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Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, Transmitting a Report Prepared in Obedience to the Act Regulating and Fix the Compensation of Clerks, Etc. January 9, 1810. Ordered to Lie on the Table

United States. Navy Dept. Hamilton, Paul · 1810

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Washington, D. C. A. &. G. Way, Printers, 1810. First edition. Removed. [4pp]. 8vo. Consists of covering letter, addressed to the Speaker of the House and dated January 5th, 1810, and two exhibits, which give the names of clerks and their salaries in the office of the Secretar...

Joint Resolutions Respecting Our Foreign Relations. December 11, 1809. Received from the Senate, and Read the First and Second Time, and Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Wednesday Next

United States Congress · 1809

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Washington, D. C. A. &. G. Way, Printers, 1809. First edition. Removed. 4 pp. 8vo. "Resolved .. that the expressions contained in the official letter of Francis J. Jackson, minister plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty .. dated the 23d day of October, 1809 .. were highly i...

Report of the Committee of Claims, on the Petition of John Murray. December 14th, 1809. Referred to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday Next

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Claims · 1809

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Washington, D. C. Printed by R. C. Weightman, 1809. First edition. Removed. 6 pp. 8vo. OCLC shows two copies (UVA and the U.S. Naval Library). Shaw & Shoemaker 19046. A very good+ copy.

Report of the Committee of Claims, on the Petition of Jared Shattuck, Made Seventeenth February, 1809. December 28th, 1809. Accompanying a Bill for the Relief of Jared Shattuck, Presented This Day

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Claims · 1809

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Washington, D. C. Printed by Roger C. Weightman, 1809. First edition. Removed. 4 pp. 8vo. With Madison's recommendation, Congress paid the claims of this Danish citizen whose ship was taken. OCLC shows two copies (UVA and the U.S. Naval Library). Shaw & Shoemaker 19045. A very...

Mr. Van Horn's Motions, Respecting the Commercial Arrangements of the United States. December 7, 1809. Ordered to Lie on the Table

Van Horn, [Archibald] · 1809

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Washington, D. C. A. &. G. Way, Printers, 1809. First edition. Removed. [4 pp]. 8vo. Van Horn (Republican congressman from Maryland) proposed that only ships owned and navigated by Americans be allowed to carry goods grown, produced, and manufactured in the United States as we...

Report of the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, to Whom Was Referred, on the Third Ultimo, the Petition of Philip Nicklin and Robert Eaglesfield Griffith, Trading Under the Firm of Nicklin and Griffith, Presented the Fifth February, 1805. January 8, 1806, Read, and Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday Next

United States. Congress. House. Committee of Commerce and Manufactures · 1806

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Washington, D. C. A. &. G. Way, Printers, 1806. First edition. Removed. 12 pp. 8vo. Shaw & Shoemaker 11712. A very good copy with inked page numbers, marginalia (editing remarks) and scattered soiling.

Side Lights on the Missouri Compromises

Hodder, Frank Heywood · 1909

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n.p. American Historical Association, 1909. Removed. [151-161 pp.]. 8vo. Disbound else about very good with three small holes along the inner margin.

Report of General John J. Pershing, U.S. A. Commander-in-Chief American Expeditionary Forces. Cabled to the Secretary of War, November 20, 1918. Corrected January 16, 1919

Pershing, John J. · 1919

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[Washington, D. C.], A.G. Printing Department, General Headquarters, 1919. First edition. Stiff stapled paper wrappers. 25 pp. 12mo. Lacking the hard to find two separate maps. A very good copy.

A Sermon, Delivered at the Installation of the Rev. Andrew Bigelow, to the Pastoral Care of the Church in Medford, July 9, 1823. By Aaron Bancroft, D.D. Pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Worcester

Bancroft, Aaron · 1823

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Boston, John B. Russell, Printer, 1823. First edition. Removed. 28 pp. 8vo. Inscription on title page trimmed. Bigelow (1795-1887) was the fourth minister of the church. Differences had been brewing under the prior minister, David Osgood; and Aaron Bancroft (1755-1839), who wa...

An Account of the Progress in Botany for the Years 1887, 1888, by F.H. Knowlton. From the Smithsonian Report for 1888 (754)

Knowlton, F. H. · 1890

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Washington, D. C. Government Printing Office, 1890. Offprint. Stitched paper wrappers. [475- 496 pp]. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to D. White, most likely David White, a paleontologist. Contains inked corrections. Frank Hall Knowlton was Ass't curator of the National Museum a...

How Thoughts, Theories, Facts, Patriotism and Poetry Appeal to the People of the United States on the Necessity of Attempting, by Adopting a Free Ship Policy and Favorable Legislation, to Revive the Shipping Interests of Their Country, Compiled by J. Ernest Miller, and by Him Made the Subjects of a Speech, Delivered by Him at the Regular Monthly Meeting, at the Rooms of the Chamber of Commerce of the City of New York, January 4, 1883

Miller, J. Ernest, compiler · 1883

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New York, Woeltje & Cutting, Printers, 1883. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 8 pp. 8vo. Argues for the revival of American shipping via a free ship policy as opposed to subsidies or duties; a continuation of Miller's Views and Statements from the meeting a month earlie...

Jordan, Marsh & Co. 's Fall Catalogue for 1881. Boston, Mass

Jordan, Marsh and Company · 1881

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Boston, Press of Wright & Potter Printing Co. 1881. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. 80 pp. 8vo. Reports an explosive growth in the mail order business in the preface to the catalogue: "A single glance at this method of making purchases is enough to show the convenience,...

The Monroe Doctrine. Paper by Edward Everett. Letter of John Quincy Adams. Extract from Speech of Geo. Canning (Loyal Publication Society No. 34)

Everett, Edward; John Quincy Adams and George Canning · 1863

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New York, Wm. C. Bryant & Co. Printers, 1863. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 17 pp. 8vo. Everett's paper reprinted from the New York Ledger; John Quincy Adams' letter on the Monroe Doctrine, dated Aug. 11, 1837, reprinted from the Providence Journal; and "The balance ...

A Critical Review of the Orthography of Dr. Webster's Series of Books for Systematick Instruction in the English Language; Including His Former Spelling-Book, and the Elementary Spelling-Book, Compiled by Aaron Ely; and Published Under the Name of Noah Webster, LL. D.

Cobb, Lyman · 1831

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New York, Collins & Hannay, 1831. First edition. Stitched. 56 pp. 8vo. Lyman Cobb (1800-1864) "was author of numerous texts, chiefly in spelling, reading, and arithmetic, millions of copies of which are said to have been sold. His spelling-books created the greatest stir. The ...

A Letter from Governor Reeder on the Approaching Election of President and the Candidates. New York City, September 18, 1856

Reeder, Andrew H. · 1856

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New York, Young Men's Fremont and Dayton Central Union; John W. Oliver, Printer, 1856. First edition. Removed. 4 pp. 8vo. In this piece of campaign literature former Gov. Andrew Horatio Reeder (of the Kansas territory and once a Democrat) declares his belief that the people of...

Grand Mass Meeting at the Cooper Institute. Nomination of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant to the Presidency. Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1867

(Grant, Ulysses S.). New York Citizens · 1867

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New York, Printed by Order of the Executive Committee, George F. Nesbitt & Co. Printers, 1867. First edition. Stitched. 40 pp. 8vo. They were all there, Astor to Vanderbilt, to give the Republican nomination to Grant. Title paged foxed at the edges, dampstain to upper front co...

Speech of Hon. Erastus Brooks, in Senate, April 6, 1857. Upon the Trinity Church Bill

Brooks, Erastus · 1857

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Albany, Weed, Parsons & Company, Printers, 1857. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 44 pp. 8vo. OCLC shows 9 copies. Sabin 8346. A very good clean crisp copy, small chips to front wrapper and a few tine tears to first few leaves .

Proceedings in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the Presentation of the Sword of Washington and the Staff of Franklin, February 7, 1843

United States. Congress (27th, 3rd session). House of Representatives. Adams, John Quincy · 1843

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Washington, D. C. Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1843. First edition. Removed. 15 pp. 8vo. Includes speeches by Rep. George W. Summers, Rep. John Quincy Adams, and Sen. William S. Archer. Sabin 65776. Inked numeral to title, light scattered foxing, mail fold, still a very good c...

Protection and Free Trade. The Question Stated and Considered

Greeley, Horace · 1844

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New York, Greeley & McElrath, 1844. First edition. Stitched. 16 pp. 8vo. An impassioned discussion by Greeley. "..the apparent individual advantage is often to be pursued by a course directly adverse to the general welfare. We know that Free Trade asserts the contrary of this,...

The Future. A Poem, Delivered Before the Association of the Alumni of Washington College, in Christ Church, Hartford, August 3, 1842

Nichols, Joseph H. · 1842

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New Haven, Hitchcock & Stafford, Printers, 1842. First edition. Removed. 16 pp. 8vo. Sabin 55207. A very good lightly soiled copy .