North Easton: Columbia University Press, 1964. Illustrated. xiii, 625 pages. Short thick 4to, blue cloth. North Easton, MA: Designed and produced by the Printing Office of Columbia University Press, 1964. First Edition. A fine copy, protected in the original cardboard shipping box. Signed by the author. One of 250 copies. More

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orne. Map. Original uncolored engraving. Image measures 10 1/4" x 12 1/2". This detailed map of the United States depicts the eastern half of the country, including the Great Lakes, Appalachian Range, and the Mississippi Delta. Published shortly after the Louisiana Purchase, the map features the area west of the Mississippi in lesser detail, noting Native American tribes and villages, rivers, and cities. The Florida peninsula is not depicted. Cities, isles, bodies of water, mountain..... More

Paris: Jacques Nicolas Bellin, 1750. Map. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 8 5/8" x 6.75". Beautiful chart of the Mississippi River feeding into the Gulf of Mexico. Shows depths and sandbars. In excellent condition. Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), was the official hydrographer to the French king and the first person to hold the title of "Ingénieur de la Marine of the Depot des cartes et plans de la Marine" (chief engineer of the French Hydrographical Office). More

Readex Microprint, 1966. 39pp. 8vo, green cloth. N.p.: Readex Microprint, (1966). Fine History of the Yazoo Act of 1795 and the land speculation in Alabama and Mississippi which resulted from the act's enactment. Facsimile of the Hartford, 1797 edition. More

Paris: Louis Brion de la Tour, 1788. Copper plate engraving with original hand color. Image measure 15" x 21.5". This interesting circa 1788 map by Louis Brion de la Tour depicts the United States showing the earliest configuration of the new states. The map extends from L. des Bois (Lake of the Woods) east as far as Newfoundland with the Great Lakes featured in the center. The map was issued following the Treaty of Paris and is among the earliest..... More

Jackson, MIssissippi: University Press of MIssissippi, 1984. Profusely illustrated with color photos of the interior of the mansion. 90 pages, oblong small slim 4to, rec cloth, d.w. University Press of Mississippi; Jackson, Mississippi. 1984. First Edition. Fine. Signatures on the front gray flyleaf of, "Kirk Fordice, Governor" and "Pat Fordice, First Lady." More

New York: Samuel Gaston, 1857. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 5 x 6". This map shows the state of Mississippi in the middle of the 19th century. Published in 1857, it records a moment just prior to the outbreak of the CIvil War in 1861. Although the state is fully politically divided on the map, with counties colored by hand and gridded district divisions, much of land remained unpopulated at this time. The lowest part of the..... More

New York: Harper, 1995. Illus. 8vo, 1/2 maroon cloth, d.w. chipped, d.w. on the blank side and bottom of cloth spine lightly dampstained, some pages with pencil marks in margin. (New York): HarperCollins, (1995). More

illus. 4to, cloth, d.w. Jackson: Univ. Press, of Mississippi, 1981. More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Illustrated with maps. xxv + 368 pages, 8vo, blue cloth; corners lightly worn, some loss of cloth at spine ends, neat ownership signature front free endpaper. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. Internally fine, a very good copy. More

New York: 1879. Wood engraving. Image measures 9 1/2" x 13 1/2" This fascinating print was published in the May 17, 1879 issue of Harper's Weekly. It depicts a steamboat departing from Vicksburg, Mississippi. Three white people are seen on the upper deck of the ship, while the lower deck is cramped with black families and their cargo, likely migrating to Kansas. Hundreds of African-Americans congregate at the docks to see them off. A Senate committee in 1880 reports on..... More

London: Hinton, Simpkin & Marshall, 1832. Map. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 16 1/8" x 10.5". Fantastic early 1832 map of Mississippi and Louisiana divided into counties. The bayou is particularly well detailed, along with other topographical and geographical elements. Features towns, waterways, major routes and Indian tribes. In excellent condition with a few very light spots of foxing. Original folds. More

Uncommon full signature: "Charles E. Hooker - Mississippi", most likely executed while serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives, on a 5.5" x 2" pages. Fine condition. American secessionist who was dispatched by the state of Mississippi to South Carolina as a secession commissioner and destribed as a "fire-eater" of the most ultra disunion stripe. He later entered the Confederate States Army rising in rank to Captain in the First Regiment of Mississippi Light Artillery and..... More