Edinburgh. 1831-1839. Five volumes. A few in-text illustrations. Half title in each volume. Large, thick octavos. Modern buckram, printed paper labels. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Some light foxing, primarily to first and last few leaves. Tear in half title of second volume, repaired with tape.....
Morrisania, N.Y. 1870. 13pp., printed in double columns. Folio. Original printed front wrapper, bound into later three quarter green morocco and cloth, gilt morocco spine label. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Wrapper chipped and soiled. Fore-edge of each text leaf reinforced with tissue. Good. Field has very kind words for this.....
Jackson, Ms. 1894. xv,[1],472pp. plus errata. Portraits. Original cloth. Ex-lib. with old mark from shelf label, and bookplate. Cloth bit soiled, text slightly tanned. A good, sound copy. A rare southern local history. Includes material on Indian removal, native tribes and their customs, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Blacks and slavery.....
London. 1777. Two volumes. [6],xii,324; xii,308pp. Folding frontispiece map in each volume. Later speckled calf, maroon and black gilt morocco labels, ornate gilt spines. Front board of second volume detached, but present. Covers slightly bowed. Armorial bookplate and early 19th-century ownership signature on front paste down of each volume. Later.....
[N.p., likely Chicago. 1882-1944]. 190pp. Folio. Contemporary black pebbled cloth boards with later red leather corners and backstrip, gilt title on front board. Endpapers renewed. Minor rubbing and soiling to boards. Light thumb-soiling to text. Very good. An extensive and informative company ledger listing the assets, properties, profits, losses, and.....
Vicksburg, Ms. J.M. Swords, Proprietor, 1863. Folio broadside, printed on wallpaper. Old folds, closed tear in blank margin of one fold, some spotting. Very good. The newspapers printed on wallpaper in Vicksburg during its siege were widely noted at the time, and the Union troops who took possession of the.....
Vicksburg, Ms. June 6, 1865. 4pp., on a small bifolium. Slight chips at upper right corner, two slits at gutter margin for intended binding. Faint foxing at edges. About very good. A brief report on the courts-martial of two officers in the 58th Colored Infantry in Vicksburg, two months after.....
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[Corinth, Ms. 1862]. Pencil drawing, 13 1/2 x 21 inches. Small tears at right and left edges, lower right corner torn away. Small red ink stain on lower edge. Central vertical fold. Light soiling and wear. About very good. An original pencil sketch depicting a crucial moment in the Second.....
New York: Currier & Ives, 1863. Handcolored lithograph, 12 x 15 inches. Tiny chip in upper left corner (well away from the image). A clean, near fine copy. A colorful and dramatic depiction of Admiral David Dixon Porter's Mississippi River Squadron running the Confederate blockade at Vicksburg during the siege.....
Jackson, Ms. 1880. xxiii,[1],545pp. plus plates and errata. Frontis. Recent half calf and marbled boards. Ownership and gift inscriptions on front endpapers. Occasional foxing. Very good. Good, detailed history of the state and region, with chapters on early exploration and settlement, native Indians, the controversy over West Florida, the influence.....
Hattiesburg, Ms. The Book Farm, 1939. 39,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers, loose gatherings. Light shelf wear. Internally clean. Very good. Scarce index for Claiborne's voluminous history of early Mississippi, compiled nearly sixty years after the publication of the first edition in 1880. Another twenty-five years elapsed before history and index were.....
[Augusta, Ga. Steam Press of Chronicle & Sentinel, 1862]. 191pp. Modern half morocco and cloth. Old ex-lib. ink stamp on titlepage and two other leaves. Somewhat dust soiled. Else very good. A revealing account of the war by the leading wartime printer of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The DIARY... covers the period.....
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. 624pp. plus frontispiece and plates. In-text illustrations. Large octavo. Brown cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt and black, a.e.g. Spine ends very slightly worn, inner hinges neatly repaired. Bookplates on front pastedown and front free endpaper. Clean internally. Fine. In a half morocco and.....
[Paris. 1804 (but distributed in 1826)]. Engraved map, approximately 13 x 37 inches. Old fold lines. Scattered foxing, mostly in margins and along uppermost fold. Very good. Matted. A long and highly detailed map of the course of the Mississippi River from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico, from.....
Richmond. 1863. 170pp. Later stitching. Titlepage heavily foxed, some wear. Foxing and staining throughout, margins of final leaf and rear wrapper damaged, without loss. Good overall. A rare official report concerning the important battles for control of the Mississippi, and printing official battle reports by Confederate officers covering operations at.....
New York: Currier & Ives, 1868. Handcolored lithograph on wove paper, 21¾ x 32 inches, highlighted in gum arabic. After illustrations by Frances Flora Bond Palmer, drawn on stone by James Merrit Ives ("J.M.I. del." at lower left of image). Toning in the margins from previous matting. Some very light.....
New York: Currier & Ives, 1868. Handcolored lithograph on wove paper, 21½ x 32 inches, highlighted in gum arabic. After illustrations by Frances Flora Bond Palmer, drawn on stone by James Merrit Ives ("J.M.I. del." at lower left of image). Toning in the margins from previous matting. Closed marginal tears.....
Greenville, Tx. Headlight Printing House, 1899. 607pp. Portrait. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Three-cent "Indian centennial" stamp affixed to front free endpaper, bookplate on rear pastedown. Printed on poor paper and tanned, otherwise near fine. Cushman's parents were missionaries to the Choctaw beginning in 1820, and he.....
Memphis. December 9, 1875. [3]pp., autograph letter, signed, on a folded quarto sheet. Plus original postmarked envelope and laid-in newspaper clipping. Old folds, some just starting to split. Minor soiling. Very good. A subtly abhorrent letter written from former Confederate President Jefferson Davis to former Rebel soldier S.D. Hewes, expressing.....
New York: George H. Devol, 1892. 300pp. plus frontispiece portrait and four plates. Original green cloth, gilt. Cloth moderately rubbed, light edge wear. Previous owner's signature and presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Titlepage partially torn at gutter, not affecting text. Lightly toned. A very good copy. Rare presentation copy.....
Cincinnati: Devol & Haines, 1887. 300pp. plus five plates including frontispiece portrait. Original gilt pictorial blue cloth, spine gilt. Spine slightly faded, spine ends and corners a bit worn, hinges slightly loose but still holding firmly. Light, even tanning. Very good. The true first edition of this classic memoir of.....
Philadelphia. 1803. [2],198pp. Modern half morocco. Ex-lib. with ink stamp on verso of titlepage and on first text leaf. Tanned, second half of text more severely than the first. Still, a good, solid copy. This copy bears the ownership signature of Lawrence Washington, nephew of George Washington, on the front.....
Nashville: McQuiddy Printing Company, 1922. 213pp. plus four portraits. Original stiff brown wrappers, stapled. Light chipping and wear. Ownership ink stamp on titlepage. Light wear to first and last leaves. Very good. Memoir of Thomas Duncan, who enlisted with the Corinth Rifles in April 1861, and subsequently saw action at.....
London. 1819. xv,454pp. Contemporary three quarter calf and marbled boards. Slightly rubbed, else very good. Third edition of this "unflattering picture of the western frontier" (Howes) after the first edition of the previous year. The author was "deputed" by a number of families in England to ascertain whether or not.....
Natchez: Published by Jackson Warner, 1852. 637pp. plus errata leaf. Modern half morocco, blindstamp and inked number on titlepage. Internally very clean. Very good. Pro-slavery work in the form of a textbook, drawing on a number of religious sources including the Bible. Several editions or printings were issued after this.....
