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184835882Washington DC: United States Senate 1848. Map. Good. Disbound wraps with an map measuring approx. 45" x 36". 16 pages of from the 30th Congress. Printed map title is dated during the 31st Congress. The folding map has several folds and creases but no noticeable tears. Very light toning. An interesting large map showing the progress of rail roads in the United States. United States Senate unknown
179328977Philadelphia: Printed by John Fenno 1793. 100pp. Folio. 13 1/2 x 8 inches. Contemporary marbled wrappers bound into 20th-century buckram gilt. Some dust-soiling. Wrappers chipped and backed on archival paper. Ink library stamp on verso of titlepage minor dampstaining and foxing. A rare and important Senate journal from the second session of the second Congress. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was passed in this session of the Senate and notice of President Washington signing it into law can be found on page 57. The second Senate also passed the Judiciary Act of 1793 further defining the structure of the judicial system of the fledgling nation. This second session of the Senate also passed legislation relating to compensation of the president and vice president the regulation of foreign coinage Indian trade and treaties and more.<br/> <br/> ESTC W20586; Evans 26333; Goodspeed 323:29. Printed by John Fenno unknown
179129115Philadelphia: John Fenno 1791. Folio. 12 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. 228pp. Contemporary sheep gilt leather label. Font joint partially split. Small ink stamp on rear pastedown. Small blindstamp on titlepage and one internal leaf.<br/> <br/> An important early Congressional document describing the actions of the Senate in late 1791 and early 1792 at the height of the Federalist / Anti-Federalist struggle.<br/> <br/> George Washington's address to Congress printed here contains an interesting note about the tax on distilled spirits. Protests to this tax would result in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. Also contains important early legislation on frontier defenses Ohio fisheries lighthouses the Mint and militias. Indexed. "First edition first issue of the rare journal containing numerous messages from Pres. Washington.official ratifications of the Bill of Rights the Presidential Succession Act debate and passage the establishment of the U.S. mint and coinage the first militia act and foundation Northwest Territory Acts." - Jenkins.<br/> <br/> Evans 24911; Jenkins 505; North American Imprints Program w020582. John Fenno unknown
189422854Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1894. First Edition. Octavo; 126pp; tissue-protected frontis engraving of Stanford. Faint wear upper corner of rfep torn text unaffected else a Near Fine copy in elaborately blind-stamped black cloth upper board titled in gold. Government Printing Office unknown
200033335New York: William Morrow / HarperCollinsPublishers 2000. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: William Morrow an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2000. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's two-toned boards in white photo-illustrated dust jacket lettered in red and gilt; xvi2238pp. Light rubbing to dust jacket margins else Very Good and sound. Signed by seven of the profiled Senators lacking only the signatures of Dianne Feinstein and Mary Landrieu. William Morrow / HarperCollinsPublishers unknown
185730058Washington DC: A.O. P. Nicholson Printer 1857. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 50 illustrated plates with first 2 in color xvi 536 pages 1. Small illustrations in text. Brown embossed cloth hardcover with title on the spine. Cloth spine and covers are chipped. Outer hinges and inner hinges are cracked. Text block secure. Light to moderate toning and scattered foxing to the contents. Inscription on the front paste down reads - "Hon S. Cameron to Recorder Office a Milledgeville Georgia newspaper." A fair copy only. <br /> <br /> From wikipedia:<br /> <br /> Simon Cameron March 8 1799 – June 26 18891 was an American businessman and politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate and served as United States Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War.<br /> <br /> A native of Maytown Pennsylvania Cameron made a fortune in railways canals and banking.2 He was elected to the United States Senate as a member of the Democratic Party in 1845. A persistent opponent of slavery Cameron briefly joined the Know Nothing Party before switching to the Republican Party in 1856. He won election to another term in the Senate in 1857 and provided pivotal support to Abraham Lincoln at the 1860 Republican National Convention.<br /> <br /> Lincoln appointed Cameron as his first Secretary of War. Cameron's wartime tenure was marked by allegations of corruption and lax management and he was demoted to Ambassador to Russia in January 1862. Cameron made a political comeback after the Civil War winning a third election to the Senate in 1867 and building the powerful Cameron machine which would dominate Pennsylvania politics for the next 70 years.<br /> <br /> Provenance for this copy comes from the Orme - Sallee House Milledgeville Georgia. A.O. P. Nicholson, Printer hardcover
183833580Washington DC: Blair & Rives printers 1838. Wraps. Good. Disbound wraps. Approx. 9" x 6". 142 pages 24 leaves with 24 illustrated plates of plants 1. Title information printed on the front of page 1. Report consists of 4 documents including meteorological scientific and geographical data. Also included in the report is an index and explanation of the 24 engravings. Contents of this report are cleanly separated between the end of document 2 page 42 and the start of document 3 page 43. <br /> <br /> Henry Perrine was a physician horticulturist United States Consul in Campeche Campeche Mexico and an enthusiast for introducing tropical plants into cultivation in the United States wikipedia. Blair & Rives, printers unknown
25108Washington: Government Printing Office 1929. Hard bound first edition in original brown cloth copy of the Bill H.R. 2667 to provide revenue to regulate commerce with foreign countries to encourage the industries of the United States to protect American labor and for other purposes as reported to the Senate September 4 1929 Senate Document No. 21 71st Congress 1st Session. 315pp including index. Manitoba Provincial Library bookplate on front pastedown and MPL stamp on front free endpaper otherwise a fine copy. 420 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg Manitoba. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1929 hardcover
18534651Washington DC: Robert Armstrong 1853. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo unpaginated. A very good clean copy in contemporary brown sheep. Spine label faded beyond legibility leather somewhat dry around the edges. Internally bright and clean. Contemporary bookplate to front paste-down. A very uncommon volume of Senate committee reports as we found just a single volume - at the Washington State Library. Robert Armstrong hardcover
1870104849London: Longmans Green Reader and Dyer 1870. 1st Edition . No Binding. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Exceptionally scarce pamphlet arguing for a variety of changes to improve the university. Brown tape to spine vertical fold some foxing to last pages and generally toned. 8vo 32pp. <br/> <br/> Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer unknown
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192925729AB1929. Düsseldorf Lindner Verlag 1929. 4°. 118 IX 53 Seiten. Umfangreich bebildert. Hardcover / Originaler Leinenband. Außergewöhnlich guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Hans Tietze - Wien als Universitätsstadt Robert Lach - Wien als Kunststadt S.Frankfurter - Die Bibliotheken Wiens August Loehr - Kunst - und Kulturhistorische Museen Hermann Michel - Naturwissenschaftliche Museen Die Umgebung Wiens als wissenschaftliches Ausflugsgebiet Richard Meister - Die philosophishce Fakultät Erwin Mehl - Leibesübungen Hans Voltelini - Die rechts- und staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät etc. etc. hardcover
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