President of the United States from 1825 to 1829

John Quincy Adams. Steel engraving, 1881.

A catalogue of the books of John Quincy Adams : deposited in the Boston Athenæum with notes on books, Adams seals and book-plates / by Henry Adams ; with an introduction by Worthington Chauncey Ford.

The ether discovery. R.Littell's living age, no. 201, 18 March, 1848.

John Quincy Adams. Engraving by J. Andrews, 1848, after G.P.A. Healy.

The stranger and the statesman : James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the making of America's greatest museum, The Smithsonian / Nina Burleigh.

Report upon weights and measures / By John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State of the United States. Prepared in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the third March, 1817.

[John Quincy Adams correspondence].

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Report upon weights and measures / By John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State of the United States. Prepared in obedience to a resolution of the Senate of the third March, 1817.

[John Quincy Adams correspondence].