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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
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
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
185336398New Orleans: Published at the Office of De Bow's Review 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. Volume II of 3: iv 560 pages 3. Green cloth hardcover stamped in blind. Gilt title and faded gilt illustration on the spine. Former institutional copy rom the Southern University Library Clariosophic Society with gift donation label in the upper left corner of the front paste down. Label hand signed Col. J or I G. Harvey No 449". A purple oval stamp is located on the rear paste down and page 302 from the Southern University Library Alabama. Edge and shelf wear to the cloth binding. Spine edges torn. Stain in the upper right corner of the right front flyleaf. Light to moderate scattered foxing and toning to the contents. Hinges are in good condition. A lengthy note regarding Josephine and Napoleon written in pencil on the right front flyleaf. <br /> <br /> Much of the contents promote the institution of Slavery including an excerpt titled "Negro-Mania" pages 196-205 taken from "Negro-Mania: being an examination of the falsely assumed equality of the various races of men by John Campbell Philadelphia: Campbell & Power." A second article on Slavery is located on pages 205-238 titled "Negro Slavery - Memoir on By Chancellor Harper; Prepared For and Read Before the Society for the Advancement of Learning of South Carolina - Part I." The third defence is titled "Negro Slavery At the South - Letters of Governor Hammond to Thomas Clarkson appearing on pages 238-264. Pages 265-269 is a reprint from 1844 of Mr. Calhouns Letter to Mr. King on Negro Slavery. Pages 269-292 is an article on Slave laws of the South. Pages 292-302 is titled "Negro Population - Life Statistics." More articles on Slavery are found in pages 302-345. This is volume 2 only of 3. Fair condition. Published at the Office of De Bow's Review hardcover
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
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
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
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
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
18668236New Orleans: J.O. Nixon State Printer 1866. 139pp disbound lightly foxed. Good or Very Good. An extremely detailed report on sources of state revenue the school fund internal improvement tax fund levee and drainage fund and an accounting of state expenditures. J.O. Nixon, State Printer unknown
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
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
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
185329853Providence RI: Printed at the Office of the Watchman 1853. 55 1 pp. Disbound with an old adhesion to small portion of title page else Very Good. <br /> <br /> Why this was printed in Providence is a mystery. The Grand Secretary was ordered to publish three hundred copies. This is a scarce record of Proceedings with lists of participants speeches and discussion of various issues such as the issue of certain groups illegitimately claiming that they are Masons. Doings at the various subordinate Chapters are duly reported. With the Constitution Edicts and Resolutions. <br /> OCLC 647907248 1- AAS as of January 2013. Printed at the Office of the Watchman unknown
185829858New Orleans: Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office 1858. 117 1 blank 5 1 blank 5 1 pp. Disbound. Several paragraphs carefully excised for an unknown reason at pages 15-18. Else Good. <br /> <br /> This title is bound with the PROCEEDINGS OF THE GRAND COUNCIL OF R. AND S. MASTERS OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AT THE THIRD ASSEMBLY. The pagination is continuous. <br /> Jumonville 2731 second title paginated 101-117. Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office unknown
185629857New Orleans: Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office 1856. 71 1 pp. Disbound. At pages 35-38 several paragraphs have been carefully excised for an unknown reason. Otherwise Good. <br /> <br /> A scarce record of these Proceedings with lists of participants speeches and discussion of various and sometimes abstruse Masonic issues. Doings at the various subordinate Chapters are duly reported. With the Constitution Edicts and Resolutions. <br /> Not in Jumonville or Thompson. Not located on OCLC. Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office unknown
185529854New Orleans: Printed by Sherman Wharton & Co. 1855. 51 5 pp. Disbound with some loosening top outer corner of first two leaves chipped. Else Very Good. <br /> <br /> A scarce record of these Proceedings with lists of participants speeches doings at the various subordinate Chapters. With Edicts and Resolutions. <br /> Not in Jumonville or Thompson. Not located on OCLC as of January 2013. Printed by Sherman, Wharton & Co. unknown
185429852New Orleans: Printed at the Office of the Picayune 1854. 64pp. Disbound with some light inner margin wear else Very Good. <br /> <br /> A scarce record of these Proceedings with lists of participants speeches and discussion of various issues: "Whether any of the Chapter Degrees may be conferred on persons maimed or otherwise imperfect in body" for example. Doings at the various subordinate Chapters are duly reported. With the Constitution Edicts and Resolutions.<br /> Not in Jumonville or Thompson. OCLC 29194707 1- LA State Lib. as of January 2013. Printed at the Office of the Picayune unknown
185729855New Orleans: Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office 1857. 96pp. Disbound with some light toning bit of loosening and an archivally repaired closed tear at leaf 81-82 no loss. Good. <br /> <br /> A scarce record of these Proceedings with lists of participants speeches and discussion of various and sometimes abstruse Masonic issues. Doings at the various subordinate Chapters are duly reported. With the Constitution Edicts and Resolutions. <br /> Not in Jumonville or Thompson. Not located on OCLC. Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office unknown
180624441City of Washington: A. and G. Way Printers. 1806. 10 2 blank pp disbound with minor wear. Very Good. <br /> <br /> The "grievances" which are the subject of the petition relate to changes in the law of land titles which as enacted would divest petitioners of lands which they had duly settled and improved under prior French law. They urge a modification; otherwise the new laws will "deprive many of its inhabitants of their legitimate possessions." <br /> AI 11679 5. Not in BEAL. OCLC locates 8 under two accession numbers. A. and G. Way, Printers. unknown
1840ZB331631Washington: Blair & Rives printers 1840. 2 pp issued as 26th Congress 1st Session S 274; one sheet with extraction roughness at spine and small chip at top margin but no loss; they would like the mail to go by steamboat rather than by land. - 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. Washington: Blair & Rives, printers 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
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
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
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
