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1020418281.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
192041166Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1920. Large folding nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare original coastal survey of the Texas-Louisiana border area along the Sabine Lake and Pass into the Gulf of Mexico encompassing a portion of the Golden Triangle Area including Port Arthur and Sabine Lake.<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 of the Texas-Louisiana coastline is notable for the inclusion of railroad founder Arthur Stillwell's Experimental Farm outside of Port Arthur on Lake Stillwell. It is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the southernmost border region between Texas and Louisiana and an important historical view of the developing states. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown
199516543Switzerland: Edition Stemmle. Good copy hardcover with dustjacket and mylar overlay 119 pp illustrated in B/W and 4/C . Good. Hardcover. 1995. Edition Stemmle hardcover
0656292903.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1334238693.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0331307596.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0331059916.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0365080896.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
036433794X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
193640262Baton Rouge 1936. Folio broadside 9-3/8" x 17-1/8." Printed in two columns union bug at the bottom margin several type sizes and styles. Mounted at the upper blank verso on pale blue paper. Fine.<br /> <br /> O.K. Allen became Louisiana's governor in 1932 when Huey Long resigned the office to become a U.S. Senator. "Allen was considered a political stooge for former governor Long. His brother Earl Long once joked that a leaf blew into Allen's office one day and that he signed it thinking it was legislation from Long" Wikipedia. Gerald L.K. Smith "began his career as a leader of the populist Share the Wealth movement during the Great Depression. . . He was a preeminent antisemite and a white supremacist" Wikipedia.<br /> This broadside supports Allen's campaign to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Huey Long's 1936 assassination had rendered the seat vacant. The broadside announces the unbreakable partnership "between the Louisiana Democratic Association of which O.K. Allen is the Head and the Share Our Wealth Society of which Gerald L.K. Smith is the Head." They have vowed to carry on the work of "our late beloved Senator Long." Allen died a week before the election.<br /> Not located on OCLC as of July 2024. unknown
1904110230Official Photographic Company. Very Good. 1904. Softcover. A book that is used but still very attractive minor edgewear; Beautful photo reproductions of the fair and the buildings . Official Photographic Company paperback
2001230066Oslo : Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 88 p. some folded : ill. chiefly col. ports. ; 26 cm. Notes; Biog. Cat. no. 32. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst Oslo 14 Jan. - 18 Mar. 2001; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebaek 31 Mar. - 29 July 2001. Includes bibliographical references. Text by Jutta Nestegard Jon-Ove Steihaug and Poul Erik Tøjner. Subjects; Polke Sigmar 1941-2010. Sigmar Polke 1941-2010. Genre; Illustrated. Oslo : Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art hardcover
B196162-1Oslo 2001. 88pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Boards. D.j. Texts by Jutta Nestegard Jon-Ove Seihaug Poul Erik Tøjner. Oslo, 2001. hardcover
190460970St. Louis MO: The Singer Manufacturing Co. 1904. Oblong 12mo. 7 x 5 in. 16 pp unpaginated. printed in orange & black black & white plates text illustrations & photos. Embossed & hand-coloured illustrated softcovers cover art including the U.S. Seal French & Napoleonic armorials raised gilt lettering stapled as issued minor dustsoiling edgewear still VG bright copy from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this scarce souvenir history of the settlement and development of Euro-caucasian settlers in the Louisiana Territory and through the 19th Century offered fairgoers at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair in the Singer Pavilion. The Singer Manufacturing Co., paperback
0656828544.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1334167788.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0331680343.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19654642Shreveport La 1965. Good. 64pp. Original pictorial light blue wrappers printed in dark blue stapled. Text printed in blue. Moderate staining and soiling to wrappers and text minor insect damage to wrappers. An unrecorded program celebrating the anniversary and the dedication of a new building for the African-American-owned J.S. Williams Funeral Home & Burial Association in Louisiana. Williams is described on the front wrapper as "Shreveport's Oldest Negro Business." The celebration took place Sunday April 11 1965 and the program includes a schedule of events for the day. The present work contains a history of the business portraits of the company's embalmers and other staff memorial messages addressed to some deceased former employees and more. Most of the work is taken up with advertisements largely from the African-American community in and around Shreveport. The advertisers include other Black churches local African-American schools like George Washington Carver High School organizations such as the Supreme Colored Helpers Society of America and the Colored Association of Louisiana and businesses including Booker T. Washington Nursing Home Shreveport Mutual Funeral Home and the Mays Printing Company. The wealth of ads practically add up to a de facto African-American community directory of contemporary Shreveport. We could locate no other copies of this work in OCLC or elsewhere. unknown
1952ZB590824Lafayette: n.d. ca. 1952. 32 pp. illustrated very good in paper wrappers. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Lafayette?: unknown
192349740New Orleans: Southern Pine Association 1923. 1923. TRADE CATALOG. Scarce early first edition of this nicely illustrated collection of plans. 9" x 12" unfolding to 18" x 12" 24 pp consisting of introductory text followed by 11 plans each accompanied by descriptive text and an illustration of the completed structure. Founded in 1915 the Southern Pine Association was a trade organization that engaged in extensive group marketing as well as in the development of standards and quality controls for the lumber industry. According to the website of the organization's current iteration the Southern Forest Products Association early members "initiated the practice of forest management in the South. These pioneers at first ridiculed for what was perceived as naive efforts slowly led the Southern lumber industry to renewed vigor." This publication aimed at "the amateur who wants to build his own garage" offers considerations for selecting a design layout and location for your garage full details of all necessary supplies and a handy table of automobile sizes apparently for the man who can build a garage but lacks the ability to measure his own car. We find no copies of this edition listed in OCLC where the earliest copy found dates from 1925. Chip missing from lower corner of front wrapper moderate general wear from use including chipping and short tears at edges one leaf detached. Stamped many times with the details of the distributing business the J. C. Dearstine Lumber Co. of Schenectady New York. Good plus copy. Southern Pine Association, [1923]. unknown
6238HUGO PEDESCLAUX 1751-1834. Pedesclaux served as consul of Spain at Bordeaux from 1796 to 1808. DS. 10 x 12. August 27 1803. Bordeaux. A partially printed document signed Juan Estrada in Spanish; the translation states: DON HUGO DE PDESCLAUX commanding Commissary for His Catholic Majestys Royal armies and the trade of the nation of Spain in the Department of Gironde and its vicinity residing at Bordeaux. Whereas I have deemed it beneficial to the Kings service to grant free and secure passage to Don Antonio Ignacio Silva a resident of Louisiana 32 years of age 5 feet 4 inches in height eyes brown eyebrows the same hair black nose bulbous mouth regular and complexion dark; the said individual arrived in this port with the rank of second officer on the Spanish merchant frigate named La Eugenia and is returning to Spain by leave of his Captain Don Luis Dauquemenil on the chasse-mare El Santo ngel de la Guarde Don Martn de Ybarra master; having as his companion a youth named Jacinto Len a native of New Orleans and arriving on the aforesaid frigate La Eugenia; I therefore pray and beseech the Lords Governors Judges and Peace Officers in the places through which he may travel to impose no obstruction to his journey but rather to afford him whatever favor and assistance he may require to continue. To this end I have granted the present passport signed by my hand and sealed with the Royal seal of this consulate. On the version the following is written in another hand in reply and signed Antonio Argote Villalobos: Having appeared with this passport at this Consulate of Spain in Virginia it is granted him to take passage to Louisiana on the vessel that suits him Norfolk 14 December 1803. This document is a passport for Don Antonio Ignacio Silva to enter the colony of Louisiana on the orders of Don Hugo de Pedesclaux the Spanish consul in French Bordeaux. It was issued during a time of great transition for Louisiana as it had just been purchased from France by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. In return for fifteen million dollars about eighteen dollars per square mile the United States acquired 530000000 acres from France. Napoleon had hoped to re-establish a French colonial empire in North America as they had in the 18th century. France had only reacquired some of that territory the Louisiana Territory from Spain in 1800 having lost it in the Seven Years War in 1762 and explaining how a Spanish citizen like Silva could have lived there for so long. However France's failure to suppress a revolt in Saint-Domingue now Haiti plus the prospect of European warfare prompted Napoleon to sell off Frances North American possessions. Given that this document makes no mention of American control at either date and given how slow communication was in the early 19th century it is likely that none of the parties to this document knew of the Louisiana Purchase. In fact France would not turn over New Orleans their colonial capital until December 20 1803 after both signatures; and this was only three weeks after Spanish officials had belatedly formally turned over administration of the colony to France! The intertwined early 19th century histories of France and Spain would affect Pedesclaux. When Napoleon put his brother Joseph on the Spanish throne in 1808 Pedesclaux defected and swore loyalty to Joseph. He was not pardoned by Spain for this action until 1833. The document is in very good condition with some minor stains and folds. An English-language translation is included. unknown
1390974715.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
139635705X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0331041820.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
184697590Washington: Ritchie and Heiss printers 1846. 1846. Good. - Octavo 9 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Softcover printed self-wraps. There is offsetting as well as scattered foxing to the front and rear cover pages with minor chipping to the front edge of the front cover page. 16 pages illustrated with a lithographic portrait of Isaac Morse by John Henry Bufford. There is a chip out from the top corner of the frontispiece. Ex-library de-acquisitioned from The New York Public Library's "Myers Collection" with a stamp on the verso of the front wrapper. The edges of the pages are lightly darkened with occasional minor foxing. Good. <p>First edition.<p>The MexicanAmerican War Apr 25 1846 Feb 2 1848 known in Mexico as the Intervención estadounidense en México was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico that followed the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas which Mexico considered Mexican territory. Morse expounds in favor of the war: "If this war was what you say it is and waged wantonly sinfully by the President from mere personal vanity or a petty ambition for the sake of letting the world know who James K. Polk was - if for an end like this all the seas of blood and millions and millions of its treasure lavished all in violation of the constitution - if you make good this charge then has the President of the United States been guilty not of moral merely but of actual treason and that of the deepest dye; not through ignorance but with malice aforethought. If all this be true then has he damned himself indeed to a depth of infamy where the hand of resurrection can never reach him. If you can persuade the widow and orphans of the murdered Cross the gallant Watson the chivalric Ridgely and all the friends and relatives of the noble Ringgold and the other gallant spirits whose lives have been given as a bloody sacrifice to their country's honor that all this was done to glorify this administration and prove who James K. Polk was then sir is your Chief Magistrate guilty of 'conduct so basely mean in a public character that it is without precedent or pretence; an incendiary war upon society that nothing can excuse or palliate emanating from a refinement of beggarly villany made up between the venomous malignity of a serpent and the spiteful imbecility of an inferior reptile.'"<p>Isaac Edward Morse 1809-1866 was a Democratic politician from Louisiana who served in the House of Representatives from 1844-1851. He served as Louisiana's Attorney General from 1854-1856. President Franklin Pierce appointed him in 1856 to be a special commissioner to New Granada to negotiate safe passage of Americans across the Isthmus of Panama.<p>John Henry Bufford 1810-1870 was a Boston lithographer who often created his portraits after daguerreotypes. Among the artists he employed was Winslow Homer. Washington: Ritchie and Heiss, printers, 1846. paperback