[SLAVE TRADE]. [PERRY, Matthew, Commodore (1794-1858)]. Public Documents Printed by the Order of the Senate of the United States, Second Session of the Twenty-Eighth Congress… Volume IX… Washington [D.C.]: Gales and Seaton, 1845. Thick 8vo. With two fold-out tables, and a fold-out map of Liberia. Approximately 225 x 138 mm. Bound in library binding of full light-green cloth, black and burgundy gilt morocco lettering labels and with printed paper label on spine (spine sunned, some rubbing, mild soiling to binding, text a bit toned, foxed, inkstamp of the “Association of the Bar Library New York” on the title-page, ink numbers on title-page and copyright page, date inkstamp on rp.; a short tear to the Liberia map). This book contains Perry’s lengthy account of his actions against illegal slavers along the coast of Africa, as well as the re-patriation of freed slaves to Liberia (pp. 1-151 of the first section). This volume also contains a resolution of the state of Illinois in support of the annexation of Texas (p. [1] in the final section).