Signature of the eighth president ("M. Van Buren") in an autograph album also containing the signatures of his vice president ("Rh: M: Johnson"), his entire cabinet as of 1840 ("John Forsyth," State; "Levi Woodbury," Treasury; "J. R. Poinsett," War; "JK Paulding," Navy; "H. D. Gilpin," Attorney General; "John M Niles," Postmaster General), most of the Supreme Court (including Chief Justice Roger B. Taney), and most of the members of the Twenty-Sixth Congress, including Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, John Crittenden, John Bell, Thomas Hart Benton, and four future or past presidents: Franklin Pierece, Johns Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, and James Buchanan. 4to album (7 1/2 x 6 in.; 191 x 152 mm), engraved title-page, original gilt-panelled red morocco, pink endpapers, gilt edges; shaken, spine worn with loss, covers detached.

Signature of the eighth president ("M. Van Buren") in an autograph album also containing the signatures of his vice president ("Rh: M: Johnson"), his entire cabinet as of 1840 ("John Forsyth," State; "Levi Woodbury," Treasury; "J. R. Poinsett," War; "JK Paulding," Navy; "H. D. Gilpin," Attorney General; "John M Niles," Postmaster General), most of the Supreme Court (including Chief Justice Roger B. Taney), and most of the members of the Twenty-Sixth Congress, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, John Crittenden, John Bell, Thomas Hart Benton, and four future or past presidents: Franklin Pierece, Johns Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, and James Buchanan. 4to album (7 1/2 x 6 in.; 191 x 152 mm), engraved title-page, original gilt-panelled morocco, pink endpapers, gilt edges; shaken, spie worn with loss, covers detached.
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