[LOUISIANA -- SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. The Daily Picayune. 763 issues in 5 bound volumes. New Orleans,
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[LOUISIANA -- SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. The Daily Picayune. 763 issues in 5 bound volumes. New Orleans, LA: Lumsden, Kendall, & Co., 1842, 1843, 1848, 1851, 1852.
5 volumes, folio (Approx. 14 x 20 in.), each 4 or 6 pages, 763 issues (incomplete), numbering: 1842: Vol. V, No. 291, 1 January 1842 through Vol. VI, No. 135, 30 June 1842. (Lacking issues Nos. 36, 58, and 311; first issue with heavy wear.) [Bound with:] 5 issues of The Weekly Picayune, numbering Vol. IV, Nos. 49 & 52; Vol. V, Nos. 2, 5, 7. One-quarter morocco with marbled boards (modern spine rebacking, heavy scuffing). -- 1843: Vol. VIII, No. 108, 30 May 1843 through Vol. VII, No. 296, 31 December 1843. (Lacking issues Nos. 261 and 263, No. 264 misnumbered as 267, numbering follows from there, first 3 issues and last issue in volume with missing pages and damage.) One-quarter morocco with marbled boards, lacking spine and front board). -- 1848: Vol. XII, No. 137, 1 July 1848 through Vol. XII, No. 292, 31 December 1848. Includes second evening issues of No. 228, 17 October 1848 through No. 281, 18 December 1848 and No. 285, 23 December 1848 through No. 291, 30 December 1848. [Bound with:] 13 issues of The Weekly Picayune, numbering Vol. XI, Nos. 23, 31, 34, 37-46. One-quarter morocco with marbled boards (modern spine backing, scuffing). -- 1851: Vol. XV, No.157, 27 July 1851 through Vol. XV, No. 308, 22 January 1852. (Lacking issues No. 172, 195 , 229, 248, 260, 277; includes evening edition only of issue #298, 10 January 1852.) One-quarter red morocco with marbled boards (front board detached, scuffs). Provenance: H. Buehler (ownership inscription to mastheads). -- 1852: Vol. XVI, No. 84, 1 May 1852 through Vol. XVI, No. 157, 25 July 1852. (Lacking issues No. 117 & 139.) One-quarter morocco with marbled boards, lacking spine and front board). Provenance: H. Buehler (ownership inscription to mastheads).
Reporting includes extensive coverage of ship and railway activity, local commerce, and news. Notably, the issues contain a multitude of advertisements for self-emancipated formerly enslaved (runaway slave ads) as well as notices of sale. Many issues have contemporary ink markings.
Estate of Carroll J. Delery III, Formerly the "Historical Shop"
5 volumes, folio (Approx. 14 x 20 in.), each 4 or 6 pages, 763 issues (incomplete), numbering: 1842: Vol. V, No. 291, 1 January 1842 through Vol. VI, No. 135, 30 June 1842. (Lacking issues Nos. 36, 58, and 311; first issue with heavy wear.) [Bound with:] 5 issues of The Weekly Picayune, numbering Vol. IV, Nos. 49 & 52; Vol. V, Nos. 2, 5, 7. One-quarter morocco with marbled boards (modern spine rebacking, heavy scuffing). -- 1843: Vol. VIII, No. 108, 30 May 1843 through Vol. VII, No. 296, 31 December 1843. (Lacking issues Nos. 261 and 263, No. 264 misnumbered as 267, numbering follows from there, first 3 issues and last issue in volume with missing pages and damage.) One-quarter morocco with marbled boards, lacking spine and front board). -- 1848: Vol. XII, No. 137, 1 July 1848 through Vol. XII, No. 292, 31 December 1848. Includes second evening issues of No. 228, 17 October 1848 through No. 281, 18 December 1848 and No. 285, 23 December 1848 through No. 291, 30 December 1848. [Bound with:] 13 issues of The Weekly Picayune, numbering Vol. XI, Nos. 23, 31, 34, 37-46. One-quarter morocco with marbled boards (modern spine backing, scuffing). -- 1851: Vol. XV, No.157, 27 July 1851 through Vol. XV, No. 308, 22 January 1852. (Lacking issues No. 172, 195 , 229, 248, 260, 277; includes evening edition only of issue #298, 10 January 1852.) One-quarter red morocco with marbled boards (front board detached, scuffs). Provenance: H. Buehler (ownership inscription to mastheads). -- 1852: Vol. XVI, No. 84, 1 May 1852 through Vol. XVI, No. 157, 25 July 1852. (Lacking issues No. 117 & 139.) One-quarter morocco with marbled boards, lacking spine and front board). Provenance: H. Buehler (ownership inscription to mastheads).
Reporting includes extensive coverage of ship and railway activity, local commerce, and news. Notably, the issues contain a multitude of advertisements for self-emancipated formerly enslaved (runaway slave ads) as well as notices of sale. Many issues have contemporary ink markings.
Estate of Carroll J. Delery III, Formerly the "Historical Shop"
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[LOUISIANA -- SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. The Daily Picayune. 763 issues in 5 bound volumes. New Orleans,
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