ninth legislative assembly (1 resultados)

Two lawbooks bound within a single volume. Paged as 1-315, [1] | [2], 1-178. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.25cm. Rebound in dark olive buckram cloth (1940s/50s?) with addition of new endpapers and flyleaves; patches of surface abrasion to spine and boards; chipping losses to spine's maroon title label and black date label with latter having lettering loss. Small stains to toned/foxed text block edges. Bookplate of Lucius Bryan Dabney on front pastedown. Some foxing throughout but strongest in initial and rear leaves. Binding is firm. ***** LAWS, JOINT RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS, PASSED AT THE NINTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE TERRITORY OF NEBRASKA, BEGUN AND HELD AT OMAHA CITY, NEBRASKA. JANUARY 7, A.D, 1864. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. Omaha City: Taylor & M'Clure, Public Printers, 1864. 1-315, [1] pages. ***** LAWS, JOINT RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS, PASSED AT THE TENTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE TERRITORY OF NEBRASKA. BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF OMAHA, JANUARY 5, 1865. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. City of Omaha: Taylor & McClure, Public Printers, 1865. [2], 1-178 pages. First unpaged leaf is a blank yellow divider which seems unlikely to be an original wrapper. ***** Scarce territorial laws for the Nebraska Territory issued during the Civil War; OCLC locates copies at two member institutions. This book was acquired from the estate of Vicksburg, Mississippi attorney Lucius Bryan Dabney Sr., 1893-1967, (with his aforementioned bookplate) whose insightful, ardent, and voluminous accumulation of Mississippi Valley-related books and papers is preserved as the Natchez Trace Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.