Clark Matthew Clair (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Sometime rebound in brown buckram, ex library with labels to spines, ink stamps on the end papers & title page of vol. ii., rest clean. 13 x 8 1/2 inches. 1024, xvi; 872, xxviii clean pages. Two leaves in vol. ii. chipped at the edges with some loss. These two volumes cover the years 1789 to 1823, and includes all of the documents pertaining to commerce and navigation in connection with the government of the United States. They include all documents pertaining to ship building; harbors; fisheries; imports and exports; shipping tonnage; duties; coastal surveys; trade; sick and disabled seamen; commercial regulations of foreign countries; etc.These books are necessary for anyone studying the history of this period. They are full of primary information and accounts unavailable elsewhere.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Sometime rebound in brown buckram, ex library with labels to spines, ink stamps on the end papers, rest clean. 13 x 8 1/2 inches. 860 pp., xvi pp. index; light foxing, tight. This volume covers the years 1789 to 1819, and includes all of the documents pertaining to the military affairs of the government of the United States.This book is necessary for anyone studying the history of this period. It is full of primary information and accounts unavailable elsewhere.This begins with President Washington's presentation of the militia of the United States, reports on the military of the Revolution, and continues through the periods of Indian warfare and the War of 1812. Reports on the militias, tactics, fortifications, officers, foundaries, casualties, &c., &c., all given in minute detail.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Sometime rebound in brown buckram, ex library with labels to spines, ink stamps on the end papers, rest clean. 13 x 8 1/2 inches. 846 pp., xiii pp. index; light foxing, tight. This volume covers the years 1819 to 1825, and includes all of the documents pertaining to the military affairs of the government of the United States.This book is necessary for anyone studying the history of this period. It is full of primary information and accounts unavailable elsewhere.Reports on the militias, tactics, fortifications, officers, foundaries, expenses, armories, rules and regulations, &c., &c., all given in minute detail. Sections on the Military Academy at West Point; Trial of Colonel William King; Systems of Martial Law; Militia Fines; Lists of Officers; etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Sometime rebound in brown buckram, ex library with labels to spines, ink stamps on the end papers,rest clean. 13 x 8 1/2 inches. Each volume about 900 pages plus an extensive index (volume six has 1127 pp.); some dampstains in vol. 6. . US Media rate as quoted at checkout; will ship in two parcels. These six volumes cover the years 1789 to 1828, and includes all of the documents pertaining to Foreign Relations in connection with the government of the United States. They cover the period between Presidents George Washington and John Quincy Adams. They present the annual Messages of the Presidents as well as every document pertaining to foreign affairs. These books are necessary for anyone studying the history of this period. They are full of primary information and accounts unavailable elsewhere.This period of time includes relations with France, England, Tripoli, Spain, Russia, &. The War of 1812, the Impressment of Seamen, the Massacre at Dartmoor Prison, South America, Spain in Florida, Louisiana, Treaty of Ghent, Suppression of the Slave Trade, Spoilation of United States commerce, Spanish Privateers, Congress at Panama, French Spoliations, British Colonial Trade, Indemnity for Slaves, Treaty with Mexico, two folding maps showing boundary of Maine; etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Sometime rebound in brown buckram, ex library with labels to spines, ink stamps on the end papers,rest clean. 13 x 8 1/2 inches. Each volume about 900 pages. US Media rate as quoted at checkout; will ship in several parcels. These eight volumes cover the years 1789 to 1837, and includes all of the documents pertaining to internal developments in connection with the government of the United States. They show, in minute detail, the young nation as it expands westward.These books are necessary for anyone studying the history of this period. They are full of primary information and accounts unavailable elsewhere.Vol. I. - Land Claims in the Northwest Territory; Virginia Military Bounty Lands; Indian Grants; Indiana territory; Land titles in Michigan Territory; Disputed Lands between New York and Massachusetts; Reservations in Ohio; Mississippi; Nachez; etc.Vol. II. - Table of contents detached. Covers 1809 to 1815 with much on New Orleans, St. Louis, Kaskaskia, and the new settlements and territories of the Louisiana Purchase.Vol. III. - 1816 to 1824. Continues Western Expansion. Indian matters in Georgia and elsewhere, lead and copper mines; list of person settling with less than 400 acres in the area of Kaskaskia, Illinois; Land Claims in Louisiana and Missouri; the Christian Indians of Ohio; the Stockbridge Indians on the White River, Indiana; etc. With large folding 1816 Sketch of the Lead Mine District, Washington County, Missouri Territory. Also, Plates: Louisiana 1805, County of Natchitoches; Map of the Village of Peoria; Map of Indian Trail to Alachua from River St. Johns; Vacant Lands near the Indian River; 2 additional plates of vacant land, 7 total plates.Vol. IV. - Similar content to 1827, with the addition of military matters, lands for schools, claims in Louisiana, Florida, with some sketches of boundaries in the text.Vol. V. - 1827 to 1829. The expanding, growing young country continues to deal with land claims, in addition to lands for schools, nines, emigrants, cultivation of specific items (grapes, olives); and asylum in Kentucky for teaching the deaf and dumb; Cherokee Indians entitled to lands; Colleges in Ohio; Improvement of Rivers; Land for a Poor-House; for the Cumberland Hospital; etc. Includes a large folding map of Four Townships in Marengo County, Alabama, granted to the French Emigrants, 1817; and Sketch of part of the State of Louisiana, 1827.Vol. VI. - The early 1830's include more about internal developments, including canals, embankments, bridges, roads, education institutions, and the beginnings of transition to railroads. Also, matters regarding lands "acquired" from various Indian tribes. Records of public lands sold and unsold. Military bounty land. Many survey reports. There are scores of individual land claims in all parts of the United States & Territories.Vol. VII. - Similar content. Indian reservations. Settlement of Polish Exiles. Fraud investigations. Canals, railroads.Vol. VIII. - Similar content, internal developments. Indian lands and reservations. Lands and land claims for western settlers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Sometime rebound in brown buckram, ex library with labels to spines, ink stamps on the end papers & title page of vol. ii., rest clean. 13 x 8 1/2 inches. 861, lxxxiv; 872, xxviii clean pages. Two leaves in vol. ii. chipped at the edges with some loss. These two volumes cover the years 1789 to 1827, and includes all of the documents pertaining to Indian tribes in connection with the government of the United States. They begin with the treaty with the Six Nations, Wyandots, and others, of 1789, presented to the Congress by President George Washington. The last Treaty is with the Creeks in 1825.They include all documents accompanying Indian Treaties; Indian massacres and depredations; Indian wars; and Efforts made for their benefit in civilization, agriculture, and the mechanical arts.These books are necessary for anyone studying the history of this period. They are full of primary information and accounts unavailable elsewhere.Included are reports of battles, defeats, letters, journals, reports of trade, &c. The time period covers all of the wars with the Indians in the original states, the Ohio Northwest, in Kentucy, in the Southern States, and along the frontiers, with the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Creeks, the Six Nations, &c.