[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.....
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.....
[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. 1718. 45pp. Dbd. Printed in two columns. Very good. The text of a treaty between the Prince George and Prince Charles VI. The treaty obligates Britain and the Holy Roman to a mutual defense pact against the Ottoman Empire. "That the Design and End of the Defensive Alliance be.....
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, 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. Floyd (1806-81).....
[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.....
Mexico: Reimpreso por Jose M.F. de Lara, 1837. xxix,[1],122pp. Original printed salmon wrappers. Spine ends chipped (more so at lower end), small areas of loss to front wrapper near spine tail, reinforced on verso, corners chipped, some spotting. Internally clean. About very good. First Mexican edition, preceded by an edition.....
London: Printed for J. Debrett, (Successor to Mr. Almon), 1783. [2],75pp. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. 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. The anonymous.....
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.....
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.....
[Various places, see below. 1822-1862]. Various paginations, enumerated below. Most of the treaties are in folio format, with a few (noted below) in octavo. Entire collection bound in a single folio volume of 19th-century three-quarter red calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands. Boards worn and rubbed, later repairs.....
Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico: Imprenta del Hospicio, 1870. Letterpress broadside, 23 3/4 x 15 inches. Old folds. Some archival repairs along main horizontal fold (affecting about a dozen words of text). Minor marginal worming near top edge, moderate dampstaining. Very good. A territorial republication for Puebla of the text of.....
Washington: Printed by E. de Krafft, 1817. 5pp. Dbd. Foxed, else near fine. A major point of contention in the Treaty of Ghent was the restitution of slaves which the British had taken from American merchants and farmers. Following a inquiry from the Senate, John Quincy Adams' letter informs the.....
