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Item #286218 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. CONCERNING THE JAMES RIVER COMPANY, THE JAMES RIVER AND KANAWHA...

General Assembly of Virginia

ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. CONCERNING THE JAMES RIVER COMPANY, THE JAMES RIVER AND KANAWHA COMPANY, AND THE RICHMOND AND ALLEGHANY RAILROAD AND RICHMOND AND ALLEGHANY RAILWAY COMPANIES. | WITH ACTS AND PARTS OF ACTS CONCERNING OTHER CORPORATIONS WITH WHICH THE ABOVE COMPANIES HAD RELATIONS.

Richmond, VA: Everett Waddey Company, 1891. Half Leather. The Acts of Assembly, Concerning the James River Company, the James River and Kanawha Company, and the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad and Richmond and Alleghany Railway Companies. Acts passed by the General.....

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General Assembly of Virginia

[LAW] A COLLECTION OF ALL SUCH ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA OF A PUBLIC AND PERMANENT NATURE AS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE SESSION OF 1801: TO WHICH ARE ADDED APPENDICES ... WITH A COMPLETE INDEX TO THE WHOLE ... [VOLUME II ONLY OF 2 VOLUMES]

Richmond: Samuel Pleasants, Junior, 1808. Full Leather. First Edition. Large 8vo.; in full sheep with a border in blind at the perimeter of the boards and with a morocco label, and with a volume number in blind to the spine;.....

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General Assembly of Virginia

[LAW] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA, PASSED AT THE SESSION COMMENCING 6th DECEMBER 1841, AND ENDING 26th MARCH 1842.

Richmond: Samuel Shepherd--Printer to the Commonwealth. 1842. Quarter Leather. First Edition. 8vo.; in quarter calf over marbled boards; [3], 4-194 pages, including the Index; there is a previous owner name on the pastedown, dated in the year of publication; this.....

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General Assembly of Virginia

[LAW] [VIRGINIA] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA, PASSED IN 1852-3, IN THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Richmond: William F. Ritchie, Public Printer, 1853~. Half Leather. 8vo.; half-calf over marbled boards, with morocoo spine label; there is a rather endearing name label on the pastedown -- “This Volume belongs to the small collection of John H. Lewis.....

Price: $75.00

General Assembly of Virginia

[VIRGINIA] [LAW] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA, PASSED AT THE SESSION COMMENCING 4th DECEMBER 1843, AND ENDING 15th FEBRUARY 1844, IN THE SIXTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Richmond: Samuel Shepherd, 1844. 8vo.; in stitched self-wrappers; 139 pages, including the Index; amazingly, of particular relevance is a section of Acts relating to Presidential Election, noting such things as “Qualification of electors, time and place of election”, “When returns.....

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Item #294896 [VIRGINIA] [LAW] [FIVE ACTS BOUND TOGETHER] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE...

General Assembly of Virginia

[VIRGINIA] [LAW] [FIVE ACTS BOUND TOGETHER] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CAPITOL IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND, ON MONDAY THE TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF NOVEMBER IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ON THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR, AND OF THE COMMONWEALTH THE FORTY-NINTH; [WITH] ACTS PASSED ... ON MONDAY THE FIFTH DAY OF DECEMBER ... [1825]; [WITH] ACTS PASSED ... ON MONDAY THE FOURTH DAY OF DECEMBER ... [1826]; [WITH] ACTS PASSED ... ON MONDAY THE THIRD DAY OF DECEMBER ... [1827]; [WITH] ACTS PASSED ... ON MONDAY THE FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER ... [1828]; [WITH] PART II. CONTAINING ACTS OF A PRIVATE AND LOCAL NATURE.

Richmond: Thomas Ritchie. 8vo.; in half-calf over marbled boards; spine has perished and binding held together with old library tape; the Acts of Assembly are from 1824; 1825; 1826; 1827; 1828; Part II of 1829; the Acts of 1824 are.....

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Item #298092 [VIRGINIA] [LAW] [THREE ACTS BOUND TOGETHER] ACTS PASSED AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF...

General Assembly of Virginia

[VIRGINIA] [LAW] [THREE ACTS BOUND TOGETHER] ACTS PASSED AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, BEGUN AND HELD AND THE CAPITOL IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND, ON MONDAY THE FIFTH DAY OF DECEMBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE; [WITH] ACTS PASSED ON MONDAY THE FOURTH DAY OF DECEMBER ... [1826]; [WITH] ACTS PASSED ON MONDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF DECEMBER ... [1827]

Richmond: Thomas Ritchie, 1825, 1826, 1827. First Edition. 8vo.; quarter-calf over green paper-covered boards with a morocco label; consisting of three of the Acts of the Virginia General Assembly for the years 1825, 1826 and 1827, bound together; 125 pages.....

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Item #298198 [LAW] ACTS PASSED AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA; BEGUN AND...

[General Assembly of Virginia]

[LAW] ACTS PASSED AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA; BEGUN AND HE[LD AT THE] CAPITOL IN THE CITY [OF] RICHMOND, ON MONDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN, AND OF THE COMMONWEALTH THE FORTY SECOND.

[Richmond]: [Thomas Ritchie], [1818]. Hard Cover. Large 8vo.; rebound in black cloth; 250 [251] pages including the Index.~~This copy with the title page partial; and lacking the last leaf of the Index, p. 251.~~Part I. Acts of a Public and.....

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Item #298172 ACTS PASSED AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, BEGUN AND HELD AT...

Virginia General Assembly

ACTS PASSED AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND, ON MONDAY, THE TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR, AND OF THE COMMONWEALTH THE FORTY-NINTH.

Richmond: Thomas Ritchie, 1825. In two parts, being “Acts of a public and general nature” and “Acts of a local and private nature”. An early and interesting edition of Virginia statutes, dealing with everything from the Western Lunatic Asylum to.....

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Item #298174 [LAW] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA, PASSED AT THE SESSION COMMENCING...

Virginia General Assembly

[LAW] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA, PASSED AT THE SESSION COMMENCING 2nd DECEMBER 1839, AND ENDING 19th MARCH 1840, IN THE SIXTY-FOURTH YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Richmond: Samuel Shepherd, Printer to the Commonweath. 1840. 8vo. in later tan buckram with black and burgundy labels; [3], 4-199 pages, including the Index.~~From the age of expansion, there is much on canals, turnpikes, roads, bridges, and the like.

Price: $75.00

Item #298096 [LAW] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, BEGUN AND HELD...

Virginia General Assembly

[LAW] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND ON MONDAY THE FIFTH DAY OF DECEMBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE [1825], AND OF THE COMMONWEALTH THE FIFTIETH.

Richmond: Thomas Ritchie, 1826. Quarter Leather. Large 8vo.; quarter calf over marbled boards with morocco label; [3], 4-125 including the Index; this less common than the Acts later in the century.~~From the early days of the Republic, when things were.....

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Item #298095 [LAW] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA, PASSED AT THE SESSION OF 1836-37,...

Virginia General Assembly

[LAW] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA, PASSED AT THE SESSION OF 1836-37, COMMENCING 5TH DECEMBER, 1836 SMF ENDING 31ST MARCH, 1837. IN THE SIXTY-FIRST YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH. [WITH] ACTS PASSED AT THE EXTRA SESSION COMMENCING ON THE 12th AND TERMINATING ON THE 24th of JUNE, 1837

Richmond: Thomas Ritchie, 1837. Quarter Leather. Large 8vo.; quarter calf over marbled boards with morocco label; 338, including Index; [3], 4-11, including Index.~~Contains acts about navigation, roads, canals in this era of expansion; as well as, of course, slaves.

Price: $150.00

Item #298537 [LAW] [CIVIL WAR] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PASSED IN...

[Virginia General Assembly

[LAW] [CIVIL WAR] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PASSED IN 1865-66, IN THE EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Richmond: Allegre & Goode, Printers, 1866. Half Leather. Large 8vo.; in tan half-calf with black morocco label and spine ruled in blind; [3], 4-514 pages, including the Index. binder’s ticket on the front pastedown, Gary & Clemmitt in Richmond.~~Quite a......

Price: $95.00