‎Etat‎

‎United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Communist Agression and the Forced Incorporation of the Baltic State‎

‎Communist Takeover and Occupation of Ukraine: Special Report No. 4 of the Select Committee on Communist Agression. House of Representatives Eighty-third Congression Second Session. Under Authority of H. Res. 345 and H. Res. 438‎

‎Washington DC: GPO 1955. Paperback. 36p. stapled wraps 6 x 9.25 inches pen notation on front wrap a few small stains on rear wrap else good condition. GPO paperback books‎

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‎United States State Papers‎

‎STATE PAPERS AND PUBLICK DOCUMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON TO THE PRESIDENCY EXHIBITING A COMPLETE VIEW OF OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS SINCE THAT TIME 1797 - 1815‎

‎Boston: Printed and Published by T.B. Wait & Sons 1815. Five volumes. Numerous folding tables. Contemporary blue boards with paper spines and labels; one volume rebound with later boards one volume rebacked with modern paper. Spines chipped. Bookplate on front pastedowns contemporary ownership inscriptions. Overall about very good. Untrimmed. In half morocco slipcases. An important collection of United States state papers and foreign relations documents during the important period from 1789 through 1815 including Washington's first speech to Congress his message on the situation with Algiers Pickering's letter to Pinckney while the latter was plenipotentiary of the United States in Paris and many others of equal importance. The volumes also contain documents relating to French depredations on American vessels; messages relative to affairs with Spain on the Mississippi; intercourse with Indians; the XYZ Affair; commerce with St. Domingo; Jefferson's inaugural addresses of March 4 1801 and March 4 1805; documents concerning the Barbary Powers; notices of treaty negotiations from Messrs. Monroe and Pinckney; reports and lists of captured American vessels; and extensive official correspondence regarding U.S. relations with the European powers. This is the first edition of Wait's "State Papers" compilation which is listed under two separate entries in Sabin of three and five volumes respectively for a total of eight volumes in a complete set the second volume of the three-volume set is lacking here. A second edition in ten volumes appeared in 1817. See Sabin for an extensive note on this useful collection. Prior to the beginning of the standard U.S. documents Serial Set in 1817 and to Peter Force's compilations in the 1830s this was the first standard compilation of American State Papers. SABIN 90637. COHEN 7363. Printed and Published by T.B. Wait & Sons hardcover books‎

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‎United States. Secretary of State.‎

‎Discriminating duties—Government of the Netherlands. Message from the President of the United States transmitting a report of the Secretary of State with copies of a correspondence with the government of the Netherlands relating to discriminating duties. January 19 1827. Referred to the Committee on Commerce.‎

‎Washington: Gales & Seaton 1827. 8vo. 23 pp. <br><br>Correspondence between Henry Clay and C. D. E. J. Bangeman Huygens and Mr. Hughes Chargé d'Affairs of the U. S. to the Netherlands. Government document: 19th Congress 2d Session. Doc. No. 58. Ho. of Reps. Executive. <br>    <br>    Shoemaker 31231. Removed from a nonce volume; four holes in inner margin not touching text; leaves separating. Foxed. Title-page with early inked number in top right corner. Gales & Seaton unknown books‎

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‎United States. Department of State‎

‎Africans Taken in the Amistad: Message from the President of the United States Transmitting the Information Required by Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 23d Ultimo in Relation to the Africans Taken in the Vessel Called the Amistad &c‎

‎Washington 1840. Paperback. Very Good. 69 6p. Pamphlet. No separate wrapper present. 24cm. Disbound removed from a bound volume. Lightly browned. Library stamp Navy Department Library on page 17. 26th Congress House. 1st Session. Doc. No. 185. <br/><br/> paperback books‎

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‎United States. Department of State‎

‎LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE INCLOSING ABSTRACTS OF ALL THE RETURNS MADE TO HIM BY THE COLLECTORS OF THE DIFFERENT PORTS OF REGISTERED SEAMEN AND OF IMPRESSED SEAMEN.12TH DECEMBER 1800.‎

‎Washington: Published by order of the House of Representatives 1800. 16pp. plus folding table. Dbd. Table neatly split along part of crease else very good. Tables indicate the number of seamen in respective ports as returned to the Secretary of State customs officials and lists the affidavits regarding impressed ships and the names of impressed seamen. Includes the reports of agents employed under the Act for the Relief and Protection of American Seamen. An important set of documents reflecting the perilous state of the seas at the turn of the 19th century. EVANS 38756. Published by order of the House of Representatives unknown books‎

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‎United States. Department of State‎

‎THE LANSING PAPERS 1914-1920 PAPERS RELATING TO THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 1420-1421 2 VOLUMES‎

‎Washington: Government Printing Office 1939-1940. Hardcover. Octavo; 2 volumes; G; Ex-library; Hardcover; Spine brown with gold print; Boards in brown cloth with gold print blemish on spines from removed label small white label at front bottom corner light shelfwear else clean and strong; Text block has library stamp on edges and title pages library bookplate on front pastedowns library pocket on rear pastedowns else clean and tight; Vol. I. 1939 lxii 801 pages ; Vol. II. 1940 xl 576 pages. 1342419. FP New Rockville Stock. Government Printing Office hardcover books‎

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‎United States. Department of State.‎

‎drop-title Correspondence with Mexico. In the House of Representatives of the U. S. May 19 1836. . Message from the President of the United States transmitting reports from the Secretaries of State and War in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 10th instant. May 14 1836. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.‎

‎Washington: Blair & Rives printers 1836. 8vo. 61 pp. <br><br>Compilation of documents with Andrew Jackson's letter of transmittal relating to the Southwestern frontier of the United States. Text in Spanish accompanied by translations. Street notes: "This relates for the most part to conditions in Texas including correspondence with General Gaines on the protection of the Louisiana-Texas frontier and correspondence with Gorostiza the Mexican special envoy. In a communication by Lewis Cass Secretary of War to the House dated May 4 1836 but not entered here an additional appropriation of one million dollars was requested to be used for the protection of the frontier." Government document: 24th Congress 1st Session. Doc. No. 256. Ho. of Reps. Executive. <br>    <br>    Streeter rev. ed. Texas 1252. Removed from a nonce volume; three holes in inner margin not touching text. Foxing. Some leaves separated. Bottom margin of pp. 51–52 and p. 61 closely trimmed with partial loss of bottom line of p. 51. Early inked ownership signature and number at top of first page. Blair & Rives, printers unknown books‎

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‎United States. Department of State.‎

‎Letter from the Secretary of State transmitting his report on the number of persons born in foreign countries and naturalized as citizens of the United States who have been registered as American seamen: in obediance to a resolution of the 9th ultimo. February 4 1809. Ordered to lie on the table.‎

‎Washington City: A. & G. Way printers 1809. 8vo. 4 pp. <br><br>James Madison in his capacity as Secretary of State here submits a year-by-year breakdown of the number of naturalized citizens registered as American seamen at the different custom houses from 1796 to 1808. <br>    <br>    Shaw & Shoemaker 18922. Removed from a nonce volume; gutter margin a little irregular. Small dog-ears to bottom right corners. A few spots of foxing. A. & G. Way, printers unknown books‎

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‎United States. Department of State.‎

‎Message from the President of the United States transmitting a report of the Secretary of State prepared in obedience to a resolution requesting information of what steps have been taken by the executive department to obtain for citizens of the United States residing on the Tombigbee and Alabama Rivers the free navigation of the Mobile; and also what amount of duty is demanded by the Spanish government on articles of the growth or manufacture of the United States.‎

‎Washington City: Pr. by Roger C. Weightman 1810. 8vo. 4 pp. <br><br>February 9th 1810. Ordered to lie on the table." Contains James Madison's letter of transmittal and Secretary of State Robert Smith's report on the attempts to secure from Spain the free navigation of the Mobile river. Smith complains that Spanish authorities there have been exacting a duty of 12% on American goods. Scarce: OCLC locates only three copies at Yale Brown and Univ. of Georgia. <br>    <br>    Shaw & Shoemaker 21741. Removed from a nonce volume; gutter margin a little irregular; light foxing. Good condition. Pr. by Roger C. Weightman unknown books‎

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‎United States. Department of State.‎

‎Reports from the Departments of State Treasury War and Navy and General Post-Office in relation to the destruction of official books and papers in consequence of the incursion of the enemy on the 24th of August last.‎

‎Washington: A. & G. Way prs. 1814. 12mo. 24 pp. <br><br>Reports on what official records were lost during the British invasion pillaging and occupation of Washington. Curiously no mention of the burning of the books in the Library of Congress. This is Report 18 of the House of Representatives Reports. <br>    <br>    Shaw & Shoemaker 33498. Removed from a nonce volume. Age-toning light staining. A. & G. Way, prs. unknown books‎

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‎United States. Department of State; Lansing Robert 1864 1928‎

‎PAPERS RELATING TO THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES : THE LANSING PAPERS 1914-1920. VOLUME I DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 1420‎

‎Washington: United States Government Printing Office 1939. Hardcover. Octavo; Volume I of 2 only; G; Hardcover; Spine brown with gold print; Boards in brown cloth with gold print light wear to spine caps and corners light bumps to front fore corners light shelfwear; Text block has tanning/foxing to endpapers else clean and tight; lxii 801 pages. 1339464. FP New Rockville Stock. United States Government Printing Office hardcover books‎

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‎United States. Dept. of State.‎

‎drop-title Claims under the treaty with Naples. Message from the President of the United States upon the subject of extending the term allowed for the adjustment of the claims of citizens of the United States under the treaty with Naples. March 18 1834. Read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.‎

‎Washington: Gales & Seaton printers 1834. 8vo. 4 pp. <br><br>Government document: 23d Congress 1st Session. Doc. No. 179. Ho. of Reps. Executive. Removed from a nonce volume. First page with ink numeral in upper margin. Spotting. Gales & Seaton, printers unknown books‎

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‎United States. Dept. of State.‎

‎drop-title From the State Department. By the President of the United States of America. A proclamation. Whereas a General Convention of Peace Amity Navigation and Commerce between the United States of America and the Republic of Colombia was concluded and signed at Bogota on the third day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four; which Convention being in the English and Spanish languages is word for word as follows: .‎

‎Washington 1824. 8vo. 169–188 pp. <br><br>Contains the full text of the Convention printed in English and Spanish side-by-side in double columns. "2" printed at top outer corners. Removd from a ononce volume; two holes in inner margin. Waterstained throughout. Pages a little cockled. Ink numeral in upper margin. unknown books‎

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‎United States. Dept. of State.‎

‎drop-title In Senate of the United States. January 28 1806. The President communicated a report from the Department of State which was read and ordered that it lie for consideration.‎

‎Washington 1806. 8vo. 72 pp.; 2 fold. ff. <br><br>Printed here is "An act passed by the parliament of Great Britain on the 7th May 1802. An act for granting to his majesty certain duties on goods imported into and exported from Great Britain and on the tonnage of ships and vessels entering outwards or inwards in any port of Great Britain to or from foreign parts" and "An act passed by the parliament of Great Britain on the 4th July 1802. An act for granting to his majesty during the present war and until the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace additional duties on the importation and exportation of certain goods wares and merchandise and on the tonnage of ships and vessels in Great Britain." With accompanying tables. <br>    <br>    Shaw & Shoemaker 11567. Removed from a nonce volume; stitch holes at inner margin not touching text. A librarian's lightly pencilled notation on title-page. First three leaves detached. Title-page with small chip at inner margin. unknown books‎

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‎United States. Dept. of State.‎

‎drop-title Report no. 443. To accompany bill S. no. 82. House of Representatives. John Black. March 30 1848.‎

‎Washington 1848. 8vo. 4 pp. <br><br>Report on John Black's petition for compensation for diplomatic services rendered as United States consul at Mexico City. Includes a letter from Secretary of State James Buchanan. Government document: Thirtieth Congress—First Session. Removed from a nonce volume; inner edge very slightly irregular. First page with pencilled number in upper right corner. unknown books‎

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‎United States. Dept. of State.‎

‎drop-title Trade between United States and Cuba and Porto Rico. Message from the President of the United States transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives in relation to the trade between the United States and Cuba and Porto Rico. March 11 1834.---Read and laid upon the table. March 18 1834.---Referred to the Committee on Commerce.‎

‎Washington: Gales & Seaton printers 1834. 8vo. 44 pp. <br><br>Government document: 23d Congress 1st Session. Doc. no. 170. Ho. of Reps. Executive. Removed from a nonce volume; small hole in inner margin not touching text. First page with ink numeral in upper margin. A few pages spotted. Gales & Seaton, printers unknown books‎

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‎United States. Dept. of State.‎

‎drop-title Vice President of Peru and General Miller. Message from the President of the United States transmitting a report of the Secretary of State in relation to refuge afforded on board of the United States' ship St. Louis Captain Sloat to the Vice President of Peru and General Miller. April 4 1832. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.‎

‎Washington 1832. 8vo. 17 pp. <br><br>Letters of President Jackson Edward Livingston Secretary of State and Samuel Larned Chargé d'Affaires of the United States at Lima and documents detailing the above incident. Government document: 22d Congress 1st Session. Doc. No. 272. Ho. of Reps. Executive. Removed from a nonce volume; very small hole in inner margin not touching text. First page with ink numeral in upper margin. Pages browned; occasional brown spots. First leaf and several other leaves separated. unknown books‎

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‎United States. Dept. of State.‎

‎Letter from the Secretary of State enclosing his report on the memorial of Tobias Lear made in pursuance of an order of the House of the 12th instant. 25th January 1803. Read and ordered to be committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow.‎

‎Washington City: Pr. by William Duane & Son 1803. 8vo. 16 pp. <br><br>Tobias Lear 1762–1816 was private secretary to General Washington and in 1802 consul-general of Santo Domingo. Concerns expenses incurred and fees received by him in his official capacity in Santo Domingo. Also mentions his conduct during the slave rebellion that gripped the island and contains an estimate of the damage done to his house and possessions as a result of plundering and fires in the city of Cape Francois. <br>    <br>    Shaw & Shoemaker 5325. Removed from a nonce volume. Light spotting on one leaf. Bottom edges slightly irregular. Pr. by William Duane & Son unknown books‎

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‎United States. Dept. of State.‎

‎Letter from the Secretary of State transmitting a report made in obedience to an order of the Senate of the twentieth instant. February 22d 1810. Printed by order of the Senate.‎

‎Washington City: Pr. by R. C. Weightman 1810. 8vo. 2 ff. <br><br>Consists of a covering letter addressed to the President of the Senate and a report both dated February 21 1810 concerning the release of impressed American seamen the petitioners George H. Hannah William Goldsborough and others. <br>    <br>    Shaw & Shoemaker 21683. Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly pencilled librarian's notation on title-page. Very good. Pr. by R. C. Weightman unknown books‎

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‎United States. Dept. of State.‎

‎Message from the President of the United States accompanying sundry papers relative to the affairs of the United States with the French Republic. 18th January 1799.‎

‎Philadelphia: Pr. for the House of Representatives 1799. 8vo 20.1 cm 7.9". 123 1 blank pp. <br><br>with Message from the President of the United States accompanying a report of the Secretary of State containing observations on some of the documents communicated by the President on the eighteenth instant. 21st January 1799. Philadelphia: John Ward Fenno 1799. 8vo. 2 45 3 2 blank pp.<br>    President John Adams introduces both items; the first work consists primarily of the correspondence of Elbridge Gerry American envoy at Paris with Talleyrand prior to the former's recall from France. Evans assigns this to William Ross's press. The second piece is a report by the Secretary of State on developments following the transactions cited in the first. <br>    <br>    18th: ESTC W026145; Evans 36551. 21st: ESTC W026008; Evans 36546. Recently attractively bound in quarter blue goat over blue cloth leather edges rolled in gilt; spine with gilt-stamped title place and date raised bands accented with gilt-stamped abstract floral design and straight and wavy rules. Title-page hinged on with long-fiber tissue outer margin repaired with same. Varying degrees of foxing with some leaves untouched some slightly spotted and some notably darkened. Pr. for the House of Representatives hardcover books‎

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‎United States. Dept. of State.‎

‎Message from the President of the United States communicating to the House such information as he has received touching a suspension of the arrete of the French Republic mentioned in his message of the 28th of January last. Made in pursuance of a resolution of the House of yesterday.‎

‎Philadelphia: John Ward Fenno 1799. 8vo. 6 2 pp. <br><br>An uncut and unopened copy of a letter from Lord Grenville describing the British reaction to a French decree that sailors on British or neutral vessels were to be considered pirates. <br>    <br>    Evans 36554; ESTC W25014. Sewn. As issued. John Ward Fenno unknown books‎

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‎United States. Dept. of State.‎

‎Message from the President of the United States enclosing a report of the Secretary of State relative to the inadequacy of the funds for this year which had been provided by law for the relief and protection of destitute American seamen in foreign countries.‎

‎Washington City: Pr. by Roger C. Weightman 1810. 8vo. 4 pp. <br><br>December 12th 1810. Referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. <br>    <br>    Shaw & Shoemaker 21730. Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly pencilled librarian's notation on title-page. Leaves separated. Pr. by Roger C. Weightman unknown books‎

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‎United States. Dept. of State.‎

‎Message from the President of the United States transmitting the correspondence between the United States and the government of Spain relative to the subjects of controversy between the two nations.‎

‎Washington: William A. Davis 1817. 8vo. 77 pp. <br><br>Meaty document dealing with the Louisiana Purchase U.S. relations with Spain U.S. boundaries and the cession of => Florida to the U.S. that would occur in 1819. There is even discussion of the fate of the province of => Texas. 14th Cong. 2d sess. Senate. Doc. 114. <br>    <br>    Shaw & Shoemaker 42663. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with edges browned and with War Department stamp; pages with minor offsetting. William A. Davis unknown books‎

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‎United States. Dept. of State.‎

‎Message from the President of the United States transmitting a report of the Secretary of State made in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the eighteenth instant requesting a communication of such information as he might possess relative to the legal repeal or modification as well as the practical operation of the orders and decrees affecting our nuetral sic commerce since the first of November 1810. February 19 1811. Read and referred to the committee on foreign relations.‎

‎Washington: A. & G. Way printers 1811. 8vo. 36 pp. <br><br>The report consists of diplomatic correspondence from the U.S. ministers in Paris and in London including copies of letters to and from their respective host governments dated Oct. to Dec. 1810 relating to the Continental system and British Orders in Council. <br>    <br>    Shaw & Shoemaker 24217. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with browned edges. Some pages with just a bit of soiling in margins. A couple of pages with bottom edge slightly ragged. A. & G. Way, printers unknown books‎

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‎United States. Dept. of State.‎

‎Report from the Secretary of State in compliance with a resolution of the Senate showing the nature and extent of the privileges and restrictions of commercial intercourse of the United States with all foreign nations.‎

‎Washington: Blair & Rives 1839. 8vo. 73 pp. <br><br>Extremely detailed account in table form with good introduction of reciprocities duties restrictions etc. in place for U.S. ships doing business abroad. Government document: 26th Congress 1t Session Senate doc. 80. Removed from a nonce volume. Stab holes in inner margins from old binding. Blair & Rives unknown books‎

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