Letter from the Secretary of State, Transmitting a List of the Names of Persons to Whom Patents Have Been Granted for Any New and Useful Invention During the Year 1822
Printed By Gales & Seaton, 1823. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fair / No Jacket. Item #L059794
Upper wrapper detached; stains, creases, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to extremities); short tears to spine edges; slight wear to foredges. 13 pages. Upper wrapper title. At head of title: 36 (in brackets). List of patents in table format, with Adams' introductory letter; dated January 22, 1823 ('Read, and ordered to lie upon the table'; upper wrapper). Adams (1767-1848), 6th US President (1825-29), eldest son of John and Abigail Adams; graduate of Harvard University (1787), elected to the US Senate (1803; resigned 1808); appointed to the US Supreme Court (1811) but declined; Secretary of State (1817-25) and real promulgator of what is known as the 'Monroe Doctrine'; elected to the US Congress (1831); noted for his defense of the participants in the slave revolt aboard the Amistad before the Supreme Court (1841).
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