[Rarebooks] fs: 1775 Treaty with the Western Indians at Pittsburgh

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(No. 10109 )  [Thwaites, Reuben Gold and Louise Phelps Kellogg]. REPORT OF A 
TREATY WITH THE WESTERN INDIANS CONDUCTED AT PITTSBURGH SEPTEMBER 12 --  
OCTOBER 21, 1775 AND NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME PUBLISHED.
Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society, 1908. First thus, 3/4 leather, 
Duodecimo, [ii], 25-127 pages, black and white plates. Very good.
      Complete text of the treaty negotiations held at Pittsburgh in the 
fall of 1775 between Commissioners appointed by the Colony of Virginia and 
certain Western Indians. The manuscript of these negotiations passed down 
through the family of one of the Commissioners, Dr. Thomas Walker, and was 
provided to be here transcribed by Dr. William Cabell Rives, a Walker 
descendant. Bookplate of noted 20th century ophthalmologist Dr. William 
Holland Wilmer on front pastedown. Bound in marbled paper over boards with 
leather spine and fore corners, decorated endpapers. Rubs extremities and 
joints, upper joint shows slight cracking but binding remains solid. 
$100.00
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