LOUISIANA
LOUISIANA
Sole
Edition — “I Speak
the Things That I Do Know!”
Eaton,
John Henry. To Chandler Price, chairman, Jacob Holgate and Henry Horn,
secretaries of the Committee of Superintendence and Vigilance, for the city and
county of Philadelphia. In reply to Jonathan Roberts, Esq. Philadelphia, 1826.
8vo (20.6 cm, 8.1"). 29, [3 (blank)] pp.
• Sole edition of this commentary regarding the election of Andrew
Jackson, written by a U.S. senator who went on to become Secretary of War. Responding
to a pamphlet published by an advocate of presidents Monroe and Adams, Eaton
here defends Jackson, his friend and the mentor of his first wife, with regards
to Jackson’s actions as governor of Florida and his imposition of martial
law in New Orleans. The quoted element of our caption appears on the pamphlet’s
p. [3].
• Shoemaker 24396. On Eaton, see: Dictionary of American Biography, V, 609–10. Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Title-page with early inked inscription in upper margin, partially shaved—apparently, “W. Rawle” (the Philadelphia lawyer) from someone we can’t make out. Slight offsetting, cockling.
Policing Louisiana — 1809Mendes, Antonio. Document Signed, on paper. “Copie des Reglements des Police de cet Parroire de St. Bernard, pour l’année de 1809 ...” Louisiana, 1810. Folio (31.6 cm, 12.5"). [2] ff. 
• Creased along fold lines, with upper corners bumped; otherwise clean and unworn.
You (Sho' nuf'!) Have to Have a
Tolerance
for Dialect Stuart, Ruth McEnery. Aunt Amity's silver wedding and other stories. New York: Century Co., 1909. 8vo. [10], 228 pp.; 14 plts.
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover stamped in gilt and light green, spine gilt-stamped; corners and spine extremities a touch rubbed, otherwise clean and bright. Front free endpaper with pencilled gift inscription dated [19]10. (12946)
Surveying
& Selling Public Lands — 13 MapsUnited
States. Commissioner of the General Land Office. [drop-title] Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the annual report of the Commissioner of the General
Land Office. December 28, 1843. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. January 2, 1844. Ordered to be printed. [Washington]: Blair & Rives, 1844. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.9"). 158 pp.; 13 maps.
Click the images for enlargements. • In modern wrappers, with sewing holes. Remnants of paper label affixed to top left corner (blank space) of first page. One map torn, with tear limited to blank space in inner margin. Moderate foxing throughout; some corners dog-eared.
An Irish-AMERICAN'S Service & ClaimsUnited States. Congress. House. Committee of Claims. Report of the Committee of Claims to whom was referred, on the twenty-second ultimo, the petition of Oliver Pollock, of the state of Pennsylvania. January 23, 1807. Read, and referred to a committee of the whole House, on Monday next. City of Washington: A. & G. Way, printers,
1807. 8vo. 30 pp.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 14058. Removed from a nonce volume. Librarian's lightly pencilled notation on title-page. Stray brown spots. Very good. (18017)
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