelphia]: John Dunlap, [1782]. 46pp. Folio. Antique-style three quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt, leather label. Ink ownership inscription, small repair, and small area of loss to top edge of titlepage (not affecting text), some dampstaining, first half of the page numbers re-numbered by hand in ink. Very good. A.....
Charleston: Printed and Sold by Peter Timothy, 1748. 7,[1, blank]pp. Folio. Expertly bound in period marbled paper wrappers. Very good. Provenance: Jacob Motte. There are two acts included in this imprint: one involving courts of chancery and the other establishing the township of Purrysburgh (near Hilton Head Island) as a......
Charleston: Printed by Peter Timothy, 1753. [2],36,[1]pp. Folio. Expertly bound to style in period marbled paper wrappers. Very good. Provenance: Jacob Motte. Several acts are included in this imprint, including appointing a comptroller to preventing "excessive and deceitful Gaming." Most interesting among these laws is an act for regulating trade.....
Charleston: Printed by Peter Timothy, 1753. 7,[1, blank]pp. Folio. Expertly bound to style in period marbled paper wrappers. Very good. The acts consist of an amendment to an earlier act, and an act prohibiting exportation of corn, peas, and rice for an entire year. The official printer of South Carolina.....
Charleston: Printed by Peter Timothy, 1754. 19,[1]pp. Folio. Expertly bound to style in period marbled paper wrappers. Very good. The acts include directions for appointing commissioners to build a bridge "over the Pond in the Four Holes Swamp," for building churches in several locations, for making the Black River and.....
Charleston: Printed by Peter Timothy, 1750. [2],41,[1]pp. Folio. Expertly bound to style in period marbled paper wrappers. Very good. Provenance: Jacob Motte. There are several acts included in this imprint, dealing with everything from containing infectious diseases in Charleston and building a new market in the city to erecting a......
Charleston: John Miller, 1784. 102,[2]pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Light dampstaining in margins. Very good. A collection of the laws passed by the South Carolina assembly in the spring of 1784. One of an edition of 300, with two separately printed leaves bound after pages 78.....
Charleston: Printed by Peter Timothy, 1757. 27pp. Folio. Expertly bound to style in period marbled paper wrappers. Very good. Provenance: Jacob Motte. The personal copy of Jacob Motte, with his signature on the titlepage. Motte was a plantation owner and political figure in colonial South Carolina, and also the public.....
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Charleston or Columbia. 1783-1816. Forty-nine individually-printed works (per Gould & Morgan and Show & Shoemaker) in twenty-nine volumes. Small folio or octavo. Modern buckram, gilt leather labels. Ink library stamps on titlepages, some foxing and staining, contemporary ownership inscriptions and occasional manuscript notes, a handful of leaves lacking or in.....
[Parker's Ferry or Jacksonburgh, S.C.? Nathan Childs or David Rogers? 1782]. 29pp. Folio. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt, leather label. Short repaired tear and contemporary ownership signature on initial leaf, minor staining and spotting to first few leaves, light foxing. Very good. A rare Revolutionary South Carolina imprint.....
[Charleston. ca. 1883]. xii,[9]-259pp. plus folding maps and plates. Original red publisher's cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Spine ends lightly worn, a few marks to boards. Later institutional bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary lithographed gift inscription tipped onto front free endpaper. Light toning and occasional dust soiling internally. About.....
Charleston. 1787-1801. Sixteen issues: fourteen issues bound in two volumes, plus two separate, stitched. Bound volumes: 77,[2]; 34; [2],7,[1]; [3],4-59,[2],61-62,[2]; 18; 98,[4]; 60,[4]; 3- 81; [2],31; 59,[3],88,[2]; [3],62-132,[2]; [3],104- 172,[2]; 44,[2],46,[2]; 98,[2]pp. Some with irregular pagination. Separate issues: 86pp. with "81" repeated once; 80,[3]pp. Folio. Bound volumes in contemporary three-quarter.....
Charleston. 1834. 56pp. Original yellow rear wrapper, front wrapper missing. Spine perished. Small institutional stamp on titlepage and contents page. Else clean and very good. An appeal by members of the Literary and Philosophical Society in South Carolina in hopes of establishing the lyceum system in that state. It defines.....
Charleston, S.C. 1857-58. Two volumes. vi,[2],307; 342pp. Original blindstamped cloth, gilt, spines gilt. Chipped at spine ends, edges a bit worn, rear board of second volume scuffed. Tanned, scattered foxing in first volume. Good. A collection of documents relating to the colonial, Revolutionary, and post-Revolutionary history of South Carolina. Included.....
Columbia. 1819. 27pp. Stiff paper wrappers, stitched. Untrimmed and unopened. Toning and light foxing. Very good. First printing of the 1819 amended Constitution of South Carolina. It was first passed in 1776 and its amended parts ratified in 1808. Articles cover voting rights, religious freedom, and responsibilities of government offices.....
Charleston: Walker & Burke, 1844. 517,vii pp. Contemporary sheep, gilt leather labels. Extremities worn, spine rubbed, head and foot of spine chipping. Lightly foxed. Good. Prints the ordinances of the city of Charleston in alphabetical order, passed since the close of the American Revolution. Covers all manner of civil and.....
[Washington, D.C. 1835]. 19pp. plus two folding charts and one single page chart. Dbd. Light toning. Very good. A rare report detailing the scaling back of operations at Fort Sumter during the Second Seminole War. The two folding charts and one single page chart show topographical features of Charleston Harbor.....
Columbia. 1833. 131pp. Modern three-quarter calf and original marbled boards, spine gilt. Light foxing. Very good. "The convention which in defiance of the Constitution and Acts of Congress adopted the Nullification Ordinance" - Howes. The Nullification Ordinance declared certain federal tariff laws null and void in South Carolina, and was.....
[Washington. 1804]. 11pp. Dbd. One-inch tear in outer margin of second leaf, not affecting text. Light scattered foxing. Very good. Letters from Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin and Direct Tax Commissioner J. Alexander introducing abstracts on land and home assessments and the slave count in South Carolina. The document.....
Charleston. 1870. 96pp. plus sixteen plates on yellow paper, and [32]pp. of illustrated advertisements. Original pictorial wrappers. Spine bit chipped. Three old stab holes along gutter margin. Old stamp on front wrapper, titlepage and couple other pages. Wrappers bit dusty. Else just about very good. Includes a sketch of Charleston.....
Columbia, S.C. 1861. 357pp. Gathered signatures, string-tied as issued. Lower foredge of titlepage chipped, a few small holes affecting text in two places. Some scattered foxing, but internally about very good, untrimmed and largely unopened. An important collection of South Carolina laws and reports from the first year of the.....
Charleston: Wm. Riley, 1834. xii,167pp. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt titles. Edge wear and rubbing, neat repair to spine. Scattered staining and foxing. Good. In a blue cloth box, gilt leather label. A rare military manual for cavalry troops in South Carolina, broken into six sections, beginning with instructions for training.....
Philadelphia and Charleston: James Maxwell, Printer, 1810. xv,310pp. Original calf, red leather label. Binding heavily rubbed, scuffed. Front hinge starting. Leaves tanned. Overall good. These essays originally appeared in the CHARLESTON COURIER. Mostly religious essays.
[Charleston]: The Cowpens Centennial Committee, 1896. [2],137pp., plus folding plate. Original printed wrappers, lightly soiled, edges chipping. Internally bright and clean. Very good. An engaging narrative of the process, undergone by veterans who fought in the Battle of Cowpens, to erect a monument in its honor, and commemorate the event.....
