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Dropshot: The United States plan for war with the Soviet Union in 1957

UNITED STATES, General Land Office - C ROESER, Principal Draughtsman, GLO G L OBiblio.com

Arkansas

187936107Washington D.C.: General Land Office printed in New York by Julius Bien lithographer 1879. Color-lithographed map. A very detailed colour-coded map of Arkansas showing towns rivers roads railroads among other landmarks. The General Land Office was founded in 1812 as an independent government agency responsible for the surveying and disposition of land in the public domain. Prior to the Civil War much of the attention of the GLO was fixed on the settlement of such land east of the Mississippi which had resulted from military bounties and cessations by the original thirteen states. The end of the Civil War the Homestead Act the completion of the Trans-Continental Railroad and the military campaigns against Native Americans in the West with resulting treaties that "transferred" land ownership to the United States together engendered an incredible increase in westward settlement and expansion. Newly-admitted states and newly-created territories west of the Mississippi were primed for settlement. Between 1866 and 1876 the GLO surveyed over 200000000 acres of land in the public domain for settlement in New Mexico Idaho Dakota Nebraska Montana Colorado Wyoming and elsewhere. As the official surveyors of these remote areas and with access to military information the maps of the General Land Office were far and away the most accurate and detailed of the western states and territories published to that time. Indeed these large-scale official maps became the basis for future maps of those regions by commercial cartographers. In 1876 the GLO headed by S.S. Burdett published an atlas containing 18 maps on 19 sheets California being on two sheets showing the regions of the United States with newly surveyed and plotted public lands. Although the GLO had issued individual maps of the United States to accompany their annual report in 1866 and 1868 the 1876 Geographical and Political Atlas of the States and Territories sometimes referred to as The Centennial Atlas was the first atlas to be published by the department. The incredible growth of settlement in the west coupled with new exploration and surveying in the short time following the 1876 atlas engendered a second atlas to be published by the General Land Office between 1878 and 1879 i.e. where the present example is from. Like the Centennial Atlas the maps were composed by the chief draughtsman in the GLO Charles Roeser Jr. The maps were done on a large scale and are consequently very detailed. Chromolithographed by Julius Bien each map is colour coded to clearly depict land plotted for settlement the locations of the general land offices Indian territories county divisions towns rivers roads railroads etc. Furthermore like The Centennial Atlas the Atlas of the States and Territories over which Land Surveys have been Extended was produced for official purposes and distributed to members of Congress government agencies each land office the post office the railroads and other large entities and was not available for public distribution. The limited distribution of this atlas coupled with its large size accounts for its great rarity today; very few copies are known to be in private hands and no copies were in the famed collections of Rumsey Streeter or Graff. Phillips Atlases 1405. General Land Office [printed in New York by Julius Bien, lithographer] unknown

Donald Heald Rare Books · États-Unis1 000,00 $US≈ 846,10 €

UNITED STATES, General Land Office - C ROESER, Principal Draughtsman, GLO G L OBiblio.com

Kansas

187936091Washington D.C.: General Land Office printed in New York by Julius Bien lithographer 1879. Color-lithographed map. A very detailed colour-coded map of Kansas showing towns rivers roads railroads among other landmarks. The General Land Office was founded in 1812 as an independent government agency responsible for the surveying and disposition of land in the public domain. Prior to the Civil War much of the attention of the GLO was fixed on the settlement of such land east of the Mississippi which had resulted from military bounties and cessations by the original thirteen states. The end of the Civil War the Homestead Act the completion of the Trans-Continental Railroad and the military campaigns against Native Americans in the West with resulting treaties that "transferred" land ownership to the United States together engendered an incredible increase in westward settlement and expansion. Newly-admitted states and newly-created territories west of the Mississippi were primed for settlement. Between 1866 and 1876 the GLO surveyed over 200000000 acres of land in the public domain for settlement in New Mexico Idaho Dakota Nebraska Montana Colorado Wyoming and elsewhere. As the official surveyors of these remote areas and with access to military information the maps of the General Land Office were far and away the most accurate and detailed of the western states and territories published to that time. Indeed these large-scale official maps became the basis for future maps of those regions by commercial cartographers. In 1876 the GLO headed by S.S. Burdett published an atlas containing 18 maps on 19 sheets California being on two sheets showing the regions of the United States with newly surveyed and plotted public lands. Although the GLO had issued individual maps of the United States to accompany their annual report in 1866 and 1868 the 1876 Geographical and Political Atlas of the States and Territories sometimes referred to as The Centennial Atlas was the first atlas to be published by the department. The incredible growth of settlement in the west coupled with new exploration and surveying in the short time following the 1876 atlas engendered a second atlas to be published by the General Land Office between 1878 and 1879 i.e. where the present example is from. Like the Centennial Atlas the maps were composed by the chief draughtsman in the GLO Charles Roeser Jr. The maps were done on a large scale and are consequently very detailed. Chromolithographed by Julius Bien each map is colour coded to clearly depict land plotted for settlement the locations of the general land offices Indian territories county divisions towns rivers roads railroads etc. Furthermore like The Centennial Atlas the Atlas of the States and Territories over which Land Surveys have been Extended was produced for official purposes and distributed to members of Congress government agencies each land office the post office the railroads and other large entities and was not available for public distribution. The limited distribution of this atlas coupled with its large size accounts for its great rarity today; very few copies are known to be in private hands and no copies were in the famed collections of Rumsey Streeter or Graff. Phillips Atlases 1405. General Land Office [printed in New York by Julius Bien, lithographer] unknown

Donald Heald Rare Books · États-Unis1 000,00 $US≈ 846,10 €

United States, Department of the Army, HeadquartersBiblio.com

Nuclear Play Calculator; Department of the Army Field Manual FM 105-6-2

196483699Washington DC: Department of the Army Headquarters 1964. Presumed First Edition First printing. Three hole punched with metal fasteners. Fair. Format is approximately 9 inches by 11 inches. 6 pages plus many tabs with one or more pages per tabbed section. Rare surviving original copy. Ink notation on front cover. Pages 1/2 is ahead of page 'i' The contents include: Introduction including Instructions for the use of the nuclear play calculator Strike Assessment Procedures including sections for cannons free rockets missiles air delivered weapons atomic demolition munitions and new weapons; Damage Determination ReferencesSample Problem Strike Assessment and Nuclear Play Calculator Aids in envelope. The Aids are present. This manual includes tabbed sections on Cannons Rockets Missiles Air-delivered weapons Atomic Demolition Munitions and then by yield from 0.5 KT through 5 MT. The Tab for I KT is mislabeled 1 MT. This manual provides guidance on procedures and techniques for nuclear play during tactical exercises. This manual provides the necessary aids for the Aggressor to determine the damage to United States and Allied forces from nuclear strikes. The weapons systems in this manual are based on material contained in the Handbook on Aggressor Military Forces FM 30-102. Aids envelop includes 8 plastic sheets of horizontal dispersion templates for cannons free rockets and Guided missiles and air delivered weapons and Damage circle templates for 1:50000 and 1:25000. The nuclear play calculator is a device for applying performance probabilities to nuclear delivery systems. The horizontal dispersion template is an aid used to determine the actual ground zero of a nuclear weapon. The damage circle template is an aid used in conjunction with the damage letters to evaluate the damage to personnel and equipment. The target element table describes target categories and the damage to be expected within each letter damage circle. The Damage circle radii tables are a series of tables showing the damage radii based on the height of burst and the weapon yield. This manual reflects the state-of-the-art the state of knowledge the state of training and the state-of-tactical nuclear weapons employment during the height of the cold war after the Cuban Missile Crisis and before the focus of the Army shifted to ground combat in Vietnam. Department of the Army, Headquarters unknown

Ground Zero Books · États-Unis1 000,00 $US≈ 846,10 €

United States, Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the ConstitutionBiblio.com

Voting Rights Act: Section 5 of the Act--History Scope and Purpose; Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives One Hundred Ninth Congress First Session October 25 2005

200676533Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2006. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. Serial No. 109-79. Two volumes. Volume I v 1 1684 6 pages Volume II v 1 1685-3375 pages. During this hearing Representative John Lewis of Georgia stated "The Voting Rights Act helped expand our democracy and open up our democracy to elect hundreds of thousands and millions of our citizens who had been kept out let them in. The Voting Rights Act was needed then and it is needed now. The purpose of section 5 is very unique and very important. It prevents discriminatory plans from being enacted in the first place. It put the burden on the judiciary to show that the plan does not discriminate against minority voters. Congress Lewis continued "Prior to section 5 the burden was on the minority voters to challenge the voting practice; and every section was good at coming up with different procedures that had the same result discrimination. Anita Earls' testimony talks in some detail about the recent example how this is still happening. The difference is that we have section 5 to prevent these practices from harming minority voters. Many people like the court said that we have come a long ways; and again today I would say that we've come a distance. We've come a long way and that is true. We're not the same Nation that we were 40 years ago but it's clear today that we have not come far enough. Section 5 is still needed. Today section 5 prevents discrimination and redistricting and changes that move voting locations out of minority neighborhoods into less accessible areas. These are issues that are different from the fight to register to vote but they are no less fundamental." U. S. Government Printing Office paperback

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Whipple JosephABAA

Autograph Letter Signed Portsmouth July 10 1789 to John Langdon New York City

27983folio two pages of a four page bi-folium some splits along folds remains of sealing wax on integral address leaf docketed "Jo Whipples Letter." In very good clean and legible condition. Joseph Whipple collector of customs at Portsmouth brother of General William Whipple 1730 - 1785 revolutionary War General and Signer from New Hampshire writes to John Langdon 1741 - 1819 Senator and first President pro-tem of the Senate thanking Langdon for his help and influence in obtaining a post in the new government and comments upon the recent establishment of the Federal court and judicial system. Langdon a Portsmouth native was the right person to ask as he was also a friend of the President George Washington. "Dear Sir I have the Honour this moment to receive your favour of the 5th & am much obliged by your kind assurances of attention to my business and also for having seasonably lodged my name with the President - I should have wrote now to him agreeably to your intimation but am discouraged from the consideration of his having no personal knowledge of me and that it might on that account appear and interested application which might operate to my disadvantage - and I conceive also that your influence with the President on which I have rested my expectation is such as I need wish no other. - But if you conceive that it would be of use to hand my name with your recommendation to Mr. Vice President to Mr. Morris Mr. R H Lee Mr. Dalton your Colleagues or others as you may think proper I should consider myself further & greatly obliged - but I think your interest requires no aid - as it will of course be represented by you that I am in the office of Colltr. - To some of the names that I have mentioned I am known - others of them were formerly either officially connected or intimately acquainted with my Brother on which account I should have applyd to them for their influence - I imagine also that all appointments will be completed tin a few days if not by this. - You will hear that the Judiciary bill is not relishd this way I have not seen it but think that the plan of one Judge to the District Court would be an objectionable one to most people in the Northern states - and the joining the Prov of Maine to N. H. districts no less so to N. H. - However the Acts may be finishd I hope & trust they will terminate in a system that will insure Peace and a happy Government." John Langdon brother of Woodbury Langdon was a merchant Delegate and Senator from New Hampshire. He was active and prominent supporter of the revolutionary movement member of the Continental Congress 1775-76 participated in the Battle of Bennington and commanded a company at Saratoga and in Rhode Island. Member of the State senate 1784 President of New Hampshire 1785 1788; again a member of the Continental Congress 1787 delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention in 1787; member of the state ratifying convention elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4 1789 until March 3 1801. He was elected the first President pro tempore of the Senate on April 6 1789 in order that the Senate might organize to count the electoral vote for President and Vice President of the United States. American National Biography vol. 13 pp.138-139 Dictionary of American Biography vol. 5 pt. 2 pp. 587-588 books

Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC · États-Unis1 000,00 $US≈ 846,10 €

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