‎Etats unis‎

‎United States‎

‎We the People of the States of New-Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations Connecticut New-York New-Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia North-Carolina South-Carolina and Georgia do ordain declare and establish the following Constitution for the Government of Ourselves and our Posterity . Committee of Detail Printed Draft of the U.S. Constitution‎

‎Philadelphia: John Dunlap & David Claypoole 1787. 7 1 leaves; the first two leaves in facsimile. Two contemporary manuscript corrections on fol. 3 to Art. VI Sect. 11 striking fifteen words and adding "and Representatives"; and changing the second Art. VI to VII. Folio. Unbound old folds with minor repaired tears restoration to the final leaf. Provenance: James Wilson docketed in his hand "Report of the Committee of five"; to his son Bird Wilson; to his niece Emily Hollingsworth; to her cousin Effingham B. Morris inscribed below Wilson's docketing "Above endorsement is in the handwriting of the Hon. James Wilson-so his granddaughter Miss Emily Hollingsworth tells me-Sept. 1 1886. Effingham B. Morris."; Unnamed consignor Sotheby Parke Bernet Washington D.C. December 5 1970 lot 96; • Property of a Gentleman Sotheby Parke Bernet New York April 29 1980 lot 124; Gilder Lehrman Collection deaccessioned 2026. 7 1 leaves; the first two leaves in facsimile. Two contemporary manuscript corrections on fol. 3 to Art. VI Sect. 11 striking fifteen words and adding "and Representatives"; and changing the second Art. VI to VII. Folio. • THE FIRST PRINTED DRAFT OF THE CONSTITUTION <br /> <br /> • FROM THE PAPERS OF JAMES WILSON AMONG THE PRINCIPAL ARCHITECTS OF THE CONSTITUTION AND A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE OF DETAIL THAT ISSUED IT<br /> <br /> • ONE OF ONLY SEVENTEEN EXTANT EXAMPLES AND THE ONLY KNOWN IN PRIVATE HANDS<br /> <br /> • PRINTED BY JOHN DUNLAP THE PRINTER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE STRICTLY FOR USE BY DELEGATES AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1787<br /> <br /> <br /> Two hundred and fifty years ago America declared its independence from Great Britain. The Declaration of Independence however did more than simply codify a legal or diplomatic status. In Thomas Jefferson's famous Preamble the Declaration asserted in no uncertain terms that the power of government is derived from the people that the justification for government is the protection of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and that it is the "Right of the People to alter or to abolish it and to institute new Government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." While the Revolution began in 1776 it would culminate in 1787 with the drafting of the Constitution the document that truly established the form of government promised by the Declaration and whose own preamble harkened back to the same democratic idea that government begins with the consent of the governed: We the People.<br /> <br /> Soon after the Declaration had been passed in 1776 John Dickinson and other members of the second Continental Congress drafted the Articles of Confederation the first attempt at a government for the new nation. Passed in 1777 the Articles created a single legislative body with equal representation from each state but without a judicial or executive branch and with a weak central government which did not have the ability to tax regulate foreign or interstate commerce or otherwise compel individual states to enforce laws. The "league of friendship" or "perpetual union" it created ensured above all the independence and sovereignty of each state an understandable priority given its passage in the midst of the war to gain independence from a tyrannical king.<br /> <br /> But with the end of the war the decentralized government created by the Articles lacked the ability to pay down its war debts to effectively negotiate international treaties or trade agreements or even ensure the stability or safety of each individual state from powers foreign or domestic. In short it could not hold the fast growing nation together.<br /> <br /> Led by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton by 1786 a Federalist movement had begun calling for a convention to revise the Articles. Meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia in May 1787 with George Washington as the convention's president it did not take long for the delegates to agree that a revision of the Articles would not be sufficient to address its problems and that a new form of government needed to be established. On May 29 Madison and Edmund Randolph presented their plan for the creation of a national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature. Known as the Virginia Plan it outlined in fifteen draft resolutions the basic principles of a new government. Debates revisions and counterproposals ensued and by July 24 the delegates "voted unanimously to submit 'the proceedings of the Convention for the establishment of a national government' to a committee 'for the purpose of reporting a Constitution.'" Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution.<br /> <br /> The committee it created named the Committee of Detail consisted of five members: John Rutledge of South Carolina chairman Edmund Randolph of Virginia James Wilson of Pennsylvania Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut and Nathaniel Gorham of Massachusetts. Two days later the resolutions and various plans were turned over to the Committee of Detail "to arrange and systemize the materials which that honorable body have collected" as the July 28 Pennsylvania Herald reported. With the oppressive Philadelphia summer heat in full force the Convention then adjourned until August 6 leaving the five-member committee the monumental task to actually draft the Constitution.<br /> <br /> The Committee of Detail sometimes referred to as the Committee of Five - like the Committee of Five which drafted the Declaration - represented a geographical cross section of the Convention with members from the south the mid-Atlantic and the northeast. There are no records of their meetings between July 26 and August 6 so the story of how the Constitution was actually drafted relies on a manuscript outline by Randolph with annotations by Rutledge manuscript notes and a manuscript draft by Wilson again with annotations by Rutledge and the final draft as printed and submitted to the convention on August 6. The end result - the first printed draft of the Constitution - laid down for the first time at a granular level the framework for the form of republican government that has survived to this day.<br /> <br /> "The Committee of Detail went considerably beyond the previous resolutions of the Convention in writing the first draft of the Constitution. The Committee incorporated provisions from the Articles of Confederation from some of the state constitutions and from plans submitted to but not accepted by the Convention . Edmund Randolph John Rutledge and James Wilson wrote and annotated successive drafts and then the Committee had the final draft set in type. After correcting the proof the draft was printed in final form the first printed document submitted to the Convention" Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution.<br /> <br /> The Committee of Detail draft proposed much of the language in its earliest form that would eventually become codified in the final Constitution including the supremacy clause the full faith and credit clause and the necessary and proper clause. It would also propose for the first time the idea of an electoral college a feature not found in any of the plans presented to the Convention to that point. And of course the preamble to the draft would begin with the first iteration of the famous opening words "We the People." <br /> <br /> Importantly what followed those words would change over the ensuing weeks. In the Committee of Detail draft the opening words continue: ". of the States of New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia do ordain declare and establish the following Constitution for the government of ourselves and our posterity." This would change in the next printed draft by the Committee of Style issued on September 12 to: "We the People of the United States." emphasis added. This notable change served two ends one practical and the other symbolic. Rhode Island had refused to send delegates to the Convention so naming them among the States was perhaps an overreach by the Committee of Detail which needed to be corrected. The change however metaphorically united the individual states toward a common goal of a stronger federal government.<br /> <br /> "The committee of detail had done a remarkable job one that blended faithfulness to orders skill at borrowing and the exercise of discretion in equal amounts with several dashes of inventiveness and one of disobedience thrown in to prove that the members had minds of their own . Many familiar words of the Constitution appeared for the first time in the report of August 6. Major officers and organs of government were designated as the President Speaker Congress Senate House of Representatives and Supreme Court; engaging phrases such as 'We the People' 'state of the Union' 'privileges and immunities' and 'necessary and proper' twinkled here and there in the gloom . The committee had drawn on many sources - the resolutions of the Convention the rules of Congress the crude plans of Paterson and Pinckney the constitutions of the states especially those of Massachusetts and New York and above all the Articles of Confederation as well as various proposals to bolster the Articles - for the phrasing of their draft and the familiarity of its language must have given these reform-minded men a paradoxically comfortable sense of continuity with the past . They had provided for the internal organization of both houses of Congress worked out the exact procedures of the qualified veto defined the jurisdiction of the courts adjusted certain relations among the states and armed the President with powers of guidance of the legislature appointment of his own aides administration command ceremony and mercy. In some instances the committee had decided to make up the Convention's mind: it placed the power to impeach in the House and to convict in the Supreme Court provided that new states be admitted 'on the same terms with the old' on a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress fixed the ratio of representation in the House at one member for every forty thousand 'inhabitants' and covered the constitutions as well as the laws of the states in the supremacy clause" Rossiter.<br /> <br /> By August 4 the Committee had completed its task. One of very few contemporary accounts of the Convention noted on that day "Their report in the hands of Dunlop sic the printer to strike off copies for the members" McHenry quoted in Farrand. The choice of John Dunlap the printer of the Declaration of Independence as the printer to the Convention was no accident. Rapport writes that more important than Dunlap's experience was his discretion: "The Convention members were pledged to strict secrecy - a pledge by and large maintained. With the printing of the Report of the Committee of Detail they were having to risk that secrecy." <br /> <br /> In partnership with David Claypoole Dunlap on August 6 printed approximately 60 copies of the Committee of Detail's draft strictly for the use of the members of the Convention in their debates. Given the importance of the document before printing the run Dunlap produced at least one proof of the document given to Edmund Randolph to correct any errors in typesetting. Not all typesetting errors were caught however most notably the misnumbering of Article VII as a second Article VI and all subsequent numbering.<br /> <br /> After receiving the Committee of Detail draft the delegates at the Convention over the ensuing weeks would debate the language and proposals within the Committee of Detail draft. Ideas like giving the federal government veto power over state laws or the establishment of Council of Revision of Executive and Judiciary representatives to veto legislation would be removed among other changes. On September 8 1787 another five-member committee would be appointed and tasked with revising and re-organizing the Committee of Detail draft. Comprised of Gouverneur Morris Pennsylvania Alexander Hamilton New York James Madison Virginia Rufus King Massachusetts and William Samuel Johnson Connecticut the Committee of Style over the course of four days would reduce the twenty-three articles of the Committee of Detail draft to seven reorganize it by branch sharpen its language and draft changes reflecting the debates. On September 12 a second printed draft would be published by Dunlap and Claypoole on behalf of the Committee of Style and reported to the Convention. It was voted on by the delegates inscribed on parchment by Jacob Shallus and signed by 39 of 55 delegates on September 17. That same day using much of the same setting of type from the Committee of Style printing Dunlap and Claypoole printed the first official edition of the Constitution.<br /> <br /> "In the two and a half centuries since the first printing press reached the hemisphere there had been nothing comparable" Rapport. <br /> <br /> Provenance<br /> <br /> Born in Scotland in 1742 James Wilson studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh under prominent thinkers of the Scottish enlightenment including Francis Hutcheson David Hume and Adam Smith. He emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1765 in the midst of the Stamp Act disturbances and would serve as a legal apprentice to Founding Father John Dickinson. He became the head of a Committee of Correspondence at Carlisle Pennsylvania in 1774 and was a delegate to both the First and Second Continental Congresses becoming a Signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. After serving as a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Constitutional Convention and a member of the Committee of Detail he would go on to serve as the first Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. He would be the only person to sign both the Declaration and the Constitution and to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. <br /> <br /> "As much as any man of his day Wilson was involved in the great events out of which this nation was born. In the pre-Revolutionary agitation against Great Britain in the affairs of the Continental Congress in the development of a system of national finances in the framing of the Constitution of the United States in the early decisions of the Supreme Court he played leading roles. He made important and original contributions to American jurisprudence to political thought and to economic theory . James Wilson stood in the front rank of 'founding fathers' and has a legitimate claim to be considered one of the principal architects of our Nation" Smith.<br /> <br /> It is his role in drafting the Constitution however that would be his greatest accomplishment. "Sitting with his colleagues in this first session of the Federal Convention Wilson was certainly aware of the challenge that faced the delegates. If some members were beguiled by the idea that the inept Articles could be reshaped into an effective 'frame of government.' Wilson had no such illusion and indeed no such wish. For ten years he had been fighting in Congress and out for a strong and energetic national government with power to carry out its resolves. The opportunity was now at hand and if it was lost it would hardly come again" Smith.<br /> <br /> Wilson would be credited for the creation of a single executive and the electoral college for proposing the three-fifths compromise and for authoring the enduring first words of the preamble to the Constitution. "Wilson more than any other delegate consistently advocated placing as much power as was feasible with the people themselves-giving them as direct control as was possible over operation of the federal government's machinery.Wilson alone who wielded formidable intellect on behalf of democracy throughout the Convention is a major part of the reason why the Constitution ended up as democratic a document as it did" Pederson.<br /> <br /> James Wilson died penniless in 1798. His papers passed to his son Bird Wilson 1777-1851 a professor of divinity at the General Theological Seminary in New York who used them to publish The Works of James Wilson in 1804. Upon his death in 1851 the Wilson papers were inherited by Bird Wilson's niece Emily Hollingsworth 1815-1895 James Wilson's granddaughter i.e. the daughter of Mary Wilson 1772-1832 James Wilson's only child to marry. In 1876 and 1877 with "the help of Dr. Caspar Morris Hollingsworth selected 'a number of Manuscripts of my Grandfather James Wilson respecting various subjects'" Toler Addendum for donation to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. These are described by Toler and Ewald and included Wilson's original manuscript draft of the Committee of Detail report.<br /> <br /> After Hollingsworth's death in 1895 additional Wilson papers passed to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania via one of her executors a distant relative Israel W. Morris. Other Wilson papers however were scattered descending to her second and third executors Thomas Montgomery and Effingham B. Morris also relatives. Toler writes: "It seems that Wilson's papers those not given to the Historical Society in 1876 and '77 were split among Emily's execu­tors as part of her estate's 'residue.' Each executor preserved the papers in his own way Israel Morris donating his to the Historical Society and Montgomery keeping his in the family. It is unknown whether Eppingham i.e. Effingham a.k.a. Epphingham Morris acquired and disposed of any papers." The existence of the present Committee of Detail printing with the inscription on verso by Effingham B. Morris 1836-1937 would confirm that he did indeed have further Wilson papers in his possession. It is unknown whether the first two pages missing here were missing prior to Morris's possession lost among the Wilson papers inherited by others or if they were separated prior to their inheritance by Emily Hollingsworth or Bird Wilson.<br /> <br /> A collection of Morris family papers belonging to the estate of Effingham B. Morris would be sold at auction by Samuel T. Freeman & Co. on February 19-20 1948 but there is no evidence that the present item was within that group. However the printing would appear at auction twenty-two years later offered by Sotheby Parke Bernet in Washington D.C. December 5 1970 lot 96 and resurface again at Sotheby's New York April 29 1980 lot 124 both times belonging to unnamed consignors. The document has been in the Gilder Lehrman Collection since 1991 until deaccessioned in 2026.<br /> <br /> Census of Known Copies<br /> <br /> Besides the present example belonging to James Wilson twelve other copies of the Committee of Detail printing survive in no particular order: <br /> 1 Edmund Randolph Historical Society of Pennsylvania proof copy<br /> 2 George Washington National Archives<br /> 3 David Brearley National Archives<br /> 4 James Madison Library of Congress<br /> 5 Charles Pinckney Library of Congress<br /> 6 Alexander Hamilton annotated by Hugh Williamson Library of Congress<br /> 7 William Samuel Johnson Library of Congress<br /> 8 Unknown delegate Library of Congress<br /> 9 Unknown delegate Library of Congress<br /> 10 John Dickinson Library Company of Philadelphia<br /> 11 Elbridge Gerry Massachusetts Historical Society<br /> 12 Abraham Baldwin Morgan Library<br /> 13 Pierce Butler without annotations University of Indiana Lilly Library<br /> 14 George Mason Huntington Library lacking the first two leaves<br /> 15 Unknown delegate Huntington Library with the bookplate of Henry F. De Puy lacking leaves five and six<br /> 16 Pierce Butler his second copy this one annotated Gilder Lehrman Collection<br /> 17 James Wilson the present copy deaccessioned by the Gilder Lehrman Collection in 2026<br /> <br /> By way of comparison fifteen examples are known of the Committee of Style printing and thirteen known of the final official version all printed by Dunlap & Claypoole.<br /> <br /> Only three of the seventeen extant copies of the Committee of Detail printing have appeared at auction: the present example as described above; the Pierce Butler annotated copy now located in the Gilder Lehrman Collection number 16 in the above census sold Sotheby Parke Bernet April 15 1969 and offered again at Sotheby's New York in the Harry J. Sonnenborn collection June 5 1980; and the example from an unknown delegate at the Huntington Library number 15 in the above census sold in the first part of the Henry F. De Puy sale in 1920. <br /> <br /> We know of no examples of the Committee of Detail printing in private hands making the present example belonging to James Wilson perhaps the last to appear on the market.<br /> <br /> Works Consulted<br /> <br /> Richard B. Bernstein. Are We to Be a Nation The Making of the Constitution. Cambridge 1987.<br /> <br /> Max Farrand. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. New Haven 1937.<br /> <br /> James H. Hutson ed. Supplement to Max Farrand's The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. New Haven 1987.<br /> <br /> Merrill Jensen ed. The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Volume I: Constitutional Documents and Records 1776-1787. Madison 1976.<br /> <br /> Nicholas Pederson. "The Lost Founder: James Wilson in American Memory" Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 22:2 2010 pp. 257-337.<br /> <br /> Leonard Rapport. "Printing the Constitution: The Convention and Newspaper Imprints August-November 1787" Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives 2:2 Fall 1970 pp. 69-90.<br /> <br /> Charles Rossiter. 1787: The Grand Convention. New York 1987.<br /> <br /> Charles Page Smith. James Wilson Founding Father 1742-1798. Chapel Hill 1956.<br /> <br /> Lorianne Updike Toler and William Ewald. "Early Drafts of the U.S. Constitution." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography vol. 135 no. 3 2011 pp. 227-38.<br /> <br /> Lorianne Updike Toler. "Addendum." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography vol. 135 no. 3 2011 pp. 367-74. Evans 20815; ESTC W13935; Ford. Bibliography of the Constitution 8; Ford Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States 20. The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Vol. 1 pp. 260-269 John Dunlap & David Claypoole unknown‎

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‎United States, Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency‎

‎Weapons of Mass Destruction Terms Handbook; DTRA-AR-40H‎

‎Washington DC: United States Department of Defense Defense Threat Reduction Agency 2002. This publication supersedes DTRA-AR-40H 1 July 1999. CD. Very good. CD Supersedes DTRA AR-40H 1 July 1999. Distribution was limited when issued but no limitation of use is believed now to exist. A weapon of mass destruction WMD is a nuclear radiological chemical biological or other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans or cause great damage to human-made structures e.g. buildings natural structures e.g. mountains or the biosphere. The scope and usage of the term has evolved and been disputed often signifying more politically than technically. Originally coined in reference to aerial bombing with chemical explosives it has come to refer to large-scale weaponry of other technologies such as chemical biological radiological or nuclear. William Safire says Bernard Baruch used that exact phrase in 1946 at the United Nations . The phrase found its way into the very first resolution the United Nations General assembly adopted in January 1946 in London which used the wording "the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons and of all other weapons adaptable to mass destruction." An exact use of this term was given in a lecture "Atomic Energy as an Atomic Problem" by J. Robert Oppenheimer. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency DTRA is an agency within the United States Department of Defense and is the official Combat Support Agency for countering weapons of mass destruction chemical biological radiological nuclear and high explosives. DTRA's main functions are threat reduction threat control combat support and technology development. DTRA was officially established on October 1 1998 by consolidating several DoD organizations including the Defense Special Weapons Agency successor to the Defense Nuclear Agency and the On-Site Inspection Agency as a result of the 1997 Defense Reform Initiative. The Defense Technology Security Administration and the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense were also incorporated into the new agency. United States, Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency unknown‎

Référence libraire : 74652

‎United States; Office of Education‎

‎What Is Education Opinions of Eminent Men Vol. 33 Classic Reprint‎

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Référence libraire : 0267192851.G ISBN : 0267192851 9780267192854

‎United States; Congress; House; Committee on Banki‎

‎White House Contacts With Treasury Vol. 3 Classic Reprint‎

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Référence libraire : 0656630906.G ISBN : 0656630906 9780656630905

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‎White House Contacts With Treasury Vol. 1 Classic Reprint‎

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‎White House Contacts With Treasury Vol. 1 Classic Reprint‎

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Référence libraire : 1332405991.G ISBN : 1332405991 9781332405992

‎United States; Congress; House; Committee on Banki‎

‎White House Contacts With Treasury Vol. 4 Classic Reprint‎

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Référence libraire : 1332447503.G ISBN : 1332447503 9781332447503

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‎William Henry Wilder: Late a Representative From Massachusetts Memorial Addresses Delivered in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States Sixty-Third Congress Classic Reprint‎

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Référence libraire : 0365456748.G ISBN : 0365456748 9780365456742

‎UNITED STATES, General Land Office - C ROESER, Principal Draughtsman, GLO G L O‎

‎Wisconsin‎

‎Washington D.C.: General Land Office printed in New York by Julius Bien lithographer 1879. Color-lithographed map. A very detailed colour-coded map of Wisconsin showing towns rivers roads railroads among other landmarks.<br/> <br/> The General Land Office was founded in 1812 as an independent government agency responsible for the surveying and disposition of land in the public domain. Prior to the Civil War much of the attention of the GLO was fixed on the settlement of such land east of the Mississippi which had resulted from military bounties and cessations by the original thirteen states. The end of the Civil War the Homestead Act the completion of the Trans-Continental Railroad and the military campaigns against Native Americans in the West with resulting treaties that "transferred" land ownership to the United States together engendered an incredible increase in westward settlement and expansion. Newly-admitted states and newly-created territories west of the Mississippi were primed for settlement. Between 1866 and 1876 the GLO surveyed over 200000000 acres of land in the public domain for settlement in New Mexico Idaho Dakota Nebraska Montana Colorado Wyoming and elsewhere. As the official surveyors of these remote areas and with access to military information the maps of the General Land Office were far and away the most accurate and detailed of the western states and territories published to that time. Indeed these large-scale official maps became the basis for future maps of those regions by commercial cartographers. In 1876 the GLO headed by S.S. Burdett published an atlas containing 18 maps on 19 sheets California being on two sheets showing the regions of the United States with newly surveyed and plotted public lands. Although the GLO had issued individual maps of the United States to accompany their annual report in 1866 and 1868 the 1876 Geographical and Political Atlas of the States and Territories sometimes referred to as The Centennial Atlas was the first atlas to be published by the department. The incredible growth of settlement in the west coupled with new exploration and surveying in the short time following the 1876 atlas engendered a second atlas to be published by the General Land Office between 1878 and 1879 i.e. where the present example is from. Like the Centennial Atlas the maps were composed by the chief draughtsman in the GLO Charles Roeser Jr. The maps were done on a large scale and are consequently very detailed. Chromolithographed by Julius Bien each map is colour coded to clearly depict land plotted for settlement the locations of the general land offices Indian territories county divisions towns rivers roads railroads etc. Furthermore like The Centennial Atlas the Atlas of the States and Territories over which Land Surveys have been Extended was produced for official purposes and distributed to members of Congress government agencies each land office the post office the railroads and other large entities and was not available for public distribution. The limited distribution of this atlas coupled with its large size accounts for its great rarity today; very few copies are known to be in private hands and no copies were in the famed collections of Rumsey Streeter or Graff.<br/> <br/> Phillips Atlases 1405. General Land Office [printed in New York by Julius Bien, lithographer] unknown‎

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‎United States; Congress; Senate; Committee on Labo‎

‎Witness to Domestic Violence Classic Reprint‎

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Référence libraire : 1330372026.G ISBN : 1330372026 9781330372029

‎United States; Bureau of Vocational Information‎

‎Women in Chemistry Vol. 4: A Study of Professional Opportunities Classic Reprint‎

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Référence libraire : 0656363029.G ISBN : 0656363029 9780656363025

‎United States‎

‎Woody-Plant Seed Manual‎

‎Hardback. New. hardcover‎

Référence libraire : B9781930665637 ISBN : 1930665636 9781930665637

‎United States; Congress; Senate; Committee on Arme‎

‎Worldwide Threat to the United States Classic Reprint: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services United States Senate One Hundred Fourth Congress First Session January 17 1995‎

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Référence libraire : 1331648246.G ISBN : 1331648246 9781331648246

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‎Worldwide Threat to the United States: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services United States Senate One Hundred Fourth Congress First Session January 17 1995 Classic Reprint‎

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Référence libraire : 0260335452.G ISBN : 0260335452 9780260335456

‎United States; Dept; Of Agriculture‎

‎Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture: 1913 Classic Reprint‎

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Référence libraire : 1330060857.G ISBN : 1330060857 9781330060858

‎United States‎

‎Youth violence: A report of the Surgeon General‎

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Référence libraire : 0160427932.G ISBN : 0160427932 9780160427930

‎United States; Congress; Senate; Committee on the‎

‎Youth Violence Classic Reprint‎

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‎United States‎

‎ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA ON MONDAY THE FIFTEENTH OF MAY ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-SEVEN AND OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES THE TWENTY-FIRST‎

‎Philadelphia: Ross 1797. 561 26 Constitution and Amendments thereto iv Table of Contents Index of 24 leaves. Bound in attractive modern calf and marbled boards with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Occasional light toning and mild foxing Very Good.<br/><br/> This is a complete offering of Ross's printing of the Acts of all three Sessions of the Fifth Congress including the Alien & Sedition Acts and establishment of the Marine Corps plus a treaty with the Cherokees. <br/>Evans 32951 34688 36479. Sabin 15501-15503. Ross unknown books‎

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‎United States‎

‎ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES‎

‎Philadelphia: Samuel Harrison Smith 1800. 223 1 vii pp. Original plain wrappers untrimmed. Front wrapper title page and first few leaves tattered some minor text loss of the marginal note of page 4. Some dampstaining. Good. <br/><br/> With the contemporary signature of 'Capt. John Hopkins' a Revolutionary War officer and captain of a company of Rangers according to some notes laid in. The Laws of this Session the last to be printed in the 18th century established the bankruptcy act authorized removal of the national government to Washington created the Indiana Territory and authorized a territorial government in the Mississippi Territory. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Evans 38700. Not in Jenkins. Samuel Harrison Smith unknown books‎

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‎United States‎

‎ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS‎

‎Washington 1813. 233 V pp. Stitched untrimmed original printed wrappers worn at spine. Old institutional stamp uncut light wear. Very Good. AI 30008 4. unknown books‎

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‎United States‎

‎ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES‎

‎Washington 1803. Original plain wrappers chipped along spine loosening. pp. 195-316 iv Table of Contents lxxxv xxvi Index. Title leaf dampstained and bound at end. Untrimmed partly uncut Good to Very Good. Significant law prohibiting vessels from bringing Black sailors into ports of States which bar entry to free Negroes. Legislation is also included on issues arising from the war in Europe. unknown books‎

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‎APPROPRIATION- SLAVE TRADE. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS ON THE SUBJECT OF THE ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR 1826. FEBRUARY 6 1826‎

‎19th Cong. 1st Sess.: HR65. 1826. Washington: 1826. 16pp 4 folding charts. Caption title as issued disbound spine reinforced with paper tape. Light tanning and foxing of charts Very Good. On appropriation of funds "for the support of the Agency on the Coast of Africa for receiving the negroes mulattoes and persons of color delivered from on board vessels seized in the prosecution of the slave trade by commanders of the United States' armed vessels." <br/>AI 26367 2. HR65. unknown books‎

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‎CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. IN SENATE MAY 12TH 1794. ON MOTION ORDERED THAT THE MEMORIAL OF MR. PINCKNEY. RELATIVE TO THE BRITISH INSTRUCTIONS OF THE 8TH OF JUNE LAST BE PRINTED FOR THE USE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE‎

‎Philadelphia: Fenno 1794. 32pp caption title as issued disbound. Light scattered foxing Very Good. <br/><br/> Thomas Pinckney President Washington's minister to England protests England's restrictions on American commerce particularly its order to block passage of American ships carrying grain and other products to France and to seize the ships and cargo. For says Pinckney "when two nations are at war those who chuse to live in peace retain their natural right to pursue their agriculture manufactures and other ordinary vocations; to carry the produce of their industry for exchange to all nations belligerent or neutral as usual." England in response insists on the legality of its position. <br/>Evans 27892. NAIP w005308 9. Fenno unknown books‎

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‎Die Constitution der Vereinigten Staaten von America mit ihren Verbesserungen und die der republik von Pennsylvanien. Nebst der Erklärung der Unabhängigkeit der Vereinigten Staaten und die Abschiedsaddresse von General George Washington‎

‎Reading Penn.: Carl Bruchman fur Carl McWilliams 1823. Early printing of the Constitution in German. 156pp. 12mo. Period quarter calf and marbled boards. Foxing staining in rear. Early printing of the Constitution in German. 156pp. 12mo. Early German translation of the American Constitution together with the Constitution of Pennsylvania the Declaration of Independence and the farewell address of George Washington. Sabin 16126; Bötte 2609; Shaw and Shoemaker 12244 Carl Bruchman fur Carl McWilliams unknown books‎

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‎FOURTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES SECOND SESSION. AN ACT TO SUSPEND IN PART THE ACT INTITULED "AN ACT LAYING CERTAIN DUTIES UPON SNUFF AND REFINED SUGAR" AND TO GRANT RELIEF IN CERTAIN CASES ARISING UNDER THE SAID ACT‎

‎Philadelphia 1797. Folio Broadsheet 7-3/8" x 12." Old horizontal folds three chips at blank edges some foxing in the upper blank margin. Good.<br/><br/> This apparently unrecorded imprint of the Fourth Congress prints three Acts two of them approved March 3 1797 the day before the inauguration of President John Adams and one approved March 2 1797. <br/> The first Act suspends duties on snuff and sugar. The second establishes procedures for remitting or mitigating forfeitures and fines levied pursuant to acts regulating vessels in the fisheries or coasting trade. The third Act concerns the registration and licensing of ships engaged in the coasting and fisheries trade. Each Act is signed in type by George Washington among his final acts as President Jonathan Dayton Speaker of the House and William Bingham President of the Senate pro tempore. <br/>Not in Evans Bristol Shipton & Mooney Stark & Cole ESTC or the online sites of AAS and OCLC as of December 2019. unknown books‎

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