Committee on Roads and Canals

Canal - Boston Harbor to Narraganset Bay, May 15, 1826

Washington, 19th Congress House of Representatives, 1826. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft cover. pp. Disbound, pages tanned, and otherwise unmarked. Report on the feasability "of making a survey of a canal route from Canton to Weymouth, Massachusetts for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability of uniting the waters of Boston Harbor with the Naraganset Bay." Good.

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Book number: 002779

Catalogue: American History, Government and Politics, Ephemera

Keywords: Waterway Boston "Rhode Island" Narragansett Charlestown Newport

Salinger, Pierre

With Kennedy

Garden City, New Y Ork, Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1966. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 391pp. Inscribed and SIGNED by author on half-title page. Black cloth, tan spine backing. Faint spotting to spine, small abrasion to rear endpaper, text is clean and binding is tight, and book is overall sound. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004298

Catalogue: American History, Signed, Government and Politics

Keywords: JFK "John Kennedy" President

Seward, William H. (Secretary of State)

Letter from the Secretary of State, Transmitting a Report of the Commissioner of Immigration of the Foreign Immigration and the Expenditures of the Bureau for the First Three Quarters of the Year 1866.

Washington, House of Representatives, 1866. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft cover. 81pp. Disbound. Mildly toned but clean and sound. Contains listings of the number and occupations and vital statistics of passengers arriving in the U.S. Very Good.

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Book number: 002783

Catalogue: American History, Social History, Government and Politics

Keywords: Immigrants Maritime

Thorpe, Francis Newton

The Government of the People of the United States And of the State of Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia, Eldrdge & Brother, 1894. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 224, 94pp. Brown embossed pebble cloth, gilt-lettered leather spine, speckled edges. Boards are very clean except for a tiny spot on upper front, spine chipped at head and tail somewhat worn, but lettering is very bright. Contents are mildly toned, but crisp and clean and appear to be unread, binding is tight. Black and white illustrations, color map and a handsome color frontispiece of the Great Seal of the United States. First part deals with the government of the United States, second part with Pennsylvania. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002237

Catalogue: American History, Government and Politics, Collectible

Keywords: Constitution Presidents Courts Legislature