[Rarebooks] For sale, perfect for resale: a large lot of Peter Force-compiled American history documents

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Good morning, all. 

I have for sale today a collection of 22 __American State Papers__, American Archives__, and __Congressional Globes__. Each item for sale is depicted pics I can send and with details galore if you need them further. 

It is a collection I'm selling on consignment for another beloved party (a gentleman bookseller mentor, in this case). Price is firm, shipping will be at cost, packing will be within an inch of their lives. Again, particular details can be relayed to you most fulsomely on request, no sweat. 



Peter Force, born 1790, died 1868, was a printer, amateur historian, eventual mayor of Washington, and an inveterate document collector. The crowning achievement of his profession life was to bring out a lengthy series he dubbed the American Archives, comprising more than 20 folio-sized volumes of two-columned texts, all original documents, of American history from the early colonial period through the Congress of 1789, including private correspondence, legislative records, personal communications, and government business. It took an Act of Congress to enable and supervise the work. Six volumes in Series Four were published from 1837 to 1846, and then several more volumes in the Fifth Series were published by 1853. All covered the three years prior to American Independence. Political infighting prevented the completion of his monumental project. 

Each massively heavy, oversized volume is a sturdy, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, quite unusual in the trade, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library. Except for items detailed below, all rebound in black or dark gray cloth, with light dust soiling thereto, but with new endpapers, and remarkably clean and unmarked of interiors. Predictable age-toning to text, with some smudges; damp-staining to fore-margins, but not intruding on text, and some waviness thereto. 



American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, commencing March 3, 1815 and ending March 3, 1823 Class IV Commerce and Navigation, Volume II, 1834. vi + 774 + xvi pages, including Index. (2 copies) #330866. 

American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, commencing March 3, 1789, and ending March 3, 1815. Class IV Commerce and Navigation, Volume VII, 1832. Oddly states “Vol. I” on spine. Stamp from historical society on title page. vi + 774 + xvi pages, including Index. (3 copies) #330864 and #330865. 



American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, from the First Session of the Fourteenth to the First Session of the Eighteenth Congress, Inclusive: Commencing December 4, 1815, and ending May 27, 1834, Class VIII, Public Lands, 1834. ix + 895 + lxii pages including Index. #331340. 



American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, from the Second Session of the Nineteenth to the Second Session of the Twenty-First Congress, Commencing January 12, 1827, and ending March 1, 1824-1827, Class VI, Volumes II and III, Naval Affairs, 1834. Volume II: 856 pp. Volume III: 991 pp. #330187. 



American Archives: Fourth Series. containing a documentary history of the English colonies in North America, from the King's Message to Parliament, of March 7, 1774 to the Declaration of Independence by the United States. Volume I, 1837. cxv + 1,886 pp., including Index. #330171. 



American Archives: Fourth Series. containing a documentary history of the English colonies in North America, from the King's Message to Parliament, of March 7, 1774, to the Declaration of Independence by the United States. Volume II, 1839. cli + 1,954 pp., including Index. #330960. 



American Archives: Fourth Series. containing a documentary history of the English colonies in North America, from the King's Message to Parliament, of March 7, 1774 to the Declaration of Independence by the United States. Volume IV, 1843. cxv + 1,791 pp, including Index. #330167. 



American Archives: Fourth Series. containing a documentary history of the English colonies in North America, from the King's Message to Parliament, of March 7, 1774 to the Declaration of Independence by the United States. Volume V, 1844. cxi + 1,759 pp., including Index. #330172. 



American Archives: Fourth Series. containing a documentary history of the English colonies in North America, from the King's Message to Parliament, of March 7, 1774 to the Declaration of Independence by the United States. Volume VI, 1846. cii + 1,855 pp., including Index. #330174. 



The Congressional Globe: containing the debates and proceedings of the First Session of the Thirty-Fifth Congress: also, of the Special Session of the Senate, 1858. Includes Lands for the landless debates, and the disposition of the public domain of the United States. lxiv + 1,024 pp. #331021. 



The Congressional Globe: containing the debates and proceedings of the First Session of the Thirty-Fifth Congress: also, of the Special Session of the Senate, Part 2, 1858. Includes Lands for the Landless debates, and the disposition of the public domain of the United States. lxiv + 1,026-2,048 pp. #331022. 



The Congressional Globe: containing the debates, proceedings, laws, etc., of the First and Second sessions, Thirty-Fourth Congress, 1856. lxxxi + 801-1,600 pp. #331341. 



The Congressional Globe: containing the debates, proceedings, laws, etc., of the First and Second Sessions, Thirty-Fourth Congress, 1856. lxxvi 1,601-2,241 pp. + another ~80 pp. of a new series. #331345. 



The Congressional Globe: containing the debates, proceedings, laws, etc., of the First and Second Sessions, Thirty-Fourth Congress, 1856. lxxvi + 800 pp.#331348. 



The Congressional Globe: containing the debates, proceedings, laws, etc., of the First Session of the Thirty-Third Congress, Volume XXVIII-Part II, 1854. lxxiv + 785-1,568 pp. #331342. 



The Congressional Globe: containing the debates, proceedings, laws, etc., of the First Session Thirty-Fifth Congress, 1858. Damp-staining along fore-edge, not greatly affecting readability of text, else clean and unmarked. xvi-605 pp. #331343. 



The Congressional Globe: containing the debates, proceedings, laws, etc., of the First Session Thirty-Fifth Congress: also, of the Special Session of the Senate, 1858. lxiv + 2,049-3,061 pp. #331347. 



The Congressional Globe: containing the debates, proceedings, laws, etc., of the Second Session of the Thirty-Third Congress, Volume XXX, 1855. lxiv + 1,569-2,356 pp. #331344. 



The Congressional Globe: containing the debates, proceedings, laws, etc., of the Second Session of the Thirty-Third Congress, Volume XXX, 1855. lxi + 833-1,192 pp. + Appendix + xix + 440 pp. #331349. 



The Congressional Globe: containing the debates, proceedings, laws, etc., of the Second Session Thirty-Third Congress, Volume XXX-Part III, 1855. xli + 832 pp. #331346. 



Appendix to The Congressional Globe: containing the debates and proceedings of the First Session, Thirty-Third Congress: containing Speeches, Important State Papers, etc., New Series, Vol. XXXI, 1858. Present but detaching front board. viii + 1,232 pp. #331023. 



Appendix to The Congressional Globe: containing speeches and important state papers, etc., of the First Session, Thirty-Fourth Congress, 1856. Provides valuable for the perspectives regarding the vexed question of slavery versus abolition for the State of Kansas. Covers present but detached, first signature present but detached.1,307 pp. #340795. 

$1950.00 gets 'em all, plus shipping at cost. 

Thank you for looking. 

-- 
Lawrence J. Hammar 

"Truth is a pathless land" (J. Krishnamurti)