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Washington DC: U. S. Government, General Land Office, 1849. Good + with several small chips to edges, a few small holes along historical folds, docketed on the rear. U.S. General Land Office seal in place with all teeth present, age fade from red to pink as is common on these seals and parchment shrinkage around the seal application.. 15.75" x 9.75", 1 pp. broadside, partially printed document, secretarially signed by Thomas Ewing Jr. Ewing was appointed to serve as the first Secretary of the Interior by President Zachary Taylor. Ewing served in the position from March 8, 1849 to July 22, 1850 under Taylor and Millard Fillmore and then resigned to become elected as Senator from Ohio. Ewing was the stepfather of adopted William Tecumseh Sherman and later became his father-in-law when Sherman married Ewing's daughter Ellen. Under the Andrew Jackson administration, land grants were becoming so voluminous in the burgeoning west that president's could no longer afford the time to sign… Read More

Fine. SIGNED "Paul W. Tibbets" beneath a black and white book stock photograph of the inside of the top secret compound of the 509th Composite Group. 5" x 8". General Paul W. Tibbets (1915-2007) was the pilot of the Enola Gay. Named for his mother, this plane carried and dropped the first atomic bomb in history. The target was Hiroshima, and the bomb, code named "Little Boy" was delivered on August 6, 1945 and was the catalyst for ending the war. Tibbets wrote two books about the operation. "I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was." - P. Tibbets.

London, 1880. 7" x 4.5", note paper with embossed Royal Institute of Great Britain seal on header, four mounting tabs on rear corners, light fade across the center from where it was exposed during framing. <br /> <br /> John Tyndall FRS (Aug 1820 - Dec 1893) was a prominent 19th-century Irish physicist. His initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air, proving the connection between atmospheric C02 and what we now know as the Greenhouse Effect in 1859. Tyndall also published more than a dozen science books which brought state-of-the-art 19th century experimental physics to a wide audience. At the time of this writing, from 1853 to 1887 he was professor of physics at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London. "On my return from Switzerland last night I found here the volume on "Scientific Transcendentalism" by D. M. Might I ask you… Read More