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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 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
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 books
185659083Baton Rouge LA 1856. Folio on blue paper; on the verso docketed by the French Consulate at New Orleans. Staining to lower portion with some ink fading the governor's signature a little light but quite legible. Folded tiny breaks at corner folds some wear at edge. #5636. <br/><br/> unknown books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
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 books
1914WRCAM52759New Orleans 1914. 45pp. including thirteen photographic illustrations plus folding map. Oblong octavo. Original stiff pictorial wrappers. Light shelf wear price label on front wrapper with small closed tear at lower edge. Map detached but fine. About very good. Illustrated report on construction and trade at the port of New Orleans during 1913. The pamphlet addresses projects undertaken by the state and federal governments and charts the growth of trade from the beginning of the 20th century. With photographic reproductions of port buildings and ships plus a large folding map showing improvements along the Mississippi River with three panoramas of the riverfront on the verso. unknown books
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 books
18681559240th Cong. 3d Sess. Ho. of Reps. Mis. Doc. No. 13 1868. 1868. 43pp. disbound. Very Good. unknown books
18681553741st Cong. 1st Sess. Ho. of Reps. Mis. Doc. No. 13 1868. 62pp. Part 1 only of 2 parts. Disbound. Very Good. unknown books
18691912841st Cong. 1st Sess.: HMD16. 1869. 12 1 index 1 blank pp. Disbound. Caption-title as issued. Very Good. Morey contests McCrainie's right to a seat in the 41st Congress of the United States as a representative from the fifth congressional district of Louisiana. Intimidation of Negro voters is alleged. HMD16. unknown books
18681743741st Cong. 1st Sess.: HMD12. 1868. 32 2 pp disbound. Light foxing. Vertical tear in last leaf no loss of text. Good. HMD12. 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
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 books
1845WRCAM36605Baton Rouge La 1845. Broadside 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Moderate dampstaining and age-toning. Contemporary annotation partially covered over in contemporary ink. Two small holes in margin not affecting text. A good copy. An unrecorded mid-19th-century Louisiana broadside advertising the sale on March 3 1845 of 180 arpents approximately 153 acres which belonged to the heirs of the late Jane Skinner and eighteen head of cattle and an unspecified number of hogs. The terms for purchase are also noted: "The Land at 1 and 2 years credit in endorsed notes payable in Bank and mortgage. Cattle and Hogs cash." The notice is signed in print "Ch. Tessier" possibly a justice of the peace and dated Baton Rouge January 30 1845. A rare Louisiana advertising broadside; no copies recorded in Hummel or OCLC. unknown books
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
1804319786New Orleans 1804. 2p. partly-printed handbill with holograph additions. Folio. Lower margin trimmed close chips at edges. 2p. partly-printed handbill with holograph additions. Folio. A very early item accomplished by an American merchant in New Orleans just a year after the Louisiana Purchase. The handbill alphabetically lists approx. 80 commodities from Beef to Wines with a range of their prices accomplished in manuscript. The early owner of the present document has also included some manuscript notes on the trading; e.g. "dull" "rather falling in price" and "in demand."<br/><br/>Although several later New Orleans commercial newspapers would carry the above title we find no record of this handbill from years immediately following the Louisiana Purchase. unknown books
191541454New Orleans: Garcia Stationery Co. printers 1915. 16mo. 31 1 pp. Original printed tan wrappers soiled; Lib. of Congress duplicate with its stamp. Very good. Reports on the association's activities and finances by its president Paul Capdevielle and other officers; includes six pages of rules for the government of the New Orleans City Park e.g. "Bathing in the lake is strictly prohibited.". Scarce; catalogued as a serial on OCLC there are no holdings indicated for this annual issue. <br/><br/> Garcia Stationery Co., printers) unknown books
1804WRCAM49186Paris: Ballard 1804. viii1831-176pp. plus folding table. Lacking pp.19-30. Later 19th-century marbled wrappers. 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 on titlepage dampstaining to some leaves toward end of text. A battered copy of a great rarity. 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 that listed by the Eberstadts in 1953. HOWES W87 "b." SABIN 101246. EBERSTADT 132:412. SHWARTZ SALE 622. Ballard unknown books
1803WRCAM36542BPhiladelphia: Printed by W. Duane 1803. 2198pp. Modern quarter calf and cloth spine gilt. Light foxing and toning heavier to outer leaves. Faint dampstaining in margin of last few leaves. Very good. Untrimmed. These Senate debates were printed by William Duane the mercurial editor of the AURORA. The debates were prompted when the Spanish intendent at New Orleans suspended the American right to deposit goods at New Orleans in October 1802. The right had been guaranteed by Pinckney's Treaty with Spain of 1795 but was revocable. Among the issues debated by the Senate were resolutions authorizing the President to take the Mississippi Territory by force and providing militia and money for that purpose. American fears that they might lose access to New Orleans was one of the motivations prompting Thomas Jefferson to negotiate with the French for the purchase of Louisiana. The Louisiana Purchase treaty was signed in April 1803. At this time there was no regular record kept of the debates on the Senate floor and the body only admitted stenographers and note takers into the chamber in 1802. William Duane's account of the debate over the right to deposit goods at New Orleans and potential military action to enforce that right then is a rare and valuable glimpse into the deliberations of the Senate on a question of great importance to the territorial expansion of the United States. HOWES D517. EBERSTADT 103:161. SABIN 20990. THOMPSON 990. SCHWARTZ SALE 244. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 4113. COHEN 7268. Printed by W. Duane hardcover books
1803WRCAM36542APhiladelphia: Printed by W. Duane 1803. 2198pp. Dbd. Even tanning darker in the second half of the text. A bit of staining on the titlepage some occasional foxing. "K" and "L" gatherings bound in reverse order. Good. These Senate debates were printed by William Duane the mercurial editor of the AURORA. The debates were prompted when the Spanish intendent at New Orleans suspended the American right to deposit goods at New Orleans in October 1802. The right had been guaranteed by Pinckney's Treaty with Spain of 1795 but was revocable. Among the issues debated by the Senate were resolutions authorizing the President to take the Mississippi Territory by force and providing militia and money for that purpose. American fears that they might lose access to New Orleans was one of the motivations prompting Thomas Jefferson to negotiate with the French for the purchase of Louisiana. The Louisiana Purchase treaty was signed in April 1803. At this time there was no regular record kept of the debates on the Senate floor and the body only admitted stenographers and note takers into the chamber in 1802. William Duane's account of the debate over the right to deposit goods at New Orleans and potential military action to enforce that right then is a rare and valuable glimpse into the deliberations of the Senate on a question of great importance to the territorial expansion of the United States. HOWES D517. EBERSTADT 103:161. SABIN 20990. THOMPSON 990. SCHWARTZ SALE 244. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 4113. COHEN 7268. Printed by W. Duane unknown books
