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Title: The Southern States of North America Described and Illustrated
Description: London, Blackie & Son, ND (1870s). Hardcover. Small 4to. Each volume attractively bound in decorated brown cloth boards,Volume II (described as Division II) contains pages 207 through to 412, with four pages of ads at the end. Lithographed frontispiece of cypress swamp, and many engraved illustrations in text. Extensive information on the State of Missouri, St. Louis, and Jefferson City; Memphis; cotton industry, Negro labor, 'The Black Man in the Mississippi Valley'; Arkansas; Vicksburg and Natchez; Life on cotton plantations; State of Mississippi; Mobile, Alabama and state resources; Atlanta, GA, and 'The Failure of Reconstruction'; Georgian agriculture and 'crackers' etc. Volume III (Div. III) has the front free endpaper torn and contains pages 413 to 602. Lithographed frontispiece of La Calle de la Merced, St. Augustine, FL. Extensive articles on Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, focusing on the people, customs, trade and commerce, agriculture and reconstruction. Volume IV (Div. IV) contains pages 603 to 806 (two pages of ads at end). Slightly erotic lithographed frontispiece shows how 'The Low-country planter lived in a luxurious but careless way'. Articles on colleges, tobacco, state of Virginia and its partition, Mammoth Cave, Klu Klux Klan, Tennessee, B&O Railroad, City of Baltimore, 'Moral Character of the Negroes' etc. Note: pp. 775 to 780 have been torn out. Portions of pages 776 to 780 laid-in loose. Rear hinge completely broken, front hinge weak. This volume in fair condition, only. Other two volumes show light soiling and edge wear to boards, contents clean and tight; thus in good plus to just less than very good condition. Ill.: black-&-white illustrations. Published in a set of four volumes; this offering contains only volumes II, III, and IV.

Keywords: Confederacy;The South;United States;;;;;; black-&-white illustrations


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