Illustrated London News.
Transatlantic sketches. The Mississippi River. London.
1858, April 10. Folio. pp.505-6 4 woodcut view. Removed. River
views on the Upper Mississippi, article on New Orleans.
I.D.#09746.
Warren, Gouverneur Kemble.
Survey Of The Upper Mississippi River ... Report Of The Chief
Of Engineers, With General Warren's Report Of The Surveys Of The
Upper Mississippi River And Its Tributaries. U.S. Congress.
Washington, DC. 1867, January 30. 8vo, 116 p. 6 text river plans,
folding map. Blue half morocco. Interesting report professionally
bound. Mapof Wisconsin and Fox Rivers from Green Bay to
Mississippi River. Map with folds reinforced. (39th Cong, 2d sess.
House. Ex.Doc. No.58.). I.D.#09268. SOLD.
PRESENTATION COPY TO GEN.
H.L. ABBOT
Humphreys, A.A. and H.L. Abbot.
Report upon the physics and hydraulics of the Mississippi River;
protection of the alluvial region against overlow; and upon the
deepening of the mouths: based upon surveys and investigations
made under the acts of Congress directing the topographical and
hydrographical survey of the Delta of the Mississippi River, with
such investigations as might lead to determine the most
practicable plan for securing it from innundation, and the best
mode of deepening the channels at the mouths of the river.
Submitted to the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, War
Department, 1861, (Reprinted with additions.) Prepared by Captain
A.A. Humphreys and Lieut. H.L. Abbot, corps of topographical
engineers, United States Army. GPO. Washington, DC. 1876.
Half-title reads: Professional papers of the Corps of Engineers,
U.S. Army, No. 13 No. 4 Professional papers of the Corps of
topographical Engineers, United States Army... 1861. Reprinted
with additions in 1876. Large heavy quarto xiv, 691 p. 25 fold.
charts and plans, many tables, mathematical calculations.
Specially bound in contemporary full red turkey morocco, all edges
gilt. Inscribed on the half-title in ink: "To Genl. H.L. Abbot
U.S. Engrs. from A.A. Humphreys April 20, 1878." Fine association
copy prepared by one author as a gift to the other upon the
reprinting of their youthful joint effort. Hinges rubbed but
sound. I.D.#00303. SOLD.
Warren, Gouverneur Kemble.
Valley Of The Minnesota And Mississippi Rivers To The Junction Of
The Ohio. Its Origins Considered - Depth Of Bed-Rock. Being
Chapter II Of Report On Bridging The Mississippi River Between
Saint Paul, Minn., And Saint Louis, Mo. By Bvt. Maj. Gen. G.K.
Warren, Major Of Engineers. Engineer Department, United States
Army. Washington, DC. 1878. 8vo, 20 p. maps in text, 6 folding
maps and sections. Gray printed wrappers. Removed, rear wrap.
lacking. Dry and flaking. Rare ephemeral offprint from a larger
report by Major Warren, famed for his Pacific Railroad survey maps
and reports. Major General U.S. Volunteers in Civil War. Wounded
at both Gaines Mill and Gettysburg, his monument stands on Little
Round Top at Gettysburg. I.D.#09711.
Mississippi River. Photograph.
untitled. Signal lamp and operator atop ladder.
Sepiatone positive enlargement showing installation of a signal or
river guide light. Precise location unknown. c1890. Once folded,
margin tears. Pencil notes upper left corner. I.D.#09261.
Mississippi River Flood Control
Association. Fred D. Beneke, Ed. The Flood Of 1927, Mississippi
River And Tributaries Containing Photographic Views Of
America’s Greatest Peace-Time Disaster, In The Overflowed Sections
Of Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi
And Louisiana. Published By The Mississippi River Flood Control
Association And Dedicated To The Congress Of The United States.
Edited By Fred D. Beneke. Memphis? ©1927. 4to, 64 p. Mostly
illus., table. Dark blue limp fabricoid. In original box. Box is
in very nice condition as is binding but contents are foxed.
Interesting commemorative album intended to interest Congress in
flood control measures. I.D.#08267. SOLD.
(Cramer, Zadok.) The
Navigator: Containing Directions For Navigating The Monongahela,
Allegheny, Ohio, And Mississippi Rivers; With An Ample Account
Of These Much Admired Waters, From The Head Of The Former To The
Mouth Of The Latter; And A Concise Description Of Their Towns,
Villages, Harbours, Settlements, &C. With Accurate Maps Of The
Ohio And Mississippi. To Which Is Added, An Appendix, Containing
An Account Of Louisiana, And Of The Missouri And Columbia Rivers,
As Discovered By The Voyage Under Captains Lewis And Clarke (Sic).
Seventh Edition--Improved And Corrected. Printed And Published by
Cramer, Spear & Eichbaum. Pittsburgh. 1811. 12mo, 296 p. cuts.
Orig. unlettered calf-backed boards. Very nice copy but
unfortunately incomplete from the start, lacking pp. 253-264 or
Sig.X which comprises four maps. With the purple rubber stamped
cipher and coronet of a european ducal house on the title.
Nontheless, rare. I.D.#00752. SOLD.
Letter Of The Secretary
Of The Navy, Communicating The Report Of
The Commission Appointed Under The Joint Resolution Of Congress,
Approved June 30, 1864, "To Select The Most Approved Site For A
Naval Yard Or Naval Station On The Mississippi River Or Upon One
Of Its Tributaries,"... February 11, 1865... (38th
Congress, 2d session. Senate. Ex. Doc. No. 19.) 1865. 28 p. 10
folding maps removed. Memphis was recommended.
I.D.#01769. SOLD.
A Report Of Major Cyrus
B. Comstock, Corps Of Engineers, Of His Inspection Of The South
Pass Improvement Of The Mouth Of The Mississippi River.
GPO. Washington, DC. 1876. 8vo, 9 p. 2 large fold. maps. Disbound.
(44th Cong., 1st sess. Senate. Ex.Doc. No.
77). Huge "Chart of Grand Bayou" and "Jetties of South Pass -
Mississippi River." I.D.#07094. SOLD.
Warren, Gouveneur Kemble.
Engineer Dept. U.S. Army. Valley Of The Minnesota And
Mississippi Rivers To The Junction Of The Ohio. Its Origin
Considered - Depth Of Bed Rock. Being Chapter 11 Of Report On
Bridging The Mississippi River Between St. Paul, Minn., And Saint
Louis, MO. GPO. Washington, DC. 1878. 8vo, 20 p. 7 plts., 6 large
fold. maps ("Valley of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers in 7
sheets") each 13.6 x 22", also "A longitudinal section of the
Valley of the Mississippi..." in 2 sheets. Disbound. Some
separating at folds of maps, some flaking of printed front wrap,
lacks rear wrapper. I.D.#00185.
Letter From The
Secretary Of War, Transmitting
...Papers Relating To The Improvement Of The Mississippi River
Levee In Front Of New Orleans. January 18, 1882... (47th
Congress, 1st session. Senate. Ex. Doc. No. 60). 1882.
14 p. removed. I.D.#01758.
Government Dam On The
Mississippi River. GPO. Washington, DC.
1892, March 29, April 2. Col. fold. map. disbound. With four other
reports. One lists the employees of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic
Survey. Map shows the Mississippi between Wisconsin and Minnesota. I.D.#07083.
Glazier, Willard. Headwaters
Of The Mississippi; Comprising Biographical Sketches Of Early
And Recent Explorers Of The Great River, And A Full Account Of The
Discovery And Location Of Its True Source In A Lake Beyond Itasca.
By Captain Willard Glazier... Illustrated. Rand, McNally & Co.
Chicago/New York. 1893. 8vo, 527 p. illus., photos. Dark brown
publishers cloth, gilt. Spine frayed, inner hinges cracked.
Ex-library: Delbarton School, Morristown, N.J. Colored maps in
text, p. 408, and 267. Lake Glazier, in Minnesota, is credited
with being the source of the Mississippi. I.D.#01226.
"...Improvements Of The
Mississippi River And Its Tributaries, and stopping the overflow
of their valley lands." GPO. Washington,
DC. 1893, February 2. 8vo, 52 p. Fold. plan. disbound. (52d Cong.
2d sess. Senate Mis.Doc. No. 38). Memorial of a John Cowden
stating that dredging will not cure scouring problems.
I.D.#07092.
Report On The
Mississippi River Floods By The Committee On Commerce United
States Senate, Pursuant To Senate Resolution No. 76, Fifty-Fifth
Congress, First Session. GPO.
Washington, DC. 1898. 8vo, 522 p. many col. chromolith. fold.
charts and plans (2 lacking) Original legal calf, repaired, new
endpapers. I.D.#07116.
Improving Southwest
Pass, Mississippi River. GPO.
Washington, DC. 1900, January 22. 8vo, 16 p. Huge fold. chart and
2 fold. construction sketches. Disbound. (56th Cong. 1st
sess. House. Document No. 329). I.D.#07093.
Tompkins, Frank H. Riparian
Lands Of The Mississippi River, Past-Present-Prosepctive Being
A Collection Of Essays And Discussions Of Problems Affecting The
Improvement Of Navigation Of The Mississippi River, Bank
Protection, Harbor Improvement, Its Levee System And The Permanent
Deepening Of The Channel At Its Mouth, Together With Some Legal
Aspects And Economic Features, By Various Contributors. Also A
Brief Review Of The Attractions Of, And The Possibilities Of
Development In, The Largest Alluvial Basin In The World. By Frank
H. Thompkins, Special Representative Mississippi River Improvement
And Levee Association. New Orleans. 1901. Big 4to, 640 p. fold.
U.S. map, many maps in text, many ports., illus. Green cloth,
shaken, one page loose. Highly interesting early lobbying effort
intended to favorably influence Federal legislation for dredging
the Mississippi and building levees to control floods. While the
Rand, McNally maps vastly overstate the size of the alluvial
basin, the book is a wealth of Mississippi valley local history at
the turn of the century. I.D.#01479. SOLD.
Hamy, Alfred. Au Mississipi
la premiere explorations (1673). Le Pere Jacques Marquette de
Laon, pretre de la Compagnie de Jesus (1637-1675) et Louis Jolliet,
d’apres M. Ernest Gagnon, par Alfred Hamy, membre de plusiers
Societes savantes. Honore Champion... Paris. 1903. 8vo, 329 p.
ports, cuts, illus. Red half morocco, broken, uncut with wraps.
preserved. Dry and shaken with one page torn. I.D.#01728.
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Weather Bureau. Bulletin M. The Floods Of The Spring Of 1903,
In The Mississippi Watershed. By H.C. Frankenfield, District
Forecaster, In Charge Of River And Flood Service. Washington, DC.
1904. 4to, 63 p. 13 col. maps and hydrographs (2 fold.), plates.
Half calf, black cloth sides. Hinges weak, spine rubbed. The worst
Mississippi River flood in civilized times, even worse than 1993.
Very interesting photos. I.D.#04275. SOLD.
United States. Department of the
Interior. No. 50 Survey Of Mississippi Atlas. Vol. 2. GPO.
Washington, DC. 1909. Large folio (25 1/4 x 21") 52 double
elephant folio charts, profiles, diags., 34 sheet maps. Tan
buckram, soiled. From St. Louis to Cairo, very detailed river
charts. Scarce, in any condition, complete. I.D.#02574.
United States. House of
Representatives. Atlas Illustrating Report Of March 20, 1909,
Of Board Of Examination And Survey Of Mississippi River
Created By Act Of Congress Approved Martch 2, 1907. GPO.
Washington, DC. 1909. Very large folio (25 1/4 x 21") outline
colored charts and elevations. Buckram, very soiled, few inner
repairs. Recased with new endpapers. (61st Cong. 1st
sess. House. Doc. 50). Exact survey of the river from St. Louis to
Cairo, Illinois. Two sets of 34 double elephant folio charts.
Ex-collection, War Department Library. I.D.#02952.
Chambers, Julius. The
Mississippi River And Its Wonderful Valley. Twenty-Seven
Hundred And Seventy-Five Miles From Source To Sea... With 80
Illustrations And Maps. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker
Press. New York/London. 1910. Large 8vo, xvi,308+ p. sepia plate,
photo illus., maps in text, facsims. Blue pict. cloth, gilt top.
Recased with new endpapers. Nicely printed. First edition.
I.D.#06092. SOLD
Lyman E. Cooley. The
Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Water Way Association (Speech). St.
Louis, MO. c1911. 4to, 11 fold-out col. maps and charts. Maroon
cloth. Cover title: "The Deep Waterway between the Great Lakes and
the Gulf of Mexico. Development of the deep waterway in relation
to conservation." Very scarce promotional and testimonial volume
promoting deepening the Mississippi. Early ecology impact study. I.D.#01709.
SOLD.
Quick, Herbert and Edward.
Mississippi Steamboatin’ A History Of Steamboating On The
Mississippi And Its Tributaries. By Herbert Quick and Edward
Quick. Henry Holt and Co. New York. c1926. 8vo,xvii,342 p. Plates,
illus. Gray buckram. First edition. I.D.#02300.
Carter, Hodding. Lower
Mississippi. Illustrated by John McCrady Rinehart & Co. New
York/Toronto. c1942. 8vo, x,467 p. Map. Cloth, spine faded.
(Rivers of America. edited by Hervey Allen and Carl Carmer as
planned and started by Constance Lindsay Skinner.)
I.D.#01692.
Pittman, Capt. Philip. The
Present State Of The European Settlements On The Missisippi;
By Captain Philip Pittman. A Facsimile Reproduction Of The 1770
Edition With Introduction And Index By Robert R. Rea. Bicentennial
Floridiana Facsimile Series. University of Florida Press.
Gainesville. 1973. 4to, lii,[viii,99],5 pp. folding facsims.
boards. I.D.#02967. SOLD. |
