Amsterdam: 1720. Print. Copper-plate engraving. Amsterdam: 1720. Image measures 6 1/8" x 9", with text 11 1/2" x 9". Sheet measures 15" x 11 1/2" This satirical persuasive map depicts the island of "Geks-Kop", rendered as a 'fools head', or man in a 'fool's cap.' The map is an allegorical reference to the economic crash caused by the French Compagnie d'Occident, often referred to as the Mississippi Company, following the burst of the Mississippi Bubble. Surrounding the head are islands..... 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

Amsterdam: 1737. Map. Original engraving. 14.75 x 17.25 inches. Beautiful 1737 map of North America featuring giant scaled Great Lakes. Lake Huron is referred to as Karegnondi, an indigenous name meaning big lake or fresh water sea. Possible reference to Manitoulin Island (the largest fresh water island in the world) as 'Cantolon'. Many portage routes are described throughout. Indigenous villages and architecture is noted along with Jesuit settlements. The largest significant French towns that are noted are Quebec City and..... More

U. S. Pacific Railroad Exploration & Survey, War Department. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 26.75 x 38.5". This fascinating geological section of the Mississippi River derives from the investigations of Jules Marcou, a French geologist who worked extensively in North America. In 1853, under the service of the U.S. government, he became the first geologist to cross the United States as part of the Pacific railroad exploration, headed by A.W. Whipple, that was then then underway. This..... 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

Vol. XXII, No. 5. Saturday, November 3, 1810. folio, 4pp. 5 columns per page. Portsmouth: [William Treadwell], 1810. Contains printing of the Declaration of Independence of West Florida. "...he (Ferdinand VII of Spain) has endeavored to pervert into an engine of destruction, by encouraging, in the most persidious manner, the violation of ordinances sanctioned and established by himself as the law of the land. Being thus left without any hope of protection from the mother country, by being betrayed by..... More

Nuremburg: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1720. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 19 1/8" x 22.5". Stains on lower margin and scuffs in the Gulf of Mexico, some toning. Fine antique map showing the course of the Mississippi river. It is dedicated to Father Hennepin who is shown in the title cartouche with allegorical figures depicting his exploration of the Great Lakes region and the New World. Although the Mississippi's true course is not yet known, the land West..... More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1936. 8vo, green cloth. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1936. First Edition. More

The Hitherto Unwritten Record of a Hero of the War of the Rebellion. illus. 97pp. 16mo, later library cloth, portion of original pr. wrs. mounted on covers; (covers lightly soiled, ex-lib, otherwise very good). St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing, 1887. Philip Henson was a native of Alabama. He spied on the Confederacy mostly in Mississippi. Later in the war, Henson was captured and imprisoned. He was later released because of a lack of evidence. More