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[Washington, DC]: [GPO], February 12, 1861. First edition. Original blind-stamped cloth with USA circlular board impressions and spine imprint of the House of Representatives, gilt stamped spine. 8vo. pp. 365. Good. Caps, corners and top edge chips to binding, spine gilt faint but readable; internally near fine, no ownership, eps starting. "The select committee...directing them to inquire into and report the facts in relation to the fraudulent abstraction of certain bonds, held by the goverment in trust for the Indian tribes...Hon. John B. Floyd, late Secretary of War...". Transcribed interviews, tables and charts. (Sabin50835)..

TN & VA: First Amendment Center, May 2002. First edition. First Reports: Vol. 2, No. 1: 02-F03. Stapled card wraps. 4to. pp. 17. As New..

MA, NJ, IL: Prentice-Hall, 2002. Illustrated by Color & b/w. First Printing and edition. Gloss pictorial boards. 4to. pp. xxx, 930. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. No marking or ownership, lightly worn covers. ISBN: 0130536288. (Oversize, flat rate options available)..

New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, (1939). First edition. Royal blue cloth, gilt print spine. Demy 8vo. pp. 126. Appendices (Texts of documents cited and Music/words to The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith. Near Fine/No jacket. Publication version of Marsh's Baccalaureate Sermon to the Boston University Class of 1939 at Symphony Hall resulting from an 18 year document study (Post WWI) (and his selection of 7) defining American Patriotism..

New York: MacMillan, 1922. Illustrated by b/w frontis and text photos, etc., 16 color maps. Later edition. (c.1911, c. 1914 New Edition). Olive cloth printed and decorated black. 12mo. pp. xviii, 539, liii (Appendix & Index). VG. Cap and corner wear, one bump, strain and nick, (ink owner). I. From the Old World to the New, II. The Birth of the Nation, III. The Nation's Life and Progress (to Wilson's Administration)..

Washington, DC: GPO, 1966. First edition. 71-246 O. Printed wraps. 8vo. pp. 231, [1]. Near Fine/Ex-Lib. Observatory stamps and rear envelope only flaws..

New York and London: MacMillan, January 1905. Edited by Andrew C. McLaughlin, et al. Stitched-wraps, unopened and uncut. 4to. pp. iv (Ads), 429-488, v-xii (Ads). VG/No jacket, as issued/Ex-Lib. (embossed stamp). Respective articles: The Policy of France toward the Mississippi Valley in the Period of Washington and Adams, Improvising a Government in Paris in July 1789, The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Materials in British Archives for American Colonial History. Documents: Some Papers of Franklin Pierce (1852-1862), II..

Washington, DC: GPO, 1908. Illustrated by facsimile folding map "Depons' Map of the Captain-Generalship of Caracas, with Guina 1807 (Norris Peters Co.). First edition. Navy cloth, gilt print spine. 8vo. pp. 550. Indices. Very Good. Two lightly bumped corners, internally near fine with overall toning. Francesco de Miranda (pp. 189-539 with Index and folding map) was one of two recipients sharing the Robert Baxter Adams Prize for 1907 [and Robertson's doctoral thesis, previously awarded the Yale historical prize in 1903]. Two volumes as The Life of Miranda were later published in 1929 (UNCP, Chapel Hill). Robertson was also founder of the Hispanic American Historical Review and contributed from 1918-53. Contents scanned and include: The Relation of the United States to Latin America by Bernard Moses, Proposals for an Indian State, 1778-1878 by Annie H. Abel, Legazpi and Philippine Colonization by James A. Robertson (1873-1939), The pacific Railroads and the Disappearance of the Frontier in… Read More

Washington, DC: GPO, 1909. First edition. Navy cloth, gilt print spine. 8vo. pp. 539. Indices. Very Good. Two lightly bumped corners, internally near fine with overall toning. Contents scanned and include: Notes Supplementary to Any Edition of Lewis and Clark by Frederick J. Teggart, American Newspapers of the 18th Century as Sources of History by William Nelson; The Wilderness Campaign: 1. Grant's Conduct by Gen. Edward P. Alexander 2. Lee's Conduct by Col. Wm. R. Livermore, 3. From our Present point of view by Maj. Eben Swift, 9th Annual Report of Public Archives: Maine, Missouri, Washington, List of journals of the councils and assemblies and the acts of the 13 original colonies in America (preserved in London)..

Washington, DC: GPO, 1965. Illustrated by Reproductions, one map. First edition. 55-733. Document No. 72, 89th Congress. Two-Staple section report. 8vo. pp. xvi, 256. Appendix, Index. Very Good. Spots of cover and fore-edge stain, and some sporadic spots internally. Highlights: Introduction by Sen. Thomas J. Dodd; nature of the war; origins of teach-in movement; comments on teach-ins from American press, U.S. Communist, Soviet, Chinese, Hanoi; Documents and sundry documents of...; "The New Left", CBS News Special Report..

New York: D. Appleton, 1846. Illustrated by frontis and b/w engravings. (c.1845). Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt printed and decorated spine. 12mo. pp. 280, [8] Ads. About very good/No jacket, as issued/In mylar protector. Several foxed spots, repaired spine, cap and corner chipping..

Austin, TX: Eakin Press, (1995). Illustrated by Peter Gawenda. Stated first (&N2) edition. Stiff wraps. 8vo. pp. 331. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Near Fine. Light wear and one thumb stain. ISBN: 1571680578..

Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, January 18, 1989. Uncorrected Page Proof edition. Blue wraps printed black. 8vo. pp. [iv], 329, [3] blank. Near Fine. Faint rear corner crease..

Gettysburg, PA: American Historical Society, 1972. Illustrated by Frederic Ray (selected by), design by Krone Art Service in color and b/w. First edition. Stapled wraps, color cover. 4to. pp. [8]. VG. Tiny edge curls, light rubbing..

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1971). Illustrated by b&w photos, reproductions and maps throughout. First printing (N) & edition. 1st book in series by D&B. Washable cloth in cloth slipcase. 8vo. pp. [xvii], [v], 328. Conclusion, Appendix, Bibliography, Indexi. Fine/No jacket, as issued/Near Fine. Trace wear to slipcase. No writing or ownership; unread copy. Prolific professor of (business) history at Hofstra University. ISBN: 0690209398..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. Illustrated by b/w tissue frontis and 10 plates in each volume. First (SD) edition. 2 volumes. Cloth backed paper covered boards, uncut. 8vo. pp. xiv, 298; 281, [1] colophon, Index. Near Fine/No jackets. Volume I has faint traces of dampstain to about one half of the pages..

New York: Peter Smith (Murray Printing Co. Wakefield, MA.), 1948. Edited by The University Faculty of Political Science of Collumbia College. Studies in History, Economics and Public Laws Volume III, Number 2. First thus edition. c.1893. taupe cloth printed paper topboard label. 8vo. pp. 167. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Trace cap/corner wear. Renoun "Imperial School" historian..

Chicago: Argonaut Publishers, 1965. First edition. Blue cloth. 8vo. pp. 236. Near Fine..

Washington, DC: Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense (U.S. Government Printing Office), Decembert 1961. Illustrated by two color illustrations. First edition. H-6, O-621904. Stapled yellow wraps. 12mo. pp. 47. Very Good. Faint water stain to front cover, tiny top corner curls to first several pages. Literally an unread copy..

New York: George H. Doran, (1916). [First thus separate] edition. c.1914-6 previously appearing in Wheeler Syndicate and Metropolitan Magazine Co. newspaper articles and speeches. Golden brown cloth. 8vo. pp. xiv, 15-414. Very Good+/No jacket. Minor soil and fading. 3 February and 24 April 1916 author notes, Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic, 11 articles and conclusion, appendix with 4 items: Murder on the High Seas; Americanism; Letter in Reply to Speak at a Mass Meeting on behalf of the Armenians; Record on Preparedness..