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Claims to Certain Desert Lands in Egypt. Message from the President of the United States. Transmitting a Report of the Secretary of State Forwarding Copies of the Papers Called for in Regard to the Claims of Cope Whitehouse to Certain Desert Lands in Egypt. January 4, 1906. Read, Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and Ordered to Be Printed, with Illustration

[Egypt. Whitehouse, Cope] Roosevelt, Theodore · 1906

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

[Washington, D.C.:], n.p. 1906. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. 92 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w in-text drawing. 8vo. 59th Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Document No. 104. "Cope Whitehouse was a rich New York lawyer who spent his private fortune on his amateur work as a passio...

Roosevelt's Military Record

[Roosevelt, Theodore] Boynton, Henry V. [Van Ness] · 1904

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

New York, Allied Printing, 1904. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 16 pp. Sm. 8vo. A glowing campaign piece on Teddy Roosevelt. "Colonel Roosevelt was among the very first to reach the crest of the hill, and his dashing example, his absolute fearlessness and gallant lead...

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Compliance with Law, the Report of the Surveyor-General of New Mexico, Respecting the Private Land Claim of Francisco Sandoval for the Santisima Trinidad or Rancho de Gavan Tract. January 9, 1884

Teller, H.M.; Surveyor General of New Mexico · 1884

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Washington, D.C. n.p. 1884. First edition. Removed. 13 pp. 8vo. 48th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Ex. doc. no. 43. A very good copy, thin dampstain along fore edge.

Memorial of Capt. Geo. Henry Preble, U.S. N. To the Forty-Third Congress. With an Appendix, Containing the Action of Congress and Extracts from Congratulatory Letters

Preble, George Henry · 1874

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

Boston, For private distribution," David Clapp & Son, printers, 1874. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. pp. 8vo. No. 17 of 50 copies. Acknowledgment card from Commodore Preble, Commandant Navy Yard, tipped in. A petition for promotion to rank of commodore and restoration...

The Certificate of Incorporation, and by-Laws of the Long Island Historical Society

Long Island Historical Society · 1863

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Brooklyn, Printed for the Society, 1863. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 21 pp. 8vo. A very good copy, notations on front wrapper; blind stamp from the Society on title; faint dampstain on top edge of first few leaves, mail fold. Contents clean.

Political Controversy in Arkansas. Message from the President of the United States, Relative to the Present Political Controversy in the State of Arkansas. April 24, 1874. [with] Arkansas Troubles. Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Copies of Correspondence between Persons Claiming to Be Governor of Arkansas and Himself, Relating to Troubles in That State. April 28, 1874

[Arkansas. Reconstruction] Grant, Ulysses S. · 1874

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[Washington, D.C.], [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1874. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 23 pp.; 43 pp. 8vo. 43d Congress, 1st session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. 229, including part 2. OCLC locates 6 print copies of part 1 and 1 of part 2. Very good copies...

Mr. Scott, from the Joint Select Committee to Inquire Into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States So Far As Regards the Execution of the Laws, and Safety of the Lives and Property of the Citizens of the United States, Submitted the Following Report: . .

Poland, Luke P. (Luke Potter); Scott, John · 1872

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Washington, D.C. [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1872. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 38 pp. 8vo. January 9, 1872. 42d Congress, 2d Session. Senate. Report No. 15. Election frauds in Arkansas. A very good copy with loose stitching, faint soiling on wrappers.

The Income Tax. Supreme Court of Illinois, January Term, A.D. 1868. Wm. M. Springer, Plaintiff in Error, Vs. John E. Rosette, Et Al. , Deft's in Error. Argument for Plaintiff, by Mcclernand, Broadwell & Springer

[Civil War. Income Tax. Law. Lincoln] Springer, William M. · 1868

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Springfield, Daily State Register Job Print, 1868. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 25 pp. 8vo. Presentation copy. Inscribed on front wrapper "Compl. of plaintiff." President Lincoln signed into law a temporary income tax to help finance the Civil War. William Springer,...

Statement of Detroit & Jackson Coal & Mining Co

Detroit & Jackson Coal & Mining Co · 1865

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n.p. Detroit and Jackson Coal and Mining Co. 1865. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 5 pp. 8vo. Early coal mining operations in Jackson started about 1857 but did not last past the 1880s. There are some legal cases involving lapsed leases. Scarce. Not in Streeter, F.B. M...

Speech of Hon. John M. Read, at the Regular Quarterly Meeting of the Joint Board of Directors of the United Delaware and Raritan Canal Company, Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company, and New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company Held at Trenton on Thursday, April 20, 1871

Read, John M. · 1871

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Philadelphia, Sherman & Co. printers, 1871. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 16 pp. 8vo. Speech by the long time counsel to the joint companies. A very good copy in a very good wrapper with a chip to one corner throughout.

Jefferson Territory. Letter from the Delegate Elect from the Proposed Territory of Jefferson, Accompained [Sic] by a Memorial of the Provisional Government, and the Message of the Governor Thereof, Asking the Establishment of a Territorial Organization for the Same. February 15, 1860

[Colorado. Jefferson Territory] Williams, Beverley D. and Steele, R.W. [Robert Wilbur] · 1860

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[Washington, D.C.], n.p. 1860. First edition. Modern stitched paper wrappers. 15 pp. 8vo. 36th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Mis. Doc. No. 10. Including most of present day Colorado, the territory of Jefferson as a briefly lived unrecognized political entity...

Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress : Communicating a Certified Copy of the Constitution of Kansas, Framed by the Convention Recently Assembled at Lecompton

Buchanan, James · 1858

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Washington [D.C.], Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1858. First edition. Removed. 8 pp. 8vo. Buchanan, "urged the admission of Kansas as a state, under that constitution. The president's arguments were, that the slavery question was the only one at issue in the terri...

Custom-House. Petersburg, Virginia. To Accompany Bill H.R. No. 843. February 16, 1857. Mr. E.B. Washburne, from the Committee of Commerce, Made the Following Report. The Committee on Commerce, to Whom Was Referred the Memorial of the Merchants and Citizens of Petersburg, Virginia, Asking That an Appropriation Be Made for a Portico and an Additional Story to the New Custom-House at That Place, Report: . .

Washburne, E.B. [Elihu Benjamin] · 1857

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[Washington, D.C.], n.p. 1857. First edition. Removed. 2 pp. 8vo. The second story is approved but of the portico the Treaury Department writes: "I have respectfully to say, that the vestibule and hall of the building are deemed ample for the citizens to receive and deliver th...

Illinois Contested Election - Ninth District. Memorial of L. Jay S. Turney, Contesting the Election of Hon. Samuel S. Marshall, As Representative of the Ninth Congressional District, Illinois. February 18, 1856. Referred to the Committee on Elections, and Ordered to Be Printed. 34th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Mis. Doc. No. 11

Turney, L. Jay S. [Leander Jay Sharpe Turney, 1819-1881] / · 1856

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[Washington, D.C.], n.p. 1856. First edition. Removed. 8 pp. 8vo. An important case about states' rights. Turney, who came in second in an election to Congress, argues that the states set the rules for who can run for office and that the state constitution of Illinois prohibit...

Fillmore's Political History and Position. George Law and Chauncey Shaffer's Reasons for Repudiating Fillmore and Donelson, and the Action of the Know-Nothing State Convention at Syracuse on the Resolutions Censuring Brook's Assault on Senator Sumner, &C. Speech of Hon. E.B. Morgan, of N.Y. In U.S. House of Representatives, Aug. 4, 1856

Morgan, E.B. [Edwin Barber] · 1856

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New York, Greeley & McElrath, 1856. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 16 pp. 8vo. At head of title: Tract for Americans. Pages 1-9 are a reprint of a pamphlet published by the Republican association of Washington city under title "Mr. Fillmore's political history and pos...

Lynchburg, Virginia - Port of Entry. February 16, 1857. Mr. E.B. Washburne, from the Committee on Commerce, Made the Following Report. The Committee on Commerce, to Whom Was Referred the Petition of Citizens of Lynchburg, Virginia Asking for the Establishment of a Port of Entry at That Place, Submit the Following Report. 34th Congress, 3d Session. House of Representatives. Report No. 242

Washburne, E.B. [Elihu Benjamin] · 1857

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[Washington, D.C.], n.p. 1857. First edition. Removed. 1 pp. 8vo. "If the principle in this case is recognized, many towns in the interior would have equal claims, which would give a vast expanse to our revenue system, expose it to loss, and involve a greatly increased expense...

Resolution of the Legislature of New Mexico, in Favor of Reserving for Common Use the Wood on Mountains and Lands Not Tillable, and All Salt Lakes, Springs, and Mines, and of Perpetuating the Mexican Laws Relative to Mines. April 5, 1852

[Salt. Land Use] [New Mexico] · 1852

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[Washington, D.C.], 1852. First edition. Removed. 1 pp. 8vo. Referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed. 31st Congress. 1st Session. Senate. Miscellaneous, No. 65. "Be it resolved by the Legislative Assembly of New Mexico, That the Congress of the Unit...

Speech of Mr. Smith, of Conn. On the Bill "to Admit California Into the Union, to Establish Territorial Governments for Utah and New Mexico, Making Proposals to Texas for the Establishment of the Western and Northern Boundaries

Smith, [Truman] · 1850

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[Washington, D.C.], Gideon & Co. printers, 1850. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 32 pp. 8vo. "..showing the responsiblitites of the late Administration on account of the acquisitions which were the result of our recent was with Mexico- were the result of our recent war...

President's Plan. Speech of Hon. E.G. Spaulding, of N. York, in Favor of Gen. Taylor's Plan for Admitting California and New Mexico, and Contrasting the Chicago Convention with the Proposed Nashville Convention. Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, April 4, 1850

Spaulding, E.G. [Elbridge Gerry] · 1850

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[Washington, D.C.], Gideon & Co. printers, 1850. First edition. Self wrappers. 16 pp. 8vo. "I am opposed to the extension of slavery in every form, and in all bills whereCongress assumes to legislate for the people in the territories, I think it righ inprinciple, an safest in ...

Slavery in the Territories. Speech of Hon. D. Wilmot, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Representatives, May 3, 1850. In Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the President's Message Transmitting the Constitution of California

Wilmot, D. [David] · 1850

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[Washington, D.C.], Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1850. First edition. Disbound. 8 pp. Text printed in two columns. 8vo. Wilmot's speech is in defense of the "Wilmot Proviso" and an attack upon the Compromise of 1850 for failing to include it. "It is a mockery.. t...