MASSACHUSETTS. Two large folio Treasury Ledgers / Daybooks f...

MASSACHUSETTS. Two large folio Treasury Ledgers / Daybooks for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Jan-Oct 1867 (Civil War Reconstruction era), 555pp., most with entries; & June-Sept 1896 (Gilded Age expansion era), circa 840pp., most with entries; including, amongst many others, 1867 payments or salaries to or for Lewis Hayden [Abolitionist, Underground Railroad], F. B. Sanborn [Abolitionist, 'Secret Six'], Governor A. H. Bullock, Maj. Gen. Charles Devens, State Constabulary / State Police (naming rosters of officers), Civil War regiments ('Mass. Volunteers', 'Militia Bounty', et al.), 'Universal Exposition' [1867 Paris], and 1896 for Boston metropolitan parks and water, General Electric, State House, Extermination of Gypsy Moth, Support of State Paupers, and numerous others; both vols. in original blind-panelled reversed calf, very scuffed and lacking backstrips, marbled endpapers (with original tickets of Josiah L. Fairbanks / J. L. Fairbanks & Co.), folio. (2)

Estimate:£300

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