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Title: Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Cession of Russian America to the United States Author: Sumner, Charles Place: Washington Publisher: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office Date: 1867 Description: 48 pp. With large folding color lithographed map.(8vo) 22.7x15 cm (9x6"), original printed wrappers. First Edition. The map is "North Western America showing the Territory Ceded by Russia to the United States." Compiled for the Department of State at the U.S. Coast Survey Office B. Peirce, Supt. 1867. Second edition May 1867." There are two insets: Region around Sitka, and North Pacific Ocean. The map measures 56x91 cm. Lot Amendments Condition: Some minor soiling and wear to wrappers; map with repaired tear, short splits at some fold intersections; very good. Item number: 273204b