Statement Explanatory of the Public Interest in William Tatham's Topographical and Other Employments, in Aid of the Department of War...

by William Tatham

$500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Disbound. The beginning of the topographical engineers. A rare pamphlet in support of Tatham's goal of the establishment of a topographical depot on public account. Among other proposals, Tatham suggests that the Federal government might, through liberal compensation, acquire his private library of topographic surveys and military plans as the basis for a national repository. Tatham was a persistent pursuer of Federal appointments. After serving in the

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