Caruthers E W Rev (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. A Good copy. 8vo., vi, 7-302, (2)pp., bound in contemporary full leather, with leather on spine worn away. Front board hanging by one cord. Moderate wear to boards. Foxing throughout. ****Howes C-211. Sabin 11169, An important piece of North Carolina history, with an account of the Regulators, part of the War of the Regulation (1771), a rebellion in colonial North Carolina over issues of taxation and local control, taking place in then Orange county, now Alamance county. Also, contains accounts of life in Revolutionary North Carolina.****.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st edition. A Good+ copy. 8vo., vi, 7-302, (2)pp., bound with leather spine and cloth covered boards. Leather on spine is sunned with some rubbing. Cloth is faded and stained; tips are rubbed. Scattered foxing; text appears unmarked. ****Howes C-211. Sabin 11169, An important piece of North Carolina history, with an account of the Regulators, part of the War of the Regulation (1771), a rebellion in colonial North Carolina over issues of taxation and local control, taking place in then Orange county, now Alamance county. Also, contains accounts of life in Revolutionary North Carolina.****.

302 pp. Hardcover in full leather binding with leather spine label. Leather cracked along outer front spine (see pic). Previous owners name rubber stamped on ffep and title page. An important piece of North Carolina history, with an account of the Regulators, part of the War of the Regulation (1771), a rebellion in colonial North Carolina over issues of taxation and local control, taking place in then Orange county, now Alamance county. Also, contains accounts of life in Revolutionary North Carolina. Contains a lengthy discussion of the Regulator movement and some account of the Revolution in North Carolina. Caldwell was a Presbyterian minister and an influential educator. Many of his congregants were Regulators and he supported their cause. In 1771, he met with the governor on the eve of the battle of Alamance in an unsuccessful attempt at mediation. Caldwell later served as a member of the North Carolina constitutional convention of 1776 and supported the patriot cause by calling for volunteers from his pulpit. For these efforts, Cornwalis placed a 200-pound bounty on his head and Caldwell was forced into hiding. In 1788, he was a leading anti-Federalist during the North Carolina convention that debated the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. Thornton 1915. Howes C211. Sabin 11169.

Hardcover in original embossed cloth binding. Not Ex-Lib.

Cloth. Condition: Good. 1st edition. 1st edition. Second Series only. A Good copy. 12mo., 448 pp., illustrated with a folding map. Bound in the publisher's brown cloth. Ex-library, with call letters on the spine, book plate, stamping on the title page are rear end papers, and a donation record. Wear at the spine's crown and tail, with the spine lacquered. Some text signatures foxed. The folding map has some breaks along the folds, with a small loss. Not as bad as it sounds, Good. Howes C-210.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 431p octavo. A very good copy in red cloth with decoration on front cover and spine. Spine is darkened. Wear to spine ends and corners. Foxed. Note from previous owner penciled on first free end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo 1st edition. 1st issue. 8vo. 302pps, (2), pp index, errata leaf one original owner signature of Mrs. Charles L. Von Noppen of Greensborough NC who in all probablity knew the author. and the publishers. Full title being. A Sketch of the Life and Character of the Reverend David Caldwell near sixty years pastor of the churches of Buffalo and Alamance county NC inc. two of his sermons. Some account of the Regulation, together with the Revolutionary transactions and incidents, in which He was concerned and a very brief notice of the ecclesiastical and moral condition of the state of North Carolina this is a key item in early North Carolina history, by a northern clergyman who lived it. 8vo. Bound in period 1/4 brown morocco and pebbled cloth boards, fine copy. An important piece of North Carolina history with an account of the Regulators, part of the War of Regulation 1771, a rebellion in North Carolina over the issues of taxation and local control taking place in then Orange county now Alamence county N.C.also contains accounts of life in Revolutionary North Carolina Key history references in Howes C211, Thornton 1915. Sabin 11169. Once General Cornwallis placed a 200 pound bounty on his head in North Carolina, and Caldwell was forced in hiding during the period when Cornwallis landed at Charleston, and invaded So and North Carolina and finally Virginia to meet fate at Yorktown.

Important for its account of the Regulators in the early 1770s and the Revolution in the South, interspersed with some church history. HOWES C211. THORNTON 1915. 302pp. and leaf of errata. Contemporary half roan and cloth, spine gilt. Head and foot of spine lightly worn, corners bumped. Later bookplate and ownership inscription on front flyleaf, modern bookplate to rear pastedown. Lightly foxed. Very good.