8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Slight stains, creases, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to extremities); previous owner's pencil annotations (upper wrapper); slight wear to foredges and lower edges. 17 pages. Upper wrapper title. At head of title: 91 (in brackets). 'Abstract' (page 5) of American seamen (both native-born and naturalized citizens), with Adams' introductory letter; dated February 3, 1823 ('Read, and referred to the Committee on Commerce'; upper wrapper). Notable also for the upper wrapper pencil annotations in an unidentified holograph: 'Reports from / State / Navy / Postmaster + / Memorials : 2d Sess [word unclear] Copy'. Adams (1767-1848), 6th US President (1825-29), eldest son of John and Abigail Adams; graduate of Harvard University (1787), elected to the US Senate (1803; resigned 1808); appointed to the US Supreme Court (1811) but declined; Secretary of State (1817-25) and real promulgator of what is known as the 'Monroe Doctrine'; elected to the US Congress (1831); noted for his defense of the participants in the slave revolt aboard the Amistad before the Supreme Court (1841). Bestandsnummer des Verk�ufers L059784

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Titel: Letter from the Secretary of State, ...

Verlag: Printed By Gales & Seaton

Erscheinungsdatum: 1823

Einband: Trade Paperback

Zustand: Good

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Auflage: First Edition.

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