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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

[003865] . MARY WILLIAMS, WIDOW OF JAMES WILLIAMS. Government Printing Office, 1860. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Disbound. Florida. Very Good 36th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives.Rep. C.C. No. 231. Court of Claims presenting documents of the case of MARY WILLIAMS, WIDOW OF JAMES WILLIAMS vs. THE UNITED STATES. In 1830 her husband "invested a large sum of money for her in the valuable sugar estate...Harford Plantation, at the head of the Mantanzas river, in St. John's county, Florida and about twenty-five miles from St. Augustine". Speaks of the operation of the plantation, "undisturbed by the Indians". Then U.S. Government "determined" to displace the Indians to west of the Mississippi river. A military force was sent in which led to war with the Indians. The plantation was taken over by the U.S. Government and became a military post. Speaks of the Battle of Dunlawton. Includes Action of Congress on this claim, Claimant's brief, and Solicitor's brief. Samuel H. Huntington was the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims.16 pp. Disbound but attached. Very Good condition. $36.50

[003864] . FARISH CARTER & CHARLES WILLIAMSON, DECEASED. Government Printing Office, 1838. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Disbound. Florida. Very Good Doc. No. 63. 25th Congress, 2d Session. Ho. of Reps. Statement of the value of land purchased by "Colonel Seaton Grantland, Colonel Farish Carter and Dr. Charles Williamson in Tallahassee, Florida." 4 pp. Names the different "tracts" of land. Value given is $6.25 to $10. an acre! Disbound but attached. Very Good condition. $26.50

[003862] . CAPT. WM. BLACK'S COMPANY, FLORIDA VOLUNTEERS. Government Printing Office, 1857. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Disbound. Florida. Very Good House of Representatives. 34th Congress, 3d Session. Report No. 133. The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the memorial of Captain William Black's company of Florida volunteers, praying compensation for military services rendered during the Seminole War. Captain Black raised a company of mounted Florida volunteers for the protection of the Mandarin settlement. Speaks of the "troubles of 1838...the flight of seven hundred Indians for Fort Brook, in May, 1837, in violation of the capitulation at Camp Dade...spread alarm throughout the settlements of Florida and caused the greatest terror". "It was a conflict with Indians whose mode of warfare is entirely different from that practised by civilized nations". 5 pp. Document is clean. Very Good. $32.50

[001891] Griffin, John W. and Hale G. Smith.. The Goodnow Mound: Highlands County, Florida Containing a Report on the Skipper Site, Highlands County. ill. Plates. 1948. Paper Wraps. Archaeology. Very Good+ $19.00

[002839] Smith, Hale G. TWO HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERIODS IN FLORIDA. ill. Plate. Stiff Wraps. Archaeology. Good Reprinted from: "American Antiquity" Volume 13, No. 4, April, 1948. One plate. ex-mus. stamp on front cover. Front cover mildly soiled, has crease marks as if folded in thirds, otherwise covers are Good. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good. $10.00

[002914] Smithsonian Annual Report. Proceedings of the United States National Museum Volume 51. ill. Plates, Figures, Tables. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917. Green Cloth. Good Contents: CALIFORNIA LAND SHELLS by Paul Bartsch. HETEROPTEROUS HEMIPTERS by E. Bergroth..COCCINELLID LARVAE by Adam Boving. KOREAN SORCERRESS, by I.M. Casanowicz. FOSSIL INSECTS by T.D.A. Cockerell, NEW SPECIES OF FORAMINIFERA FROM PHILIPPINE ...by Joseph Cushman. INVERTEBRATE FAUNA OF FLINT RIVER, GEORGIA, and MOLLUSKS...by William Healey Dall. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW LEPIDOPTERA, MEXICO by Harrison.Dyar.JAPANESE MACROUROID FISHES, collected by ALBATROSS 1906 by Charles Henry Gilbert. NORTH AMERICAN CHALCIDOID by A.A. Girault.ROTATIORIAN GENERA LEPADELLA AND LOPHOCHARIS...by Harry L. Harring. EXTINCT MAMMALS...TEXAS by Oliver P. Hay. PARASITIC ISOPOD CRUSTACEANS by W.P.Hays. LOWER JURASSIC FLORA, ALASKA by F. H. Knowlton. RED SPIDERS by E.A. McGregor. MOLLUSKS FROM CHOCTAWHATCHEE MARL, by Wendell C. Mansfield. PHILIPPINE ELEGANT TITMOUSE...by Edgar Alexander Mearns. METEORIC STONE FROM FLORIDA, IRON METEORITE FROM COOKEVILLE, TENNESSEE and METEORIC IRONS FROM GEORGIA by George Merrill. WEEVILS by W. Dwight Pierce. WHITE FLIES by A.L. Quaintance and A.C. Baker. NEW ALASKAN MOLLUSK by Victor Sterki. MUSCOID FLIES by Charles Townsend. FOSSIL PLANTS FROM PENNSYLVANIA and NOTES ON ALUNITE, PSILOMELANITE AND TITANITE by Edgar T. Wherry and NEW BRACHIOPODS...MAINE by Henry Shaler Williams. 675 pps. Index. Plates, Figures and Tables. Green cloth with gilt lettering and design. Front cover has small scratches ? (silverfish?). Water stains to spine and top gutter with waviness to touch. Doesn't go through to interior. Otherwise covers intact and Good. Ex-lib.bookplate on front endpaper with numbers.. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. $45.00

[004889] Taylor, Harden F.. MORTALITY OF FISHES ON THE WEST COAST OF FLORIDA. ill. Plates, Map, Photographs, Tables. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Paper Wraps. Ichthyology. Good+ Appendix III to the Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries for 1917. Bureau of Fisheries Document No. 848 "...in the past 75 years reports have come from the west coat of Florida of "poison water," which killed fishes in large numbers..." 24 pp. 4 plates (one is a map where the mortality occurred), photographs and table with "species affected". Mildly soiled paper covers. ex.mus. stamp on front cover. Overall covers are Good +. Contents page with ex.mus. stamp and numbers. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. Harden F. Taylor was a Scientific Assistant, Bureau of Fisheries at the time of this writing. $35.00

[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