As follows: An antebellum collection of NC statutes, including slave laws, missing its title page, circa 1830s, 741 pp, 4to (9.5 x 6 in.), full calf. The name "W. H. Piver" and matching initials are carved on the front cover. (A William H. Piver of Carteret county served as Confederate artillerist at Fort Macon until its fall.) Extensive wear and crude packing tape repair to the covers. Fair condition; Todd, V. H., VON GRAFFENRIED'S ACCOUNT OF THE FOUNDING OF NEW BERN, missing title page, (Raleigh: North Carolina Historical Commission, circa 1910), 434 pp., 4to (9.25 x 6.5 in.), maroon boards. Foxing, good condition; Connor, R. D. W., HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA, VOL. I: THE COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY PERIODS, (Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1919), 519 pp., 4to (10.75 x 8 in.), green boards. Splits to spine, some stains, fair condition; Sandbeck, Peter B., HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE OF NEW BERN AND CRAVEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, (New Bern: The Tryon Palace Commission, 1988), 611 pp., 4to (11.25 x 9 in.), blue boards. Fine condition; THE HERITAGE OF CRAVEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, VOLUME I, 1984, Barbara M. Howard Thorne, ed., 420 pp. 4to (12.25 x 9 in.), black boards. Very fine condition.

Private Collection from a 40 year collector and dealer in New Bern, North Carolina

$200 - 300