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No Binding. Condition: VG. With a Handsome Illustration of a Clipper Ship This document is a West Coast bill of lading from January 24, 1859, related to the Oregon and California Packet Line, operated by Abernethy, Clark & Co., a prominen. Printed document on single sheet of blue paper, completed in manuscript. Signed by H. Clark. Old fold marks. Overall very good. Docketed on verso: "Abernethy, Clark & Co. / B of L Bark Saml Merritt / Sanfso. 24 Jany. 1849" With a Handsome Illustration of a Clipper Ship This document is a West Coast bill of lading from January 24, 1859, related to the Oregon and California Packet Line, operated by Abernethy, Clark & Co., a prominent Gold Rush era west coast shipping company during the mid-19th century. It records the shipment of goods from San Francisco to be delivered in Portland to one H. W. Corbett, Esq., reflecting the commercial ties between California and the Oregon Territory during this period. The left side features an illustrated logo of a clipper ship, a common symbol of speed and reliability in maritime commerce, with the heading Oregon & California Packet Line. Below it, the names of the agents, "Abernethy, Clark & Co., San Francisco" and "Geo. Abernethy & Co., Oregon City," are prominently displayed. This identifies the company as a key player in the transport of goods between the burgeoning settlements of the West Coast. The document appears to be signed by Hiram Clark ("H. Clark"), one of the partners in the firm of Abernethy, Clark, & Co. The cargo list follows: One (1) Cashman [perhaps a safe or locked box for valuables] Six (6) Scrupers One (1) Bdln. of Candles The goods were loaded aboard the clipper barque Samuel Merritt, under the command of Captain Joseph Williams, bound for Portland in the Oregon Territory. The ship was lying at the Port of San Francisco at the time of shipping. The freight charges are recorded at eight dollars per ton. The printing for this document was done by Towne & Bacon, a pioneering 19th-century San Francisco printing establishment and a cornerstone of the city s burgeoning publishing industry during the Gold Rush era and beyond. Renowned for their versatility, Towne & Bacon produced a wide range of printed materials, including newspapers, legal documents, business forms, books, and government publications. Their work played a vital role in supporting the rapid growth of commerce, law, and governance in San Francisco and the wider region, establishing the firm as a critical player in the development of California's print culture. Map.

London: His Majesty's Law Printers, 1768-1770. (illustrator). London: His Majesty's Law Printers, 1768-1770. A Complete Set of Bacon's Abridgment, "Quite a Law Library in Itself" Bacon, Mathew [fl. 1730]. [Gilbert, Sir Jeffrey (1674-1726)]. [Sayer, Joseph (fl. 1750)]. [Ruffhead, Owen (1723-1769)]. A New Abridgment of the Law. Corrected; With Many Additional Notes and References. London: Printed by his Majesty's Law-Printers, For J. Worrall and Co. [et al.], 1768-1770. 5 volumes (the fifth dated 1770). Complete set. Folio (14-1/4" x 7-3/4"; 36.2 x 19.70 cm). Contemporary calf, rebacked, period-style spines with raised bands, lettering pieces and gilt ornaments, fillets, volume numbers and publication dates, corners of Volumes 1, 3, 4 and 5 restored, blind tooling to board edges, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities with light wear to spine ends, heavier rubbing to corners, which are bumped, hinges just starting at ends. Moderate toning, negligible light crinkling to heads of text blocks, light spotting and foxing in places, moderate staining to fore-margins of Volume 2, lower outside corner of leaf 5H (pp. 393-394) in Volume 4 lacking with no loss to text, minor worming to margins of Volume 5 in a few places, early owner signature (John Lane) to its title page. A very good set. $2,500. * Third edition. Bacon's Abridgment is a digest of cases and treatises written by Gilbert. It was popular among English and American practitioners into the early nineteenth century because its logical system of subdivisions within each title was a significant improvement over previous compendia. It was also considerably more comprehensive. As Marvin notes, it was "quite a law library in itself." Jefferson, who owned a copy of the fifth edition, saw it as the definitive statement of English law and the successor to the works of Bracton and Coke. The Abridgment was compiled and mostly edited by Bacon. The first volume was published in 1736 and new volumes were issued until the work was interrupted by Bacon's death. (His last entry was "Sheriff.") The rest of the work was edited by Sayer and Ruffhead. It went through some seven English and two American editions, the latter edited by Bird Wilson and John Bouvier. Marvin, Legal Bibliography 85. Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 1792 (citing the fifth edition). English Short-Ti.

London: His Majesty's Law Printers, 1768-1770. (illustrator). London: His Majesty's Law Printers, 1768-1770. A Complete Set of Bacon's Abridgment, "Quite a Law Library in Itself" Bacon, Mathew [fl. 1730]. [Gilbert, Sir Jeffrey (1674-1726)]. [Sayer, Joseph (fl. 1750)]. [Ruffhead, Owen (1723-1769)]. A New Abridgment of the Law. Corrected; With Many Additional Notes and References. London: Printed by His Majesty's Law Printers, For J. Worrall [et al.], 1768, 1770. Five volumes (Volume 5: 1770). Complete set. Folio (13-1/4" x 8-1/4"; 33.5 x 21 cm). Modern three-quarter calf over buckram, blind fillets to calf edges, blind fillets and red and black lettering pieces to spines, endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing to extremities, spines somewhat darkened, front joint of Volume 3 starting at foot. Light toning to interiors, occasional light foxing, light soiling and faint spotting in a few places, tiny recent ink shelfmark to upper outside corner of Volume 1 title page, small tear to gutter of last leaf of Volume 5 not affecting text. Brief early pencil and ink notes to a few leaves in each volume. A very good set. $2,500. * Third edition. Bacon's Abridgment is a digest of cases and treatises written by Gilbert. It was popular among English and American practitioners into the early nineteenth century because its logical system of subdivisions within each title was a significant improvement over previous compendia. It was also considerably more comprehensive. As Marvin notes, it was "quite a law library in itself." Jefferson, who owned a copy of the fifth edition, saw it as the definitive statement of English law, the successor to the works of Bracton and Coke. The Abridgment was compiled and mostly edited by Bacon. The first volume was published in 1736 and new volumes were issued until the work was interrupted by Bacon's death. (His last entry was "Sheriff.") The rest of the work was edited by Sayer and Ruffhead. It went through some seven English and two American editions, the latter edited by Bird Wilson and John Bouvier. Marvin, Legal Bibliography 85. Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 1792 (citing the fifth edition). English Short-Title Catalogue N5624.