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Two separate Nevada lawbooks bound within a single volume. Paged as i-xii, 1-315, [1] | [title], v-xvi, 1-216. Hardcover: H 23cm x L 14.5cm. Rebound in dark olive buckram cloth (1940s/50s?) with new endpapers and flyleaves; strong abrasions to surface cloth of front board and spine; spine has two discolored patches evidencing missing title and year labels; edge-chipped and scuffed gilt ownership sticker "Americana Library | Lucius Bryan Dabney | 'Belmont'" affixed near spine heel; lightly soiled rear board has surface abrasion isolated to edges/margins. Some toning/foxing and small stains to text block edges. Some foxing and soiling to interior leaves with shallow chipping/creasing at top fore-edge corners. Bookplate of Lucius Bryan Dabney on front pastedown. Binding is firm. ***** Full title - STATUTES OF THE STATE OF NEVADA PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, 1866, BEGUN ON MONDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, AND ENDED ON THURSDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF MARCH. Carson City: John Church, State Printer, 1866. i-xii, 1-315, [1] pages. ***** Full title - STATUTES OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, PASSED AT THE THIRD SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, 1867, BEGUN ON MONDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY, AND ENDED ON THURSDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF MARCH. SPECIAL SESSION, BEGUN ON FRIDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF MARCH, AND ENDED ON WEDNESDAY, THE THIRD DAY OF APRIL, 1867. Carson City: Joseph E. Eckley, State Printer, 1867. [title], v-xvi, 1-216 pages. ***** 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.
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