Removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia

1907. LUMPKIN, Wilson. The Removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia... Including his Speeches in the United States Congress on the Indian question, as Representative and Senator of Georgia; his Official Correspondence on the Removal of the Cherokees During his Two Terms as Governor of Georgia, and Later as United States Commissioner to the Cherokees, 1827-1841 together with a Sketch of his Life and Conduct while holding many Public Offices under the Government of Georgia and the United States, prior to 1827, and after 1841. NY: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1907. 1st ed. 2 vols. 369; 328 pp., frontis. In orig. cloth. Corners of vol. 2 are a trifle bumped else a very bright set in near fine condition. Howes L-567. Limited to 500 copies. There were other copies issued in a later binding from original sheet, but they lack the frontispieces. This is from the original issue in publisher's cloth. Larwood, Georgia, series 10, p. 227: "[Lumpkin] was a Congressman from Georgia (1827-1831), governor of Georgia (1831-1835), and in 1835 was appointed by President Andrew Jackson the first United States Commissioner under the Cherokee Treaty. For a period of ten years he was thus continuously and intimately concerned with the `Indian Question' and the removal of the Cherokees.