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MISSISSIPPI

8vo. First edition. The rare separate and first Federal printing of the Constitution and form of government of the State of Mississippi. Original self-wraps, sewn as issued. Housed in a custom made portfolio case with leather spine and marbled paper sides. House Doc. No. 2, 15th Congress, 1st Session. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. December 4, 1817. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 42603. McMURTRIE: MISSISSIPPI IMPRINTS, 104 notes. OWEN (MISSISSIPPI) p.676. OCLC 6732899,[13].
$ 3750.00

113. Map. MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY AND GEORGIA.
[Philadelphia, M. Carey, 1805]. Measures approx. 10 x 7 5/8 inches.

An early map of the Mississippi Territory before the creation of Alabama. Details all of what is now Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. Shows the division of West Florida and East Florida, the borders with Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. Pre-dates the railroad reaching Atlanta so Atlanta is not named on this map. Existing railroads are shown. Locates New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Mobile, Pensacola and Natchez, all of the Georgia Islands and Amelia Island. As this was then the largely unexplored West, depictions of rivers, hills, and other topographical features are all that is necessary to complete the map. Cartography by W(illiam) Barker. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: Philadelphia and London. Light foxing, yet near fine.
$ 450.00

114. Dorsey, James Owen and John R. Swanton. A DICTIONARY OF THE BILOXI AND OFO LANGUAGES ACCOMPANIED WITH THIRTY-ONE BILOXI TEXTS AND NUMEROUS BILOXI PHRASES.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912. 340 pp.

First edition. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 47. Original cloth. A near fine, almost pristine copy. The first Indians met by Iberville in 1699, when he came to establish a permanent Louisiana settlement, were members of this tribe. The first visit to this tribe was made by Bienville in June, 1699, after Iberville's return to Europe.
$ 150.00

115. Leftwich, George J. COLONEL GEORGE STROTHERS GAINES AND OTHER PIONEERS IN MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY.
Jackson, Miss., 1916. 442-456 pp.

First separate edition. Scarce author's offprint from Vol. 1 Centennial Edition, Mississippi Historical Papers. Original printed wrappers signed "with compliments of the author." A near fine copy. Gaines was a leader in the Mississippi Territory and in both states formed from it, Mississippi and Alabama. He was a longtime trader among the Choctaws, and was trusted by them. At their request, he led an expedition to scout the prospective Choctaw lands in the Indian territory before the Choctaws reluctantly agreed to emigrate there. This work also gives a biographical sketch of his brother, Edmund Pendleton Gaines, a United States army officer who served with distinction during the War of 1812, the Seminole Wars and the Black Hawk War.
$ 75.00

116. McDowell, Katherine Sherwood Bonner and John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne. MISSISSIPPI.
New York: The Purdy Press, 1927. 20,16 pp., frontis.

12mo. At head of title: Little Classics of the South. First edition. Limited to 225 copies. Original paper covered boards with paper label on front board. A very good copy. This charming work contains Sherwood Bonner's GRAN'MAMMY and J. F. H. Claiborne's A TRIP THROUGH THE PINEY WOODS. The former is from "Suwanee River tales" and contains much Negro dialect. The latter was originally printed in the Free Trader and Daily Gazette Dec. 21 and Dec. 29, 1841. "These tales of the early thirties and forties are reminiscent of Mississippi plantation life in the days before the war."
$ 150.00

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