SPEECH OF HON. CHARLES SUMNER, OF MASSACHUSETTS, ON THE CESSION OF RUSSIAN AMERICA TO THE UNITED STATES
by Sumner, Charles:
Price: $2,750.00
- Bookseller: William Reese Company - Americana
- Seller Inventory #: WRCAM 39516
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Washington. 1867.
Book Description
Washington. 1867.. 48pp., printed in double columns, plus large folding colored map. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit worn at extremities. Old tideline in upper outer corner throughout, scattered light foxing. Very good. The map is in fine condition. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label. A discourse by Sumner on the history and state of Russian America, which had just become the American territory of Alaska. Secretary of State William Seward, the architect of the purchase, praised Sumner's speech for accurately representing Alaska's great potential. The map, which is usually lacking, is of the greatest importance, being the first published version of the cession area, a region amounting to one-third of the lower forty-eight states. It is widely believed to be the first map to use the name "Alaska." HOWES S1134. LADA-MOCARSKI 159. TOURVILLE 4391. WICKERSHAM 4128.
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