Hardcover. Condition: Fair. xxiv, 496, lxxvi p. 24 cm. Half leather with paper bords. Extremities worn, boards rubbed. Ink inscription of John T. Carter, Sheriff, Bathurst, N.B., January 1873 on front endpaper and Preface. Blind stamp for H. S. Beek, Bookseller in Fredericton, front endpaper. Stains on endpapers and throughout. Carter signed again at rear and on text block edge. Page 311 loosening. John Thompson Carter was born in 1806 in Westmorland, NB and died Sept. 6, 1895 aged 88 in Bathurst.