Washington: Printed by Davis and Force, 1822. 256,3pp. Original tan and blue paper boards, printed paper label, expertly rebacked retaining most of the original paper backstrip. Label a bit chipped, corners bumped, early manuscript title on front board. Contemporary presentation inscription on front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscriptions on titlepage.....
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.....
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Aix: Joseph David, 1783. 3pp. Quarto. Later marbled paper wrappers. Moderate edge wear, slight browning to edges. Very good. Regional printing at Aix of the official proclamation of peace between France and Great Britain, originally printed by the Imprimerie Royale. This version contains an additional paragraph of official authorization for.....
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Paris: P.G. Simon & N.H. Nyon, 1783. 4pp. Quarto. Modern marbled boards. Slight browning, else very good. City of Paris edition of the official proclamation of peace between France and Great Britain, ending the war in the American colonies, and originally printed by the Imprimerie Royale. This Parisian reprint, in.....
[Madrid]. 1783. pp.161-71pp. Dbd. Very good. This supplement to the official gazette of the Spanish court was issued as a periodical, but numbered consecutively. This is thus an early, possibly the first, Spanish printing of the preliminary articles of settlement between Spain and England in the American Revolution, agreed to.....
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.....
[Philadelphia: Folwell, 1796]. pp.[363]-484,[1]. Dbd. Foxed, else good. Published in the first volume of Folwell's collected U.S. Laws, issued in 1796, with separate titlepage. Contains both French treaties of 1778, the Provisional Treaty of 1792, and the Definitive Treaty of 1783 with the British, and the Dutch commercial treaty and.....
London. 1813. 15pp. printed in English and French on facing pages. Half title. Small quarto. Dbd. Near fine. By this treaty England ceded Guadaloupe, seized from France, to Sweden. Sweden, in return, agrees to prohibit the importation of slaves into Guadeloupe and to exclude any ships of Britain's enemies in.....
Montreal: John Lovell & Son, 1881. 135pp. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Spine repaired, corners bumped. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Library stamp on several leaves, else very clean. Good. Begg provides a brief history of Canada, including information on the Prince Rupert Charter, fur trading, and relations with.....
[Washington. 1866]. 6pp. Folio. Gathered signatures. Mild soiling and toning. Very good. After the Civil War the government moved quickly to control the western Indian tribes, and this treaty is one of the first actions taken. The treaty was concluded Oct. 19, 1865 at Fort Sully, Dakota Territory, amended, and.....
Boston: Samuel Hall, 1797. 61,[1]pp. Half title. Original plain wrappers, string- tied, as issued. Tears along the spine of the wrappers, else fine, untrimmed and unopened. Bowdoin criticizes Jay's Treaty, made between the United States and Great Britain in 1795, as conceding too much to the British, and encourages the.....
Washington: Way & Gideon, 1823. 510pp. Modern brown cloth, leather label. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Signed in pencil on front flyleaf. Moderate foxing. Good. First edition. A comprehensive compilation of correspondence during the war with Great Britain, including detailed letters from the War of 1812. Includes lists of number.....
London. 1772. Two volumes. viii,404,[4]; iv,342pp. plus folding table. Half title in first volume. Modern half cloth and marbled boards. Small ink stamp in upper outer corner of both titlepages. Very good. Prints a group of treaties from 1689 to 1771, many of them bearing on American affairs, including the.....
London. 1710/1713. Two volumes. 35,[13],448; xxii,[2],560,23pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt morocco labels. Bookplate on verso of each titlepage, old signature and small ink stamp on each titlepage. Some foxing and light tanning. Overall, good plus. The first collected English treaties. The first volume covers material from 1648.....
[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. 1820. Two volumes. vi,408; vi,395pp. Later half calf and boards, spines gilt with raised bands. Wear to extremities. Text tanned. Titlepage of second volume repaired on verso, final leaves of both volumes repaired in gutters. Good. The first printing of the first two volumes of a set that would.....
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.....
[Baltimore. 1827]. [3]pp. Folio. Folded sheet. One vertical and three horizontal folds. Old purple stain in upper portion and along center fold and lower edge. A few small closed splits at folds. Fair. An interesting and rare printed circular letter, made for distribution to members of Congress, regarding various claims.....
Baltimore. 1928. xxv,70pp. plus folding facsimile. Quarto. Half cloth and printed boards, printed paper spine label. Very good, partially unopened, in tattered original glassine. Describes the conditions under which the 1778 treaties of alliance, and amity and commerce, were written and signed. Includes a printing of the treaties in double-column.....
Paris: Chez Buisson, 1790. Two volumes. 254; 251pp. Original paper-backed red paper boards, paper labels. Some wear to spines, dampstain on spine of first volume. Stain near fore-edge of pp.241-254 of first volume. Otherwise remarkably clean and tight. Untrimmed. In a marbled paper slipcase with chemise. The first publicly available.....
Augusta: Adams & Duyckinck, 1813. [6],708,[20]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf, red gilt morocco label. Covers bowed, rubbed, and scuffed; crude buckram repairs at head of spine. Minor worming. Moderate to heavy toning, foxing, and dampstaining. Good. Lacks errata. Second issue, with corrections, after the first of the previous year. A useful.....
Amsterdam. 1783. [8],264pp. plus three folding tables. Contemporary patterned boards, manuscript paper label. Boards scuffed. Some browning. Overall quite nice, untrimmed. Small portion of folding map laid in, with map in its entirety supplied in facsimile and bound in. The second edition, following the first edition of the previous year.....
Amsterdam. 1783. viii,264pp. plus folding map and three folding tables. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Near fine. The second edition, following the first edition of the previous year, of Mandrillon's work on the United States and.....
[Aboard the H.M.S. Tonnant, off Apalachicola, Fl. ca. December 5, 1814]. [1]p. of a folded sheet, [4]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Numerous cross-outs and emendations. Old folds. Near fine. A fascinating and forceful pair of draft addresses by British fleet second-in-command Rear Admiral Edward Codrington, directed chiefly to the.....
