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Webb, George F, and John Logan Power: Mississippi Manual of Legal and Business Forms: Containing Forms... 1869

Webb, G[eorge] F. [b.1818]. Power, J[ohn] L[ogan] [1834-1901]. Mississippi Manual of Legal and Business Forms: Containing Forms for Justices of the Peace, County Officers, Attorneys and Professional and Business Men Generally, In the State of Mississippi. To Which is Added a Directory of the Several Courts, Post Offices, Stamp Duties, Postal Rates, Fees and Salaries of Public Officers, Election and Population Statistics, And Other Data Useful to the Public and Private Citizen. Jackson: Clarion Steam Job and Book Printing Establishment and Book Bindery, 1869. 144 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Original quarter-cloth over printed paper boards. Moderate rubbing and a few small stains to boards, most of cloth removed from spine, board secure, hinges intact. Some toning, light browning in a few places. Early penciled annotations and signatures to endleaves (Henry C. Myers of Holly Springs, Mississippi), interior otherwise clean. * First edition. This guide is interesting for its wide range of information relating to Reconstruction. Its "Miscellaneous Business Forms" include a sharecropping contract and a contract for wages that incorporates Mississippi's Black Codes, which permitted the employer "to establish such rules and regulations for the government of his plantation or premises, as he may deem proper" (91). Other sections list the approximate values [by year] of Confederate currency in gold and tables showing the vote on the Constitution of 1868. Aspects of daily life at this time is evident in the other sections, which list postal rates, stamp duties, currency tables for greenbacks, gold fluctuations in New York from January 1862 to April 1865, a 'Vocabulary of Technical Terms,' locations and terms of courts, railroads in Mississippi (with distances between stations), a list of post offices and other data. Second and third editions were printed in 1869, the third edition was re-issued in 1870. All are very scarce. OCLC locates one copy of the first edition in North American, none in law schools. One other copy located at the Library of Congress. Not in Sabin or the Harvard Law Catalogue.

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Light list. Vol. V, Mississippi River system of the United States, second Coast Guard district Corrected to january 1, 1966 CG-161, Washington U.S. G.P.O 1966

original Broschur, gr.-8°, XVIII, 293 pages,

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LINCOLN, Edwin Hale (1848-1938): Orchids of the North Eastern United States, Photographed from Nature,

Pittsfield, Massachusetts: published by the author, 1931. 2 volumes, folio. (14 x 11 inches). Both volumes with printed title (copyright notice on verso); 1p. foreword (verso blank), 1p. list of genera (versos blank), 2pp. list of scientific and common names (rectos of 2 leaves, versos blank). 84 very fine platinum print photographs (each approximately 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches), each mounted on white handmade paper (approximately 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), each mount in turn mounted on stiff gray card with calligraphic manuscript numbering and captions. Red half morocco over red cloth-covered boards by the Harcourt Bindery, Inc. of Boston, the borders between the leather and cloth on the covers delineated by gilt double fillets, titled in gilt on the upper covers, spines in six compartments with raised bands, the bands highlighted with gilt tooling, lettered in the second and fourth compartments, the others panelled in gilt. The rarest published work on the Orchids of the United States, and a very beautiful photo-book: a masterpiece which includes "One life-size print on platinum paper of every orchid known to grow in the United States east of the Mississippi river and north of the parallel of Washington." (Foreword). Only one other copy of Edwin Hale Lincoln's superb and extremely rare collection of platinum print photographs of orchids is listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty years (Sotheby's New York, 1978, 8 November 1978, lot 310), and OCLC lists only the Massachusetts Horticultural Society copy and a second example in the University of Chicago library. In his foreword to the first volume, the photographer writes, "In the beauty and strangeness of the orchid lies its tragedy as a wild flower, and the rarer the species the greater its danger of ultimate extermination. One purpose only has been considered in compiling these plates, to preserve in permanent form a perfect record of a native botanical family which is the victim of its own loveliness, and is already but a name to many who dwell beside its former haunts." A proto- conservationist, Lincoln was pains-taking in his attempts to photograph each specimen without further endangering the species: with this in mind he would carefully dig up the selected plant, wrap the roots in moss, and return to his studio. Here he replanted his finds, allowing them to continue to grow until they reached their peak. He then took the required photograph using only the natural light from a window in his studio, taking only a single exposure of each plant which was quickly developed and printed by hand on platinum paper. After the exposure was made, the plant was returned unharmed to the spot in the woods where he had found it. This care and attention to the individual plants well-being seems to have suffused the resulting images, which are true "portraits" of individual flowers and plants. The large negatives obviated the need for enlargements; all of the photographs that appear in Wildflowers are contact prints. Lincoln insisted upon platinum paper as the best medium to convey the subtleties of his delicate subjects. Unsurprisingly, Lincoln developed strong connections with the American Arts & Crafts movement, and his work appeared in several issues of Gustave Stickley's The Craftsman. Indeed, Lincoln was a pioneer and his earlier photographs of New England's wild flowers (most if not all taken prior to 1914) can be viewed as elegant precursors to the "straight" and "pure" modernist photographs produced in the later 1920s and 1930s by Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and other members of the loosely associated Group f.64. Edwin Hale Lincoln (1848 - 1938) was born in Westminster, Massachusetts. Following service in the Civil War as a drummer boy and work as a page in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, he entered the photographic profession in Brockton in 1876. His early work included photographing yachts under full sail and documenting large estates. He visited Lenox initially in 1883 and moved permanently to the Berkshire area ten years later. His move coincided with the height of the development of Berkshire's "Summer Cottages," and Lincoln photographed many of these grand structures in the following years. Also at the end of the 19th- century, Lincoln began what was to become his best known work: an extensive study of New England wild flowers, all photographed with a large- format view camera. Self-published between 1910 and 1914 in sixteen parts, the eight volumes of this magnificent work consisted of 400 platinum prints on individual mounts with printed captions, and titled Wild Flowers of New England Photographed from Nature. Cf. William B. Becker "Permanent Authentic Records: The Arts & Crafts Photographs of Edwin Hale Lincoln," in History of Photography: an International Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1, January 1989; cf. Keith Davis An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, second edition, (Kansas City, 1999), pp. 57-58; cf. Lisa Bush Hankin'No Record So True': The Wildflower Photographs of Edwin Hale Lincoln, 1848-1938, September 19- October 26, 20O2.(Richard York Gallery Exhibition Catalogue); cf. A Persistence of Vision: photographs by Edwin Hale Lincoln. (Lenox, Ma., 1981). (Lenox Library Association / Berkshire Museum Exhibition Catalogue); OCLC 43112766.

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Lawrence J. Leslie, Inner Hinges Starting Slightly Cracked, B/W Frontispiece The 3 Boys Looked Eagerly Up the River Duplicates DJ Illustration, Back DJ Small Chips Edges Shows Boy Scout in Uniform in Green Boat Yellow Oars Seated Holding a Bottle Up inAir: CRUISE OF THE HOUSEBOAT, Series #34; + Short Story at End Bk King Pest a Tale Containing an Allegory In RARE Color DustJacket of 3 Boys at End of Boat Trimmed in Red Wearing Red Scarf at Neck & One in Yellow Shirt White Collar & Hat with Long Oar, M A Donohue & Company. NY 1917 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover

HBDJ,1917, 2nd Edition (Early Printing)., VERY GOOD-/GOOD-, AS-IS, Interior mild Wear FOX Thruout,Nice tight, Green & GreyBlue illustarated cloth Hardcover of Man reaching to swimmer off end of Pier. Book Condition: GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD-. Tiny mesh pattern blue and white paper covered boards. Front cover illustration in green and black with black lettering. Black spine lettering. 189 numbered pages plus 12 additional story pages ('King Pest' is the title)and one page of ads at the rear. One of the Camp Fire and Trail Series #34; This title is next to last in the series and was initially published around 1917; from list of other series books on the DJ flap and rear of the book this copy appears to be around 1919. Now quite scarce. The wrap-around pictorial DJ shows three boys at the rear of the houseboat looking towards a fourth in a small skiff to their rear. Light to moderate wear to spine top/bottom; staples rusty. DJ with spine darkening; shallow chipping to top and bottom edges; flap folds wear. One AD end bk thru Victory Boy Scouts Tenderfoot Squad, Small chips Extremities & Edges of DJ, ,Exceptionally scarce in the dust wrapper."The Camp Fire and Trail Series" BOYS Liberty, Story of a group of boys and their houseboat trip down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from Evansville, Indiana to Natchez, Mississippi. Good Hard Cover

[SW: LAWRENCE J. LESLIE, CHILDREN "THE CAMP FIRE AND TRAIL SERIES" BOYS LIBERTY]

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