Author: [Navy Department.Colt, Samuel] Paulding, J.K.
Title: Report from the Secretary of the Navy, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, in Relation to the Adoption of the Improved Boarding-Pistols and Rifles Invented by Samuel Colt. May 18, 1840
Description: [Washington D.C.], Blair & Rives, printers, 1840. First edition. Disbound. 14 pp. 8vo. Read, and referred to the Committee .. on Naval Affairs. May 25, 1840. Ordered to be printed. 26th Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Doc. no. 503. Correspondence between Samuel Colt and the government as he tries to have his pistols purchased by the Navy. Removed from a larger volume, inked numerals to title page, still about very good.

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