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185236379New Orleans: Printed at the Crescent Office 1852. 100pp. Toned with some foxing light rubberstamp on title page. Upper blank corners of last two leaves renewed couple of small holes in last leaf affecting about five letters. Good in modern boards.<br /> <br /> The new Constitution mandated that "the Legislature shall apportion the representation among the several parishes and election districts on the basis of the total population. A representative number shall be fixed and each parish and election district shall have as many Representatives as its aggregate population shall entitle it to." This meant that in apportioning representatives slaves would be counted in determining the "total population" even though the franchise was limited to adult white males. The legislative deck was thus stacked in favor of election districts with large slaveholding plantations; and the interests of that segment of the State would dominate governmental councils.<br /> This provision created significant opposition to the proposed Constitution which was adopted by the narrowest of margins. Many called it "anti-republican" arguing that it reflected "a calculated effort to reduce the political power of regions where the black population remained sparse" Hyde Pistols and Politics 70 LSU Press: 1996.<br /> The Journal records the Convention's daily proceedings during July 1852 and prints the proposed Constitution. <br /> Jumonville 2151. Thompson 1300. Cohen 3106. Not in Harv. Law Cat. or Marke. Printed at the Crescent Office unknown
18585156Lake Providence La: Printed at the Office of the Herald 1858. Very good. 40pp. Original plain green wrappers. Minor wear two binding holes punched through inner margin and soft vertical fold throughout. Moderate tanning and occasional foxing to text signed on page 32 by the secretary of the commission with his embossed seal. Untrimmed. A very rare antebellum Louisiana imprint discussing the creation and maintenance of levees along the Mississippi River in the northeastern part of the state and printed there in 1858. Lake Providence is located on the Mississippi River in the northeast corner of Louisiana about fifty miles north of Vicksburg Mississippi. The present work was printed by the city's contemporary newspaper of record the Lake Providence Herald. The work includes the founding documents of the Levee District covering the parishes of Carroll Madison and Catahoula printing the district's laws and legislative resolutions by-laws governing the commissioners' work in the district the rules of order for their meetings the "Boundaries of Wards" for the seventeen wards within the state and an example contract for the commissioners engineers and contractors working on the levees. The work is signed at the conclusion of the by-laws by secretary Charles Robertson Purdy 1833-1863 who later served as captain of the Lake Providence Cadets of the 4th Louisiana Regiment in the Civil War and died in the Siege of Port Hudson. OCLC reports just a single copy at Historic New Orleans. Printed at the Office of the Herald unknown
18663572New Orleans 1866. Very good. 12pp. Original printed wrappers sewn. Minimal soiling light edge wear to wrappers. Vertical center crease throughout. Light even toning to text otherwise very clean. A scarce work issued by the Reconstruction government of the state of Louisiana seeking funds from the United States Congress to make repairs to the Mississippi River levees "together with its tributaries the Arkansas and Red rivers." The Board of Levee Commissioners was seeking federal aid because the state of Louisiana had become so impoverished by the end of the Civil War stating here that "The State crippled as she is in her resources is still making herculean efforts to protect her citizens." Before the war argues the Board the state as well as the proprietors of the lands along the Mississippi River were able to maintain the levees albeit "at an immense outlay of labor and money" but "at a time of general prosperity when labor was abundant and cheap." In other words slave labor was formerly employed to maintain the levees and now that the people of Louisiana can no longer use slaves the state wants make the federal government pay literally. One passage in the work even discusses in detail the impact of slaves and free persons of color who have abandoned thirteen parishes which are now "almost altogether desolated." The report cites census and crop yield data to make the point that without this practically free labor force as well as the cotton sugar molasses and corn they produced the labor and economic impact on Louisiana of taking away a free labor force was onerous.<br /> <br /> Works by the Board of Levee Commissioners are rather rare in institutions with just eight copies of the present work in OCLC at LSU Tulane the University of Alabama the Library of Congress the Minnesota Historical Society Library Duke the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center and UT-Austin. unknown
18109018Washington City: R. C. Weightman 1810. Disbound. Very Good binding. Octavo. 9 1 pp. Removed from volume. Respined with archival tape and all leaves reinforced at the inner margin in the same fashion. Petition for statehood addressed to "the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States." The memorialists solicit information on how they may become truly a part o f the United States. They explain their past attempts and past services to the United States and promise equal loyalty in the future. Shaw & Shoemaker 21724. R. C. Weightman unknown
187936489New Orleans: Jas. S. Cosgrove Convention Printer 1879. 337 1 blank 156 pp plus two folding tables. Each page printed in two columns. Bound in buckram with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels light rubberstamp on title page. Clean text. Very Good. Last leaf with a tear affecting about five letters of a two-page report in the Appendix concerning drainage and taxation in the City of New Orleans.<br /> <br /> The Convention dominated by white Democrats returned Louisiana to Home Rule. It was consumed with issues of State debt financial auditing bonds and the public treasury. One delegate expressing his colleagues' deep resentment of Reconstruction asserted that "the deplorable gloomy and painful condition of Louisiana must be the result of the most barefaced prostitution of power the most barefaced abuse of sacred trusts and the most infamously corrupt application of the people's money" page 298. The Journal a day-by-day account of these Proceedings does not print the Constitution. <br /> Not in Marke Harv. Law Cat. Thompson. Jas. S. Cosgrove, Convention Printer unknown
187233610New York: Maverick Stephan & Co. Lithographers 1872. Broadsheet 18" x 23-1/2". Recto printed with black ink red underprinted; verso entirely in green ink. Top half of the sheet contains mortgage certificate with a large vignette of a stream train and a small vignette of mother pelican with her babies and the words "I Live and Die for Those I Love." Bond has preprinted signature of Levi Parsons President. Bottom half of sheet has 60 small coupons attached with bond numbers rubberstamped in blue ink and preprinted with the signature of Chas. V. Ware. Denominated in both dollars and British sterling each payment coupon $35/L7.4S. The verso contains the title of the bond 28 sections for registering names and dates as well as the backs of the coupons. Minor wear few very tiny holes in one coupon with minimal loss. Very Good to Near Fine. <br /> <br /> The New Orleans Baton Rouge & Vicksburg Railroad was officially chartered in 1872 and ran until about 1881. Maverick, Stephan & Co., Lithographers unknown
186841040New Orleans LA: A.L. Lee State Printer 1868. 68pp. Stitched without wrappers. Old rubberstamp of Union League Club New York. A few shallow blank extremity chips. Good. <br /> <br /> During the election year 1868 "White gangs roamed New Orleans intimidating blacks and breaking up Republican meetings" Foner Reconstruction 342. Other Parishes experienced the same story; in St. Landry a mob "invaded the plantations killing as many as 200 blacks.Unable to hold meetings and fearful that attempts to bring out their vote would only result in further massacres Georgia and Louisiana Republicans abandoned the Presidential campaign" Id. <br /> The Republican Party controlled Louisiana's General Assembly. Its Report is a frightening picture of violent resistance to Reconstruction describing "a state of lawlessness terrorism and crime that is unparalleled in any civilized country." Not only are the "desperate and infamous characters" who directly perpetrate the violence responsible; blameworthy also is "that large and respectable class of the people of the State. . . who refrain studiously from any efforts to restrain or bring them to justice." The Report is a detailed Parish-by-Parish examination of atrocities. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Thompson 1226. A.L. Lee, State Printer unknown
187036136New Orleans 1870. Folded decorative leaf stamped in blind. 3 1 blank pp. Title printed in gilt lettering text in beige lettering. Very Good.<br /> <br /> The University of Louisiana is the predecessor of Tulane University in New Orleans. The commencement program of each department is printed noting the salutatorian and valedictorian and committees of each department. <br /> See OCLC 320842972 1- LSU. unknown
182788857New Orleans: A.T. Penniman & Co 1827-29. First Edition. First printing. Two octavo volumes. Early straight-grained morocco over marbled boards; gilt spine-titles; pp. lxxxiii 364; iii--xv 429pp. Half-titles present. Rubbing to board edges and spine ends with heavier rubbing at crowns and board corners; foxing generally mild more conspicuous but not obtrusive to a few gatherings in each volume. A well-preserved example in an attractive early binding Very Good. With ownership signature to both volumes of John T. Ludeling see note. <br /> <br /> A desirable copy of this early keystone work of Louisiana history. Author François-Xavier Martin 1762-1846 born in France emigrated to North Carolina around 1783 establishing himself first as a printer and then after reading law as a legal scholar and jurist. He entered politics in 1806 and in 1809 was appointed to be the first Attorney General of the newly-acquired Territory of Orleans. As an eye witness to and active protagonist in the legal establishment of the state of Louisiana in 1812 Martin was in a unique position to pen the current history. Though the work was never a popular success - possibly due to Martin's stilted legalistic style which resulted in a work described by his contemporary Charles Gayarré as "lifeless as the minutes and records of proceedings in a court of justice" - subsequent historians have praised the History as for example ".one of the best examinations of the judicial structure from the colonial period to the early nineteenth century. Martin's History of Louisiana has withstood the test of time becoming not only a useful secondary source but also an important primary document." see Mark F. Fernandez From Chaos to Continuity : The Evolution of Louisiana's Judicial System 1712-1862. Baton Rouge: 2001.<br /> <br /> In addition to serving as Louisiana's first Attorney General Martin served for a decade 1836-46 as Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court a fact that lends special interest to this copy of the History which bears the ownership markings of John Theodore Ludeling 1827-1891. Ludeling a prominent Louisiana-born lawyer and jurist just one generation removed from Martin would serve as the Court's Chief Justice from 1868-1877 - and no doubt would have approached the current work with special interest as both a primer on the State's early legal history as well as the product of a distinguished direct predecessor. A notable and well-preserved copy of an uncommon work. SABIN 44871. HOWES M-332. A.T. Penniman & Co unknown
1847470121New-Orleans; Nouvelle-Orleans: Printed by Gaux & David; Imprimerie de Gaux & David 1847. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Two separate issues. Octavos 5 ½†x 8 ½â€. In English: 10 2 2pp. final leaf is blank; In French: 10 3 3pp. final three pages are blank. Both are bound in the same tan plain paper wrapper with an early manuscript ink notation on front cover with inventory number and name of a Masonic Lodge. Neatly removed from a bound volume with spine slightly notched the wrapper is lightly dust soiled both are very good bright copies. An early report detailing a dispute between the freemasons of Louisiana and freemasons of Mississippi as reported by members of the Louisiana Grand Lodge and attested by Francois Verrier a New Orleans merchant and Grand Secretary of the Lodge. In response to the dispute the freemasons of Louisiana draw attention to the diversity of its members in their appeal for unity:<br /> <br /> “What we have done here is this: we have drawn closer … by uniting the whole Brotherhood of Louisiana of the three first degrees under one head … Laws must be suited to the community for which they are made and some Masonic regulations might be well adapted to Meridian of Louisiana; and especially to that of the City of New Orleans where we have daily intercourse with the Brethren of all nations . In New Orleans there are Lodges working in our different Languages. The fraternity here is composed of men of various nations habits and opinions and every measure which intends to unite us all into one band of Brothers is a blessing .â€. A scarce pair of early New Orleans imprints rarely found together. OCLC locates only two copies of the English language edition and only one copy of the edition in French. Printed by Gaux & David; Imprimerie de Gaux & David unknown
185728024Philadelphia: Charles Desilver 1857. 17¼" X 13 3/4" image 16" X 12 3/4". Hand colored. Near fine. Faint age toning. Drawn by J.L. Hazzard this superb delicately hand colored map features a large ornamental border. Charles Desilver unknown
1804375007Washington D.C. 1804. 225vi pp. Uncut. 8vo. Publisher's paper-backed stiff blue sugar paper wrappers. Morocco backed clamshell box. 225vi pp. Uncut. 8vo. The first Congressional printing of the Louisiana Purchase treaty and associated conventions. This famous treaty was really three separate documents. The first was the purchase of Louisiana the second was a convention for the payment of the money due on the purchase and the third was a convention for the settlement of old claims. All were executed secretly in Paris in April 1803 ratified by the Senate on Oct. 17 and proclaimed on Oct. 21 1803. The terms were the most important in American diplomatic history after the 1783 peace treaty. They gave the United States all of the vast Louisiana Territory and made the country a continental power with territory extending to the Pacific Ocean. The text of all three documents is given in full in French and English. Also included are the texts of treaties with several Indian tribes. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. Malloy p.508 unknown
186046890New York: S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. 1860. Folio 12¼" X 15" image area 10 3/4" X 13½". Hand colored. Very good. Light age toning only. Bold bright map of this trio of states from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World Plans of Cities Etc." Handsomely colored with fine decorative border. S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. unknown
186046940New York: S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. 1860. Folio 12¼" X 15" image area 10 3/4" X 13½". Hand colored. Very good. Minor age toning and bit of soiling mainly about edges. A bold and nicely colored map of this southern trio from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World Plans of Cities Etc." Delicately colored and with handsome decorative border. S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. unknown
1844715Washington D.C. 1844. Folio broadside. 340 x 220 mm. 13 1/3 x 8 ¾ inches. Wide geometric mourning border. Old folds. Two small pieces lacking from right hand margin but very good Bossier was of a Creole family one of the earliest to settle in Louisiana. He was a cotton and sugar plantation owner. A Calhoun democrat he served from March 4 1843 until his death on April 24 1844. He was later reinterred in Natchitoches La. His funeral service was conducted in the well of the House of Representatives and a newspaper notice about the event reads as follows: "The lighted candles the priests in their white surplices and the clouds of incense wreathing in the Hall presented a scene calculated to strike the beholder with awe. The Rev. Mr. Ryder then took his seat at the desk and delivered an eloquent sermon." Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. See History Art and Archives of the United States House of Representative "The Funeral of Pierre Bossier of Louisiana" for details on the funeral. . unknown
186629782New Orleans: J. O. Nixon State Printer 1866. 17 pp 1p blank 2 folding tables of the "Statement of the Banks in New Orleans on the 28th October 1865 30th December 1865 being the last Saturday of the Month". 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound with stitching lacking some soiling discreet library markings short tears and creasing else very good. 17 pp 1p blank 2 folding tables of the "Statement of the Banks in New Orleans on the 28th October 1865 30th December 1865 being the last Saturday of the Month". 1 vols. 8vo. Financial Status following the war. The Board of Currency issuing their financial report with the status of funds gold and cotton. J. O. Nixon, State Printer unknown
1888GE188681888. Ex-Library. Group of three separate publicatiosn regarding the State of Louisiana published between 1888 and 1892. The old library binding lacks the spine strip and the front board is loose. The frist piece a report by Louisiana's Commissioner of Education is 135 pp. and deals with population climate agriculture etc. The second piece is 71 pp. illustrated with full page photographs and deals mostly with agriculture mostly of sugar and was apparently isued by the Southern Pacific Railroad. The third piece is 81 pp printed in blue and is a summary of a convention called for by Louisiana in order to dispel misinformation held by midwesterners and northerners regarding the State's agriculture and development. <br/><br/> unknown
1802264638Paris: Dentu 1802. First edition. With folding engraved map by L. Collin at front with a fanciful depiction of the American west. viii 382 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter contemporary calf and boards speckled edges. Handsome copy. Blue bookseller ticket of Ch. Chadenat Librairie Américaine et Coloniale Paris. Very good plus. First edition. With folding engraved map by L. Collin at front with a fanciful depiction of the American west. viii 382 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Howes B-243; Clark II 76; Dionne II 915; Field 99; Sabin 3979; Streeter III 1571; Wagner-Camp 1a Dentu unknown
1855ABE-28843076192 GRAVURES DE GUSTAVE DORE POUR "L'HERITIERE ECOSSAISE"-LE TUEUR DE CROCODILES/LOUISIANE/GRAVURE/ARTICLE DE A GARREAU-LE NOUVEAU LOUVRE/GRAVURE
1855GITb987Paris Imprimerie et Librairie Administratives de Paul Dupont 1855. 5 fascicules sur 7 brochés pagination continue. orné d'une carte dépliante. Manquent novembre et décembre, les six premiers mois de l'année ayant fait l'objet d'une parution en 1 seul fascicule. Bien complet de la carte, non coupé.
1852GITb984Paris Imprimerie et Librairie Administratives de Paul Dupont 1852. 11 fascicules mensuels sur 12 brochés pagination continue. orné d'une planche dépliante. Important manque de papier sur le 1er plat de janvier, manque le mois de mars. Non coupé, complet de sa planche.
