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PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES]. An album of 27 letters and documents of 27 Presidents, from Washington to Woodrow Wilson. Each item tipped to a large sheet within ruled border, bound with inlaid engraved portraits of each President. Folio, 11 x 14 in., elaborate red levant morocco gilt, covers with inlaid interlacing borders of blue morocco and gilt tooling, upper cover gilt-lettered: "Autographs of the Presidents of the United States...1789-1917," with gilt eagle emblem, top edge gilt, others uncut, inlaid blue morocco doublures, watered silk endpages, by Macdonald, protective case (spine very slightly darkened). CONTENTS: WASHINGTON, George. Document signed ("G. Washington") as General and Commander in Chief, 7 August 1786. 1 page, small folio. Payment receipt. -- ADAMS, John. Document signed ("John Adams") as President, 21 February 1801. Folio. Four language ships papers. -- JEFFERSON, Thomas. Document signed ("Th: Jefferson") as President, countersiged by James Madison as Sec. of State, 25 June 1805. Folio . Four language ships papers. -- MADISON, James. Document signed ("James Madison") as President, countersigned by James Monroe as Sec. of State, 23 January 1816. Folio, on parchment . Engraved ships passport. -- MONROE, James. Engraved document signed ("James Monroe") as President, countersigned by John Quincy Adams as Sec. of State, 17 October 1820. Folio, on parchment . Ship's passport. -- ADAMS, John Quincy Partly printed document signed ("J.Q. Adams") to James D'Wolf, 1 November 1822. 1 page, 4to . Forwarding a "Copy of the Additional Census of Alabama, in virtue of an Act of Congress. -- JACKSON, Andrew. Document signed ("Andrew Jackson") as President, 5 December 1836. Folio . Four language ship's papers. -- VAN BUREN, Martin. Partly printed document signed ("Martin Van Buren") as President, 7 November 1837. 1 page, 4to . Order to affix the seal for "Andrew Stevenson to negotiate a treaty of Commerce and Navigation between the United States and the Kingdom of Greece." -- HARRISON, William Henry Partly printed document signed ("Will. Henry Harrison"), 16 February 1815. Small oblong folio . Check for $13.86. -- TYLER, John. Partly printed document signed ("John Tyler") as President, 2 September 1844. 1 page, 4to . Order to affix the seal for: "the remission of the penalities incurred by the Barque Amalia, Edward Kundsen, Master, upon the payment of costs." -- POLK, James K. Engraved document signed ("James K. Polk") as President, 25 March 1847. Folio . A military appointment. -- TAYLOR, Zachary. Autograph letter signed ("Z. Taylor") and endorsed by Winfield Scott, 3 February 1845. oblong . A request for military supplies. -- FILLMORE, Millard. Autograph letter signed ("Millard Fillmore") to Brig. Baleh, 27 February 1861. 1 page, 8vo . Returning some papers. -- PIERCE, Franklin. Partly printed document signed ("Franklin Pierce") as President, 2 June 1853. Large 4to . An order to affix the seal to an envelope "addressed to the Pacha of Egypt, accrediting Edwin de Lern as Consul General of the U. States of America for Egypt." -- BUCHANAN, James. Letter signed ("James Buchanan"), 19 April 1847. 1 page, 4to . Helping a friend to obtain an "Inspectorship." -- LINCOLN, Abraham. Document signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as President, countersigned by Sec. of War Edwin Stanton, 26 February 1864. Folio, fine . Military appointment of M.H. Dickinson as Additional Paymaster collector. -- JOHNSON, Andrew. Document signed ("Andrew Johnson") as President, countersigned by Sec. of War Edwin Stanton, 28 July 1866. Folio . Military appointment of Francis Berier to Major. -- GRANT, Ulysses, S. Partly printed document signed ("U.S. Grant") as President, 14 September 1875. Oblong folio . Appointment of William Green as Collector of Internal Revenue in Tennessee. -- HAYES, Rutherford B. MDS, as President, 19 August 1878. 1 page, 4to . Order to affix the seal to "the Commission of A.B. Kelley as Notary Public for the District of Columbia."