Item #37633 Report from the Secretary of the Navy, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the adoption of the improved boarding-pistols and rifles invented by Samuel Colt. May 18, 1840. Samuel Navy Department Colt, J. K Paulding.

Report from the Secretary of the Navy, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the adoption of the improved boarding-pistols and rifles invented by Samuel Colt. May 18, 1840.

[Washington D.C.]: Blair & Rives, printers, 1840. 14 pp. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. Removed from a larger volume, inked numerals to title page, still about very good. Item #37633

Read, and referred to the Committee ... on Naval Affairs. May 25, 1840. Ordered to be printed. 26th Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Doc. no. 503. Correspondence between Samuel Colt and the government as he tries to have his pistols purchased by the Navy.

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