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[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

[004651] House of Representatives. SURVEY OF ARKANSAS RIVER. ill. Tables. 1870. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 9". Disbound. Arkansas. Very Good+ Letter from The Secretary of War in Answer to A resolution of the House of May 12, 1870, transmitting a copy of a report of S. T. Abert on the survey of the Arkansas River. 33 pp. Covers: Report of the Arkansas River; Description of the Physical Character of the Indian Territory; Indians; Physical Description of the River Valley in the State of Arkansas; Tributaries; Wood, Timber, and Soil of the Indian Territory; Geology of the Arkansas Valley; Wood, Timber, and Soil of Arkansas; Navigation; Trade and Petit Jean Island. Tables of water levels and tables showing discharges with observed and computed velocities complete with equations. Famous Americans in document: Wm. W. Belknap, Secretary of War; A.A. Humphreys, Brigadier General and Chief of Engineers; J. N. Macomb, Colonel of Engineers, Brevet Colonel U.S.A.; and S.T. Abert, Assistant Engineer in charge of survey. Disbound but intact. Clean, tight and in Very Good to Very Good+ condition. The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast, and traverses the states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. $50.00

[003856] House of Representatives. FOURTH ARKANSAS MOUNTED INFANTRY. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 9". Disbound. Arkansas. Very Good+ Letter from The Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting A copy of a Communication from the Secretary of War submitting an Estimate of Appropriation for the Investigation Relating to the Relief of the Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry. Elihu Root, Secretary of War. 2 pp.(one page, front & back). 56th Congress, 1st Session. Document No.311. 3 small tears at spine from where disbound, otherwise Very Good+. $10.00

[004482] Senate. Report on the Mississippi River Floods. . Washington: Goverment Printing Office, 1898. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Leather. Mississippi River. Good By the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Pursuant to Senate Resolution No. 76. Fifty-Fifth Congress, First Session. 55th Congress 3d Session. Senate. Report No. 1433. First question posed by the Committee: "What are the causes of the disastrous floods in the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and how can such floods be prevented or diminished? Issues rised: Causes of the Floods; Levees; Testimonies with questions and answers regarding conditions of the Mississippi River's water flow, overflows,etc.; Testimonies from different localities along the river. Numerous foldouts, some in color. Foldouts include: Map of Reservoir and Watersheds of Minnesota; Plans for Construction of 12 ft. Brush; Colored Map of Overflowed Lands of the Mississippi River between St. Paul and the Mouth of the Missouri River; Mean Section 1894 of Arkansas River to Vicksburg; (Colored) Plan for Improving Rivers, Edwin Bell, St. Paul, MN; Numerous foldouts of "Hydrograph 0f Gauges"; (Colored) Map Louisiana and a Part of Arkansas Showing Levee Districts and Principal Levee Lines to Accompany Report of the Board of State Engineers; Hydrograph of the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio Rivers; Caving Banks from Cairo to Donaldsonville from 1877-83 to 1892; Lower Point Pleasant Bar; and Table with Estimated yardage and cost of levees built. 522 pp.including Index. Leather with raised bands with three colors of leather on spine. Red: Senate Report. Vol.2. Green: No. 1433. Mississippi River Flood. Black: 55th Congress. 3d Session. 1898-99. Some scuffing-mainly to top of spine. Covers are Good or better. Discoloring to endpapers. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good +. $85.00

[003855] Smith, Richard M.. THE ATLAS OF ARKANSAS. ill. Maps, Graphs. Fayetteville, Arkansas: Univ of Arkansas Press, 1989. Size: Approx. 8 1/2 " x 11". Green Cloth. Arkansas. Very Good+ / Very Good+. ISBN: 1557280487. Comprehensive reference providing accurate and current information about the state. Features over 100 color, computer-generated maps and charts illustrating Agriculture, Climate & Weather, Economy/Finance, Education, Government/Politics, Health, History, Location, Manufacturing, Minerals/Energy, Natural Setting, Population, Socio-Economics, Transportation, and Tourism/Recreation. 226pp. including Index. Slight fading to top/bottom edges of covers, otherwise exterior is Near Fine. Very slight crease to lower left corner "tip" pages up to pp.65. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Near Fine. DJ 1/4" tear at bottom back spine joint otherwise Near Fine. $20.00

[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