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[004973] . CONSTITUTIONAL LAW; Comprising the Declaration of Independence.... Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1820. Size: Approx. 4 1/4" x 7 1/4". 3/4 Calf. Law. Good Constitutional Law: Comprising the Declaration of Independence; The Articles of Confederation; The Constitution of the United States; And the Constitutions of the Several States Composing the Union, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Mississippi, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, Maine. 409 pp. including Appendix with Amendments to the Constitution of South Carolina 1808; Amendment to the Constitution of Georgia and Amendments to the Constitution of New Hampshire. 3/4 brown calf on spine and corners. Marbled boards. Gilt lettering on spine. The "C" and "N" (first and last letters to Constitution) missing from spine title. Front cover detached. Rubbing/scuffing to covers. Overall covers are Good to Good-. Griswold College bookplate on front endpaper, numbers on free endpaper and Index page. Blank page stamped "Deaccessioned". Previous owner's name in small letters at top edge of title page. Foxing to endpapers amd mildly in text. Otherwise text is tight and Very Good. Scarce. $2,500.00

[004912] . FREEDMEN'S BUREAU. 1866. ill. Tables. 1866. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Disbound. American History. Very Good 39th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 70. Letter from the Secretary of War in Answer to A resolution of the House of March 8, transmitting a report, by the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, of all orders issued by him or any assistant commissioner. 403 pp. Includes 8 "papers": #1. Files of orders and circulars of assistant commissioners; #2. Files of Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, War Department; #3. Report of tour of inspection of Kentucky, by Mr. P.Bonesteel; #4. Report of bureau affairs in Edgefield district, South Carolina; #5. Report of General Fisk, relative to Tennessee and Kentucky, and bill relative to negro testimony; #6. Report of General Sprague, relative to Arkansas; #7. Letter of General Tillson, Georgia, concerning Sea Island; and #8. Reports of sub-assistants of affairs in Virginia. Numerous tables, including: 4 page detailed table of medical supplies for refugees and freedmen; Table listing all farms and town lots restored with their estimated value; Table with names of medical officers, hospitals, sick and wounded; and Financial statements of money received and disbursed in the Bureau. Disbound but intact. First page with small blemish/spot at bottom. Partial stamp from House of Representatives along top page ends. Otherwise document is clean and Very Good. Famous Americans in document: Andrew Johnson, President of the United States; Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War; Abraham Lincoln; E. Whittlesey, Colonel and Assistant Commissioner; Fred H. Beecher, Liet. and Acting Assistant Adjutant General; O.O. Howard, Major General, Commissioner- (Oliver Otis Howard, November 8, 1830-October 26, 1909, was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War); Thomas W Conway, Ass't Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, &c.; J.S. Fullerton, Brevet Brigadier General Volunteers; Max Woodhull, Colonel,Assistant Adjutant-General; Clinton B. Fisk. Brigadier General, Assistant Commissioner; Davis Tillson, Brig. Gen. Vols. and A.A. Comm'r; Charles Mundee, Assistant Adjutant General; R. Saxton, Brevet Major General, Assistant Commissioner; Joseph K. Barnes, M.D. (July 21, 1817 – April 5, 1883) was an American physician and the Surgeon General of the United States Army during and after the American Civil War; and Wager Swayne (November 10, 1834-December 18, 1902) was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who received America's highest military decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Siege of Corinth. $200.00

[003518] . SCIENCE, July 25, 1884. Volume IV. No. 77. ill. Etchings, Map. Cambridge: The Science Company, 1884. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good Articles by or about Famous Americans: FREDERICK SCHWATKA: The Implements of the Igloo with 12 illustrations; COUES'S Key to North-American Birds; 2 articles regarding GREELY Expedition, one with "two despatches from Lieut. Greely" including a map showing "points visited by Greely's party"; and EUGENE A. SMITH: Cretaceous phosphates in Alabama. Other articles include:Wiedemann's Electricity and The Organization for an International Scientific Association by Charles S. Minot. Also included the Index of Special Articles for SCIENCE, Volume III, January-June 1884 . covers detached. Slightly soiled around edges. Back cover's top corner creased. Tiny chipping around side/bottom edges. Vertical crease down the middle, going through "bulletin"-very minor. Overall covers are Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+ $50.00

[003167] . SCIENCE, May 8, 1885. Volume V. No. 118. ill. Portraits, Engravings, Map,. Cambridge: The Science Company, 1885. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/4". Paper Wraps. Science. Good to Good- Articles by Famous Americans: S. NEWCOMB "Mortality experience of the Connecticut mutual life-insurance Co."; and in Letters to the Editor ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL "The Wisconsin Bill relating to the instruction of deaf-mutes"; and EUGENE A. SMITH " Tertiary phosphates in Albama". Other articles: "Composite Portraits of Members of the National Academy of Sciences" with a full page of 4 portraits protected by a tissue guard; " American Flash Language in 1798" with Tufts's glossary, 1793-98; "Walking and Running" with 5 illustrations; and under Notes and News, a paragraph on the "earlier floods of the lower Mississippi" with a map. Also "Naval architecture in England, and "Recent British locomotives". Paper covers lightly soiled with chipping around edges. ex-mus. stamp on front cover. Top right corner of front cover missing,and another piece of top border. Bottom edge piece folded up and corner missing. Tearing at spine. Covers still intact. Overall covers are Good-. First 3 pages' upper corners missing, 1 1/2"x1/2", not on text. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. $40.00

[003485] Goodrich, Calvin. The GENUS GYROTOMA. . ill. Plates. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan, 1924. Paper Wraps. Zoology. Good Geological Survey of Alabama. Museum Paper No.7. Alabam Museum of Natural History. Miscellanous Publications No. 12. 33 pages. 2 Plates. ex.mus. stamp on front cover and title page. mildly creased left corner, otherwise Good+. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $12.50

[003132] Moore, H.F.. Condition and Extent of the Natural Oyster Beds and Barren Bottoms of Mississippi South, Alabama. ill. Fold Out Map, Tables, Plates. Washington: Government Printing Bureau, 1913. Stiff Wraps. Oysters. Good Bureau of Fisheries Document No. 769. ex-mus. stamp and numbers on front cover. some tearing at upper spine paper.Overall exterior is Good or better. 60 pp. with 4 plates and large foldout map. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. ex-mus. stamp on title page. $8.50

[004007] Senate. PETITION OF ALBIN MICHEL, IN BEHALF OF THE HEIRS OF MADAME DE LUSSER,PRAYING THE CONFIRMATION OF A GRANT OF LAND IN MOBILE, IN THE STATE OF ALABAMA.. 1840. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Disbound. Alabama. Very Good to Very Good+ Jan. 9, 1840. 26th Congress, 1st Session. Some of the document in French with translation. 37 page document proving claim to the land. Another "branch of the lineal heirs of the said de Lusser"... MIGUEL ESLAVA (Don Miguel de Siderlo ESLAVA was born in the city of Mobile on May 24, 1797. He was the son of Don Miguel ESLAVA, who has been Royal Governor under the Spanish crown). Disbound but intact. Very Good to Very Good+. $45.00

[004654] Thomas, Cyrus. CATALOGUE OF PREHISTORIC WORKS EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. ill. Plates, Maps. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/2". Paper Wraps. Ethnology. Covers Poor. Interior Good+ Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology: J.W. Powell, Director. Signed on front cover "With Compliments of the Author". "Special efforts were made to locate definitely all ancient works, mounds, graves, pictographs, etc., including those to which only imcomplete and casual reference had been made by earlier travelers and writers. All the material thus obtained has been incorporated in the present volume." State by State, County by County list of "finds" for those states east of the Rocky Mountains. 16 states with Archeologic Maps. They are: Alabama; Arkansas (2-one of the state and another of Poinsett County, Arkansas); Florida (2-one of the state and another of Le Baron's map of Putnam, Volusia and Orange Counties, Florida); Georgia; Kentucky and Tennessee; Michigan; Missouri; New York; North Carolina; Ohio (2-one of the state and another of Butler County, Ohio); and Wisconsin (2-one of the state and another of Crawford County, Wisconsin). Includes a large foldout map, 15"x17" of the Distribution of Mounds in Eastern United States. 246 pp. String-tied. Missing back cover. Front cover detached and missing most of bottom half. Soiled. ex.mus. numbers. Cover is Poor. Top edges uncut. Side and bottom page edges untrimmed. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good. Scarce. $175.00