Letter from the Secretary of State, Transmitting a List of the Names of the Persons to Whom Patents Have Been Issued, for the Invention of Any New or Useful Art, or Machine, Manufacture, or Composition of Matter, or Any Improvement Thereon ...
Printed By Gales & Seaton, 1826. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good / No Jacket. Item #L059799
Slight stains, creases, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to wrappers and extremities); slight wear to foredges and lower edges. 23 pages. Upper wrapper title. Title continued: From January 1st, 1825, to January 1st, 1826 (19th Congress, First Session: Document Number 22). List of patents in table format; dated January 3, 1826 ('Read, and ordered to lie upon the table'; upper wrapper). Clay (1777-1852), American statesman; entered politics in 1798 in Kentucky (in opposition to the sedition law); in Kentucky legislature (1803-06; 1807-09) and the US Senate (1806-07; 1831-42); elected Speaker of the House (1811; again in 1823); Secretary of State (1824-28); known for his compromising attitude on the slavery question and his support of Texas annexation and the Missouri Compromise.
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