Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Superior Courts of Law and Equity of the State of North Carolina from the Year 1789, to the Year 1798.

Halifax: Printed by Abraham Hodge, 1799. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. 502, (18) pages. Hardcover bound in original full leather. The binding is worn and scuffed but sound. Some of the scuffing on the binding has deep gouges, especially on the rear cover where a strip of leather is missing along the fore edge. Hinges are secure, but there is a strip of old cloth book tape on the front inner hinge, and some of the last few leaves of the index are stuck together at the gutter. This does not really affect the text but there might have been some adhesive applied there. Corners bumped. Contains the front and rear blank flyleaves. There is an early ink signature on the front pastedown which appears to be "L. Silliman" (possibly Levi Silliman? 1797-1867. He was the second Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in North Carolina). "L. Silliman" also is written in light pencil on the rear pastedown, next to an early ink notation of "Haywood." There also a couple of bolder early 20th century signatures on the front flyleaf and a thin black leather strip near the headcap with the early 20th century owner's name. NOTE: The leaves for pages 273/274 and 275/276 have tears at the bottom corners. On the first leaf, there is slight loss of a word on each page at the bottom corner. Some type irregularities at the edge suggests it could have been a printing error. However the leaf for pages 275/276 has a larger portion of the lower corner torn away resulting in more significant loss of text. This diagonal tear runs from about 3 1/2 inches along the fore edge from the bottom corner and goes in about 1 1/2 inches. Photos available. Several other pages in the text have creases and some occasional damping (most visible on page 277). A scarce volume and a nice 18th Century North Carolina imprint.