Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting a Statement of the Sales of Public Lands in the Alabama Territory, &c. &c. In Compliance with a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the Third Instant

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good-. Slight soiling, creases, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to extremities); small holes in spine edges and foredges (disbound); some wear to foredges. [3] pages + plate (unpaginated). Upper wrapper title; at head of title: 41 (in brackets). Includes a folding statistical table at rear, signed 'Josiah Meigs', plus Crawford's introductory letter. Dated December 16, 1818 on upper wrapper ('Read, and ordered to lie upon the table'; upper wrapper). Crawford (1772-1834), Virginia-born American statesman, Georgia-based plantation owner and circuit court judge; US Senator (1807-13); minister to France and Secretary of War (1815); Secretary of the Treasury (1816-25); considered for the US presidency in 1816 (versus Monroe) but declined; known as a particular rival of Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and others. Meigs (1757-1822), Connecticut-born lawyer, editor, educator and public official; graduate of Yale (1778); editor of the New Haven Gazette (1784-88); professor of mathematics and science at Yale (1794-1800); president of the state university of Georgia (1801-10); surveyor general of the US (1812); commissioner of the General Land Office (1814); president of the Columbian Institute (1819-22).1 Table (folding plate).…