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1887-1888 – Four maps of the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon that have been removed from an unidentified government publication by H. L. Muldrow

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Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben

Title: 1887-1888 – Four maps of the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon that have been removed from an unidentified government publication
Author: H. L. Muldrow
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Washington, DC, 1888. Disbound. Very good. These four large folding maps are attached to the last page (page 29) of an unidentified federal publication. Page 29 contains a statement, dated 6 August 1887 by H. L. Muldrow, the Acting Secretary for the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that reads in part, “Survey of the outboundaries of the Klamath Reservation in Oregon, and also concerning cattle trespass thereon, with apprehended difficulties the cowboys and Indians. . ..” It also contains a statement of acceptance by the Commissioner, dated 8 October 1888, noting that one of his agents had reported, “I observed large numbers of cattle and horses, the property of white men, trespassing on the land of the Indians.” The four folded maps range in size between 13”x 12” and 18” x 20”. Three are annotated with information relating to the reservation borders and the encroachment. None are titled, but they bear the printed annotation “S Ex 129 53 2”. The maps are in nice shape; page 29 has some edgewear. . White explorers began to enter what today is known as the Klamath Basin, then the homeland of the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin, in the 1820s. Eventually white settlements and the resulting native uprisings against those settlements moved the federal government to establish the Klamath Reservation for all three tribes. After World War Two, white political sentiments regarding Indian Affairs changed, and the federal government began to “get out of the Indian business,” i.e., to terminate all “special relationship” between tribes and the federal government; in the language of the times: “liberating the Indian,” “turning the Indian loose,” “emancipating the Indian,” and “terminating the trusteeship restrictions” which included the “termination” of reservations which many suggest were analogous to segregated ghettos. The Klamath Reservation was the first to go, and when it was dissolved in 1961 during the Kennedy administration, and most absorbed by the Forest Service, the federal government awarded most tribal members a lump sum payment of $43,000/person ($500,000 each in today’s money.) Unfortunately, most recipients had no money management experience, and soon had spent their windfalls. Additionally, many of the previously provided federal support services were eliminated. By the early 1970s, poverty and alcoholism overwhelmed the tribe. Similar experiences occurred with the “termination” of other reservations, and by the mid-1970s, “termination” was seen as a failed policy and the federal government once more began reinstating support services and protections to the tribes that had been abandoned. (For more information, see the “The Klamath River Reservation: 1858-1894” at the National Park Service eHistory Library, “Klamath Indian Reservation,” and “Termination” at the Oregon History Project online, “Kalmath Termination” at the Indigenous Foundations website, and “Termination & Restoration” at Oregon.gov.) Quite scarce. At the time of listing, while other more recent government publications and maps of the Kalmath Reservation are relatively common, I could not locate other examples of these maps (or the pamphlet to which they were attached) documenting conflicts over ranchers allowing their livestock to graze within its territory, nor could I even identify the pamphlet that contained them. No other examples are for sale in the trade, have appeared at auction, or are held by institutions. .

1839 – Triple-rate stampless cover used to mail legal documents by James W. Metcalf

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Title: 1839 – Triple-rate stampless cover used to mail legal documents
Author: James W. Metcalf
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
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Description: New York, 1839. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This stampless cover contained legal documents that were sent from a New York City attorney, James W. Metcalf, to the Seriff of Ontario County, Myon H. Clark, in Canandaigua, New York. It bears an indistinct New York City postmark along with a “Paid” handstamp, both in red along with a manuscript “56¼” rate. This is three times the normal postage of 18½ cents for letters sent for distances between 150-400 miles, indicating it had contained two enclosures for a total of three sheets of paper. .

ARGUMENT OF HON. DANIEL W. VOORHEES, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA. DELIVERED AT CHARLESTOWN, VIRGINIA, NOVEMBER 8, 1859, UPON THE TRIAL OF JOHN E. COOK, INDICTED FOR TREASON, MURDER AND INCITING SLAVES TO REBEL, AT THE HARPER'S FERRY INSURRECTION by Voorhees, Daniel W.

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Title: ARGUMENT OF HON. DANIEL W. VOORHEES, OF TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA. DELIVERED AT CHARLESTOWN, VIRGINIA, NOVEMBER 8, 1859, UPON THE TRIAL OF JOHN E. COOK, INDICTED FOR TREASON, MURDER AND INCITING SLAVES TO REBEL, AT THE HARPER'S FERRY INSURRECTION
Author: Voorhees, Daniel W.
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: [np, 1859. 4pp. Caption title [as issued]. Folded, untrimmed. Blank margins badly chipped, several short closed tears at margins [no text loss]. Light soiling. Fragile copy. Good only. One of two 1859 printings of Voorhees's argument in this historic case, the other having issued from Indianapolis. Voorhees, U.S. Attorney for Indiana, was a Democratic Congressman from that State during the Civil War. Cook, an enthusiastic co-conspirator with John Brown, was Indiana Governor Willard's brother-in-law; John Brown's raid was perhaps hastened by the fact that Cook "was already at Harper's Ferry, where he soon found a job and a wife. Brown was acutely fearful that Cook would talk too much." Potter, Impending Crisis 369. Cook's defense was rendered relatively simple by his confession to having collaborated in the botched raid and slave rebellion. Voorhees's jury argument begs for mercy and flatters the Virginians, who have "thrown around a band of deluded men, who invaded her soil with treason and murder, all the safeguards of her Constitution and laws, and placed them in her courts upon an equality with her own citizens...It is one of the chief blessings of power that it can extend mercy to the weak." Moreover, Cook was unduly influenced by the abolitionists and, especially, Brown himself: in Kansas, "that field of fanaticism, three years ago, this fair and gentle youth was thrown into contact with the pirate and robber of civil warfare." During the Civil War Voorhees "was one of the most virulent of those Democrats whose criticisms were heard throughout the war period. To him abolitionism and secession were equally hateful; and he bewailed the breaches of the Constitution and the tyranny of the war government in terms of unmeasured opprobrium." DAB. OCLC 5159556 [8] as of January 2025. See II Harv. Law Cat. 850 and Swem 6188 [Richmond: 1861]. Not in Sabin, Marke, Work, Blockson, Dumond, Bartlett, Eberstadt, Decker, Haynes, Finkelman.

Handbuch der Chemie mit Rucksicht auf Pharmacie, 2 vols. by [Liebig, Justus ed.] Geiger, P L

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Title: Handbuch der Chemie mit Rucksicht auf Pharmacie, 2 vols.
Author: [Liebig, Justus ed.] Geiger, P L
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: A very good copy; signature clipped from the free front endpaper of both volumes.
Description: Heidelberg: C F Winter, 1843. First Edition by Liebig.. Contemporary paste paper boards.. A very good copy; signature clipped from the free front endpaper of both volumes.. 8vo, I - [2], xvi, [1] - 600, [followed by 7 pages of explanations of the plates numbered 1405 - 1411], [1 - errata] + 2 folding plates and a folding chart; II - [2], [601] - 1400, [2 - divisional title], 43 (index), [5 - adverts] pp. Liebig undertook to revise this handbook after the death of his friend Geiger. It is a Liebig effort containing all of his work on organic and inorganic chemistry. A rather difficult book to come by in such good condition. Paolini #383 illustrating variant title pages; see Partington and Schelenz.

Men Before 10 a.m. too!!! by Vial, Veronique

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Title: Men Before 10 a.m. too!!!
Author: Vial, Veronique
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: powerHouse Books, [2001 First edition. Boards. Quarto. Black and white illustrations. Light rubbing at foot of spine, crease in back free endpaper. Very good+ in fine d.j.

Rhetoric of the Arts. A Symposium in Rhetoric by Tanner, William E. and Fred Tarpley, editors

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Title: Rhetoric of the Arts. A Symposium in Rhetoric
Author: Tanner, William E. and Fred Tarpley, editors
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1983. Dallas, TX: The Federation Press, 1983. 8vo, 47pp. Printed stapled wrappers. Light browning to spine. Very good. § Contains "Description as Cosmos: Blake's Settings in Milton" by Kay Parkhurst Easson. Not found in Bentley.

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