[Rarebooks] FS: Contemporary Printing of the Treaty that formally ended the American Revolutionary War, 1785

[Charles Agvent]

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THE  ANNUAL REGISTER ... FOR THE YEAR 1783 containing The  Paris
Peace  Treaty  that ended the American Revolution. London: J.  Dodsley
1785.  First  Edition. Handsomely bound in recent calf-backed  marbled
boards  with a gilt-stamped spine volume number and a burgundy morocco
gilt-lettered  title  spine  label.   Includes  material  of  American
interest   including  several  letters  signed   in  type  by   George
Washington  and  Washington's  Farewell Orders to the  Armies  of  the
United  States dated 2 Nov. 1783. Also includes the transcript of  the
Paris  Peace  Treaty  between Great Britain and the United  States  of
America  that  formally  ended the American  Revolutionary  War:  "His
Brittanic  Majesty  acknowledges  the said United  States,  viz.,  New
Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,
Connecticut,  New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,  Virginia,
North  Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign  and
independent states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself,
his  heirs, and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government,
propriety,  and  territorial  rights  of   the  same  and  every  part
thereof."  There is also an account of the "Description of Experiments
made  with  the  Aerostatic Machine, &c. by M. Faujas  de  St.  Fond."
Mostly  light dampstaining to many pages not affecting the text to any
serious  degree.  Very Good internally in a recent and  Fine  binding.
                                                                $500.00

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