Washington. 1822. 256,3pp. Original boards, paper label. Front board detached, rear hinge cracked, spine and label chipped, corners bumped, early manuscript title on front board. Contemporary gift inscription on first front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscriptions on titlepage. Second front free endpaper partially torn away, some loss to a later...
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...
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...
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.....
[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 maritime convention of 1783.
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...
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 American...
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. 1732. Four volumes. Contemporary calf, ruled in gilt, gilt morocco labels. Moderate wear to spine ends, joints, and corners. Occasional light tanning. Very good. Styled the second edition on the titlepage, but much expanded to comprise a completely different set, believed to have been edited by Samuel Whatley. The...
London. 1710/13. 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. Rubbed. 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 eventually stretch to twelve volumes and cover...
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...
San Francisco. 1852. 20pp. Original plain green wrappers. Light soiling, minor foxing. Very good. In a chemise and half morocco slipcase. Southern California Judge Benjamin Ignatius Hayes' copy of a foundational legal text regarding Mexican land claims in the Golden State, signed by him on the titlepage. Hayes was a....
[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-...
[Washington. 1867]. 7pp. Folio. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Minor staining to edges, tiny stain, light creasing. Very good. Concluded March 19, 1867, ratification advised with amendment April 8, 1867, amendment accepted April 8, 1867, proclaimed April 18, 1867. The Chippewa cede lands in Minnesota.
Paris: Chez Buisson, 1790. Two volumes. 254; 251pp. Original wrappers, paper labels. Stain near foredge of pp.241-254 of first volume. Otherwise remarkably clean and tight. In a board box. The first publicly available and comprehensive edition, after the privately printed components of 1778. Issued in the same year as the...
Amsterdam. 1783. [8],264pp. plus three folding tables. Contemporary patterned boards, manuscript paper spine 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...
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...
[Worcester: Isaiah Thomas]:, Dec. 24, 1800. [2]pp. Text in four columns. Broadsheet, approximately 10 1/2 x 17 1/4 inches. Moderately tanned, some light staining. Very good. In a green cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. An historically-important and rare extra edition of Isaiah Thomas's MASSACHUSETTS SPY...
