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186935505London: Sampson Low Son and Marston 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 217 pages. Green cloth hardcover ruled in blind on the borders with gilt stamped title on the front cover. Illustrated with an oval albumen photograph portrait of William Gilpin first Governor of Colorado and three large folding maps in front. Possible ex-institutional copy with 4 very faint black numbers top of the spine with a small label removed lower spine. Appears the rear flyleaf is pasted down to the rear paste down. No other markings found in the book. Covers are light shelf worn and edge worn. Corners are bumped. Heavy foxing to the end papers. The title page frontispiece photograph and maps all have some light to moderate foxing. Light occasional foxing to some of the text. <br /> <br /> Various copies of this work have different collations some including additional photograph plates. This copy has the frontispiece photograph and three maps only. From wikipedia: William Henry Blackmore 1827-1878 was an English lawyer who gained a fortune by exploiting a large social network as an investment promoter. He used his fortune for philanthropy primarily centered on his interest in Native Americans but ended his life after a failed investment deal related to the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.1<br /> <br /> Howes C 607; Graff 318. Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston hardcover
198968Paris, Delloye, 1840 9 tomes en 3 vol. in-12, env. 245 pp. par tome, 9 portraits en frontispice, demi-veau Empire, dos lisses ornés d'une plaque rocaille dorée.
AMA-619Paris, Victor Masson, 1837. 2 volumes in 8°, brochés, couvertures jaunes imprimées, non rognés, petites rousseurs. vij, 359 pp. ; [2 ff.], 386 pp., 2 pp. de catalogue.
237044Paris, Baudouin, impr. de l'Assemblée Nationale, in-8, 4 pp., broché, couv. papier bleu postérieur.
243082S.l., 1792 in-8, 16 pp., broché, couv. papier bleu moderne.
234627Chambéry, C. F. Lullin, s.d. (1807) placard in-folio (48 x 37 cm), texte sur deux colonnes, en feuille. Petite déchirure latérale sur le côté droit.
207025Paris, Imprimerie de la Répubique, floréal an XI (mai 1803) in-8, [2] pp. n. ch., en feuille.
226535Evreux, Imprimerie de J. J. L. Ancelle, 1793 in-4, 32 pp., dérelié.
200507314Colmar, Jérome Do Bentzinger Editeur, 2001 ; in-8, 253 pp., broché, couverture illustr.
202103326Strasbourg, Association des publication près les Universités , 1990 ; in-8, -306501 pp., br. Les 2 volumes. BROCHÉ COMME NEUF - Essai d'histoire demographique les 2 volumes.
201801619Strasbourg, Association des publication près les Universités , 1986 ; in-8, 501 pp., br. BROCHÉ COMME NEUF - Essai d'histoire demographique.
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201801617Strasbourg, Association des publication près les Universités , 1986 ; in-8, 501 pp., br. BROCHÉ COMME NEUF - Essai d'histoire demographique.
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203530S.l.n.d. in-8, 12 pp., en feuilles.
201647S.l., s.d. (vers 1825) in-4, 22 pp., en feuilles, cousu, sous couverture d'attente de papier crème.
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173238Bruxelles, Imprimerie de Linguet, 1789 in-8, 40 pp., cartonnage Bradel de papier marbré, dos lisse, pièce de titre noire en long (reliure moderne). Bon exemplaire.
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1854List2315New Orleans 1854. Fine. A lengthy description of life in New Orleans written by Samuel Sumner 1824-1866 the son of Michael and Mary Sumner of Newburyport Massachusetts describing life as an insurance salesman in New Orleans. He talks about his brother Richard Richard Bartlet Sumner 1816-1868. Sumner describes his life in New Orleans and alludes to previous difficulties presumably in his travels from Newburyport and establishing his family in the New Orleans. He talks about the difficulty in establishing business relationships stating “It has been most unfortunate for me & I presume there is not one young man in a hundred that has suffered as much as I have from its causes that I have never been placed in a position suitable to my taste or character that is I have had partners for whom I lost all respect & confidence because they had no respect for themselves & therefore it was impossible to succeed under such circumstances; but now I am in a very respectable position and am constantly thrown among a class of men whose influence is good whom I can respect and between whom there is some congeniality of feeling.†He discusses sending his family to a plantation two-hundred miles north of the city where they are doing “tolerably well.†An interesting letter overall that gives a detailed account of an emigrant familly from the east in New Orleans during the period. <br /> <br /> Full transcription follows:<br /> <br /> New Orleans Augt. 21st 1854<br /> <br /> Dear Father & Mother <br /> <br /> It is a long long time since I availed myself of the opportunity of addressing you but allow me to assure you that it was not for a want of inclination to do so but because I have met with so many misfortunes & reverses in one way and another that I could not spur myself to write in that buoyant & happy spirit I desired & moreover I was aware that you occasionally heard of me through Richard. <br /> <br /> The changes & vicissitudes of this life have been many during the past few years and more than ever I anticipated to experience during my whole life but I trust it has not been thrown away upon me but has added much to my experience and judgement; however through the kindness and assistance of Richard I have been enabled to get through thus far & now am feeling quite content having forgotten the past with all its troubles & trials and entered upon a new sphere of action with the hope of some day in future to reach the head. I presume you have heard that I am now engaged in the Office of the Home Mutual Ins. Co. which was something of an undertaking for me at the time as I knew nothing of the system they pursued; but it took me but a short time to learn the traces & now I would not yield to anyone in the same line of business for quickness in figures or correctness in calculations tho I am but three months in service. <br /> <br /> It has been most unfortunate for me & I presume there is not one young man in a hundred that has suffered as much as I have from its causes that I have never been placed in a position suitable to my taste or character that is I have had partners for whom I lost all respect & confidence because they had no respect for themselves & therefore it was impossible to succeed under such circumstances; but now I am in a very respectable position and am constantly thrown among a class of men whose influence is good whom I can respect and between whom there is some congeniality of feeling. My salary is also tolerably fair $2000 to the 1st of Jany after which $2400 which will enable me to get along quite comfortably so you may expect to hear from me more frequently hereafter. <br /> <br /> Richard is now rich and well. He deserves it for no one ever paid closer attention to his business than he or worked harder to gain it & it certainly must be a great source of gratification to you to know of his success as I know it is to him that it is in his power to lend us aid. <br /> <br /> I was in hopes to have visited you long ere this but fortune did not smile upon me & therefore I must be content and await the day when good luck will again take me back to my old home the place of my birth the days of my childhood where I have enjoyed so many happy happy scenes many of which are now in my mind's eye; even the old house on Merrill St. & the grassy lot in front with the old pump & the old School house seem but yesterday & then comes the present house the garden the trees the fruit & the old Russell Apple Tree with its overhanging branches in the rear the cow the milking going to pasture the pigeon house & pigeons all all rise before me and often do I wish myself a boy again; but to these scenes I cherish a hope altho vague that I will one of these days return; but ere that time changes may take place that will only render it sad & melancholy; but to this I trust to a higher power & hope that we may all be submissive to will. <br /> <br /> A few days since I gave Mr. Breaux a friend of mine a letter of introduction to you & I presume he will call upon you during the summer - he visits the north in search of health. In him you will find a real true Southerner & gentleman intelligent & interesting born in this State but educated in Cambridge; he has been a good friend of ours & has taken a great fancy to our little 'Jennie' which is equally returned on her part for I don't believe she would ever forget him. Mr. Breaux can tell you all about us & give you a better description of us than anyone else. I hope you will welcome him & that his short call may prove interesting to all - if Hannah or Abby would like to talk French they will now have a chance - his parents both being French. <br /> <br /> My Wife & little ones were all tolerably well when last I heard of them - for the past 6 weeks they have been on a visit to the country about 200 miles above the City and will remain until they get tired of plantation life. It is the first time Mary ever visited a plantation & if you could read some of her letters to me you would find them truly interesting & instructive. Mary went up altogether on a/c of the ill health of our little girl who has always been delicate & becomes much reduced as warm weather approaches so much so that we are fearful at times that her constitution will fail her beyond all hope - but Mary writes me now that she thinks the country air is producing a good effect upon her & that they are having fine times. Mary rides horseback from 6 to 10 miles every fair morning before breakfast; the little ones ride the pony nearly all day & after dinner they all take their carriage drive. These amusements together with the calls of friends all tend to pass away the time most pleasantly. <br /> <br /> Since Richard left we have experienced one of the heaviest losses by fire the City ever felt but the Offices are all sound & you can say to Richard that we settled up all but 2 small losses which the parties have not brot in in 15 days after the fire took place - our loss about $65000 which we paid without going into bank for discount. I will not inflict a longer letter upon you this time but you may expect to hear from me more often than heretofore. If Mary was here she would send much love to you all. Give my love to all & believe me truly your aff. Son Sam. unknown
188118727London: Her Majesty''s Sationery Office 1881. Very good condition. Circular providing information to those emigrating to Australia with an Addendum inserted at the front listing important changes in eligibility requirements recently imposed by the Agent General for New South Wales. <br /> <br /> The addendum states the changes which will take effect following June 1 1881: "Emigrants will be required to pay a moiety of the passage money. Only married couples not exceeding 35 with our without children and single women will be eligible." The circular provides descriptions of New South Wales resources including gold mining: "The Government is empowered to proclaim Crown lands to be gold fields and to grant what are called "miners' rights on the payment of a small fee which enables any person to search or dig for gold. Leases of auriferous tracts of alluvial ground . for limited periods may be granted at annual rents under special conditions as regards labour and machinery". Also includes current price lists of clothing & food principal trades and rates of wages railways telegraphs and customs duties. <br /> <br /> Small 8vo circular 12pp with color folding map. Color map showing the counties in color as well as established railways and those in progress. Map by J. Bartholomew FRGS. Trove 2385679. Her Majesty''s Sationery Office hardcover
188035999Augusta Georgia: Privately Printed. J. H. Estill Printer 1880. Limited numbered signed edition. Wraps. Fair. Stitched printed wraps. 8.5" x 7". 24 pages. Gray wraps with title on the front paper cover. Front cover creased on the edge. Rear wrap is detached and creased on the edge. Light edge toning to the paper. Very light foxing to the first few pages. This copy has a tipped in slip top of the title page "With the Compliments of Charles C. Jones Jr. Augusta Ga." The limitation page is the verso of the title page. This copy is numbered 118 of 250 copies and is signed "CCJ Jr." Jones authored the prefatory note pages 3-8. The first edition of this tract was originally published in 1724 with few known copies. The author settled 600 of his countrymen in Purrysburg South Carolina. Interior contents mostly clean. A fair to good copy.<br /> <br /> Howes P 653; Sabin 66726. Privately Printed. J. H. Estill, Printer unknown
192028022Melbourne: Government of the State of Victoria 1920. Very good condition. Advertising targeted at Americans for emigration to Victoria Australia. "Some facts about Victoria UST. - A Country which is progressive and prosperous where Settlers are required and will be gladly welcomed." For further information "apply either personally or by letter to the Land Settlement Agent. c/o Peck Judas Co. 687 Market St. San Francisco Cal."<br /> <br /> "The Government invites Settlers to come to Victoria preference being given to those experienced in Irrigation and possessed of sufficient Capital to take up land say $1500."<br /> <br /> 3 1/2 x 5 1/2" b&w map image with steamship lines in red verso with "Facts about Victoria. "Trove image: 26643672271. Government of the State of Victoria unknown
