Public Lands in Illinois. January 17, 1839. Read, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Lincoln, from the Committee on Finance, made the following Report... caption title

by Abraham Lincoln

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First edition

First edition. 3, 1 pp. 8vo. Disbound. Housed in a morocco backed slipcase. Monaghan 1; Boroujerdi, et. al. Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print, p. 29. Item #373003 Abraham Lincoln had yet to join the bar when he began his first stint in politics in the Illinois legislature in 1834, serving four consecutive terms in the Assembly through 1841. This rare printing has the prestige of being the first occurrence

• Binding: Leather

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