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The Order to Follow Up the Gadsden Purchase with a Postal Convention in the Acquired Territory, Signed by President Franklin Pierce by Franklin Pierce

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Seller: The Raab Collection

Title: The Order to Follow Up the Gadsden Purchase with a Postal Convention in the Acquired Territory, Signed by President Franklin Pierce
Author: Franklin Pierce
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 14/11/1855. This is our first ever document signed by President Pierce relating to the Gadsden PurchaseThe Gadsden Purchase was a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico for $10 million. The territory included lands south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande, where the United States wanted to construct a transcontinental railroad by a far southern route. This acquisition would allow for the railroad's construction to be shorter, easier, and straighter. The purchase also aimed to resolve border issues that lingered after the Mexican-American War.The first draft of the Gadsden Purchase treaty was signed on December 30, 1853, by James Gadsden, U.S. Minister to Mexico, and by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico. The U.S. Senate voted in favor of ratifying it, though with amendments, on April 25, 1854, and then sent it to President Franklin Pierce, who signed it. Mexico's government and its Congress gave the treaty final approval on June 8, 1854, when the treaty took effect. The purchase was the last substantial territorial acquisition in the contiguous United States and defined the Mexico/U.S border. The Arizona cities of Tucson, Yuma, and Tombstone are on territory acquired by the U.S. in the Gadsden Purchase.The Gadsden Purchase directly impacted mail routes and postal services in the newly acquired territory. Yet there wasn't a specific postal convention related to the Gadsden Purchase, and the treaty's broader impact on land use, infrastructure, and development would clearly have effects on postal services in the region. This seemed to call for a postal convention between the United States and Mexico, and President Pierce authorized Gadsden in Mexico City to negotiate one. This is that very authorization.In the end, the Gadsden Purchase never did get a direct postal convention, and Pierce’s authorization for one had to be cancelled. But the Gadsden Purchase did significantly influence the growth of postal services in the Southwest by facilitating infrastructure development, and after the transcontinental railroad was constructed in the 1880s, allowing for the establishment of new communities along the transcontinental railroad route.Document signed, Washington, November 14, 1855, directing the Secretary of State to affix the seal of the United States for “a full power for Mr. Gadsden to conclude a postal convention with Mexico.” The document is marked “canceled” after the failure of the proposed postal convention.This is our first document signed by President Pierce relating to the Gadsden Purchase in all our decades in this field.The U.S. did not take formal military possession of the Gadsden Purchase land until 1856, at which time four companies of the First U.S. Dragoons were stationed at Tucson and afterwards at Calabazas. Late in 1856 Fort Mohave was established in the territory and was garrisoned by three companies of infantry. Fort Buchanan was opened in 1857. The military was established at these posts to protect the settlers from the Apache. New Mexico was already a U.S. territory; Arizona was organized as a Territory in 1863.

Without Love A Play by Philip Barry

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Title: Without Love A Play
Author: Philip Barry
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Coward-McCann, 1943. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Presentation By Author. 1st Edition. Very Scarce Play with Wonderful Photo on Front Jacket of a Very Young Katherine Hepburn.First Edition $2.00 on Flap.Rare Presentation Copy."For Babs and Dan with special love for liking this one from Phil East Hampton 21 July 43." Signed in Year of Publication.Beautiful Copy..

[Shape Book Trade Catalog]: Story Book Lamps: "From the Land of Make Believe

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Title: [Shape Book Trade Catalog]: Story Book Lamps: "From the Land of Make Believe
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [No place]: The Wm. Hengerer Company, 1910. Softcover. Near Fine. 16mo. Stapled self-wrappers. (16pp.). Light rubbing and a small stain on the front wrap, still a very near fine copy. A lovely little booklet die-cut into the shape of a book, offering very attractive children's reading lamps, mostly shaped like story book characters: Little Bo Peep, Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, etc. Very scarce.

The Nile Tributaries Of Abyssinia; And The Sword Hunters Of The Hamran Arabs by Baker, Samuel W.

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Title: The Nile Tributaries Of Abyssinia; And The Sword Hunters Of The Hamran Arabs
Author: Baker, Samuel W.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co, 1869. Fifth Edition. Cloth. Very good. Fifth edition of The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia by Sir Samuel W. Baker.. Octavo, [xx], 413pp, [1]. Three-quarter leather with black cloth boards. Gilt trim. Marbled edges. Four raised bands, title in gilt on red morocco label affixed to spine. Stated "Fifth Edition" on title page. Solid text block, joints and hinges rubbing, still strong. Rubbing to front cover and spine, bumped edges. Frequent annotations throughout in pencil. Lacking frontispiece and one plate, else sound. Hand-colored fold-out map at rear, two archival reinforcements to verso, otherwise fine. This collection contains the bookplate of Henry Von Wackerbarth, a book collector from Chicago in the late 19th century.

Biographical directory of the South Carolina Senate, 1776-1985 by Bailey, N. Louise

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Title: Biographical directory of the South Carolina Senate, 1776-1985
Author: Bailey, N. Louise
Seller: Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
ISBN: 9780872494794
Condition: New
Description: University of South Carolina Press, 1986-01-01. Hardcover. New. 10x7x5. 0872494799 Three volume set in shrink wrap. No slipcase. Professional packaging in a box and prompt shipping. List 03/24/026 new.

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