[Steamboats, Railroads, Northwest Coast, Texas, Indians ] Message Of The President Of The United States To The Two Houses Of Congress, At The Commencement Of The Third Session Of The Twenty-Fifth Congress. December 4, 1838. Doc. No. 2. 25th Congress, 3

by Van Buren, Martin & others

1st edition.

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Book description: Washington, , 1838. . 1st edition. . Orig. 3/4 gilt calf & marble bds, gilt lettered leather spine labels. . Several pages browned, overall text quite clean & nice, binding well-preserved. A v. nice tight copy. VG. V. thick 8vo. Immensely thick volume of nearly 1,100pp. Two separate documents bound together in volume labelled "Miscellaneous Pamphlets." Includes 22pp. Message of President Van Buren dated December 3 followed by many separate treaties & correspondence, all part of Doc 2. These include a treaty between U.S. & Peru-Bolivia, 3 letters to & from the Texas Republic on boundary & possible annexation issues, a treaty with the King of Greece, 38pp. of diplomatic correspondence with Russia on northwest coast trade issues, several pages correspondence to Sandwich Islands discussing brig "Loriot" bound from Sandwich Islands to U.S. northwest coast being boarded by armed boats from a Russian brig, Report of Secretary of War discusses in part the Cherokees, Seminoles, Creeks, western frontier, western forts, incl. Fort Gibson & those along Missouri River & Illinois River, several pages on troops of U.S. army under Generals Scott & Taylor fighting Seminole War in Florida, 2 fldg. charts on organization of U.S. Army, several pages on U.S. Marines, 2 fldg. charts showing all eastern & western forts with specifics, numerous tables, specifics on Cumberland Road, specifics on river & harbor improvements of the Hudson River, Mississippi River, St. Louis, appropriations for West Point, 20pp. of tables from Ordinance Department showing appropriations for all types of weapons, cannons, artillery, sabres, saddles, much more, 94pp. Report from Commissioner of Indian Affairs with large fldg. chart, much more. Letter of Sec. Treasury on Steam-Engines (472pp.) on steamboats, locomotives, & steam engines in general, many tables listing individually named steamboats, discussion of steamboat boiler explosions & other steamboat recent disasters, approximately 60 separate tables on steamboats, approximately 20 on railroads using steam engines, approx. 20 on mills & factories making steam engines used for other purposes. Plus extensive text. Last page has diagram of section of boilers of steamboat "New England.

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