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1870WRCAM56244New Orleans 1870. 128pp. Folio. Contemporary three-quarter calf and black pebbled cloth boards gilt leather label on front board. Most cloth on front board and calf on spine and lower outer corner of front board perished rear board worn and scuffed. Front board almost completely detached textblock tender in some places. Minor occasional foxing and spotting to text. Overall good condition. A rare surviving ledger from Reconstruction- era New Orleans containing tax assessment records for the Eighth Assessment District in 1869 and 1870. Most of the properties listed herein are in the heart of New Orleans including the French Quarter. The ledger is labeled "No. 1" on the front board and indicates it was kept by a tax assessor named Charles Lewis though the entries are made by at least two different hands. The text is comprised of ledger entries organized by squares within the city of New Orleans listing the streets bounding each particular square and containing the taxable entities in each square. For example Square 12 bounded by Ursulines Ave. Gallatin St. Hospital and Peters St. lists entries for eleven residential "taxable persons" their lot numbers measurements and real estate value in both 1869 and 1870. There are also eleven separate entries locations lot numbers and amounts of commercial capital for various businesses in Square 12; the businesses are specified in the "Remarks" column and include coffee houses liquor stores feed stores and a vegetable wholesaler. A couple of the squares are entirely residential in nature. <br> <br> The remainder of the ledger continues in the same manner relating important information on the residential and commercial makeup of New Orleans just after the Civil War with the last few pages reporting personal property brought forward from other ledgers and a recapitulation of each square. In total the ledger reports names of property owners real estate values commercial capital amounts and types of businesses for almost 1300 residents and businesses in Reconstruction New Orleans providing a rich foundation for further research. The front pastedown bears an attractive label from John W. Madden Stationer Printer and Blankbook Manufacturer at 73 Camp Street in New Orleans. hardcover books
182514007Washington: Pr. by Gales & Seaton 1825. 8vo. 4 pp. <br><br>Government document: 18th Congress 2d Session. 57. Removed from a nonce volume; four tears at inner margin not touching text. Age-toned. A few small dark spots. Pr. by Gales & Seaton unknown books
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 books
183915098Washington: Blair & Rives printers 1839. 8vo. 3 pp. <br><br>Government document: 26th Congress 1st Session. Senate. 26. Removed from a nonce volume; two stitch holes in inner margin not touching text. Ink numeral in top margin of p. 1. Light foxing. Blair & Rives, printers unknown books
183914838Washington: Blair & Rives printers 1839. 8vo. 4 pp. <br><br>Government document: 25th Congress 3d Session. Senate. 246. Removed from a nonce volume. Two stitch holes in inner margins costing part of one letter only. Ink numeral in top right corner of p. 1. Very good. Blair & Rives, printers unknown books
18681559240th Cong. 3d Sess. Ho. of Reps. Mis. Doc. No. 13 1868. 1868. 43pp. disbound. Very Good. unknown books
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184841984New Orleans: Printed at the Office of the "Louisiana Courier". 1848. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo; 75 75 pages; Early twentieth century full tan buckram red label lettered in gilt on spine. This copy was once the property of the Library of Congress with small paper label mounted to the front cover the LC engraved bookplate mounted to the front paste down endpaper tiny rubber stamps at the foot of both the English and French title pages "L.C. copy 2" pencil notes at the top of the French title page and the Library of Congress Surplus-Duplicate stamp in blue ink on the rear free endpaper -- which makes this copy legal to buy sell and own. An excellent copy with these minor library marks and four lower corners neatly folded up which had been left "long" by accident of the binder's plow. OCLC Number: 65113311 Two locations only: Yale and Univ. Minnesota Law Library. Louisiana had been admitted to the U. S. as a state on April 30 1812 the ninth anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase. A second state constitution was adopted in 1845 hence the reference here to the "Second Legislature" of the state. Of particular note among the Acts published in these pages was an act to pay for the free public schools 184647 & 48 which had been called for in the new constitution and another act to provide for land for the building of the public schools. Slaves and slavery always a contentious issue received attention here. The legislators decreed that children born to Slaves who had been imprisoned in the Penitentiary would become State property to be sold at age ten for cash which was to be paid to the State Treasurer the funds dedicated to support the Public Schools. Various improvement to the bayous rivers and harbors of the state were comissioned with construction of roads and levees and a toll bridge on the bayou Ramos. The single longest and most detailed act provides for the acquisition of a right-of-way and construction of a "rail road from the parish of St. Landry to the Mississippi river." There is much of interest relating to New Orleans including a Law Library for the city's Bar Association and the detailed and specific extention of the "sole and exclusive privilege of introducing and vending gas-lights to the city of Lafayette . to James H. Caldwell for twenty years. This was the Faubourg Lafayette including the Garden District now incorporated into New Orleans as the 10th and 11th Wards. Modern developments were taken into account including the provision that operators of the magnetic telegraph "might not transmit messages which can in any manner tend to defeat the ends of justice." There was an act to pay handsomely: $600 the electors of the State in the recent Presidential election of 1848 -- in which they cast their votes for the first and only U.S. President to have been from Louisiana: Zachary Taylor. With the English and French text of all laws and acts given on facing pages as was usual for most of the early official publications of Louisiana. Now a rare book. . Printed at the Office of the "Louisiana Courier" hardcover
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1904034854New Orleans: Selbstverlage des Verfassers 1904. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp: 31 1; text illus from photographs. Light wear to spine. Text in German. 9.25" x 6" Published in English in 1909 as The Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German Descent. The author has been described by scholars as the leader and "standard-bearer of culture for the German community of New Orleans." This work expanded the definition of Creole formerly reserved for those of French or Spanish descent. Selbstverlage des Verfassers unknown
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