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CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. EDITED AND COMPILED BY EDWIN L. JEWELL. THE COMMERCIAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND GENERAL HISTORY OF NEW ORLEANS, INCLUDING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ITS DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS.

[New Orleans: 1874]. Folio, with the ownership bookplate of Felix Limongi. Extra-illustrated chromolithographic title page as frontis, dated 1874. [21], 12- 336, [18] pp. Profusely illustrated, many advertisements. Light to moderate foxing, Good+. Bound in publisher's black cloth with front cover stamped in gilt: "Presented to Str. Waloon | Jewell's..... More

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ARGUMENT, WITH STATEMENT OF FACTS SWORN TO, AND CITATIONS FROM THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF LOUISIANA, TO SHOW THAT THE TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT ORGANIZATION OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, ON THE 4TH OF JANUARY, 1875, UNDER WHICH ORGANIZATION L.A. WILTZ, REPRESENTING THE DEMOCRATIC CONSERVATIVE PARTY, WAS A LAWFULLY ELECTED TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT SPEAKER, WERE IN STRICT ACCORDANCE WITH LAW AND PRECEDENT.

[New Orleans]: Clark & Hofeline, Book Printers, 112 Gravier Street, [1875]. 16pp, stitched in original printed title wrappers, as issued. Lightly toned, light foxing and extremity wear to the wrappers. Several penciled text corrections by a contemporary reader. Very Good. A New Orleans native, Confederate veteran, and Conservative Democrat, Wiltz..... More

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VOLUNTEER ENLISTMENT. STATE OF LOUISIANA, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS. I HAMILTON HADEN BORN IN PICKENS COUNTY IN THE STATE OF ALABAMA AGED TWENTY FOUR YEARS, AND BY OCCUPATION A FARMER DO HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE TO HAVE VOLUNTEERED THIS TWENTY-FIFTH DAY OF MARCH 1864, TO SERVE AS A SOLDIER IN THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FOR THE DEFENCES OF NEW ORLEANS...

New Orleans: 1864. 8" x 10." Printed broadsheet [several type fonts and styles], completed in manuscript. Old folds for recording and filing. Very Good plus. Haden [also spelled Hayden, on the verso] pledges his allegiance to the United States, and signs with his mark on 25 March 1864 at Fort..... More

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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT DEED OF SALE, BY MARTHA FLUKER TO Z.G. NORWOOD, OF "ONE NEGRO BOY NAMED HEZEKIAH, SOME TEN YEARS OLD SPARE BUILT AND A LITTLE TINGED WITH YELLOW."

St. Helena Parish, Louisiana: 17 May 1856. Neat ink manuscript, single leaf, 7-1/8" x 11-3/4," blue lined paper. Sworn to and attested on verso, with red seal remnant. Very Good. Located about fifty miles northeast of Baton Rouge, St. Helena Parish was briefly a part of West Florida. "The..... More

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SALE OF SLAVE LUCINDA JANE, PARISH OF DE SOTO, LOUISIANA, 26 DECEMBER 1853, "NEGRO SLAVE WOMAN AGED FORTY-FIVE YEARS OF DARK COMPLEXION AND A SLAVE FOR LIFE," FOR $350.

De Soto Parish, Louisiana: 26 December 1853. Folio sheet, folded to 8" x 12-1/2." [4] pp bifolium. Entirely in neat ink manuscript, written on recto and verso of first leaf and docketed on page [4]: "Caleb Pate to Spencer Adams Sale of Negro Slave." Old folds, Very Good. Caleb Pate..... More

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