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...
Weimar. 1804. [28],344pp. plus folding map. Contemporary three quarter calf and boards. Extremities moderately worn. Later notations to front flyleaf. Internally clean. Very good. The author, a native of Santo Domingo, fled to Louisiana to escape the uprisings in his homeland. He provides a detailed picture of life in New...
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. Foredge 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...
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...
[Washington]: Coastal Survey Office, 1863. Folding map, 24 x 25 1/2 inches, mounted in twenty-four sections on linen. Original oblong 12mo. card covers with printed paper label. Contemporary ownership inscription on label. Light wear. Minor foxing and wear to map. Very good. This rare Civil War map was created by...
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 two 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...
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...
[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...
![LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. By "Mark Twain" [pseud]. Samuel L. Clemens](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM52653.jpg?v=1492706926)
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. 624pp., plus frontispiece, plates, and 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. A fine copy. In a half.....
[Paris. 1804 (but distributed in 1826)]. Engraved map, approximately 13 x 37 inches. Matted. Old fold lines. Scattered foxing, mostly in margins and along uppermost fold. Very good. 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. Light foxing to text, some light dampstaining. Wear to final leaf. Good. A rare official report concerning the important battles for control of the Mississippi, and printing official battle reports by Confederate officers covering operations at Vicksburg; Baton Rouge; Corinth;...
New York. 1871. Handcolored lithograph, 11 x 14 inches, framed under glass. A fine copy. A handsome Currier & Ives lithograph showing a gracious plantation house along the Mississippi, with a steamboat, a road along the levee with several carriages, trees with Spanish moss, etc. "...Old times there are not...
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 in near fine condition. Cushman's parents were missionaries to the Choctaw beginning in 1820...
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, rear hinge cracked but still holding firmly. Very good. The true first edition of this classic memoir of the notorious 19th-...
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...
[Washington]. 1848. 7pp. Dbd. First leaf removed, stab holes in gutter. Tanned at extremities. A good reading copy. In his speech Foote criticizes a New Hampshire senator for voting against the Resolution of Thanks to Gen. Taylor for Taylor's service to the nation in the Mexican- American War. Foote argues...
Washington. 1874. 498pp. Original decorated cloth. Some chipping to edges. Very good. The memoirs of a lawyer, chiefly of his meetings with important legal and political figures, from the 1820s to 1860s. Foote was prominent in Mississippi, involved in Texas, and saw many of the great events of his day.
Vicksburg. 1885. 159pp. Original gilt cloth. Spotted and faded, extremities worn. Bookplate removed, front hinge loose. Internally very good and clean. Much material on steamboating, slavery, gambling, duels, railroads, and the Mississippi Bar. Also included is a brief account of the author's trip to Indiana in 1843. Some of these...
