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[004912] . FREEDMEN'S BUREAU. 1866. ill. Tables. 1866. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Disbound. American History. Very Good 39th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 70. Letter from the Secretary of War in Answer to A resolution of the House of March 8, transmitting a report, by the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, of all orders issued by him or any assistant commissioner. 403 pp. Includes 8 "papers": #1. Files of orders and circulars of assistant commissioners; #2. Files of Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, War Department; #3. Report of tour of inspection of Kentucky, by Mr. P.Bonesteel; #4. Report of bureau affairs in Edgefield district, South Carolina; #5. Report of General Fisk, relative to Tennessee and Kentucky, and bill relative to negro testimony; #6. Report of General Sprague, relative to Arkansas; #7. Letter of General Tillson, Georgia, concerning Sea Island; and #8. Reports of sub-assistants of affairs in Virginia. Numerous tables, including: 4 page detailed table of medical supplies for refugees and freedmen; Table listing all farms and town lots restored with their estimated value; Table with names of medical officers, hospitals, sick and wounded; and Financial statements of money received and disbursed in the Bureau. Disbound but intact. First page with small blemish/spot at bottom. Partial stamp from House of Representatives along top page ends. Otherwise document is clean and Very Good. Famous Americans in document: Andrew Johnson, President of the United States; Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War; Abraham Lincoln; E. Whittlesey, Colonel and Assistant Commissioner; Fred H. Beecher, Liet. and Acting Assistant Adjutant General; O.O. Howard, Major General, Commissioner- (Oliver Otis Howard, November 8, 1830-October 26, 1909, was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War); Thomas W Conway, Ass't Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, &c.; J.S. Fullerton, Brevet Brigadier General Volunteers; Max Woodhull, Colonel,Assistant Adjutant-General; Clinton B. Fisk. Brigadier General, Assistant Commissioner; Davis Tillson, Brig. Gen. Vols. and A.A. Comm'r; Charles Mundee, Assistant Adjutant General; R. Saxton, Brevet Major General, Assistant Commissioner; Joseph K. Barnes, M.D. (July 21, 1817 – April 5, 1883) was an American physician and the Surgeon General of the United States Army during and after the American Civil War; and Wager Swayne (November 10, 1834-December 18, 1902) was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who received America's highest military decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Siege of Corinth. $200.00

[002483] KANE, HARNETT T.. THE BAYOUS OF LOUISIANA. ill. Drawings By Tilden Landry. 1944. Louisiana. Very Good to Very Good+ / Good-. $23.50

[004720] Newton, Milton B. Jr.. Atlas of Louisiana- A Guide for Students . ill. Maps. Baton Rouge: School of Geoscience, Louisiana State University, 1972. Size: Approx. 8 1/2 " x 11". Stiff Covers. Louisana. Very Good- "Having taught the geography of Louisiana at Louisiana State University for several years, I became acutely aware of the need of college-level text material. This atlas is offered as a partial remedy. 188 pp. plus an additional 8 pages of maps. Every page a map showing different aspects: General Maps; Climate and Weather; Landforms; Soils and Vegetation; Physical Geography; Indians; Historic Maps; European Settlement; Areal Cultural Patterns; Settlement Patterns; Boundaries and Politics; Agriculture; Other Primary Economic Activities; Manufacturing Industries; Routes and Movements; Urban Patterns; and Population Characteristics. Includes Bibliography and Appendices. 3 hole punched at spine. repaired tear at base of spine. Previous owner's name: Bob Nash, at front's top edge. Overall Covers are Very Good-. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. $25.00

[004482] Senate. Report on the Mississippi River Floods. . Washington: Goverment Printing Office, 1898. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Leather. Mississippi River. Good By the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Pursuant to Senate Resolution No. 76. Fifty-Fifth Congress, First Session. 55th Congress 3d Session. Senate. Report No. 1433. First question posed by the Committee: "What are the causes of the disastrous floods in the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and how can such floods be prevented or diminished? Issues rised: Causes of the Floods; Levees; Testimonies with questions and answers regarding conditions of the Mississippi River's water flow, overflows,etc.; Testimonies from different localities along the river. Numerous foldouts, some in color. Foldouts include: Map of Reservoir and Watersheds of Minnesota; Plans for Construction of 12 ft. Brush; Colored Map of Overflowed Lands of the Mississippi River between St. Paul and the Mouth of the Missouri River; Mean Section 1894 of Arkansas River to Vicksburg; (Colored) Plan for Improving Rivers, Edwin Bell, St. Paul, MN; Numerous foldouts of "Hydrograph 0f Gauges"; (Colored) Map Louisiana and a Part of Arkansas Showing Levee Districts and Principal Levee Lines to Accompany Report of the Board of State Engineers; Hydrograph of the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio Rivers; Caving Banks from Cairo to Donaldsonville from 1877-83 to 1892; Lower Point Pleasant Bar; and Table with Estimated yardage and cost of levees built. 522 pp.including Index. Leather with raised bands with three colors of leather on spine. Red: Senate Report. Vol.2. Green: No. 1433. Mississippi River Flood. Black: 55th Congress. 3d Session. 1898-99. Some scuffing-mainly to top of spine. Covers are Good or better. Discoloring to endpapers. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good +. $85.00

[003943] Senate. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY 1852...SITE FOR A NAVY YARD AND DEPOT AT NEW ORLEANS (with diagrams). ill. Diagrams. 1852. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9 1/4". Disbound. Louisana. Very Good 32d Congress. 2d Session. Senate. Ex. Doc. No. 2. The result of an examination made in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, of the property offered by R. B. Sumner and others as a site for a navy yard and depot at New Orleans. December 6, 1852. 24 pp. 10 full pages of diagrams (plans) for a naval yard-4 double spread pages. "The whole property is offered to the government for $374,000...". Includes Description of Belleville Foundry. Mildly foxed, but no interference with text or diagrams. First page of document has numbers in the bottom margin, but not on text. Otherwise document is Very Good +. Disbound but intact. $100.00