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

New York: Scribner, 1914. A Tale of the Mississippi. Illus. by F.C. Yohn. 8vo, red cloth. N.Y., 1914. First Edition. Inscribed by Cable: "I was at the old landing a few days ago, but what a change!" Fine copy, in a 1/4 blue morocco slipcase. More

80 illus. and folding maps. tall 8vo, cloth. n.p. 1968. More

illus. 122pp. 8vo, cloth. St. Louis, 1879. Presentation copy. More

Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1857. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 14" x 11.5". Nice clean map of Mississippi divided into counties. Shows major cities, major routes, waterways and railroads. Includes table of steam boat routes. From the "New Universal Atlas". In excellent condition. Plate was originally published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, who sold the copyright to Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company in 1850, which was in turn bought by Charles Desilver in 1856. More

Franklin Center: Franklin, 1976. 343 pages. 8vo, full gilt-stamped blue leather, a.e.g. Franklin Library, 1976. A fine copy. 100 Greatest Books of All Time series. 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

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

Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Illustrated with a handful of b/w images. 465 pages. Tall 8vo, green cloth. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, (1988). Remainder mark on bottom edges, else a near fine copy, lacking the dust wrapper. More