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1853218388Japan. Circa1853. Two black and white woodblock kawarabans 18 x 24cm some light staining at margins but overall very good. A black-and-white kawaraban popular broadsheet woodblock print showing Commodore Matthew Perry's flagship the Mississippi at the time of his visit to Japan in 1853. The text accompanying the carefully depicted ship gives the dimensions of the vessel and other details including the number of crew. It then goes on to give an interesting summary of world geography explaining to readers that the world has four great oceans and six continents and that Japan is situated in the east of Asia. They are also told that America lies 5000 ri about 10500 miles to the east of Japan and that its capital is Washington. On the second sheet with an illustration of a steam ship it gives the sizes of the boat and its crew. It also refers to the speed and the distance a steam ship is able to cover and amazes with the vast distance the ship can travel. <br> <br>The kawaraban is a vivid illustration of the astonishment with which Japanese people responded to the coming of Perry and his "Black Ships" and of the curiosity about the outside world which this event generated. The Mississippi was particularly impressive because it was a steam-powered paddle ship. In this image we see not only the ship and its rigging and paddle-wheel but also the small figures of crew members including one starting to climb the mast and another apparently sounding the depth of the water. . unknown
184032117New Orleans: E. Johns & Co. Stationers' Hall verso of title page: Printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins Philadelphia 1840. xii 885 pp with the half title. A very clean text with minor exceptions. Bound in worn contemporary sheep hinges starting spine chipped institutional bookplate on front pastedown institutional rubberstamp on title page. Else Very Good.<br /> <br /> The origins of the State of Mississippi are recounted in the printing of the Cession from Georgia the Act admitting Mississippi into the Union and the Act establishing its northern boundary. The complete set of laws organized by subject and the constitutions of the United States and the State of Mississippi with a detailed Slave Code and other subjects are printed. <br /> Jumonville 1156 noting that it is "not a New Orleans imprint". Sabin 33282. OCLC records mostly Kirtas Technologies reprints. E. Johns & Co. Stationers' Hall [verso of title page: Printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins, Philadelphia] unknown
184528130Claiborne County MS 1845. Folio manuscript broadside 8" x 13" in a neat legible hand. With a detailed plat drawing at head. Lightly tanned and worn. Small corner tear costing a couple of letters. A few expert tape repairs to fold splits no text loss. Good. <br /> <br /> The document shows several tracts along Kennison's Bayou which is likely what is now known as Kennison Creek running between Bayou Pierre River and Big Black River. Kennison's Creek was the site of a Civil War skirmish on May 3 1863 between Grant's Union forces and Bowen's Confederate forces. <br /> The 1850 Federal Census for District #3 of Claiborne Mississippi lists James A. Hutchinson as a planter aged 53 born in Georgia; and Wm. Dotson as a planter aged 55 born in South Carolina. Dotson Hutchinson Turpin and Shelby were all listed in the 1850 Federal Slave Schedules as owning slaves with Hutchinson and Turpin each owning more than thirty such. Shelby and Dotson are also listed in the Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Database as having served with the 1st Regiment Mississippi during the War. unknown
186432582Columbia: Evans and Cogswell 1864. Stiff wraps. Good. 12mo. 278 pages. Stiff paper boards with title on the front cover. Black cloth spine. Covers are worn and discolored. It appears the covers are facsimiles. Light to moderate foxing to the contents. Pencil inscription on the right front flyleaf reads "Col. Samuel W Milton from the publishers." <br /> <br /> The author wrote this book during his recovery from wounds in battle. He dedicates this work to Jefferson Davis. Jefferson Davis thanks the author and calls him "a master of the art of war" on page 12. Confederate imprint.<br /> <br /> Parrish & Willingham 4953; Confederate Hundred 60; Sabin 44651. The previous owner served as an Assistant Adjutant General under Samuel Cooper from 1863 to the end of the war. From Find A grave dot com taken from the Biography of Eminent Men of the Carolinas: <br /> <br /> Samuel Wickiff how it is spelled in the obit Melton was born in Yorkville S. C. February 7 183 hard to read. Receiving his early education in Yorkville he graduated from the South Carolina college in the class of 1852. He edited the Chester Standard published in Chester in 1852 and 1854. Then he returned to Yorkville and established the Yorkville Examiner on January 1 1855 running it until 1858 when he sold out to Lewis M. Grist. In the meantime in 1857 he was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law with his brother C. D. Melton at Chester continuing until the war broke out. He enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861 on the staff of Gen. M L. Bonham as aid-de-camp accompanying him to Virginia remaining with him until after the first battle of Bull Run. Subsequently he went on the staff of Maj. Gen. Gustavius W. Smith commanding the Second corps he having the rank of major. He remained with Gen. Smith until February 1863 and was then assigned to duty in the office of the adjutant and inspector general of the Confederate army at Richmond where he remained until the close of the war. He was in the first battle of Bull Run in the Peninsular campaign in the battles around Richmond at Seven Pines the campaign in 1863 in North Carolina and temporarily on the staff of Gen. Beauregard at the battle of Drury's Bluff. The chief duties however from early in 1862 to the close of the war were in the adjutant general's office in Richmond. Evans and Cogswell unknown
18654629Natchez Ms: July 22 1865. Very good. Broadside 13.75 x 9.5 inches. Printed in three columns. Moderate toning and foxing old folds couple of small tears expertly repaired on verso two tape remnants at top edge likely from previous matting. A very rare newspaper extra printing the first civilian law in Occupied Mississippi following the conclusion of the Civil War. After the war only military justice was in force in Mississippi. According to an 1866 Mississippi court case: "civil government of the State having been subverted and all power having passed into the hands of the authorities of the United States the question whether any and what civil government should be permitted was a matter in the discretion of those authorities. During this military occupation the laws of the State could only operate so far as they chose to allow and could only be administered by such agents as they pleased to appoint." On June 13 1865 President Andrew Johnson appointed William Lewis Sharkey 1789-1873 -- a Mississippi judge and staunch Unionist who opposed secession -- as the state's provisional governor. His first public act was to appoint judges and clerks to probate courts as well as appoint police justices of the peace and other country officers and authorized them to immediately begin to discharge their duties but excluded any orders regarding circuit and chancery courts.<br /> <br /> Two days later on July 3 Sharkey ordered the first civilian law to be operative which is published in the present broadside newspaper extra by the Natchez Courier. Sharkey's transmittal at the top begins: "Ordered. That the act in regard to the action of replevin and the amendments thereto passed by the legislature of Mississippi since the 9th day of January 1861 be and the same is hereby declared to be in full force from this date." The text of the act in twenty-six sections is then printed beginning: "The Replevin Act. An Act to provide for the speedy recovery of personal property wrongfully taken or detained." Somewhat oddly at the time this was the only civilian law in effect in Mississippi in the summer of 1865. According to the same 1866 court case excerpted above which explains the issues inherent in the issuance of the Replevin Law and Sharkey's organization of county probate courts "in all cases of the wrongful taking or detention of personal property a summary remedy by action of replevin before two justices of the peace was given to the party injured to recover the property and damages for the wrongful taking or detention. This was the only court created by the governor for the adjudication of legal rights; and these are the only cases committed to its jurisdiction; leaving all the rest of the immense mass of legal rights wholly without any redress." OCLC and other newspaper sources reveal just a single mutilated copy of the present broadside at the American Antiquarian Society. A fantastic broadside dealing with Mississippi law at the outset of Reconstruction.<br /> Scott v. Bilgerry April Term 1866 in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Errors and Appeals for the State of Mississippi. Vol. XL. New York: Bank Brothers 1867 pp. 119-157. July 22 unknown
187732913Copiah County MS 1877. Broadside 4-1/4" x9-1/4". Illustration of American Screaming Eagle at head of title. Light wear Very Good.<br /> <br /> The unrecorded and probably unique political ticket is from Copiah County Mississippi: the candidates on the underticket-- Sheriff County Treasurer Assessor and Surveyor-- were all from Copiah County. They won the election. <br /> Mississippi Republicans-- whom white Mississippians viewed as pariahs-- did not nominate a candidate for governor in 1877. The contest was between the regular Democrats who nominated John M. Stone for governor and old-timer Albert Gallatin Brown who had been Mississippi's governor a generation earlier. Brown was nominated by the People's Party Mississippi's brief experiment with Populism. He lost overwhelmingly to Stone. The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported that the election results showed "that the Radicals have lost all their influence" and that "several negroes who last year voted the Radical ticket this year voted with the Democrats." The Times-Picayune Friday Aug. 31 1877 page 2 and Sunday Nov. 11 1877 page 11. <br /> Brown 1813-1880 had been Governor Congressman U.S. Senator and Confederate Senator. He had been an integral part of Mississippi politics for nearly forty years. Kinloch Kinlock Falconer 1838-1878 was a lawyer from Holly Springs editor of the Holly Springs Reporter and one time mayor. During the Civil War he served with the 9th Regiment Mississippi Infantry and was assigned to General Bragg's headquarters. He was Secretary of the State in 1878 and died that year during the Holly Springs yellow fever epidemic. <br /> Silvester Gwin 1830-1891 of Lawrence County was Clerk of the Circuit Court of the County before winning the Auditor's position. During the Civil War he was Captain of Co. A 22nd Mississippi Infantry. William L. Hemingway 1839-1925 of Hinds County was 2d Lieut. of Co. K 11th Mississippi Infantry. He held the position of Mississippi State Treasurer from 1875-1890. In 1890 he was tried on charges of embezzlement when he was unable to account for a shortage of over $315000. He was found guilty and sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary.<br /> Thomas C. Catching Catchings 1847-1927 of Hinds County Mississippi joined the Confederate Army in 1861; was admitted to the bar in 1866 and was a perennial politician. unknown
181426463Mississippi Territory 1814. Broadside injunction oblong 11.5" x 7.25". Printed with names dates and details in manuscript. The signature 'Theodore Stark' appears in the left margin. Theodore Stark was a notary in the Mississippi Territory. Tanned light wear Very Good.<br /> <br /> This is a rare legal writ from the Superior Court in the early Mississippi Territory. The writ prohibits Morgan from proceeding with a suit to recover possession of a house and lot from Terrell and Isler. Judge Walter Leake from whose court the writ issued became Mississippi's U.S. Senator from 1817-20 and Governor from 1822-1825. The first settler of Mt. Salus he owned at least two dozen slaves according to census reports. <br /> Brigadier General Morgan whom the court enjoined from prosecuting the suit would command the 'Brigade of Louisiana and Mississippi Drafted Militia' during the Battle of New Orleans. His co-defendant Edward Turner a lawyer was Aide-de-Camp and private secretary to Governor Claiborne of the Mississippi Territory. <br /> Peter Isler who was in possession of the house and lot was a printer to the Mississippi Territory and later to the State. He established the Mississippi Republican newspaper in 1810. Richard Terrell of Adams County is listed in the Mississippi and Territory Census of 1816 as owning twelve slaves. unknown
186330717Philadelphia: William S. & Alfred Martien 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. 1 296 pages 3. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Brown cloth hardcover with title on the spine. Cloth is chipped head and base of the spine. Small spot on the front cover. Edge wear to the covers. Light scattered toning and foxing to the contents. William S. & Alfred Martien hardcover
185632182Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird 1856. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. 1 133 pages 1 page blank 1 24 pages of publisher advertisements. Illustrated with 4 plates consisting of multiple figures. Brown cloth hardcover ruled in blind on the covers with blind stamped decorations and gilt title inside a circle on the front cover. Cloth binding is very worn with chipped spine and corners. Back cover is mostly detached. Light damp stains to the front and rear end papers. A small upper corner tear to the right front flyleaf. Interior contents in good condition with occasional light foxing. <br /> <br /> Previous owner of this book was David Wight a California pioneer and founder of the California Iron Works. His inscription - "David Wight Vallejo California 1863" is written on the front paste down. A later owners stamped address on the right front flyleaf. A fair copy only. Henry Carey Baird hardcover
182675909Albany: N.p. 1826. Single sheet upon which 10 parishioners pledge money to support missionary efforts in the Valley of the Mississippi. With tape repairs. This cataloger ran out of time. N.p. unknown
1801354337Washington 1801. 4pp. Dbd. Contemporary manuscript page inscription and early stain in upper outer corner not affecting text. Light offsetting. Else very good. 4pp. Dbd. Congressional report declaring that the Mississippi Territory in entitled to elect a delegate to Congress "with the right to debate but not to vote" and that Narsworthy Hunter has been duly elected to serve in that capacity in the Seventh Congress. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 1539. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 1539 <br/><br/> unknown
181525113Washington 1815. 6pp caption title as issued disbound and toned. Good. <br /> <br /> Considering the terms of the Georgia Cession of the Mississippi Territory to the United States the Committee recommends admission. <br /> AI 36393 2. Not in De Renne. unknown
188436643Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1884. Second edition. Cloth. A very good copy spine ends worn boards rubbed plates fine and quite uncommonly except for two small marginal tears without blemish. 2407-2901 pp. i.e 494 pp. plates. Illus. with 61 folding b/w plates 3 other plates and occasional in-text drawings. 8vo. Published first as part of "48th Congress 1st Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc.; No. 37." [U.S.] Government Printing Office hardcover
188235938Government Printing Office Washington - Mississippi River Commission 1882. 1st edition. Hardback. Cloth VG. 225712pp 26 folding b/w plates of 37 - LACKS the 10 plates corresponding to appendix D and the single plate making up appendix E. Plates to appendix F have been bound in here in error instead giving two sets of these plates spine lettering dulled cloth rubbed & worn especially to the corners text unmarked & folding plates in nice condition. 47th Congress 1st Session. Senate. Ex. Doc.; No. 10. Compehensive & detailed annual report of the Mississippi River Commission which was formed in 1879 to promote better navigation of the Mississippi & prevent flooding. The report consists mainly of hydrographic data and bore hole findings. There are 9 maps of the river mainly in the Memphis area. The 11 missing plates which were never bound in concern an appendix dealing with flow rates on the river & would seem to have shown pictorial representations of the results. Government Printing Office, Washington - Mississippi River Commission hardcover
181211748MAY 29 1812. Washington: Way. 1812. 4pp bound in attractive modern quarter calf and marbled boards. Very Good. <br /> <br /> The Committee attempts to cure the uncertain status of land titles that resulted from the Spanish evacuation of the Mississippi Territory. "Many persons holding lands" under Spanish authority "who were either ignorant of the transfer of the country to the United States or of any legal defect in their titles neglected to obtain patents for their lands" although under Spanish law they had evidently perfected their titles. The Committee recommends respecting those titles especially as "the claims are generally for small tracts of land and in many instances the lands have been inhabited and cultivated for a number of years." <br /> AI 27326 2. Not in Eberstadt Decker. Way. unknown
181714725Washington 1817. 7 1 blank pp. Disbound Very Good. The Convention had sought admission as a single State rather than division in two. But the Territory is so vast with so much uncultivated "wilderness" that the Committee worries whether "the whole Territory is capable of such a strong population as ever to render it a formidable State compared with the largest sized of the northern middle and western States." A chart is provided with data on the quantity of land sold in Mississippi Territory from the opening of the land offices on September 30 1816. FIRST EDITION. AI 42725 2. unknown
181423532Washington City: Printed by Roger C. Weightman 1814. 10 2 blank pp. Folded untrimmed uncut. Two pinholes in blank left margin lightly tanned and foxed. Very Good. <br /> <br /> An unsophisticated copy of this plea by landowners in the Yazoo area of Mississippi Territory for federal assistance in quieting titles to land that they purchased from Spain. Others had been granted the same land by England during the prior British ownership of the Territory. The Report explains the history of the Spanish and British claims to the area and lists the British grants of land filed with the register of the land office. <br /> AI 33474 5. Printed by Roger C. Weightman unknown
187514747New York: George Nesbitt 1875. Original printed wrappers front wrap detached with erasure of old institutional mark rear wrap illustrated with 'The Great Highway and Railroad Three Span Steel Bridge over the Mississippi River at Saint Louis Missouri'. Small map on page 3 shows the Road's locations. 22pp two folding tables. Good or so. FIRST EDITION. George Nesbitt unknown
18346955Washington D.C. 1834. First editions. 7 and 20 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Self-wrappers spines strengthened some foxing else very good. First editions. 7 and 20 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. The Remarks of April 1834 are in regards to "The motion to commit.the resolutions adopted by the citizens of Adams county. in relation to the removal of the deposits and the recharter of the United States Bank." Said resolution was presented by Mr. Cage. The second item has the Remarks of both Messrs. Plummer and Cage on "the resolution of Mr. Selden in connexion with the Oneida Memorial." <br/><br/> unknown
1870104901870. Photographer unknown. Steamboat Dictator photograph circa 1870s documenting Mississippi River transportation during the late nineteenth century a period when paddlewheel steamboats formed the central infrastructure of inland American commerce and travel. The image records the sidewheel steamboat Dictator at a river landing with passengers workers and horse drawn vehicles gathered nearby illustrating the role of river steam navigation in connecting towns and transporting goods throughout the Mississippi River system. Such vessels served as essential commercial and social conduits across the interior United States supporting regional trade networks passenger movement and communication between river communities during the decades following the Civil War.<br /> <br /> Silver gelatin photograph depicting the sidewheel steamboat Dictator moored at a river landing. The vessel's large paddlewheel housing prominently displays the name "Dictator" with the radial paddlewheel structure visible behind the decorative housing. The photograph shows numerous figures assembled along the dock area including groups of men standing near the landing and several horse drawn carriages positioned along the riverbank road. The steamboat's smokestack deck structures and railings are clearly visible while the surrounding landscape shows the wide river channel extending into the distance. The image captures a busy moment of docking activity with people gathered at the landing and transportation equipment indicating the movement of passengers and goods between riverboats and nearby communities.<br /> <br /> Steamboat transportation dominated commerce along the Mississippi River and its tributaries throughout the nineteenth century particularly in the decades following the Civil War when river trade remained vital to regional economies despite the rapid expansion of railroads. Paddlewheel steamers such as the Dictator carried passengers agricultural products and manufactured goods between river towns while serving as visible symbols of technological progress and regional connectivity. Photographs documenting individual vessels at work along river landings provide valuable visual evidence of how these transportation systems functioned within everyday commercial environments. Image measures approximately size not provided. Light edge wear and minor surface toning; overall condition good. An evocative visual document of Mississippi River transportation during the late nineteenth century. unknown
185112761Monroe County Ms 1851. 3pp. on a single folded sheet with a partially-printed document completed in manuscript affixed to third page. An interesting document relating to lands in the former Republic of Texas owned by Burwell B. Boling who has passed away. His sister Susan H. Boling Blanton her husband Burwell Blanton and brother Samuel H. Boling here appoint George Giohan of Lowndes County Alabama to represent them in Texas and to locate land warrants and other documentation of Boling's properties. The power of attorney is signed by all three of the next of kin and attested to by two officials in Mississippi. A certification of the Justice of the Peace is affixed to the third page. While the document is rather straightforward it involves two names that are rather prominent in Texas -- Blanton and Boling. According to records on Ancestry descendants of Susan Blanton settled around Galveston and may be related to the modern Blanton family whose philanthropy in Texas is well known. unknown
188136639Saint Louis: Great Western Printing Co. 1881. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy extremities worn front hinge starting foxing to endpapers and fore edge presentation stamp on title. 244 pp. 8vo. "Together with a Memorial to Congress prepared by the Committee of Twenty-One as Authorized by the Convention." Gift copy with stamp reading: "Compliments of George L. Wright Secretary" who ran the meeting. Great Western Printing Co. hardcover
188837442Printed for State of Mississippi. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. 423; appendix pages; Bound in later brown cloth boards with morocco and gilt spine label. Tight and NF with light aging of text block. Includes anti-negro voter fraud charges. . Printed for State of Mississippi hardcover
186727753Ripley Mississippi 1867. Otherwise very good condition. If to be found in your County and them safely keep. to be held to appear at the Court House in The Town of Ripley after the 1st Monday of March 1868. for the charge of murder." A preprinted form with hand written additions.<br /> <br /> There is a David Lumley in the 1845 Mississippi census recording 2 males & 4 females in Tishomingo county. Ancestry dot com<br /> <br /> 8 x 12 1/2" laid paper with blue lines original folds official embossed stamp of the Circuit Court of Tippah County. Some splits at folds. unknown
184636784Natchez: T. A. S. Doniphan 1846. Newspaper. Fair. Newspaper. Approximately 24" x 18." 4 pages. Paper has multiple folds damp stains creases and holes at the folds. Paper restored. Holes patched and tears repaired with transparent tissue. <br /> <br /> Contents include Governor A. G. Brown biannual message regarding State finances Rail Roads State Seminary Banking; Education Militia General Jackson James Gadsen discussing the Railroads several advertisements etc. An article from the New Orleans Picayune reports "The rumors which have been for some weeks in circulation that Gen. Paredes had at last declared against the Government appear at length likely to be verified by the course he is pursuing. The revolution is now on foot or has already been consummated." Also a small notice that a "joint resolution approving the new constitution of Texas and admitting her into the Union as well as a bill for extending the laws of the United States over Texas were this day signed by the President of the Senate and then signed by the President of the United States. T. A. S. Doniphan unknown
