[Rarebooks] fa: JAY TREATY - TREATY BETWEEN HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY and the UNITED STATES 1795 (U.S. Constitution, Thomas Jefferson, Noah Webster, &c.)

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, Conditionally Ratified by the Senate of the United States, at Philadelphia, June 24, 1795. To Which is Annexed, a Copious Index. Philadelphia: Printed by Henry Tuckniss, for Mathew Carey, no. 118, Market Street, Aug. 12, 1795. Tall 12mo (16 cm) in early/period calf; 283 pp. Howes T-341; Sabin 96580.

Binding rubbed and worn, front board detached; bound without endpapers, chips to the inner corners of the title-page with slight loss to the imprint; loss to the bottom margin of the last leaf, not affecting the text; tanning to the leaves with a few occasional small spots and stains. Early bookplate and ownership signature of James Campbell, who has also identified the authors of some of the articles written anonymously or under pseudonyms.

Published less than two months after its ratification, the volume contains not only the full text of the controversial treaty, but also an early printing of the Constitution of the United States and a voluminous appendix comprised of speeches, congressional reports, town resolutions and memorials, and newspaper articles and editorials relative to the treaty, including letters from Thomas Jefferson and a "Vindication of the Treaty" by "Curtius" (attributed by the book's owner to Alexander Hamilton, but now thought to be by Noah Webster and James Kent), etc., etc.