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The Earl Of Louisiana
by A J Liebling
"Much of the material in this book originally appeared in the New Yorker"--T.p. verso.
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The British at the Gates: The New Orleans Campaign un the War of 1812
by Robin Reilly
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition, assumed 1st printing. No other printings listed. 9.25 " x 6.25". SBN 399112669. Maroon cloth over boards with an 1812 era cannon blind stamped on front. Spine with gilt print. Clean with no writing. Tight, appears very gently read or unread. No wear to panels, edges and spine other than end bends from shelf. Light fade on very edge of...
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Pere Antoine's Date Palm
by Hearn, Lafcadio
Edwin B. Hill, 1940. First Edition Thus. Ephemera. On a single sheet of stiff yellow paper, folded. 8-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches. One of 50 copies. First separate edition. Included in the 1885 Historical Sketch Book and Guide to New Orleans and Environs. First edition thus. Near fine; just a touch of edge wear. BAL 8044.
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IN MEMORIAM. GEN'L G.T. BEAUREGARD. CHARLESTON'S GALLANT DEFENDER
by Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant
[Charleston?, 1893. Memorial silk ribbon, 8-3/4" x 3," depicting a bust portrait of General P.G.T. Beauregard beneath crossed South Carolina and Confederate flags [in color] and bold block text reading, "In Memoriam." Below, blue script and block text reads, "Gen'l G.T. Beauregard, / Charleston's / Gallant Defender." Dusted, some fraying at top and bottom edges. Good+. Beauregard has the distinction of commanding the troops who opened the Civil War by firing on Fort Sumter. OCLC 123972553 [1- U So....
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Louisiana
by COLBY, Charles G
New York: Samuel Gaston, 1857. unbound. Miniature map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 6" x 5.25".<br/> <br/> Charming map of Louisiana showing counties, railroads (existing and proposed), waterways and major routes and towns. The map appeared in Colby's "Diamond Atlas" and is in excellent condition. <br> Charles G. Colby (1830--1866) was an American map-maker active in the mid-19th century who is known best for his miniature maps. His...
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONVOCATION OF THE M.E.G.R.A. CHAPTER OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. BEGUN AND HELD IN THE MASONIC HALL, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, A.D. 1858, AND THE YEAR OF THE ORDER, 2392
by Louisiana Freemasons
New 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+. 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. Jumonville 2731 [second title, paginated (101)-117].
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH ANNUAL CONVOCATION OF THE M.E. GRAND ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, BEGUN AND HELD IN THE MASONIC HALL, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, ON TUESDAY FEB. 10TH, A.D. 1857, AND THE YEAR OF THE ORDER, 2391
by Louisiana Freemasons
New 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+. 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. Not in Jumonville or Thompson. Not located on OCLC.
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RECIPES FROM THE FRIENDLY KITCHENS AT FRIENDSHIP HOUSE.
by CAMPBELL, John, and Ginny DOWNS (editors). Baptist Friendship House
Publisher's green wrappers with brown lettering and plastic comb binding, octavo, pp. 113. The old wrappers and pages have softened through the years and are subject to tearing if not handled carefully. One such tear at top edge of front panel is mended inside with a piece of tape. About GOOD condition. Friendship House is a Ministry of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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New Orleans - World Film Locations
Intellect, Limited, 2012. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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![[French Legal Manuscript Concerning Monetary Claims Against the Estate of Joseph John Miller, a Philadelphian in Paris]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/759/427/1483427759.0.b.jpg)
[French Legal Manuscript Concerning Monetary Claims Against the Estate of Joseph John Miller, a Philadelphian in Paris]
by [France]. [United States]. [International Law]
[Paris, 1809. Very good.. [12]pp. Small folio; loose sheets. Light foxing and toning. Accomplished in multiple, mostly legible hands. A very interesting French legal manuscript, bearing details of an 1809 dispute over the estate of Joseph John Miller, an American businessman from Philadelphia living in Paris until his death in 1806. The extent of Miller's business in Paris is opaque, but it seems at least to have involved the production and shipment of salt peter, which is mentioned here. His business...
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Along the River Road : Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway
by Mary Ann Sternberg
Louisiana State University Press, 1996. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Cleveland Benjamin's Dead! A Struggle For Dignity In Louisiana's Cane Country
by Sims, Patsy
New York: E. P. Dutton. Hardcover. 1981. 1st Edition. 8vo 170pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. Tells the story of the farming community deep behind southern Louisiana's 'cane curtain'. Cleveland Benjamin was a black cane worker killed in a farming accident. The author takes us on a journey into the world of America's truly forgotten poor .
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MARDI GRAS AND BACCHUS Something Old, Something New
by Tassin, Myron & Gaspar Stall
Pelican Publishing Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. Edgeworn, torn and price clipped DJ that is browned to the inside. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 128 pages; Extra postage required for priority and international shipping. .
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Fabulous New Orleans
by Lyle Saxon
First Edition/Seventh Printing of February 1933Measures 12 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. Signed and titled "E. H. Suydam, New Orleans". The elaborate drawing is of downtown New Orleans and was possibly used as an illustration for Lyle Saxon's Fabulous New Orleans published in 1930. Very good+ condition._______________________________________________Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required....
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![New Orleans [and] Atlanta.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/234/610/1534610234.0.b.jpg)
New Orleans [and] Atlanta.
by [CRAM, George F.]
[Chicago and New York: Published by George F. Cram, 1896].. Two original colour-printed maps printed recto-verso (37 x 29 cm) on one sheet. Light marginal toning, generally a very good example.
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KINGDOM COMING
by BRADFORD, Roark
First edition, so stated, in the publisher's patterned cloth with yellow spine label, octavo, pp. 319 plus colophon. Cloth has some uneven sun exposure and the spine label is worn with age and handling. GOOD condition withal. Wanting the dust jacket.
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![CIRCULATE. ] [PUBLISHED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE NATIONAL AND JACKSON DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE.| GENERAL TAYLOR'S TWO FACES. 'LOOK UPON THIS PICTURE AND THEN UPON THIS'](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/100/507/50507100.0.b.1.jpg)
CIRCULATE. ] [PUBLISHED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE NATIONAL AND JACKSON DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE.| GENERAL TAYLOR'S TWO FACES. 'LOOK UPON THIS PICTURE AND THEN UPON THIS'
by Election of 1848
[Washington, 1848. 8pp, printed in double columns, caption title [as issued]. Disbound, else Very Good. A scarce 1848 campaign pamphlet, attacking Whig presidential candidate Zachary Taylor, who "has no political principles, and is perfectly ignorant upon political matters." On the burning issue of the Wilmot Proviso-- whether slavery ought to exist in the territories acquired from Mexico-- Taylor is a hypocrite: "At the North, he is represented to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso." But "at the South...
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Examination of the Judgment Rendered in the Cause Between Jean Gravier and the City of New Orleans
by [New Orleans Batture]. [Moreau de Lislet, Louis]
Washington DC: A. & G. Way, 1809. Good plus.. 19,[1]pp. Disbound. Soiling to top margin of first few leaves, minor foxing and toning, small inked number on title page, bottom corner of first text leaf clipped. A scarce early entry in the landmark Federal-era Louisiana legal battle known later as the New Orleans "batture case." Jean Gravier, a major landowner in New Orleans, claimed title to an "alluvian bank, such as in this country is called a batture, which is covered by the Mississippi when its...
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED "A.J. TOUTANT," TO CONFEDERATE GENERAL SAMUEL COOPER, ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL, INQUIRING WHETHER, AS A MOUNTED OFFICER AND AIDE-DE-CAMP TO MAJOR GENERAL MANSFIELD LOVELL, HE IS ENTITLED TO CAVALRY PAY
by Toutant, Alcee J
Richmond Va., 1863. [4]pp, bifolium, folded to 9-3/4" x 8." Autograph letter signed by First Lieutenant Toutant, written on first page. Pages 2-3 are blank, docketed on final page. Very Good. Alcee J. Toutant (1836-1905) became aide-de-camp to General Mansfield Lovell, who surrendered New Orleans to the Union and was blamed, probably unfairly, for the defeat. Toutant finished the war as aide-de-camp to his famous uncle, General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. Alcee's obituary reported that "Much of...
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![Hello, Friends! Don't You Want to Go? Where? Sand Beach. How? On a Hay Ride...Given by National Fraternal Brothers and Sisters of America. A Colored Society...[caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/154/920/1572920154.0.b.jpg)
Hello, Friends! Don't You Want to Go? Where? Sand Beach. How? On a Hay Ride...Given by National Fraternal Brothers and Sisters of America. A Colored Society...[caption title]
by [African Americana]. [National Fraternal Brothers and Sisters of America]
[Shreveport, La, 1930. Good.. Broadside, 11 x 8.5 inches. Old folds, some tenderness to folds, a few short fold separations, some creasing and edge wear, mild rubbing. Some pencil notations on the verso. With organizational leader's ink stamp at bottom right. Very likely a unique surviving letterpress broadside advertising a fundraising social event and membership drive for the National Fraternal Brothers and Sisters of America (NFBSA), a "charitable organization" and mutual aid society based in...
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CHARTER OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON. AN ACT INCORPORATING THE CITY OF JEFFERSON..
by Louisiana
[Baton Rouge, 1867. 15, [1 blank] pp. Caption title, as issued. Stitched, toned, lightly worn. Good+. This is Act "[No. 57.]" of the Legislature, signed at the end in type by House Speaker Duncan S. Cage, Senate President Albert Voorhies, and Governor J. Madison Wells. Jefferson is located on the East Bank of the Mississippi River; today it is part of the New Orleans Metropolitan Statistical Area. OCLC 10613388 [3- NYPL, Duke, Louisiana State Lib.] [as of September 2012]. Not in Thomson.
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Memorial from the Board of Levee Commissioners of the State of Louisiana...Asking National Aid and Assistance in the Reconstruction of Levees on the Mississippi River
by [Louisiana]
New 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...
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THE STATUTES OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI OF A PUBLIC AND GENERAL NATURE, WITH THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF THIS STATE; AND AN APPENDIX CONTAINING ACTS OF CONGRESS AFFECTING LAND TITLES, NATURALIZATION, &C. AND A MANUAL FOR CLERKS, SHERIFFS AND JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. COMPILED BY V.E. HOWARD AND A. HUTCHINSON. BY AUTHORITY
by [Mississippi]
New Orleans: E. Johns & Co. Stationers' Hall [verso of title page: Printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins, Philadelphia], 1840. xii, 885 pp, with the half title. A very clean text, with minor exceptions. Bound in worn contemporary sheep [hinges starting, spine chipped, institutional bookplate on front pastedown], institutional rubberstamp on title page. Else Very Good. The origins of the State of Mississippi are recounted in the printing of the Cession from Georgia, the Act admitting Mississippi into the...
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The Daily Item Almanac and Encyclopedia for 1899
by [Louisiana]
New Orleans: The Daily Item, 1899. About very good.. 600pp. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Extremities worn, covers rubbed and lightly soiled. Some slight worming, heavier at front of text. Light tanning and wear. A rare New Orleans almanac full of facts and figures on a wide array of subjects ranging from Queen Victoria's income to information on the Texas petroleum industry. With numerous advertisements for businesses across the country, including a woodcut depicting the publisher's premises....
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TO ZACHARY TAYLOR PRESIDENT ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES. WE THE UNDERSIGNED MERCHANTS OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, BEG LEAVE TO PRESENT FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, THE NAME OF MR. JAMES AUCHINCLOSS, (NOW A RESIDENT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK) FOR THE OFFICE OF CONSUL AT THE CITY OF GLASGOW, NORTH BRITAIN. .
by [Taylor, Zachary]
[Philadelphia, 1849. Bifolium, entirely in ink manuscript on the first two pages. Page [3] is blank. Docketed on last page, "Copy. Recommendation of Philadelphia Banks, Merchants and others." About sixty undersigned merchants are listed. Each page 8" x 12-1/2." Contents written neatly in a single hand. At the bottom of page [2] a New York County Notary Public, whose last name is Cooper, takes the oath of Henry Doane and W.H. Van Dalsen, who swear [Van Dalsen affirms] "that we have carefully examined and...
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![[Original Muster Roll for Louisiana's 99th Regiment, Company I, United States Colored Troops, Serving in the Florida Keys During the Latter Months of the Civil War]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/077/991/1527991077.0.b.jpg)
[Original Muster Roll for Louisiana's 99th Regiment, Company I, United States Colored Troops, Serving in the Florida Keys During the Latter Months of the Civil War]
by [Civil War]. [Florida]. [African Americana]
[Way Key, Fl, 1865. Very good.. Partially-printed muster roll completed in manuscript, approximately 21 x 31 inches. Old folds, some separations at crossfolds (as usual), minor wear and soiling. A rare muster roll recording details of the service of an African-American infantry company while stationed in Florida during the final year of the Civil War. The roll details pay from February to June 1865 for thirty-five privates, one bugler, and nine officers, including name, rank, location and date, the...
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