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[004936] . BENJAMIN P. LOYALL. 1876. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 9". Disbound. American History. Good to Good+ A petition from Benjamin P. Loyall to the Committee on Naval Affairs. 44th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Report No. 757. "It appears from the evidence taken by the committee...that the petitioner was a lieutenant in the United States Navy, and was serving on board the United States flagship Constellation on the coast of Africa in 1860. On the 25th of September of that year, the Constellation captured the slave-bark Cora, having on board between six and seven hundred Africans intended to be sold as slaves. The capture took place off the Congo River. The Africans were regularly delivered to the agent of the United States at Monrovia...By the law...Mr. Loyall was entitled to receive from the United States the sum of $347 as bounty or head-money...Mr. Loyall returned to the United States with his ship in September, 1861....He was a native and citizen of the State of Virginia. He declined to take the oath of allegiance to the United States...and for that reason dismissed from the service..." 3 pp. Disbound. Pages loose, otherwise document is clean and Very Good+. Names in document: George Maxwell Robeson (1829-1897), an American Republican Party politician and lawyer from New Jersey who served as a Union army general during the American Civil War, and then as Secretary of the Navy during the Grant administration; Gideon Welles (1802-1878), United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, and B. P. Loyall. $35.00

[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

[004856] . STATE OF CONNECTICUT, A CESSION OF JURISDICTION OF THE TERRITORY WEST OF PENNSYLVANIA, COMMONLY CALLED THE WESTERN RESERVE OF CONNECTICUT. House of Representatives, 1800. Size: Approx. 5 1/4" x 8 3/4". Disbound. Connecticut. Good+ to Very Good- REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE TO WHOM WAS REFERRED, ON THE 26TH ULTIMO, THE CONSIDERATION OF THE EXPEDIENCY OF ACCEPTING FROM THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, A CESSION OF JURISDICTION OF THE TERRITORY WEST OF PENNSYLVANIA, COMMONLY CALLED THE WESTERN RESERVE OF CONNECTICUT. 21st March, 1800. Begins with " That in the year 1606, on the 10th of April, James I. king of England, on the application of Sir Thomas Gates and others, for license to settle a colony in that part of America, called Virginia, not possessed by any christian prince, or people, between the thirty-fourth and forty-fifth degrees of north latitude, granted them a charter. In order to facilitate the settlement of the country, and at the request of the adventurers, he divided it into two colonies." In the right margin is printed "Hazard's state papers, vol.i. 50. First Charter of Virginia.", Other marginal "notes" in document: Second Charter of Virginia; Third Charter of Virginia; Charter of Massachusetts; First Charter to Connecticut; Charter to Duke of York; Journals of Congress; Act of Legislature of Connecticut; Charter of Pennsylvania and Mr. Jefferson's Report, Nov.8, 1791, Journals and Reports, 1st Session, 2d Congress 6. 8. Report. 24 pp. plus blank back cover. "stab" holes at left margin. Tied with one string. Untrimmed. Slight foxing. Otherwise document is clean and tight. Facsimile of cover - title page. Historic document. Document appears to be a copy issued by Connecticut Western Reserve, that we know now as the Western Reserve of Ohio. Government documents earlier than 1814, when Washington was burned, are scarce. Howes C-683 $350.00

[004748] . VIRGINIA HOT SPRINGS, BATH CO. VA. ill. Photographs, Tables, Map. New York: South Pub Co, Size: Approx. 6 3/4" x 5 1/4". Paper Wraps. Virginia. Good to Good+ no date. Circa early 1900s? Virginia Hot Springs as a Sanitarium and Pleasure Resort. Photographs of The Homestead; the New Bath House; The Virginia from Cottage Avenue; Warm Springs Valley Scenery, Near Hot Springs, Va; Virginia Hot Springs, Valley View; Mr. Axtell's Cottage, Mr. Ingall's Cottage and Mr. Sullivan's Cottage; C. & O. Ry. Scenery; Bowling Alley; New River Scenery, C. & O. Ry.; Along the Greenbrier, C.&O. Ry.; New River Canons, C.&O. Ry. and Map of the Chesapeake & Ohio Route. 27 pp. Tells about Water and Baths; Drinking Water; Diseases; The Bath and Bath Houses; Swimming Baths; Hotels; Livery; Testimonials; Analysis made by Dickore & Morgan (of waters); The Healing Springs of Virginia; Analysis of the Waters of the Healing Springs; Routes to the Springs and Tickets and Agencies. Paper covers mildly soiled. Some fading around edges. Stapled at spine-rusty. Covers are Good. One "section", pp.13-16, loose otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good. On the cover with title: "C and O Ry", so probably a promotional put out by the Railway, as the Map on the last page is a Map of the Chesapeake & Ohio Route. $40.00

[001669] . RESTORATION OF COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG IN VIRGINIA.. 1935. Good $6.00

[000960] . COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG OFFICIAL GUIDEBOOK & MAP. ill. Drawings. Williamsburg, Virginia: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1968. Sixth Edition. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4". Soft Cover. American History. Very Good Containing a brief History of the City and Descriptions of more than One Hundred Dwelling-Houses, Shops & pulick Buildings, fully illustrated. Also a Large Guide-Map. 108 pp. Index. Pictorial cover. Minor rubbing to spine's top gutters. Two tiny scratches to front cover otherwise Very Good +. Interior tight and clean. Map unattached to book. Large fold-out and Very Good +. $10.00

[004286] Dunn, Edward D.. DOUBLE-CROSSING AMERICA BY MOTOR, Routes and Ranches of the West. ill. Illus. With Drawings and Maps. New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1933. Size: Approx. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2". Car Narrative. Very Good- This charmingly illustrated book contains information about costs, rates and names of places to stay over night on a transcontinental trip. The book is divided into sections, each one consisting of an account of that day's trip, listing mileage, expenses, occasionally suggested reading, and highlights of the day's run. The trip takes in the charming South - Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky; the energetic Middle West - Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Kanses; the romantic Southwest - Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona; the amazing state of California; a short run into Old Mexico; the Bret Harte frontier country of Nevada and Wyoming; the agricultural lands of Idaho, Dakota and Pennsylvania; a short run into Canada; and the pastoral case of upstate New York. Several ranches along the way are described. Pictorial endpapers. 251 pp. 80 illustrations and maps. Spine dulled and ends slightly rubbed. Otherwise covers are Very Good. Illustrated endpapers. Slight foxing on half title page and on blank page at back. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. Bliss 58. $22.50

[004386] House of Representatives. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, Transmitting The report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress of that Work. 1845. ill. Foldouts. 1845. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 9". Disbound. Coast Survey. Very Good to Very Good+ 29th Congress, 1st Session. Doc. No. 38. Ho. of Reps. Treas. Dept. December 17, 1845. Submitted by R. J. Walker, Secretary of the Treasury, "I have the honor to submit for the information of the House of Prepresentatives, the accompanying report made to the department by Professor A. D. Bache, Superintendent of Coast Survey, showing the progress of said work during the year ending November, 1845." 44 pp. 4 Appendices. 3 foldouts: Sketch A: Illustration of the Progress of the Eastern Section of the Survey of the Coast of 1845 (part of side edge uncut); Sketch B: Illustration of the Progress of the Survey of the Coast in Delaware and Chesapeake Bays and Vicinity in 1845; Sketch B No.2. (the "B" has a "x" across it, with "C" written above) Illustration of the Progress of the Survey of the Coast of 1844-5 showing the positions occupied in making observations upon currents in New York Bay and Harbor and the East River. and another "Sketch" on the same foldout showing "the positions accupied in making observations upon currents in Fisher's Island Sound." Famous Americans in document: R. J. Walker, Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President James K. Polk; and A. D. Bache. Disbound but intact. Very Good + condition. $95.00

[000545] Paine, Thomas. PUBLIC GOOD. ill. Graphs, Charts, Tables. Washington D.C.: Gales & Seaton, 1843. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/2". Rebound. Government Document. Very Good / No Jacket. House of Representatives Report No.296, 27th Congress 3rd Session, March 2, 1843. Relief of the States-Public Lands. REPORT OF WILLIAM COST JOHNSON, OF MARYLAND ON SUNDRY MEMORIALS TO THE AMOUNT OF $2000,000,000, BE CREDITED OR DISTRIBUTED AMOUNG THE STATES, TERRITORIES, AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ... Includes Thomas Paine's PUBLIC GOOD. "An examination into the claim of Virginia to the vacant Western Territory, and of the right of the United States to same; to which is added, proposals for laying off a new State, to be applied as a fund for carrying on the war or redeeming the national debt. By the author of 'Common Sense.' Philadelphia, 1780." Rebound with 3/4 brown cloth, marbled covers and endpapers. Spine with gilt lettering: THE PUBLIC GOOD, THOMAS PAINE. PHILDELPHIA 1780. The entire report(no.296) contains 574 pp., of which Paine's argument occupies pp.275-296. Sabin 58237, Howes P-30. $125.00