The Duty and Office of Justice of the Peace, and of Sheriffs, Coroners, Constables According to the Laws of the State of North Carolina. To Which is Added an Appendix, Containing the several Acts directing the Mode of recovering Debts...Second Edition

Raleigh, NC: Printed by William Boylan, 1808. RARE. No institutional holdings noted at OCLC. A Good copy of the 2nd Edition, the 1st Haywood published 1800. Missing 1/2" of calf at top of spine, 1/2"-2" at bottom of spine, front board with 3" missing outer leather layer, rear paste down with scribbles in reddish pencil, front blank end page detached, front board hanging by a strip of leather at spine, blank rear end page missing. All pages with text present. Front paste down and front end page with several early owner names and dates, early owner name at title page. Front end page unattached. 414 pages. Laid in one page, circa 1904-1908, titled "Important Meetings, for Fishermen and Oystermen - Itinereray of Fish Committee" listing a number of meetings with dates and places. On verso is a manuscript in pencil roughly 50 word description of where and how this book was found and who one of its prior owners was said to have been. The writing presumable in the hand of Joseph Hyde Pratt, state geologist of North Carolina at the time, as noted on the front and from whose estate this book came. For all its flaws. a fascinating copy of this RARE early North Carolina imprint. Cohen 8443 Shaw 34857. . Second Edition. Calf. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.