[Philadelphia. 1798]. 72pp. Dbd. Light even toning. Very good. This message is the second entirely devoted to the troubles of the United States with France, the XYZ Affair, and the naval "Quasi-War." The French government had attempted to extort a bribe from the American envoys Charles Pinckney, John Marshall, and.....
London. [ 1783]. [2],72,116pp. Lacks half title. Modern paper boards, printed paper label. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Minor soiling and foxing. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folder. Second edition, after the first of the same year, of the debates in Parliament on the terms of the.....
London: J. Debrett, 1783. [2],40,[2]pp. Modern half roan and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities very lightly rubbed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Some minor soiling. Very good. Third edition, after the first two of the same year. A scathing letter to the Earl of Shelburne, then Prime Minister, on the.....
London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1782. [2],787-788pp. Folio. Modern blind-tooled half calf and marbled boards, printed paper label. Light shelf wear, stab holes from original sewing in gutter margin. Near fine. The act which officially set the stage for the conclusion of the American Revolution. While King.....
London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1784 [i.e. 1783]. [2],52pp. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, t.e.g. Minor shelf wear. Small repair to gutter of titlepage, minimal foxing and tanning. Impression of removed bookplate on front pastedown. Very good plus. The first edition of Philadelphia merchant and land speculator.....
[Hanover]. 1755. 16pp. Dbd. Some damage from spine affecting guttering, else very good. A treaty between Britain and the German Reichsfreie territory of Hesse-Cassell securing the support of the German forces when necessary in exchange for monetary compensation. This secured mercenary troops to fight in the Seven Years War.
London: S. Buckley, 1718. 45pp. Dbd. Printed in two columns. Scattered minor foxing. Very good. The text of a treaty between the Prince George and Prince Charles VI, printed in parallel columns in Latin and English. The treaty obligates Britain and the Holy Roman Empire to a mutual defense pact.....
London: Printed for J. Hartley, 1702. [16],175,[1],161-440pp. Modern half morocco. Small ink library stamp on titlepage, else internally very clean. A very good copy. A collection of British documents, essays, and letters relevant to relations between various nations, most notably Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and England. Of particular interest are two.....
[Philadelphia]: Hopkins and Earle, 1807-1808. Five volumes. Frontispiece portrait in each volume. Late 19th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt leather labels. Bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Light scattered foxing throughout and on each portrait. A handsome, near fine set. From the library of John G......
New York: H.R. Robinson, 1836. Lithographic print, 14¼ x 20 ¾ inches (36½ x 52¾ cm). Tanned and lightly foxed. Small closed tears in the margins, some repaired with tape on verso, one slightly longer tear just into the right edge of image. About very good. A rare political print.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1945. 1816pp. plus numerous illustrations, maps, and graphs, some folding. Contemporary red three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Hinges reinforced. Modern bookplate on front pastedown; ownership markings on front flyleaf. Internally clean. Very good. Government document concerning a treaty between the United States and Mexico respecting.....
[Richmond? 1865]. 20pp. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Lightly tanned. Ink stamp of the United States War Department Record Division's "Rebel Archives" on first page. Very good. An interesting Confederate imprint from late in the Civil War showing the desperation in the Confederacy as a Union victory became more of.....
Philadelphia. 1803. [2],198pp. Modern half morocco. Ex-lib. with ink stamp on verso of titlepage and on first text leaf. Tanned, second half of text more severely than the first. Still, a good, solid copy. This copy bears the ownership signature of Lawrence Washington, nephew of George Washington, on the front.....
London. 1801. viii,278pp. Modern paper wrappers. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Very minor foxing and soiling. Very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth slipcase. Collection of treaties and other public documents relating to maritime diplomacy among European nations, published at the height of the conflict of the Napoleonic.....
London: Printed for John Morphew, 1714. 40pp. Dbd. First and last pages lightly tanned. Very good. A collection of treaties of the Peace of Utrecht, a series of treaties which brought peace following the War of Spanish Succession. The settlement, really a collection of many separate peace treaties, redistributed Spanish.....
London. 1798. 30pp., printed in double columns. Small quarto. Later buckram, spine gilt. Titlepage a bit dusty, moderate pencil underlining. Very good. British printing of President John Adams's message to the Congress regarding the so- called "XYZ Affair," in which American envoys to France had had bribes solicited from them.....
London: Printed for J. Debrett, (Successor to Mr. Almon), 1783. [2],75pp. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Internally clean. Very good. "The Third Edition Corrected," following two other editions of the same year. An interesting and wide-ranging survey of British foreign affairs in the wake of American independence.....
Philadelphia Printed. London, Reprinted: for J. Wright, 1798. 25,[3]pp. Later marbled wrappers. Wrappers lightly rubbed. Text tanned, two ink emendations, blotting out two words in the text. Good. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt. Harper, a leading Southern Federalist, served in the House of Representatives from.....
London. 1897. viii,230,[8]pp. plus frontispiece. Contemporary cloth, stamped in gilt. Light wear and soiling. Bookplates on front endpapers. Internally clean. Nearly very good. History of early diplomatic relations surrounding the New World by noted bibliographer Henry Harrisse.
New York. 1931. [10],399pp. Original cloth, spine gilt. Cloth faded. Very good. First published in 1922. Gives the historical context and major provisions of fifteen American treaties, from the treaties with France of 1778, through the Panama Canal Treaty of 1903.
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Boston: Printed by Richard Draper... 1768. [2],26,[1]pp. Quarto. 19th-century three- quarter straight-grained morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Binding worn and rubbed, joints worn. Titlepage stained and soiled, a few small chips at edges, not affecting text; repair on verso mending closed tears in titlepage gutter, else clean and very.....
Paris: Chez Desenne, [ 1796], An 4 de l'Ere Francaise. 68pp. Gathered signatures, string-tied as issued. Some soiling and staining to titlepage, light staining throughout. Good. Untrimmed and unopened. A scarce French printing and examination of "Jay's Treaty" of 1794, signed between the United States and England, and its potential.....
[Washington. 1866]. 6pp. Folio. Original self-wrappers. A few small marginal tears to front wrapper, light tanning and foxing. Very good. An immediately post-Civil War treaty with the Oglala band of Lakota on the western frontier. The treaty, made in October of 1865 and ratified a few months later, was concluded.....
Philadelphia: Printed by W. Duane, 1803. [2],198pp. Dbd. Even tanning, darker in the second half of the text. A bit of staining on the titlepage, some occasional foxing. "K" and "L" gatherings bound in reverse order. Good. These Senate debates were printed by William Duane, the mercurial editor of the.....
Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1826. xii,379,[2]pp. Modern paper boards, printed label. A few instances of light foxing. Very good. "The first historical study of American diplomacy" - Bemis. Lyman's work, though superseded by later, more wide-ranging scholarship, is important in that it is the first attempt at a systematic diplomatic.....
