[Rarebooks] fs: 1840 Border Disputations

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

Who Owns Maine? Today you can answer that question at
a special price of $400, net to all.  Word is that the topic of
Maine's borders remains a hot-button issue on the cocktail
party circuit, right up there with why Brad and Jen broke up,
and with this book you can be the best informed on at
least one topic...


THE RIGHT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE NORTH-EASTERN BOUNDARY 
CLAIMED BY THEM. Principally Extracted from the Statements Laid before the 
King of the Netherlands, and revised by Albert Gallatin, with an appendix 
and eight maps.

by Albert Gallatin.
New York; Samuel Adams, Printer: 1840.

In 1839 the British Government had appointed Commissioners to survey the 
disputed Maine boundary, and at the time Gallatin wrote this the American 
Government was busily doing the same. The dispute would finally be settled 
several years later under Secretary of State Daniel Webster. Gallatin, 
something of a Renaissance man who had served as Secretary of the Treasury 
under Jefferson, reviews the history of the dispute and explains the 
competing claims.

Hardcover. 6"x9", x + 179 pages, plus 8 maps on 6 folding sheets. Bound in 
old period boards with a cloth spine and leather label. Spine rather 
chipped at the head and lacking a 2" portion at the base, with one 
additional rip in the cloth; lacks front endpapers; slight foxing 
throughout; first map with a slight tear and two panels discolored, all 
maps with browned edges and some slight scattered browning. Covers somewhat 
soiled and worn, and chipped at the corners. [01364]

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