Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting a Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, Relative to Local Differences of Longitude and Astronomical Observations Generally (30th Congress, Second Session: Executive Document Number 21)
NP, 1849. First Edition. Unknown. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good / No Jacket. Item #L059800
Slight soiling, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to extremities). 13 pages. Upper wrapper title. At head of title: House of Representatives. Electro-Magnetic Telegraph -- Astronomical Observations. Includes correspondence from A. D. Bache and other US Coast Survey officials; dated January 6, 1849 ('Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed' -- upper wrapper). Walker (1801-69), Pennsylvania-born lawyer and public official; admitted to the Pittsburgh bar (1821); US Senator from Mississippi (1836-45); Secretary of the Treasury (1845-49); Governor of Kansas territory (1857); notable for his financial speculations during his time in Washington, and for his central role in the nomination and election of Polk as US President.
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