American State Papers. Class II. Indian Affairs [provenance: Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan]
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Washington, D.C.: Gales and Seaton, 1832. Hardcover. Good +. 861, [1], lxxxiv pages; 34 cm. Contemporary half calf with gilt-tooled spine title; marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers. Series titles: American State Papers. Documents, Legislative, and Executive of the Congress of the United States, From the First Session of the First to the Third Session of the Thirteenth Congress, Inclusive; Commencing March 3, 1789, and ending March 3, 1815. Selected and edited ... by Walter Lowrie, Secretary of the Senate, and Matthew St. Clair Clarke, Clerk of the House of Representatives. Volume IV. Includes index. Former owner's name on blank page following front endpapers and at head of p. [3]: Th. M. T. McKennan. Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan (1794-1852) represented Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives from 1831 to 1839 and in 1842 and 1843. Bookplate on back fixed endpaper of the Washington County Historical Society indicating that it was given to the Society in 1905 by John D. McKennan. A heavy book; for international shipping, it will have to be sent by priority international. In Good+ Condition: leather on spine is cracked with some loss; both joints are cracked; corners are rubbed; faint dampstain at edges from from last few pages of text through index; occasional minor foxing; otherwise pages are clean and bright.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008985
- Title
- American State Papers. Class II. Indian Affairs [provenance: Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Gales and Seaton
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C.
- Date Published
- 1832
- Bookseller catalogs
- American History;
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- Bookplate
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- Good+
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- Edges
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