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74922Paris, Editions Acropole, 1982. 15 x 24, 667 pp., broché, bon état (couverture abîmée).
1858PHO-1208Paris , chez Pagnerre , 1858 , un volume in-12 , 389pp-2ff , demi cuir époque , dos à nerfs avec auteur et titre , coiffe usée , petites rousseurs
1527918823.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1348111194.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1331160774.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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
1870List1434New Orleans: Various Photographers 1870. Twenty-four cartes-de-Visite and three ninth-plate tintypes all bearing New Orleans photographers’ marks to versos. Very good to fine. Very Good. A curated group of images of New Orleans subjects with an emphasis on women children and religious imagery including one uncommon image of a rosary and another of the interior of a church. Most photographs document the city’s wealthy residents at a time when elite culture changed due to the abolition of French instruction in schools and the general forces of reconstruction. The images include several with identified subjects. Overall an evocative group worthy of study by scholars of the city. Various Photographers unknown
1807WRCAM3793New Orleans: Printed by Bradford & Anderson 1807. 63pp. Modern half morocco and cloth. Foxed and tanned. Good. A printing in parallel English and French of some important post-cession acts including those confirming validity of original Spanish and French grants and so forth. Although these acts are frequently found bound with the ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION. they were printed and paginated separately. A good example of the printing work of Bradford and Anderson. Bradford arrived in New Orleans in 1804 rising to the post of printer to the Territory in 1805. The patronage was withdrawn three years later because Bradford and Anderson repeatedly attacked Gov. Claiborne in their newspaper the ORLEANS GAZETTE. McMURTRIE LOUISIANA 99. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 11502 13789. FOOTE p.7. JUMONVILLE 144. THOMPSON 1078. Printed by Bradford & Anderson hardcover books
0526600543.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1330968301.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
34537<p>Jaquette abimée</p> New York, 1978 143 p., très nombreuses photos couleur et N/B, 4 cartes, broché. 22 x 30
2005CSP-1952Découvrez une pièce d’exception pour les amateurs de beaux livres et de cartographie historique. American Cities est bien plus qu’un ouvrage : c’est un objet de collection rare, édité en 2005 en seulement 300 exemplaires, dont celui-ci porte le numéro 299 (voir photo). À l’intérieur, vous découvrirez une remarquable collection de cartes historiques reproduites, datant du XVIIe siècle à nos jours, mettant à l’honneur les grandes villes américaines telles que New York, La Nouvelle-Orléans, Denver, Washington, Philadelphie, Saint-Louis, San Francisco, Boston et Chicago. Plusieurs cartes spectaculaires se déploient en triptyques sur trois pages, offrant une immersion fascinante dans l’évolution urbaine et historique de ces métropoles emblématiques.
18529995257Mame Tours A. Mame 1852, In-8 pleine basane marron, dos à nerfs trés orné, plats estampés à froid avec fer de lycée sur le premier, 233 pages, tranches marbrées. Bon exemplaire.
Tours A. Mame 1852, In-8 pleine basane marron, dos à nerfs trés orné, plats estampés à froid avec fer de lycée sur le premier, 233 pages, tranches marbrées. Bon exemplaire.
0266082955.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19951255411995 Glénat, collection "vécu" - 1995 - In-4, relié, cartonnage illustré - 46 planches en couleurs - Edition originale
200752066New Orleans La: New Orleans Auction Galleries Inc. New. 2007. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - Many color illustrations. Among the artists represented in this sale: Charles Haigh-Wood Edgar Longstaffe Ida Kohlmeyer Robert Gordy C. O. Longabaugh William Woodward and others. -- with a bonus offer-- . New Orleans Auction Galleries, Inc. paperback
18504184AGBI, 1850 (ca.). Stahlstich, 16 x 11 Auf Wunsch Digitalaufnahme in jpg-Format erhältlich- photo in jpg-format available. Je nach Versandart können die Portokosten bis zu 2 ? weniger als angegeben betragen.+
18504185AGBI, 1850 (ca.). Stahlstich, 15,5 x 10 Auf Wunsch Digitalaufnahme in jpg-Format erhältlich- photo in jpg-format available. Je nach Versandart können die Portokosten bis zu 2 ? weniger als angegeben betragen.+
1915140940342New Orleans 1915. Very Good. ca. 1915. 96 pp. The last edition of the famed "Blue Books" a series of directories to houses of prostitution in New Orleans's red-light district Storyville. Bound in publisher's original pale blue wraps printed in red bound with three staples and text printed only in black. As bibliographer Pamela Arceneaux explains in Guidebooks to Sin "There appears to have been a printing of this edition in which all of the text and design elements of the interior pages are printed only in black ink with none of the rubrication seen in THNOC's The Historic New Orleans Collection's seven identical copies. I have examined a copy of this item that is in private hands and its size the cover printing and the quality of the paper are exactly the same as THNOC's seven. There is one other exception - three staples are used to bind the text block rather than the usual two seen in most issues. The printing on the interior pages the overall wear and the accumulation of rust around the staples leads me to believe that even lacking the red-ink highlights of the others this one is also of the Storyville period." Very Good with some toning and light wear to wraps. Colloquially named for the city alderman Sidney Story much to his chagrin who sponsored legislation to confine city-sanctioned prostitution to a 38-block area just north of the French Quarter the red-light district of Storyville lasted form 1897-1917. During that time guide books such as these were often available in barbershops and saloons. This lists burlesque houses prostitutes by race such as white black octoroon and landladies interspersed with ads for cigars and liquor and contains a notice that this guide must not be mailed as the distribution of suggestive material by the United States Postal Service was banned. unknown books
1915WRCAM55273New Orleans 1915. 96pp. printed throughout in red and black. 12mo. Original printed pale blue wrappers expertly rebacked in matching blue paper. Soft vertical crease to text minor toning upper outer corner of one leaf repaired. Very good. The last edition of the series of guides to the bawdy houses and prostitutes of New Orleans issued between 1900 and 1915 and known collectively as the "Blue Books" of Storyville. Heartman identifies this is as the twelfth or thirteenth edition. Pamela Arceneaux in GUIDEBOOKS TO SIN condenses Heartman's last two editions into the same print run having compared Heartman's two editions and finding them identical. Arceneaux further believes that this edition could have been printed as early as 1913 based on intertextual clues found during her research cross-referenced with contemporary New Orleans city directories. <br> <br> The red-light district of New Orleans operated in a very public way until the U.S. government suppressed it at the time of the American entrance into the First World War. This guide lists women by address followed by advertisements for brothels; all interspersed with advertisements for liquor and cigars. Included lists of burlesque houses names of landladies and names of prominent women in the trade. The prostitutes are often identified by race most commonly white black and octoroon. <br> <br> The earliest such guide appeared about 1896 and they were produced almost annually from 1900 to 1915. During this period all of the guides issued under the title BLUE BOOK were the product of Billy Struve allegedly from the second floor of Lulu White's saloon at the corner of Basin Street and Bienville though that story is likely apocryphal. More likely Struve assembled the BLUE BOOKS from his management offices at Anderson's a saloon owned by the "Mayor of Storyville" Tom Anderson located at the corner of Basin and Iberville where according to the city directories he also resided for most of the Storyville years. An advertisement for Tom Anderson's New Cabaret and Restaurant is found on the rear wrapper of this edition. The two photographs include the facade of Emma Johnson's famous "Studio" and a portrait of the Oriental Danseuse Rita Walker. <br> <br> Owing to their content and heavy use all BLUE BOOK guides are extremely rare. A nice example. HEARTMAN BLUE BOOKS XII/XIII. ARCENEAUX GUIDEBOOKS TO SIN 10. unknown books
1915WRCAM55407New Orleans 1915. 96pp. printed throughout in black. 12mo. Original pale blue wrappers printed in red. Spine sunned minor edge wear. Internally clean. Very good plus. The last edition of the series of guides to the bawdy houses and prostitutes of New Orleans issued between 1900 and 1915 and known collectively as the "Blue Books" of Storyville. Heartman identifies this is as the twelfth or thirteenth edition. Pamela Arceneaux in GUIDEBOOKS TO SIN condenses Heartman's last two editions into the same print run having compared Heartman's two editions and found them identical. Arceneaux further believes that this edition could have been printed as early as 1913 based on intertextual clues found during her research cross-referenced with contemporary New Orleans city directories. <br> <br> Further the textblock of this copy is printed entirely in black unlike the normal red-and-black printing of most other copies of this edition. Arceneaux explains on p.105 of GUIDEBOOKS TO SIN: <br> <br> "There appears to have been a printing of this edition in which all of the text and design elements of the interior pages are printed only in black ink with none of the rubrication seen in THNOC's The Historic New Orleans Collection's seven identical copies. I have examined a copy of this item that is in private hands and its size the cover printing and the quality of the paper are exactly the same as THNOC's seven. There is one other exception - three staples are used to bind the text block rather than the usual two seen in most issues. The printing on the interior pages the overall wear and the accumulation of rust around the staples leads me to believe that even lacking the red-ink highlights of the others this one is also of the Storyville period." <br> <br> The only way in which the present copy differs from the above description is in the number of staples - the present copy has two as seen in the red-ink issue. Arceneaux does not postulate about the differences in this printing of the Blue Book from the red-ink version but we might propose that the all- black-ink version of the Blue Book was perhaps a trial printing executed at the beginning of the period of this edition or likely one of the very latest productions of this edition once the printer had exhausted the red ink and there was still demand for the guidebook. <br> <br> The red-light district of New Orleans operated in a very public way until the U.S. government suppressed it at the time of the American entrance into the First World War. This guide lists women by address followed by advertisements for brothels; all interspersed with advertisements for liquor and cigars. Included are lists of burlesque houses names of landladies and names of prominent women in the trade. The prostitutes are often identified by race most commonly white black and octoroon. <br> <br> The earliest such guide appeared about 1896 and they were produced almost annually from 1900 to 1915. During this period all of the guides issued under the title BLUE BOOK were the product of Billy Struve allegedly from the second floor of Lulu White's saloon at the corner of Basin Street and Bienville though that story is likely apocryphal. More likely Struve assembled the BLUE BOOKS from his management offices at Anderson's a saloon owned by the "Mayor of Storyville" Tom Anderson located at the corner of Basin and Iberville where according to the city directories he also resided for most of the Storyville years. An advertisement for Tom Anderson's New Cabaret and Restaurant is found on the rear wrapper of this edition. The two photographs include the facade of Emma Johnson's famous "Studio" and a portrait of the Oriental Danseuse Rita Walker. <br> <br> Owing to their content and heavy use all BLUE BOOK guides are extremely rare. A nice example of a rarely-encountered variant of the last Storyville BLUE BOOK. HEARTMAN BLUE BOOKS XII/XIII. ARCENEAUX GUIDEBOOKS TO SIN 10. unknown books
1993LFA-126749797Un ouvrage de 96 pages, format 245 x 270 mm, illustré, relié cartonnage, publié en 1993, Editions de la Martinière, bon état
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with small indent to front and nick to top of spine. 127pp. A description of the Blues, its origins and development plus concise biographies of forty-four blues artists from the early days (WC Handy, Bessie Smith, etc) to modern Electric Blues (Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, etc). Includes the CD with eighteen examples in a wallet inside the rear cover.
