New York: Kimball, [1863]. Carte-de-visite. Light wear, part of captioned underlined in red pencil. One of a series of CDVs featuring recently freed slaves produced in 1863-1864 as part of a fundraising effort in the American South. According to a notice printed on the verso: "The nett proceeds from the..... More
New Orleans: [ca. 1960]. Broadside, 9 x 6 inches. Minor toning. Broadside urging the white citizens of New Orleans to stop buying Ford cars, claiming Ford profits "have been distributed to integration and civil rights organizations" to the detriment of white folks "by forcing them to associate with negroes." The..... More
Baton Rouge: J.M. Taylor, 1861. 7pp. Disbound. Minor edge wear, small dampstains at lower right corner. Minor tanning and faint foxing. Scarce report for the Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Texas Railroad, issued in the same month that Louisiana seceded from the United States. This edition details the construction completed up to..... More
New Orleans: June 30, 1832. [3]pp. on a single folded sheet, addressed on verso of second leaf. Old mailing folds, minor foxing, tiny hole in second leaf from removal of wax seal costing a couple of words, significant fading to text. An informative and content-rich manuscript letter from Abner Phelps..... More
New Orleans: Pelican Job Print, 1867. Broadside, 9.75 x 7.75 inches. Quarto on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Broadside circular advertising the services of James W. Price, "merchandise and produce broker" located at No. 34 Tchoupitoulas Street in New Orleans. The text reads: "I will give..... More
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[N.p., likely near Bogalusa, La. ca. 1914]. [5]pp., on a single folded sheet of cardstock. Oblong 12mo. Some toning and dust-soiling, light chipping to one edge. A seemingly unrecorded promotional item touting the economic advantages of Bogalusa, Louisiana, located near the Mississippi border in the northeastern portion of the state..... More
Lake Providence, La. Printed at the Office of the Herald, 1858. 40pp. Original plain green wrappers. Minor wear, two binding holes punched through inner margin and soft vertical fold throughout. Moderate tanning and occasional foxing to text, signed on page 32 by the secretary of the commission, with his embossed..... More
New Orleans: 1906. Sheet map, 22 x 28 inches. Old folds. Minor soiling and wear. Scarce map of New Orleans issued by the Times Picayune. The map shows the city spread between Lake Pontchartrain to the north and the Mississippi River to the south, with details of streets, drainage, railroads..... More
Baton Rouge: J.M. Taylor, 1861. 7pp. Disbound. Minor soiling. Founded in 1853, the Baton Rouge, Grosse Tete and Opelousas Railroad ran from Port Allen to Livonia, with plans to expand. By 1861, however, the country was in the thick of the Civil War. New Orleans was captured in 1862, and..... More
Paris: 1852. [4],xvi,720pp. Half roan and marbled boards, spine gilt. Corners bumped and lightly worn, extremities rubbed. Binder's ticket on front pastedown. Moderate foxing. Seconde edition entierement refondue. Substantial medical compendium classifying all orders of hallucinations including those "compatible with reason," along with sleepwalking, mania, delirium tremens, nightmares and dreams..... More
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Hammond, La. Vindicator Job Print, [ca. 1920s]. Six photographically-illustrated postcards, each 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Minor edge wear, some toning around the edges and at corners, one slightly misprinted with very minor loss of text. A visually-interesting group of a half dozen promotional postcards picturing various locations around Hammond, Louisiana..... More
New Orleans: A.M. Escudier, Book and Job Printers, 1901. 19pp. Original printed front wrapper, rear wrapper not present. Front wrapper a bit chipped and creased, old adhesive repairs to closed tears, bottom corner reinforced with tissue, partially split along spine. Text block a bit toned, foxed, and creased. A seemingly..... More
Crowley: 1919. [31]pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Moderate soiling to covers, contemporary pencil ownership notation on front cover. Doodle inside front cover. Minor soiling internally. "The city that sets the pace in the race for prosperity in the rice belt, takes nobody's dust and keeps her head turned always..... More
New Orleans: 1848. [2]pp. on a single folded sheet, verso of integral blank addressed in ink. Original mailing folds, minor wear. An informative manuscript letter providing a snapshot of the state of American shipping out of Mexico during the Mexican-American War. Daniel Winsor was ship captain and agent for Magoun..... More
Washington DC: A. & G. Way, 1809. 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..... More
Auburn; Buffalo; London: Derby and Miller; Derby, Orton, and Mulligan, 1853. [4],336pp., plus frontispiece portrait and six plates. 12mo. Original publisher's cloth, spine gilt. Spine ends and corners worn, cloth rubbed; patches of discoloration to rear board. Slightly later, pencil ownership inscription and annotation on front free endpaper recto. Scattered..... More
[New Orleans]: Geo. Muller, 1908. 73pp. 12mo. Original brown printed wrappers. Light wear and chipping to edges of covers. Internally clean. A book of verse by wide-ranging poet Frederick Emanuel Rau of New Orleans. Rau clearly considers himself an observer of the people, and he devotes these pages to poems..... More
New Orleans: January 21, 1842. [3]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old folds. Small loss from wax seal, affecting a few words on third page. Light wear and soiling. A wandering "woe is me" missive from Charles Penfield to his business partners back home in Massachusetts, detailing his numerous misfortunes..... More
[New Orleans: March 2, 1832]. [3]pp. plus integral address page. Old fold lines, slight separation and wear at folds. Slight loss to edge of third page, affecting a word in five lines of text. Brief letter written by William West to his sister in Boston, relating his business ventures in..... More