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Washington: United States Senate, 1877. Twenty-one page document. Miscellaneous Document No.69, 45th Congress, 2d Session. "Transmitting a copy of a report of a commission appointed in pursuance of law to appraise certain lands in the Indian Terroitory lying west of the 96th degree of west longitude. Contains charts of land appraisal of Cherokee lands, as well as documents and letters, references to Lawrence, Louisburg, Paola, Abilene, Kansas.. Disbound. Modest Edge Wear. Octavo.

Washington, DC: US Congress. Good. 1826. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Used 8vo 4pp [title continued]..Resolution to the House of Representatives of the 18th Inst.) Upon the Subject of the Works Intended for the Defence of Charleston, in the State of South Carolina. 19th Congress, 2d Session, Doc. No. 22. December 22, 1826. Contains a copy of the response by Alex Macomb (Maj. Gen. and Chief Engineer) to the inquiry by the House of Representatives as to when the works intended for the defence of Charleston will be commenced and finished. Mr. Macomb explains a delay in the project due to the unavailability, so far, of necessary surveys. Good, single sheet folded (severe mold staining on every page, edges browned, nicks & wear to edges, short tear across spine).. Keywords: Military, History, South, Carolina, Americana, Charleston, Civil, War, Fortifications, Military, Engineering.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Letter From the Secretary of War:Transmitting in Response to Senate Resolution of the 18th of January, 1883.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Paperback / softback. New.

Printed By Gales & Seaton, 1826. First Edition. Unknown. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soiling, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to upper wrapper at spine edge); small holes at spine edges (disbound); slight wear and browning to foredges; else a fairly well-preserved document. Upper wrapper title; title continued: In the States of Mississippi and Louisiana (19th Congress, Second Session: Document Number 24). At head of title: Survey of Lands in Mississippi and Louisiana, South of the 31st Degree of Latitude. Includes communications from George Graham (commissioner of the General Land Office) and surveyor George Davis in addition to Secretary Rush's introductory letter. Dated December 26, 1826 on upper wrapper ('Read, and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands'; upper wrapper). Sold 'as is'. Rush (1780-1859), American lawyer, statesman and diplomat, son of physician Benjamin Rush and brother of physician James Rush; graduate of the College of New Jersey (i.e.… Read More

Washington DC: Blair & Rives, 1837. Wraps. Good. Disbound document. 6 pages, [1] blank. Folding map has several folds and measures approximately 37.5" x 25". Light toning to the map and text. Map is in good condition. From wikipedia: The Black River is a 125-mile-long (201 km)[4] blackwater river that empties into the eastern end of Lake Ontario on the shore of Jefferson County, New York in the United States. The origin of the name is not clear, but it may stem from the natural tannic acid that darkens the water in places. The river flows in a generally northwest direction, with its valley dividing the Adirondack Mountains on the east from the Tug Hill region to the west.

Paperback / softback. New.

1802. 8vo, pp. 8. Single folded sheet, (Imprints 3321). Some staining, o/w VG. Concerns money owed by the Marshall to the government.

Washington DC: GPO, 1882. none. Very Good. Ex. doc. / Senate, 48th Congress, 1st session, no. 93 . 183 p., [18] folded leaves of plates : facsims. ; 23 cm. disbound in paper folder

Washington, DC: 1886.. 8vo. Bound Section. 6 pp. Good with marginal tears, pulled from original binding. Scarce First Edition.

Printed By Gales & Seaton, 1826. First Edition. Unknown. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stains, wrinkling, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to extremities); small holes at spine edges (partly disbound); slight wear and browning to foredges and lower edges. 32 pages (including wrappers). Upper wrapper title; title continued: Opposite to Wheeling, to the State of Missouri. At head of title: Road From Wheeling to Missouri. Includes communications from Chief Engineer Alexander Macomb, and a few others (including the 'memoir' of J. Knight), with Barbour's introductory letter. Dated January 21, 1826 on upper wrapper ('Read, and laid upon the table'; upper wrapper). Barbour (1775-1842), Virginia-born American statesman; Governor of Virginia (1812-15); US Senator (1815-25); Secretary of War (1825-28); changed from being a Jeffersonian Democrat to a supporter of John Quincy Adams.

Printed By Gales & Seaton, 1826. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slight stains, creases, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to wrappers and extremities); slight wear to foredges and lower edges. 23 pages. Upper wrapper title. Title continued: From January 1st, 1825, to January 1st, 1826 (19th Congress, First Session: Document Number 22). List of patents in table format; dated January 3, 1826 ('Read, and ordered to lie upon the table'; upper wrapper). Clay (1777-1852), American statesman; entered politics in 1798 in Kentucky (in opposition to the sedition law); in Kentucky legislature (1803-06; 1807-09) and the US Senate (1806-07; 1831-42); elected Speaker of the House (1811; again in 1823); Secretary of State (1824-28); known for his compromising attitude on the slavery question and his support of Texas annexation and the Missouri Compromise.

Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly. Good. 1818. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Used 8vo [6]pp [title continued]..Territorie; in Obedience to a Resolution of the Senate, of the Seventeenth March, 1818. [Doc.No.] 11. November 26, 1818. Contains three large folding charts showing the strength of the militia for each state and territory. Details of the chart include: Number of Divisions, Brigades, Major Generals, Aids de Camp, Brigadier Generals, Riflemen, Colonels, Majors, Adjutants, Paymasters, Surgeons, Chaplains, Sergeants, Drummer, Fifers, Buglers, and much more. Many of these details are repeated between the branches of cavalry and Infantry. Ink annotation to tile-page reads: "Office File" Good, single sheets folded (the title-page has sustained the most damage with heavy browning and severe wear including chips to edges and much wrinkling, folding plates are in much better condition with only one plate being separated into 2 pieces and all of them having otherwise only… Read More

Washington DC: United States Congress, House of Representatives, 1858. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Removed from a bound volume. Good. 10 pages, Tabular data. Table. Disbound from a larger volume. The United States Lighthouse Board was the second agency of the US Federal Government, under the Department of Treasury, responsible for the construction and maintenance of all lighthouses and navigation aids in the United States, between 1852 and 1910. The new agency was created following complaints of the shipping industry of the previous administration of lighthouses under the Treasury's Lighthouse Establishment, which had had jurisdiction since 1791, and since 1820, been under the control of Stephen Pleasonton. The quasi-military board first met on April 28, 1851, and with its establishment, the administration of lighthouses and other aids to navigation would take their largest leap toward modernization since the inception of federal government control. In 1910, the Lighthouse Board was… Read More

Washington:: Blair & Rives, Printers,, June 6, 1836.. First edition.. disbound.. No binding; text block fine.. 8vo,. Howes C-877. 24th Congress, 1st session, Doc. No. 276.

Washington: [Government Printing Office?], 1837. First Edition. Paperback. Good. [American Indian Affairs: Tribal Expenditures] Unbound. Softcover. 126 pages. United States congressional serial set, serial set no. 303.; House document (United States. Congress. House), 24th Congress, 2nd session, no. 137. List of people receiving goods, money, or effects between October 1, 1835 and September 30, 1836, p. 84.

Washington: A & G Way, Printers, 1814. [4] pages, [8] folding leaves. The War of 1812 had not yet ended but one graph shows two contractors each had supplied 500 pounds of gunpowder (E.J. Dupont & Co. and Whelen & Rogers). Huge supplies of shoes, pistol stocks, cavalry boots, yarn, etc.; in short, all the everyday things as well as the items used for war.

Washington, D.C.: [U.S. G.P.O, 1878. Paperback. Acceptable. Rare pamphlet. 89 pages, fold out map ; 24 cm. The map is in need of restoration it has multiple splits at the creases and a marginal stain at the top edge. The map is entitled: "Dismal Swamp Canal connecting the Chesapeake Bay with Currituck, Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds and their tributary streams, by D. S. Walton, Civil Engineer, 1867." Ex. doc. (United States. Congress. House), no. 19. Dismal Swamp Canal (N.C. and Va.)

Washington, D.C., 1914. Hardcover. First Edition. 6 x 9in. 103pp. + 221 plates (133 maps, blueprints; 9 photographic reproductions of individual ship elements; 77 photographic reproductions of harbors, ships, etc.; 2 blueprints of the experimental towboats). Rebound with the original wraps in archival buckram with gilt titling. VERY GOOD. Shows two vintage archival tape re-enforcements on both margins of the title page not obstructive of text or design, the lower right margings are nominally thumbed, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text and plates are clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.