Published by New Salem, North Carolina, 1836
Seller: Jim Crotts Rare Books, LLC, Clemmons, NC, U.S.A.
£ 574.31
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Add to basketVolume I only. 440 pp. Hardcover in full leather binding. Front board is detached and the last few pages of text are chipped. Covers are rubbed and the text is foxed throughout. SCARCE in any condition. An unusual and early North Carolina compilation of legal advice and form documents, comprised of the twelve monthly numbers which make up Volume 1. Benjamin Swaim, a North Carolina attorney, published and edited this curious legal compendium, whose stated purpose was to "show how to draw and execute properly all deeds and writings obligatory; such for instance as conveyances, mortgages, trusts, conditional sales, wills, leases, covenants." Swaim published a total of twenty-four numbers (two volumes) of the work. Issue number four contains the text of the United States Constitution. A most unusual North Carolina practical legal advisor. COHEN 8225. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 26998.
Published by New Salem, North Carolina, 1833
Seller: Jim Crotts Rare Books, LLC, Clemmons, NC, U.S.A.
£ 957.18
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Add to basketTwo volumes. 440, 418 pp. Volume I has a New Salem, NC imprint. Volume 2 has a Greensborough, NC imprint. Volume 2 is lacking pages at the rear (see pic), complete text ends on p. 418. An unusual and early North Carolina compilation of legal advice and form documents, comprised of the twelve monthly numbers which make up Volume 1. Benjamin Swaim, a North Carolina attorney, published and edited this curious legal compendium, whose stated purpose was to "show how to draw and execute properly all deeds and writings obligatory; such for instance as conveyances, mortgages, trusts, conditional sales, wills, leases, covenants." Swaim published a total of twenty-four numbers (two volumes) of the work. Issue number four contains the text of the United States Constitution. A most unusual North Carolina practical legal advisor. COHEN 8225. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 26998.