Item #37983 NORMAN'S NEW ORLEANS BUSINESS DIRECTORY, FOR 1845 & 1846: CONTAINING THE NAMES, RESIDENCES AND OCCUPATIONS OF MERCHANTS AND BANKERS, MECHANICS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN, CLASSIFIED AND ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY WITH APPENDIX, MERCANTILE CARDS, & C. Benjamin Moore Norman.
NORMAN'S NEW ORLEANS BUSINESS DIRECTORY, FOR 1845 & 1846: CONTAINING THE NAMES, RESIDENCES AND OCCUPATIONS OF MERCHANTS AND BANKERS, MECHANICS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN, CLASSIFIED AND ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY WITH APPENDIX, MERCANTILE CARDS, & C.

NORMAN'S NEW ORLEANS BUSINESS DIRECTORY, FOR 1845 & 1846: CONTAINING THE NAMES, RESIDENCES AND OCCUPATIONS OF MERCHANTS AND BANKERS, MECHANICS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN, CLASSIFIED AND ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY WITH APPENDIX, MERCANTILE CARDS, & C.

New Orleans: Published by B.M. Norman, [1845]. At head of title: "No. 1. Published Annually. 1845-6." 79, [1 blank], 26 pp. Stitched and disbound, lacking endpapers. Title page toned, text clean. Good+.

This is perhaps the rarest New Orleans directory. Benjamin Moore Norman [1809-1860], the son of a Hudson, New York, bookseller, established a book store in New Orleans in 1837 and wrote several works, notably 'New Orleans and its Environs' [Howes N180], which are far better known than this Directory, which is "intended to serve the wants of the mercantile community." Despite its promise to publish annually, this is the only publication of the purported series.
Norman's Directory is alphabetically organized by business activity, beginning with 'Academies' [primarily schools for "Young Ladies"], moving on to 'Newspapers- Dailies,' and ending on page 79 with 'Warehouses.' Listed also, for example, are several pages of 'Commission Merchants,' some 'Cotton Dealers,' several pages of 'Counsellors at Law' [including Judah Benjamin's firm], and many other trades.
The final 26 pages are an 'Appendix,' which lists officers of the Federal, State and City Governments; postage rates, insurance rates, levee dues, tariffs, maximum interest charges, banks, benevolent societies, lodges, Protestant and Catholic churches and clergy, public schools, prisons. The final leaf advertises Norman's shop at 16 Camp Street, and announces the publication of his 'New Orleans and Environs.'
Not in Spear, Jumonville, Thompson, American Imprints, Sabin, OCLC 17674116 [2- NYHS, Tulane] as of December 2023. The NYHS copy includes several advertisements after our final leaf advertising Norman's shop. Not at online sites of AAS, Library of Congress, NYPL, Yale, Clements. Item #37983

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