Hello Everyone! I saw this book on ebay it was owned by Robert H. Cowan as described below. Hurry it ends tomorrow. Chuck Cowan http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1523092529 <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1523092529> This particular 4-volume set of the Debates has a history of its own, having previously been in the private libraries of three noteworthy gentlemen during the 165 years since the books were printed. The first owner was Robert H. Cowan, who was a colonel for North Carolina’s 18th infantry, serving under Brig. Gen. L. O’B. Branch as an officer for the Confederacy in the Civil War. The next owner was Fifth Judicial District of North Carolina judge and NC Supreme Court Judge O. H. Allen (from Kenansville). And, about a hundred years ago, these books were in the library of Matt H. Allen, attorney, Representative and then Senator for the state of North Carolina, whose estate they were part of. The signatures and/or nameplates of these previous owners are found in the books.