Nov 18, 2008 - Sale 2163

Sale 2163 - Lot 251

Price Realized: $ 180
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Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(UNITED STATES.) Group of 8 congressional reports on public lands. 18 folding maps, some hand-colored in outline. 8 reports in 4 volumes. 8vo, disbound; minor foxing. Washington, 1838-41

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Documents in Relation to Internal Improvements in the State of Illinois [bound with 4 shorter reports]. Includes maps of Illinois, the route from Saginaw to Mackinac in Michigan, and the Neenah River in Wisconsin. 25th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Docs. 259, 234, 364, 102, and 49. 5 March 1838, etc. Report from the Secretary of War . . . of the Survey of the Kaskaskia and Illinois Rivers. With related map. 25th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Doc. 272. 7 March 1838 Operations of the General Land Office, 1838. Includes maps of the public surveys in northern Michigan, Wisconsin, four areas of Louisiana, the "District south of Tennessee" in Mississippi, the Cherokee cession in Alabama, and Florida. 25th Congress, 3rd Session, House Doc. 29. 19 December 1838 Message from the President . . . in Relation to the Survey to Ascertain and Designate the Boundary-Line between the State of Michigan and the State of Wiskonsin. With 5 related maps. 26th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Doc. 151.