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GEORGIA

Offprint. Alabama Anthropological Society, Montgomery. Miscellaneous Papers, No. 3. Reprinted from American Anthropologist, Vol. XIX, No. 1., 1917. Original printed wrappers, minor chipping to edges. A very good copy.
$ 85.00

95. Cobb, Howell et al. TO OUR CONSTITUENTS.
[Washington, D.C.: Towers, printer, 1849]. 8 pp.

Dated: Washington City, February 26, 1849. First edition. Original sef- wraps. A near fine, uncut copy. Signed in type: Howell Cobb, Linn Boyd, Beverly L. Clarke, John H. Lumpkin. These Congressmen state in the opening lines of text: "We address you this circular from a sense of duty to ourselves. A portion of the Southern representatives in Congress, have recently issued an address to the people of the South on the exciting question of slavery. We were unable to unite with them in the movement, and the absence of our names from the paper which they have published, has given rise to strictures upon our course which we now propose to notice..." DeRENNE p.521: "Address by Howell Cobb, Linn Boyd, Beverly L. Clarke and John H. Lumpkin, in reply to Calhoun's Address of January 22, 1849, favoring the maintenance of a nation-wide Democratic party"
$ 45.00

96. Edwards, Francis Rees and Z. A. Massey. BEEF CATTLE PRODUCTION IN GEORGIA.
Experiment, Ga., 1934. 60 pp., illus.

First edition. Georgia Experiment Station Bulletin 184, September, 1934. Original printed wrappers. A near fine copy. The Georgia Experiment Station was part of the University System of Georgia. This is a highly informative work on the raising of beef cattle; illustrated throughout with inset photographs.
$ 60.00

97. Georgia Historical Society. COLLECTIONS OF THE GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOL. II.
Savannah, 1842. 336 pp.

First edition. Original cloth, worn and mottledd, light damping at the top margin throughout. A good only copy. "The reprints of early works relating to Georgia, in this and other volumes of the Society's COLLECTIONS, are of great value to the student, as many of them are very difficult to procure in the original editions" - De Renne. This work reprints: A NEW VOYAGE TO GEORGIA. BY A YOUNG GENTLEMAN. GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS TRAVELS TO SOUTH CAROLINA, AND PART OF NORTH CAROLINA. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF THE INDIANS (London, 1737); A STATE OF THE PROVINCE OF GEORGIA, ATTESTED UPON OATH IN THE COURT OF SAVANNAH, NOVEMBER 10, 1740 (London, 1742); A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE CAUSES THAT HAVE RETARDED THE PROGRESS OF THE COLONY OF GEORGIA IN AMERICA (London, 1743); A TRUE AND HISTORICAL NARRATIVE OF THE COLONY OF GEORGIA, IN AMERICA (Charleston, S.C., 1741); AN ACCOUNT, SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF THE COLONY OF GEORGIA, IN AMERICA, FROM ITS FIRST ESTABLISHMENT (Annapolis, 1742); and a discourse delivered before the Geogia Historical Society, at the celebration of their second anniversary by William Bacon Stevens, M.D. An excellent and scarce compilation of early Georgia history. DeRENNE p.482.
$ 125.00

98. Jones, Charles Colcock Jr. HERNANDO DE SOTO: THE ADVENTURES ENCOUNTERED AND THE ROUTE PURSUED BY THE ADELANTADO DURING HIS MARCH THROUGH THE TERRITORY
EMBRACED WITHIN THE PRESENT GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITS OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. Savannah, Ga. : Printed for the Author [by] J.H. Estill, Morning News Steam Printing House, 1880. 42 pp., Portrait of De Soto.

Cover title: DE SOTO'S MARCH THROUGH GEORGIA. First edition. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy of this scarce work by a noted Georgia historian. DeRENNE p.789: Only 250 copies were printed for private distribution." HOWES J-196.
$ 275.00

99. Jones, Charles Colcock Jr. THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF THE HONORABLE MAJ. GEN. SAMUEL ELBERT OF GEORGIA.
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1887. 48 pp.

First edition. Original printed wrappers. A near fine, largely uncut copy. Elbert, an orphan, prospered in mercantile pursuits and as an Indian trader. He was captain of a grenadier company prior to the Revolution. A staunch patriot, Elbert served on the Council of Safety and in the first Provincial Congress of Georgia in 1775. He was commissioned (1776) lieut.- colonel of the first Continental regiment raised in Georgia. Col. Elbert participated in two Florida expeditions: gallantly commanded the Georgia Line at the fall of Savannah (1778); was captured by the British at Briar Creek (1779). He later took part in the Yorktown campaign. GEPHART 13281. DeRENNE p.859. Scarce.
$ 250.00

100. Vocelle, James T. REMINISCENCES OF OLD ST. MARYS.
[St. Marys, Ga.: St. Marys Publishing Co., 1913]. [10] pp., illus.

First edition. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy of this scarce work. St. Mary's is in the extreme southeastern corner of the State of Georgia. ROWLAND & DORSEY 2230.
$ 85.00

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