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1720WRCAM48868Amsterdam 1720. Single-sheet map 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Minor foxing. Near fine. A scarce early map of the Mississippi River Valley depicting the American region between the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes taken from HET GROOT TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID. THE GREAT MIRROR OF FOLLY a scathing account of the speculative crashes that led to European financial disaster in 1720. The work was a chronicle of the failed attempts by John Law Controller General of Finances for the French government to open Louisiana to trade in order to help alleviate France's financial problems. This led to the creation of the Mississippi Company which created the "Mississippi Bubble" incident that destroyed the Banque Générale Privée the General Private Bank which Law founded. The map depicts the Mississippi River parts of Louisiana and Florida Lake Michigan referred to here as "Lac de Illionis" and Lake Superior the extent of French colonial explorations in the region and names of Indian tribes. It is decorated with a title cartouche incorporating the arms of John Law and depicting two Native Americans holding a cornucopia through which flows the mighty Mississippi River. unknown books
1713PHO-1659Paris, Robinot, 1713. In-12 de xxxiv-386 pp. Demi-chagrin brun foncé, dos à nerfs, titre doré, date en queue (reliure XIXe s.). Début de fente à un mors. La rare grande carte dépliante représentant la Louisiane, le cours du Mississipi et le golfe du Mexique est ici en fac-similé.
1890291621890. 1st ed. viii2282 pp. Map. Orig. cloth. Rebacked original spine laid down original endpapers retained. Tine hole in front free endpaper else very good<br/> <br/>"A fairly reliable narrative of the war in Mississippi and Louisiana although it was written without benefit of wartime letters or diary" Nevins I p.99. "This narrative merits consideration for both reliability and travel comments written twenty years after the war without benefit of a diary or other material it contains few improbable personal details and most observations appear to be accurate.The travels described here were not extensive being entirely in Mississippi and Louisiana except for one or two trips to Richmond" Coulter 208.<br/> <br/>Howes H-92 "aa." Dornbusch II 469. unknown books
196859416New Oleans La: Louisiana State Museum. As New. 1968. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 132 pp. With 48 ills. On 44 pls. 25 x 21 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Louisiana State Museum paperback
200650931New Orleans La: Neal Auction Company. New. 2006. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - 1251 lots many color illustrations. Auction features an important collection of period furniture & decorations from Garner Creeek Farms Cypress TX English & American antiques removed from One Everett Place New Orleans Arcadiana from a gentleman's lifetime collection property from the estate of New Orleans architect William W. Deadman & property from the collection of L. S. U. History professor and archivist Edwin A. Davis. Among the artists represented in this sale: G. P. A. Healy Knute Heldner George Sotter J. Henderson and others. -- with a bonus offer-- . Neal Auction Company paperback
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
1753PHO-2353Paris, Broca, 1753, 4 volumes in-12 (16x9,5cm), 7pp.-370pp.-2ff./ titre-356pp.-4ff./6ff.-310pp.-3ff./titre-271pp.-2ff., basane postérieure (19ème ), dos à nerfs orné avec pièce de titre rouge et tomaison verte, ex-libris manuscrit répété, étiquette de libraire (Beauchemin & Valois, Montréal). Frottements et épidermures, 1 planche détachée (t1), 1 feuillet de table monté à l’envers (t4), défaut au titre (t1) Illustré de 25 (28) cartes et gravures, dont dépliantes, manque les 2 planches de musique et la carte de l’Hudson.
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
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 books
1845700771845. French-Language Account of Louisiana's 1845 Constitutional Convention Louisiana. Constitution of 1845. Foullouze Foulhouze James Reporter. Rapports Officiels Des Devats sic de la Convention la Louisiane. New Orleans: J. Bayon Imprimeur de la Convention 1845. i 460 11 pp. Text in parallel columns. Octavo 9-1/2 x 6-1/4. Later library cloth red and black calf lettering pieces and paper location label to spine endleaves added. Some soiling and light shelfwear some chipping to edges of lettering pieces. Light browning and foxing to text early mark sin pencil to a few passages lower corners lacking from a few leaves with no loss to text library stamp to title page "8049" in early hand to its verso. $1850. Only edition. Louisiana's first constitution was adopted in 1812 its second in 1845. More liberal than its predecessor it expanded white male suffrage established public schools and granted the right of appeal to felons sentenced to death or hard labor. The final 11 pages contain a French translation of the 1845 Constitution. Also issued in English Foullouze's report is not to be confused with the Official Reports of Debates 1844 a different account by an anonymous author. The French edition of Foullouze's report is scarce the English edition in rare. Jumonville Bibliography of New Orleans Imprints 1390. Babbitt Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 150. unknown books
239935Nouvelle-Orléans, Gaston Brusle, 1836 fort vol. in-8, XII pp. (pp. V-VIII reliées après la XII), XXI pp., un f. vierge, 525 pp., [4] pp. vierges, pp. 530-573, un f. vierge, IV pp., IV pp., III pp., III pp., texte bilingue anglais et français, basane fauve, dos lisse, pièce de titre cerise, encadrement de guirlande à froid sur les plats (reliure de l'époque). Coiffes rognées, épidermures sur les plats, dos frotté.
1802Arm2Paris Dentu 1802 Paris, Dentu , An XI ( 1802) - in8 (21x13cm) demi basane avec pièce de titre - VIII + 382 pages - coins légèrement frottés - mouillure sur le coin inférieure des 30 dernières pages n'entamant pas le texte - Édition Originale avec sa carte dépliante dressée par Collin - En fin d'ouvrage lexique des Indiens Naoudoouessis et Chipouais. Louis Narcisse Baudry de Lozières ( 1761/1841) quitte Saint Domingue en 1793 lorsque la Révolution Française abolit l'esclavage ; Esclavagiste notoire , il publia également en 1802 un triste livre à la gloire de l'esclavage , monument de haine à l'encontre des afro-descendants . Ouvrage commandité par Napoléon Bonaparte afin de faciliter le rétablissement de l'esclavage . Baudry de Lozières ne put par contre empêcher Bonaparte de vendre la Louisiane en 1803 , après l'avoir récupérée de l'Espagne en 1800 ; vente illégale qui ne fut jamais sanctionnée par l'Assemblée Nationale ...
1802Arm2Paris Dentu 1802 Paris, Dentu , An XI ( 1802) - in8 (21x13cm) demi basane avec pièce de titre - VIII + 382 pages - coins légèrement frottés - mouillure sur le coin inférieure des 30 dernières pages n'entamant pas le texte - Édition Originale avec sa carte dépliante dressée par Collin - En fin d'ouvrage lexique des Indiens Naoudoouessis et Chipouais. Louis Narcisse Baudry de Lozières ( 1761/1841) quitte Saint Domingue en 1793 lorsque la Révolution Française abolit l'esclavage ; Esclavagiste notoire , il publia également en 1802 un triste livre à la gloire de l'esclavage , monument de haine à l'encontre des afro-descendants . Ouvrage commandité par Napoléon Bonaparte afin de faciliter le rétablissement de l'esclavage . Baudry de Lozières ne put par contre empêcher Bonaparte de vendre la Louisiane en 1803 , après l'avoir récupérée de l'Espagne en 1800 ; vente illégale qui ne fut jamais sanctionnée par l'Assemblée Nationale ...
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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
192140729Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1921. Large folding nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare original coastal survey of the Northern Gulf coast from Florida to Louisiana encompassing Panama City Rosemary Beach Seaside Grayton Destin Pensacola Gulf Shores Mobile Gulfport and the Mississippi Delta.<br/> <br/> Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline create nautical charts of the coast and help increase maritime safety since its founding and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the sinking of the Titanic and during WWI it worked to detect enemy submarines. In addition this agency worked to survey and produce detailed maps and renderings of the U.S. coast. These nautical survey maps commonly referred to as "T-sheets" provide fascinating insights into the history of the United States coastline which has and will continue to shift. These maps are the most important data source for understanding the physical and ecological characteristics of the U.S. shoreline. The present map is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the Gulf coasts of Florida Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana and an important historical view of the developing states. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown
1805WRCAM30416Washington: William Duane & Son 1805. 30pp. Gathered signatures string-tied as issued. Light even toning titlepage and foredges of a few leaves a bit soiled. Ex-New-York Historical Society with their small discreet ink stamps on the final two leaves. Else very good. Untrimmed. A most important petition relative to the eventual establishment of the territory of Missouri. "In 1805 Congress had divided the Louisiana Purchase into two parts the trans- Mississippi portion south of 33 degrees being the District of Orleans; that north of 33 degrees including the St. Louis region was made an adjunct of the Territory of Indiana and called the District of Louisiana. This division was violently protested in this petition to Congress signed by sixteen deputies of the Territorial assembly of the District convened at St. Louis. Augustus Chouteau and Eligius Fromentin were appointed to present the petition to Congress which in 1804 granted the petition and set up the region as a separate territory which after 1812 was called Missouri Territory" - Streeter. <br> <br> The Streeter copy sold for $150 to parties unknown in 1968. STREETER SALE 1586. SABIN 42298. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 9631. COHEN 10798. William Duane & Son unknown books
1825666061825. Paris 1825. 1st French edition. Paris 1825. 1st French edition. First Foreign Edition of the Louisiana Civil Code Louisiana. Livingston Edward 1764-1836 Compiler. Moreau-Lislet Louis 1766-1832 Compiler. Derbigny Pierre 1767-1829 Compiler. Civil Code of The State of Louisiana Preceded by the Treaty of Cession with France The Constitution of the United States of America And of the State. Published by a Citizen of Louisiana. Paris: De L'Imprimerie de E. Duverger 1825. xvi 714 pp. Octavo 7-1/2" x 4-1/2". Recent period-style calf blind fillets to boards blind fillets and original lettering piece to spine free endpapers renewed title page mounted and re-hinged. Moderate toning and light foxing to text early owner signatures to title page small early owner stamp to p. v first page of table of contents brief annotations to a few leaves extensive annotations to rear endleaves. $1500. First French edition one of two issues the other in French. In 1822 Derbigny Livingston and Lislet-Moreau were commissioned to revise the 1808 compilation of Louisiana territorial laws. Principally the work of Livingston the result of their effort was the Civil Code of 1825 one of the great codes of the nineteenth century. Duverger's was the first foreign edition. Jumonville Bibliography of New Orleans Imprints 459. unknown books
1683PHO-1237Paris, Amable Auroy, 1688. In-12 (165x100mm), relié avec papier, étiquette avec titre manuscrit au dos , 10ff.-312pp. à la suite Les mœurs des Sauvages 107pp. SANS la carte .
19684412Various locations in Louisiana 1968. 81 leaves illustrated with 701 photographs some in color but mostly in black-and-white. Oblong folio. Contemporary green cloth screw-bound. Moderate soiling and wear to album both covers and a few internal leaves detached. Album leaves with varying levels of chipping and wear a handful of photographs with paper remnants from being stuck to facing images on a few leaves but the great majority of images in very good or better condition. Overall good condition. A thoroughly charming and mammoth assortment of vernacular photographs documenting the activities of an African-American family and their friends in Jim Crow Louisiana. Many of the images contain dated captions printed in the borders helping to identify the time they were taken and are not arranged chronologically; the album was likely compiled some time in the mid-1960s. The wealth of images capture men women and children at home often playing with their children visiting sitting on the porch and so forth. The photographs also feature the family at church weddings family events swimming at Christmas and more. A great number of the images feature subjects posed in front of or near personal automobiles an important development in the lives of Black families in the mid-20th century. The album does not contain any captions or notations but the license plates of several automobiles in some of the images can be read clearly identifying the setting as Louisiana. Three photos document a young man and woman near a flooded portion of a neighborhood. A few of the men featured here sport military uniforms. The sheer number of images provide an excellent opportunity for further study into African-American life in Louisiana in the 1950s and '60s - a time of great transition and upheaval in the country. unknown
19334182Leesville La 1933. 135pp. Folio. Contemporary partially-printed ledger book bound in half black cloth over maroon cloth boards completed to various degrees in ink manuscript. Significant wear dust-soiling abrading and staining to binding with front joint partially split. Text block separated from spine with a few leaves detached but otherwise intact in gatherings. Varying levels of toning and dust-soiling to text but highly readable nonetheless. Fair condition. A unique and informative manuscript record book recording the activities of a local lodge of the Knights of Pythias in Louisiana during the Great Depression. Leesville Louisiana is atill a very small town located in Vernon Parish not far from the Texas border about fifty miles from Jasper Texas. The present ledger records meeting times and dates appointments and elections occasional committee reports and notes on meeting activities including communications dues paid suspensions and reinstatements of members disbursements made by the lodge and more in varying levels of detail throughout the book. As an example the September 18 1930 meeting records with original spelling retained that the committee "a pointed on claning off the graves Sir Jem Davis" and five others; the "unfinished business" portion records that "Some of the members of the Lodge was dissatisfied with their endetness to the Lodge which was tabled untill the next R.M. which will be Oct 2nd;" and new business included "Sir RJ Jefferson CC of Silver Star Lodge No. 110 of Slagle La visited Pine Tree Lodge on Sept 18 and md short talk on the good of the order" followed by a listing of four other members of the Slagle lodge who accompanied Jefferson. Naturally numerous other members of the Pine Tree Lodge and others are named throughout the activities recorded in the book providing a written record of an African-American organization struggling to maintain social standing and provide mutual aid to its members in a harrowing time in American history. unknown
195512990New Orleans 1955. Photo-illustrated trade card 2.75 x 6.25 inches. Minor edge wear and toning horizontal crease some biopredation to bottom and right portions costing a handful of letters. Good condition. An extraordinary survival from Jim Crow Louisiana advertising the New Patterson Hotel in New Orleans owned and operated by John Robert Patterson. The hotel was the first African American-owned hotel in New Orleans and became one of the most popular during the Green Book era of African American travel. The hotel was located at two different addresses during its years of operation in which it was routinely listed in the annual publication of The Negro Traveler's Green Book. The present trade card emanates from the hotel's second location at 1815 Bienville Avenue where the hotel moved in 1954 or 1955; the hotel is listed at its first address on Rampart Street in the 1954 edition and the Bienville location by the time of the Green Book's 1955 edition.<br /> <br /> The trade card features two small photographs. At left is an image of the hotel itself with some promotional slogans beneath reading "One of America's Finest Colored Hotels and 'New Orleans Most Discriminating'" and "The 'Very' Best Place to Sleep Away from Home." The right side of the card prints a portrait of J.R. Patterson who is touted for his "Years of Business Experience in Successful Service" and "Nationally and Internationally Known." The center of the card prints information about the hotel located "In the Heart of Downtown New Orleans Close to Everything" offering "Rooms With Baths" and "Hot and Cold Running Water in Each Room" and with the address and phone number at bottom. The card is similar to the regular newspaper advertisement for the hotel printed in The Louisiana Weekly from 1956 to 1965. We could locate no other copies of this striking trade card for an important African American hotel in New Orleans founded owned and operated by a notable local businessman. 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
191941193Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1919. Large folding nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare original coastal survey of Gulf Coast from the Rio Grande to the Mississippi River and includes Mexico Corpus Christi Galveston and New Orleans.<br/> <br/> Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline create nautical charts of the coast and help increase maritime safety since its founding and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the sinking of the Titanic and during WWI it worked to detect enemy submarines. In addition this agency worked to survey and produce detailed maps and renderings of the U.S. coast. These nautical survey maps commonly referred to as "T-sheets" provide fascinating insights into the history of the United States coastline which has and will continue to shift. These maps are the most important data source for understanding the physical and ecological characteristics of the U.S. shoreline. The present map is notable for the inclusion of an international border at the Rio Grande River as well as for showing a miniature grid of the city of New Orleans with the Radio Station notated. It is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the Gulf Coasts of Mexico Texas and Louisiana and is an important historical view of the developing states along the Gulf of Mexico. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown
1822WRCAM30884Lyon: Chez Rusand 1822. 67pp. Titlepage engraving. Dbd. Light foxing on preliminary and final leaves ink stamp on final leaf. Very good. New edition enlarged after the original Paris edition of 1820. An account of the Catholic missionary activity under Bishop Du Bourg whose diocese included the Ohio Mississippi and Missouri river valleys. He arrived in Baltimore in the summer of 1817 with a group of priests and nuns and thereafter traveled to St. Louis. This work describes his work among the Indians. "Du Bourg was one of the great American Bishops" - Streeter. HOWES L515 "b." SABIN 55987. STREETER SALE 1538 1st ed. Chez Rusand unknown books
