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, 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: 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 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.....

[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. 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.....

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.....

[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.....

[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.....

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.....

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. 1858. 16pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine perished, held together with brass tacks; light chipping and soiling. Paper lightly and evenly toned. Good. Report submitted to the South Carolina Senate, which concludes that slavery is essential to the agricultural production of the South. Additionally, the committee felt that the slave.....

London. 1742. 76pp. Dbd. Titlepage with small chip on outer corner, minor soiling. bit closely trimmed at fore edge. Good. Includes an abstract of the Proceedings of the Society which contains accounts of the missionary work in the American colonies - New England, Newfoundland, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North.....