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Madison, James | The Treaty of Ghent

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Madison, James

Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting the Treaty of Peace and Amity Between the United States and his Brittanic Majesty ... Washington City: Roger C. Weightman, 1815


8vo (211 x 128 mm). Title-page; toned, light creasing and off🎉setting. 🍨Disbound.


First edition of the Treaty of Ghent, the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812. The Senate approved the treaty on 16 February 1815. President Madison then exchanged ratification papers with a British diplomat on the following day, and the treaty was proclaimed on 18 February, with the present text being printed two days later. Scarce.


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Shaw & Shoemaker 36336