United States General Land Office; United States Commissioner of Public Buildings; et. al - Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirty-Third Congress, Part III, Illustrations Belonging to Reports Accompanying the Message

Washington, D. C. A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer, 1854. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering, textured stamped design; unpaginated, 44 maps and plans, many of them folded. Contents: Illustrations accompanying the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office -- Illustrations accompanying the report of the Commissioner of Public Buildings -- Illustration accompanying the report on the National Hospital for the Insane -- Illustrations accompanying the report of the Colonel of Topographical Engineers -- Illustration accompanying the report of the Chief of Ordnance and Hydrography. "December 4, 1854. Read, and ordered to be printed; and that 10,000 copies, in addition to the usual number, be printed for the use of the Senate."- title page. Good (heavy shelfwear to covers, cloth spine torn, foxing spots and age toning) .

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