Washington: E. De Krafft, 1818. 11pp. Modern quarter red cloth, maroon gilt label on spine. Slight foxing. Very good. The report of Secretary of the Treasury William Crawford to James Monroe regarding the status of the surveying and subdivision of the lands within the Mississippi Territory, including ample descriptions of.....

[Philadelphia]: Published by order of the House of Representatives, 1800. 14pp. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. Very good, untrimmed and partially unopened. Report from the House of Representatives regarding a petition for change of government in the Mississippi Territory. The Congress has resolved to defer the institution of changes until the population.....

Grand Gulf, Ms. Dec. 31, 1835. [4]pp. Folio newspaper. Minor fold lines, light browning. Institutional deaccession stamp in lower margin. Contemporary ownership signature in right margin. Very good. An early issue of this scarce Mississippi newspaper. Edited by W.M. Smyth, publication of the GRAND GULF ADVERTISER began on Feb. 17.....

Meridian, Ms. J.J. Shannon & Co., 1865. 71pp. Contemporary printed wrappers. Spine nearly perished, moderate wear to wrappers. Minor foxing. Overall very good. The laws of Mississippi passed at a special session during the final year of the Civil War, issued a month before the final collapse of the Confederacy.....

Selma, Al. 1864. 256pp. 20th-century buckram, spine gilt lettered. Light wear to cloth. Foxing and tanning. Good. Civil War-era state laws passed by the Mississippi legislature. The two parts of the session were held before and after the Vicksburg campaign, during which Jackson fell to the Union and necessitated a......

Jackson, Ms. 1841. 302pp. Modern buckram, spine gilt lettered. Initial leaves somewhat rumpled and slightly dampstained. Light dust soiling and scattered foxing throughout. Good. Official printing of laws passed by the Mississippi state legislature in early 1841. Contains several laws relating to slavery. Only two copies located by OCLC, at.....

Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1824. [3]pp. Dbd. Minute edge wear. Small one-inch tear near head of spine. Very good. An impassioned petition from Cowles Mead of the Mississippi legislature, imploring Congress to affirm its claim to land opposite the Tombigbee River. In the memorial Mead challenges Alabama's claim to the.....

[ Philadelphia]. April 7, 1800. 3pp. Dbd. Very good. The government refuses to allow land to be appropriated in Mississippi for "clergyman and seminaries of learning, and such like purposes" because of the "unsettled condition of claims to lands."

Washington. 1805. 4pp. Dbd. Small tear in upper corner of final leaf, not affecting text, else near fine. This memorial requests a change in the rules for electing representatives to the Mississippi territorial government, asking that the requirement that eligible voters own fifty acres of land be dropped. OCLC locates.....

[Adams County, Mississippi. nd, but 1820s]. Printed form, 12 3/4 x 8 inches. Old crease marks, bit tanned. Overall quite good. Manuscript note on verso: "Mr. Forvor ?" An unused printed court form issued for the Circuit Court of Adams County, Mississippi.

[Washington, Ms. 1839]. Broadside, 15 1/2 x 13 inches. Separated at vertical center fold. Slight chipping at edges. Light tanning and dampstaining. Good. A prospectus for Jefferson College, providing course information and names of professors, most notably Jacob Ammen, who was a West Pointer, teacher of military engineering, and eventually.....

New York. 1860. xvi,[11]-492pp. Half title. Original pebbled cloth. Spine sunned, chipped at head and toe, contents shaken, else a good copy. One of Olmsted's classic series on travel in the South just before the Civil War. Clark devotes a whopping four and one-half pages to this work.

St. Louis. 1950. 351pp. Many illustrations. Cloth. Very good. In worn dust jacket. Revised edition. One of the first elaborate exhibitions to celebrate the American art of the West and the Mississippi. Useful reference.