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1838291492New Orleans 1838. unbound. very good. Rare autograph document signed: The Citizens Bank of Louisiana trades shares in the capitol stock of the bank for parcels of land and slaves. Folio 4 pages City and Parish of New Orleans Louisiana September 8th 1838 whereby Demey Kemp and wife who are wealthy land owners with many slaves enters into a contract with Victorin Patin President of the Citizens Bank of Louisiana to secure the sum of fifteen-hundred dollars the amount equal to fifteen shares in the Capital Stock of said bank with fifteen shares in an additional allowance of stock for the following described property to wit as adjudicated by Judge Samuel Leonard and certified by Theodore Seghers notary public in small part: ".that including four tracts or parcels of land in the Parish of St. Helena containing two-thousand and forty acres; a tract of land situated on the River Licksaw containing six-hundred acres. Likewise further: Demey Kemp declares that one of the Slaves therein mentioned and named Adelin aged nine years has died since appraisement; and he referred to the title papers in the possession of the said Bank to show from when the appraised property is derived; with the exception of twenty-eight slaves who were born on the property. A mortgage is granted by the said Demey Kemp . to secure fifteen additional shares allowerd on his subscription in the Capital Stock of the Citizens Bank of Louisiana. According to the Judge's certificate there is no mortgage in this office on the different described properties except the mortgage granted in the sum of two-hundred schares in the Capital Stock of said Bank . then this said . Demey Kemp will be recognized as a stockholder of the Citizens Bank of Louisiana for fifteen additional shares." This document has been certified by Justice Samuel Leonard on verso with his signature and embossed seal October 6th 1938. Condition: usual folds with light soiling and minor toning on the Court Filing page: Very good.<br/> <br/> Between 1831 and 1866 Citizens Bank of Louisiana currently owned by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. accepted 13000 slaves as collateral on loans and repossessed 1250 enslaved individuals on loans that plantation owners defaulted on. Though this information is readily available through extensive historical research much of it financed by J.P. Morgan Chase and personally authorized by Jamie Dimon 2003-2005 this is the first document we have ever encountered whereby Citizens Bank of Louisiana is knowingly trading stock in their bank for slaves to shareholders.<br/> <br/> unknown
184031830New Orleans one Donaldson 1840. The Acts are in both English and French on facing pages. Bindings vary: disbound modern buckram modern cloth or contemporary sheep. The usual institutional marks and occasional light wear. Overall Very Good. <br /> <br /> a. ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FOURTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE FIFTH DAY OF JANUARY. 1819. New Orleans: J.C. De St. Romes State Printer. 1819. 142pp. Disbound a bit roughly moderately foxed light chipping to blank outer margin of title leaf and last leaf.<br /> Jumonville 315.<br /> <br /> b. ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE TWETIETH sic DAY OF NOVEMBER 1821. New-Orleans: J.C. De St. Romes State Printer 1821. 159pp.<br /> "English and French on facing pages." Jumonville. With a List of Acts an Index and Resolutions. One of the Resolutions is a several-page report on the necessity for hospitals: "Navigators and traders from more northern latitudes" who arrive in New Orleans healthy are frequently felled by the radically different climate. These are "principally boatmen from Kentucky Ohio and other states on the Ohio." It is hoped that their Governors will chip in to help provide the necessary medical attention to these men. <br /> Jumonville 358. <br /> <br /> c. ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FIFTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY 1822. New-Orleans: J.C. De St. Romes State Printer 1822. 130pp.<br /> Jumonville 374.<br /> <br /> d. ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE SIXTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE SIXTH DAY OF JANUARY 1823. New-Orleans: J.C. De St. Romes State Printer 1823. xxxi 1 blank 110pp. <br /> The volume begins with a rare printing of the 1812 Constitution of Louisiana in English and French on facing pages with names of delegates.<br /> Jumonville 402.<br /> <br /> e. ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SIXTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE SIXTH DAY OF JANUARY 1824. New-Orleans: Peter K. Wagner State Printer 1824. 187 8pp.<br /> Jumonville 432.<br /> <br /> f. ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SEVENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY 1825. New-Orleans: James M. Bradford State Printer 1826. 264pp. <br /> With a List of Acts an Index and Resolutions. One of the Resolutions urges settlement of the boundary with Arkansas; one of the laws regulates river pilots; others regulate the emancipation of slaves runaway slaves and other aspects of slavery. <br /> Jumonville 488.<br /> <br /> g. ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY 1827. New-Orleans: John Gibson State Printer 1827. 211pp.<br /> ` <br /> h. ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY 1828. John Gibson State Printer 1828. 199pp. <br /> The First Session passed acts prescribing the mode of private emancipation an act relative to runaway slaves the organization of the City of New Orleans into wards; establishment of a consolidated planters association of Louisiana; and various laws on internal improvements civil and criminal law. The Second Session repealed an Act which had prohibited entry of slaves into the State for purposes of sale and passed several statutes improving river and canal transportation incorporating "a society of Israelites" and the New Orleans Jockey Club. Each Session includes an Index and Titles of Acts.<br /> Jumonville 600 625. <br /> <br /> i. bound with ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE NINTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE EIGHTH DAY OF DECEMBER 1828. New-Orleans: John Gibson State Printer 1829. 200 21 index pp.<br /> With a List of Acts Index and the 1812 Constitution of Louisiana. Among the Acts passed are a detailed 18-section slave registration statute; a state printing contract for Benjamin Levy; various laws on the militia internal improvements land titles civil and criminal law. <br /> Jumonville 665.<br /> <br /> j. bound with ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE NINTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF DONALDSONVILLE ON MONDAY THE 4TH DAY OF JANUARYA.D. 1830. Donaldson: C.W. Duhy State Printer 1830.156pp.<br /> An early Donaldson imprint with much contemporary marginalia on the different statutes. <br /> <br /> k. bound with ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AT DONALDSON ON MONDAY THE THIRD DAY OF JANUARY 1831. IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON THE EIGHTH OF JANUARY. New-Orleans: John Gibson State Printer 1831. 143pp.<br /> Jumonville 735.<br /> <br /> l. ACTS PASSED AT THE EXTRA SESSION OF THE TENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER 1831. New-Orleans: John Gibson State Printer 1831. 15 1 blank pp.<br /> A detailed Slave Code is enacted.<br /> Jumonville 736.<br /> <br /> m. bound with ACTS PASSED AT THE THIRD SESSION OF THE TENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. New Orleans: Stroud & Pew. State Printers. 1832. 204 6 pp. <br /> With continuing regulation of slavery and the domestic slave trade.<br /> Jumonville 773. <br /> <br /> n. ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE ELEVENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS THE SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY 1833. New-Orleans: Jerome Bayon State Printer 1833. 194 194 1 blank 195-202 pp. <br /> Jumonville 809.<br /> <br /> o. bound with ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE ELEVENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS THE NINTH DAY OF DECEMBER 1833. New-Orleans: Jerome Bayon State Printer 1834. 167 167 vi vi 1 blank viii-xviii pp.<br /> Jumonville 835.<br /> <br /> p. ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE TWELFTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS THE FOURTH DAY OF JANUARY 1836. New-Orleans: Jerome Bayon State Printer 1836. 193 193 iv iv 1 blank v-xii pp. Title leaf crimped and chipped but no text loss.<br /> Jumonville 923.<br /> <br /> q. ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE THIRTEENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS THE ELEVENTH DAY OF DECEMBER 1837. New-Orleans: Jerome Bayon State Printer 1838. 120 120 vi xvi pp.<br /> Jumonville 1013. <br /> <br /> r. bound with ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FOURTEENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS JANUARY 7 1839. New-Orleans: J.D. DE ST. ROMES State Printer 1839. 241 xii pp. <br /> Jumonville 1055.<br /> <br /> s. ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FOURTEENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS ON THE 6TH DAY OF JANUARY 1840. New-Orleans: Bullitt Magne & Co. State Printers 1840. 142 142 iv iv v-xiii index pp.<br /> Jumonville 1144. 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
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
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
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
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
18324161New Orleans: June 30 1832. Good. 3pp. on a single folded sheet addressed on verso of second leaf. Old mailing folds minor foxing tiny hole in second leaf from removal of wax seal costing a couple of words significant fading to text. An informative and content-rich manuscript letter from Abner Phelps a transplanted New Englander living in antebellum New Orleans written to Phelps's school fellow and close friend Gilman Marston later a Civil War Union General and U.S. Senator from New Hampshire. Abner Phelps is a notable but still somewhat obscure historical figure in the lore of New Orleans and San Francisco. He worked as a lawyer in both cities and served in the Mexican-American War before moving to California during the early Gold Rush. He and his wife built a house in San Francisco in 1850 that retains their name and is considered to be among the oldest private residences in California. In the present letter Phelps describes his experiences after moving to New Orleans first taking a job teaching school "from six in the morning till nine in the evening. Very few of my scholars speak English but only French and Spanish. I have a hard task as they are very ungovernable fellows. I shall however relinquish this employment in the fall and commence the practice of law." The temperature had already risen to ninety-six degrees and "most of the northern merchants have left the city" for the summer leaving the streets to "appear desolate and forsaken." He had already suffered from Yellow Fever and comments that "I now consider myself acclimated" to the unhealthy climate though "I am not without apprehensions for my health."<br /> <br /> Phelps then offers a hint about why he would be willing seventeen years later to join the Gold Rush to California. He had found "the advantages of traveling.much greater than I had anticipated" having "corrected" some of his opinions and prejudices and "given me a better acquaintance with all the intricacies and varieties of the human character. I have spent some time in Mexico.a beautiful and interesting country" which he liked "much better than Louisiana" where the government left over from Spanish colonial days persisted in "sheltering despotism."<br /> <br /> Despite an abiding interest in the life of Abner Phelps by Judge William Newson - father of the current Governor of California - still little is known about this pioneering New Orleans and San Francisco lawyer. Several Phelps diaries are held by Tulane University but they do not begin until 1837 after he was settled in New Orleans as a lawyer and became known as a somewhat controversial politician. Interestingly the Phelps House in San Francisco was supposedly built first in New Orleans and then moved to the West Coast in pieces because Phelps's wife was homesick for Louisiana; this story is perhaps apocryphal but certainly fits the romantic nature of Phelps's far-flung life. The present letter appears to be the earliest known Phelps epistle written at the tender age of twenty-seven. . June 30 unknown
180428737Paris: Ballard 1804. viii 18 31-176pp. plus folding table. Library label on front cover from Shwartz Historical Library. Minor rubbing and edge wear. Bookplate on front pastedown. Loss to portions of thirteen leaves affecting some text reinforced with tape dust-soiling to titlepage dampstaining to some leaves toward the end of the text. Lacking pp.19-30. Later 19th-century marbled wrappers.<br/> <br/> An extraordinarily rare account of travels in Louisiana the Mississippi Valley and the Illinois-Ohio country especially interesting in that the travels practically coincide with the Louisiana Purchase: a battered copy of a great rarity.<br/> <br/> An extraordinarily rare account of travels in Louisiana the Mississippi Valley and the Illinois-Ohio country especially interesting in that the travels practically coincide with the Louisiana Purchase. The work has been attributed to either Wante or G. Boucher de la Richardiere. "The author - whoever he was - travelled extensively throughout the lower Mississippi Valley" Howes. "There is also much on the Illinois-Ohio country but the body of the work has to do with the Louisiana Cession" Eberstadt. Incomplete but quite rare as Howes accorded it a "b" rating. The great Simon Shwartz library of Louisiana material had a copy sold for $15 in 1926 in blue morocco with an inked name on the titlepage. This is perhaps an additional Shwartz copy not auctioned at the time. The only other copy we can find any record of selling is the one listed by the Eberstadts in 1953.<br/> <br/> Eberstadt 132:412; Howes W87 "b."; Sabin 101246; Shwartz Sale 622. Ballard unknown
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
18616313Baton Rouge: J.M. Taylor 1861. About very good. 7pp. Disbound. Minor edge wear small dampstains at lower right corner. Minor tanning and faint foxing. Scarce report for the Vicksburg Shreveport and Texas Railroad issued in the same month that Louisiana seceded from the United States. This edition details the construction completed up to January 1861 and encourages the state legislature to continue funding the project given the context of secession -- "Event are beginning to justify the policy of the State in extending aid to the full extent of Constitutional ability to the various railroads with its boundaries. As a means of military defense this road is of great importance to the state. If any emergency should make it necessary to concentrate a body of armed men in any of the parishes on the Mississippi the citizen-soldiers from the more populous upland parishes may be carried over it from Monroe in a few hours." OCLC notes several institutions with small runs of this report but most seem to lack this January 1861 issue. J.M. Taylor 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
189578199New Orleans: Louisiana Historical Society. Very Good. 1895. Hardcover. Ex-library in 10 volumes in 5 bound in maroon library buckram measuring 8 3/4 x 6 inches - bright contents with several illustrations. . Louisiana Historical Society hardcover
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
187636046Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution. Collins Printer Philadelphia 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio. 1 x 171 pages 1 page blank. Illustrated. Custom half leather binding with green morocco leather corners and spine. Raised bands gilt decorations and gilt lettered title on the spine. Reddish marbled end sheets. Top edge gilt. Original outer printed wraps preserved. Leather is rubbed and scuffed head and base of the spine and on the corner edges. Light edge wear to the boards. Interior contents clean. <br /> <br /> This copy has a one page letter dated October 19 1870 pasted on the right front flyleaf. The letter written on a Liverpool Hotel letterhead was addressed "My Dear Brother" and signed by Joseph Jones. Contents of the letter relate to Joseph Jones visit in Liverpool. Armorial bookplate of Charles C. Jones Jr. located on the front paste down. Charles C. Jones Jr. was a Georgia historian and author. Smithsonian Institution. Collins, Printer, Philadelphia hardcover
186737280New Orleans: Printed at the Commercial Bulletin Job Office 1867. 60 25- advertisements 3 blanks pp. Original printed yellow wrappers some extremity chipping. Originally stitched now loosened. Illustration on rear wrapper: 'Front Entrance Gentilly Road. Several institutional stamps scattered foxing and dusting. The final 25 pages are advertisements from various commercial enterprises mostly from New Orleans. Good.<br /> <br /> The Report announces Louisiana's entry into the post-War New South displaying its "improvements" in agriculture and the "Mechanic Arts." The advertisements alone demonstrate impressively Louisiana's determined recovery from the War. <br /> Officers Directors and Committee Members are listed after the title page. The Fair's President was the merchant I.N. Marks. "As indicated by his name ISAAC N. MARKS is of Hebrew descent and is a distinguished representative of his highly favored race but contrary to the usual customs of that people he has adopted the Christian faith. This change in his creed is due to the independent manner of thought which has characterized him from his boyhood and has ever made him master of his personality in the domain of both his sentiments and business. Mr. Marks is a native of South Carolina having been born at Charleston on the 5th of May 1817. At the age of nineteen he came to New Orleans and linked his career with that of his adopted city then lacking much of the greatness and grandeur which to-day places her a queen among cities" online 'Genealogy Trails History Group Orleans Parish <br /> The pamphlet records Louisiana's first Fair after the War's end in late November 1866. An essay explains its establishment and inauguration in late November 1866. "The mellow light of an Indian Summer's sun shone down." The various exhibits are listed followed by Marks's Address lamenting the "long and disastrous war leaving in its desolated path ruin upon every side; agriculture paralyzed; commerce languishing; a well-regulated labor system grown venerable in its usefulness and its humane tendencies suddenly and violently destroyed." Other Addresses call for immigration manufactures agricultural improvements and modernization.<br /> Not in Thompson which records later fairs of this Association. OCLC 24446596 1- Historic New Orleans Collection as of December 2020 but not collating the 25-page advertisement section. Printed at the Commercial Bulletin Job Office unknown
183613107East Baton Rouge Parish LA: October 25 1836. 1p. on a single folded sheet integral blank docketed on verso. Old folds moderate toning and foxing short closed tear along one fold line a few small instances of ink burn. Overall good condition. An interesting document of legal testimony involving numerous named slaves in Louisiana in 1836 ranging in age from one year to almost thirty years of age and including seven children. According to the docketing the document is effectively a "Title to Slaves." The deponents were two local citizens John Bills and Andrew Black who had "personal knowledge of the fact that James D. Stuart and his wife Mary Gayle are now and have been for the last ten years & upwards the bona fide owners and possessors of the following named slaves: Juba Aged 25 and Sicily his wife aged 22 to whom have been born the children Braxton aged six years and Dan aged 3 years. Also the negro woman Celia aged 28 years and her children Mary 11 years Margaret 8 years Charley 6 years Sarah three years which slaves Juba Sicily & Celia were acquired by inheritance from the estate of Christopher Gayle. And they further depose that the negro woman Rachel aged 17 years was inherited by the said Stuart from the estate of his deceased mother.and that the said Rachel has now a child named Jacob of the age of one year." The document is signed by Black Bills and the Justice of the Peace Daniel D. Avery. Documents involving slave inheritance of and subsequent ownership by not one but both members of a marriage are exceedingly rare. October 25 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
182829714New Orleans: John Gibson- State Printer 1828. 211 1 blank; 199 1 blank pp. The 1827 Acts are bound in later cloth with morocco spine labels and an old law library gilt stamp at base of spine; bookplate on front pastedown; text lightly to moderately toned or foxed. Good. The 1828 Acts are bound in original attractive full calf with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. A couple of rubberstamps bookplate on front pastedown front and rear pastedowns worn. Good. <br /> <br /> English and French are on facing pages in each volume. The First Session passed acts prescribing the mode of private emancipation an act relative to runaway slaves the organization of the City of New Orleans into wards; establishment of a consolidated planters association of Louisiana; and various laws on internal improvements civil and criminal law. <br /> The Second Session repealed an Act which had prohibited entry of slaves into the State for purposes of sale and passed several statutes improving river and canal transportation incorporating "a society of Israelites" incorporating other associations like the New Orleans Jockey Club. Each Session includes an Index and Titles of Acts.<br /> Jumonville 600 625. AI 29537 3 33906 3. John Gibson- State Printer unknown
180320071Washington 1803. 5 3 blanks pp. Disbound some loosening Very Good. <br /> <br /> "The late cession of Louisiana by France to the United States renders it an object of primary importance to have the nearest and most expeditious mode of communication established between the city of Washington and the city of New Orleans the capitol of that province." The Committee thus urges a post road from Washington "to pass through or near the Tuckabachee settlement to the Tombigby settlement in the Mississippi territory and from thence to New Orleans. And further that a post road ought also to be established from the said Tombigby settlement to Natchez." <br /> FIRST EDITION. AI 5472 3. OCLC 54186405 1. unknown
180425033Washington 1804. 6 2 blank pp. Disbound and lightly toned. Very Good. <br /> <br /> The Senate proposed these Amendments to the House Bill providing for extension of the laws of the United States to the Louisiana Territory purchased from France forming a part of the earliest legislation concerning this newly acquired expanse. <br /> AI 7428 1- DLC. OCLC locates three copies AAS Yale Cambridge under two accession numbers. Not in BEAL. 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
182829358New Orleans: John Gibson- State Printer 1828. 199 1 blank pp. Disbound. English and French on facing pages may lack the French title page. Good. Probably the copy of the Louisiana diplomat lawyer and Senator John Slidell signed 'Jn Slidell' at the head of the title. <br /> <br /> With Index and Titles of Acts. Slidell was the Confederacy's ambassador to France during the Civil War. With James Mason he set sail for Europe on the British ship Trent but was intercepted and captured by an American warship. A serious diplomatic row with England ensued. Lincoln believing that one war at a time was sufficient made his amends to the British. <br /> The Second Session repealed an Act which had prohibited entry of slaves into the State for purposes of sale and passed several statutes improving river and canal transportation incorporating "a society of Israelites" incorporating other associations like the New Orleans Jockey Club.<br /> Jumonville 625. AI 33906 3. John Gibson- State Printer unknown
182129735New Orleans: J.C. De St. Romes State Printer 1821. 159 1 blank pp. Bound in later cloth with gilt-lettered morocco spine titles rubbed. Light scattered foxing front pastedown with a bookplate several institutional rubberstamps else Very Good. <br /> <br /> "English and French on facing pages." Jumonville. With a List of Acts an Index and Resolutions. One of the Resolutions is a several-page report on the necessity for hospitals: "Navigators and traders from more northern latitudes" who arrive in New Orleans healthy are frequently felled by the radically different climate. These are "principally boatmen from Kentucky Ohio and other states on the Ohio." It is hoped that their Governors will chip in to help provide the necessary medical attention to these men. <br /> Jumonville 358. J.C. De St. Romes, State Printer unknown
