1844

Book

Title: Instructions for...naval officers employed in...suppression of...slave trade

Volume contains 27 treaties with foreign powers for the suppression of the slave trade. Published for use by British naval captains.

GLC03985.01

1648-1681

Book

Title: Volume of Dutch treaties

Collection of Dutch printings of mid-17th century treaties. Printed in Latin, Spanish, French, Dutch, and German. Contemporary manuscript table of contents bound in the front.

GLC03985.02

1667

Great Britain. Treaties.

Book

Title: Articles of peace...between...Charles II...and the...United Neatherlands

Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker. Untrimmed. The Treaty of Breda affected the relations of the British and Dutch in the New World. Included the Dutch ceding New York to the British.

GLC03985.03

1686

Great Britain. Treaties.

Pamphlet

Title: Treaty of Peace...between...James II...and...Lewis XIV...

Small quarto. Printed by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb. Stab-stitched. Concluded on the 21-31 day of July. The Treaty of Whitehall settled conflicts between Britain and France in America, including fishing rights, fur and Indian trade, and illegal smuggling. Signed on November 1686.

GLC03985.04

1713

Great Britain. Treaties.

Pamphlet

Title: The Assiento...for allowing to...Great Britain the liberty of importing negroes

Printed by John Baskett. Missing 1/3 permission leaf. The Assiento Treaty between England and Spain. Spain granted England an official monopoly to supply enslaved people from Africa to the Spanish New World. Signed on 25 March 1713.

GLC03985.05

1713

Great Britain. Treaties.

Book

Title: Treaty of peace...between...Princess Anne...and...Lewis XIV

Printed by John Baskett. First British edition. Printed in English, Spanish, and Latin. Treaty of Utrecht between France and England. France returned Hudson's Bay to the British. It also gave up Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and St. Kitts and acknowledged England's sovereignty over the Iroguois.

GLC03985.06

1763

Great Britain. Treaties.

Book

Title: Treaty of peace between England, France and Spain

Printed in French.Peace treaty that ended the French and Indian War. France ceded Canada to England and Louisiana to Spain.

GLC03985.07

1783

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Book

Title: Preliminary articles of peace... [between England and France]

Small quarto. Printed by T. Harrison and S. Brooke. A tentative settlement of the French and English peace, releasing the United States to go ahead with a final settlement. Signed on 20 January 1783.

GLC03985.08

1783

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Broadside

Title: The treaty of Paris

The final proclamation of peace between England and France in the American War of Independence. Printed by Jean-Francois Picot, in French.

GLC03985.09

16 August 1793

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Letter signed

Title: to John Hancock

Knox, Secretary of War, discusses President George Washington's orders regarding captured naval prizes. Requests that Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts, restore any naval prizes brought into the harbors and ports of Massachusetts to the master or owner at the time of capture. Orders that if it is impossible to discern the identity of the vessel's former master, it should be delivered to the person "to which the prize belonged at the time of its capture."

GLC04109

24 April 1783

Weare, Mensach, 1716-1786

Broadside signed

Title: By the United States of America in Congress assembled a proclamation, declaring the cessation of Arms, as well by sea or land, agreed upon between the United States of America and his Britannie Magesty ; and enjoying the observance thereof

New Hampshire printing of the Congressional proclamation concerning the final ratification of the peace treaty. New York would not be evacuated until November 1783. Signed by J Searson as Deputy Secretary and M. Weare as President of New Hampshire. Reference number: Evans 18240.

GLC04117

23 May 1835

Barragan, Miguel, 1789-1836

Broadside

Title: Proclamation by Mexican Pres. Barragan making Los Angeles a city (in Spanish)

Broadside proclamation printed in Spanish, raising Los Angelos in Alta California from a "pueblo" (village) to a "ciudad." Proclamation of the President of Mexico.

GLC04127

27 April 1784

Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824

Broadside

Title: The United States in Congress assembled

Report from Congress concerning the debt, its interest and its apportionment among the states. The resolution urges the states to surrender their western territories and to help pay the foreign and domestic debt. Includes a list of debts to various foriegn and domestic entities.

GLC04136

1821

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Book signed

Title: Report upon weights and measures.

An attempt to synthesize history, philosophy and physics into a coherent whole that illuminates the nature of human relations. Recommends the adoption of the metric system, as a blessing that will lead to "the improvement of the physical, moral and intellectual condition of man upon earth," by making stronger the "links of sympathy between the inhabitants of the most distant regions." Points to international suppression of the slave trade as a precedent for an international effort to standardize weights and measures. First edition. Inscribed by Adams to diplomat and politician Jonathan…

GLC04045

15 April 1829

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

Letter signed

Title: to Francisco Pacon

Written by Van Buren as Secretary of State. Acknowledges Pacon's letter of 11 April 1829 which provided "a List of all the Grants of Land, purporting to have been made in the Floridas, by the Government of His Catholic Majesty." This diplomatic letter deals with the messy entanglements and complications of territorial land issues between the United States and Spain in Florida. Spain ceded Florida to the United States in 1819, but the transition was messy because the King of Spain always exercised the right of granting lands to whomever he pleased. The American plan was to sell the land in…

GLC04058

10 April 1917

Dawes, Charles G., 1865-1951

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his mother

Written on stationery of the American Expeditionary Forces, Office of General Purchasing Agent. Writes to his mother regarding his associates, including Russian Grand Duke Alexander.

GLC04048.01

1794

Stedman, Charles, fl. 1794

Header Record

Title: History of the origin, progress, and termination of the American war...

SABIN 91057. JCB II:372. HOWES S914. Bound with Clinton's "Observations on Mr. Stedman's History of the American War." Includes 15 maps. According to Sabin, this is "generally considered the best contemporary account of the Revolution written from the British side." Stedman was a native of Philadelphia, a Loyalist who served as an officer under Howe, and later an examiner of Loyalist claims for the British government. He had first-hand knowledge of many of the campaigns and persons involved in the War. The maps accompanying this work are fine plans of the important Revolutionary engagements…

GLC04062

13 June 1781

Tilghman, Matthew, 1718-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to the Special Council for the Eastern Shore

Advises that he just heard that the new Maryland Eastern Shore Executive was established and was given the utmost power. Informs that the British fleet with Benedict Arnold aboard has been sited. Also mentions that the British army is south of the James River and reports briefly on fighting in South Carolina. States that he cannot speak of Assembly business because no one has a good plan to get more money.

GLC04066

1807

Broadside

Title: Direct Tax

Broadside on New Hampshire taxation regarding the Louisiana Purchase. Concerns the cost of the Louisiana purchase, with a table showing the proportionate cost per county of the $15 million bill, and describing how the Embargo Act makes it difficult if not impossible to pay France without a special tax. The writer, "Americanus," also warns of the threat of European war.

GLC04073

25 June 1864

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Wood

Thanks Wood for sending a letter written by Secretary of State William H. Seward concerning a petition for government aid in constructing an overland international telegraph line. Remarks upon the rapid progress of the telegraph throughout the world and mentions the first telegraph message, chosen by 18 year old Annie Ellsworth, "What hath God wrought." Comments that although he had predicted the telegraph would go around the world, he did not expect to live to see it happen. Expresses satisfaction that though many have tried to improve upon his system, the "Morse System," is still used…

GLC04080

4 May 1493

Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503

Broadside

Title: [Demarcation bull, granting Spain possession of lands discovered by Columbus]

Broadside entitled "Copia de la bula del decreto y concession q[ue] hizo el papa / Alexandro sexto al Rey y la Reyna nuestros senores de las Indias conforme al capitu." A unique copy of the second version possibly printed at Valladolio, by Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba. Title in Spanish and text in Latin. This document is often known as the Doctrine of Discovery and established a demarcation line one hundred leagues west of the Azores and Cape Verde Islands and assigned Spain the exclusive right to acquire territorial possessions and to trade in all lands west of that line. All others were…

GLC04093

1843-1848

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Header Record

Title: [Collection of John B. Moore letters] [Decimalized .01- .30]

This collection of letters was written while John B. Moore taught school in Louisiana and Alabama. Eighteen letters are from John to his sister Mary Moore (2-3, 6-7, 9-11, 15-18, 20-22, 25-27, 29); three letters have notes to both Mary and brother Richard Moore on the same letter (2, 16, 18). Other correspondence involves brother Robert E. Moore (2, 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 23, 28), and father Garrett Moore (19, 24), with two letters from Irish cousins (12, 14). In these letters he quits teaching school to enter medical school; his brother Robert E. Moore begins teaching on John's contract in…

GLC04191

1849-1852

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Header Record

Title: [Collection of John B. Moore letters and a 37-page travel diary] [Decimalized .01- .06]

Covers the first few years of Moore's medical career before joining the army. Medical references, including a cholera epidemic in Laconia, Indiana (1) and diseases and medical treatments in England and Ireland (2, 5, 6). Written from Indiana, New York, and England and Ireland where he traveled as a tourist, with special interest in visiting hospitals. A travel diary describes his trip to England and Ireland in 1851, corresponding with some of his letters. He writes about sightseeing (museums, cathedrals, transportation systems, etc.), mentions Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, notes…

GLC04192

1829

Book

Title: Statement on the Part of the United States, of the case... [Canadian boundary]

Concerning the dispute between the US and Britain over the border between Canada and Maine, which was arbitrated by the King of the Netherlands.

GLC04214

1857-1859

Emory, William H. (William Hemsley), 1811-1887

Header Record

Title: Report on the United States and Mexican boundary Survey...

House Executive Document no. 135 (25th Congress, 1st Session). Two volumes printed in three, with 5 maps and charts, 346 plates and numerous lithographic illustrations. Report comissioned by the Secretary of Interior; survey conducted by William H. Emory. Includes wood cuts and wood engravings in text and inserted engraved and lithographed plates. Subjects of the lithographed plates include flora, fauna and native inhabitants. Contents: Vol. 1: Geographical reports, with views or places and native Americans. -- Vol. 2: Botany of the boundary. -- Vol. 3: Zoology of the boundary.…

GLC04249