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George Washington Confirms “treaty between the United States of America and the Oneida, Tuscorora and Stockbridge Indians…in the country of the Oneidas.”
[GEORGE WASHINGTON],
Newspaper. Childs’ Daily Advertiser Extraordinary. February 28, 1795. 2 pp.
Prints the full text of the treaty between the United States and three Indiantribes, including the names of the sachems and war chiefs, from December 1794, confirmed by George Washington on January 21.
Item #21555.25, $700
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Act for Expenses for US and Foreign Nations
[GEORGE WASHINGTON],
Broadside Signed in Type as President, Third Congress of the United States. Philadelphia: March 20, 1794.
Appropriating one million dollars for diplomatic relations with foreign nations. “An ACT making further provision for the expenses attending the intercourse of the United States with Foreign nations”
Item #21548, $750
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Heaping Praise on the First President, an Address to Congress, and Columbia University’s Commencement
[GEORGE WASHINGTON],
Newspaper. Gazette of the United States, May 9, 1789. New York, N.Y. 4 pp.
The first address of Congress to the new president.
Item #30000.76, $750
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Washington’s Whiskey Rebellion Proclamation
[GEORGE WASHGINGTON],
Newspaper. The New York Journal & Patriotic Register, New York, N.Y., September 29, 1792. Signed in type by both Geo. Washington and Th. Jefferson. 4 pp., disbound.
Item #22707, $900
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An Engraving of His Excellency George Washington
[GEORGE WASHINGTON],
Print. His Excellency George Washington, Lt. General of the Armies of the United States. John Galland, after F. Bartoli. Ferrai & Dupin, Baltimore, MD, 1798.
Item #21042.99, $1,100
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George Washington Signed Acts of Congress, Including an Act “Respecting the Mint,” and Discussions of a Third Term for the First President
[GEORGE WASHINGTON],
Newspaper, Columbian Centinel, June 18, 1796, Boston, Ma., 4 pp., 11 7/8 x 18 ¾ in.
An opinion piece from Philadelphia on a Third Term for Washington: Washington signs four acts of Congress in cursive type, including one detailing the ways and means of procuring copper for the minting of cents and half cents.
Item #30000.003, $1,200
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John Marshall’s “Life of George Washington” and Companion Atlas with Hand-colored Maps
JOHN MARSHALL. [GEORGE WASHINGTON],
Books, The Life of George Washington Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States, Compiled Under the Inspection of the Honourable Bushrod Washington, From Original Papers Bequeathed to him by his Deceased Relative, 2nd edition, in two volumes. Philadelphia: James Crissy and Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1840. 982 pp. plus index, 5½ x 9 in. Both have pencil inscription on blank fly leaf “A. Seeley 1851 Presented by T.C. Gladding.” Rebound; very good, some foxing toward the front. OCLC 183328030. With: Atlas to Marshall’s Life of Washington, Philadelphia: J. Crissy, [1832], 10 hand-colored maps. Ex-Grand Lodge A.F. & A.M. of Massachusetts bookplate on front paste-down. Black cloth spine and corners, original green boards with label. Internally fine. OCLC 191237946.
Chief Justice John Marshall’s magisterial biography of George Washington was originally a five-volume set. This 1840 publication, revised and issued in two volumes, also includes the 1832 companion atlas of maps relating to the Revolutionary War.
Item #22477, $1,250
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Harvard, Washington & the Revolutionary War
[REVOLUTIONARY WAR],
Newspaper. Boston Gazette, Boston, Mass., November 2, 1789. 2 pp.
Item #21555.15, $1,250
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Rhode Island Printing of George Washington’s Will - Freeing His Slaves Upon the Death of Martha
[GEORGE WASHINGTON],
Pair of Newspapers. “Interesting Extracts from the WILL of Gen. George Washington,” United States Chronicle, Providence, R.I., February 20 and 27, 1800. Each 4 pp. Washington’s will begins on p. 2 of the February 20 issue and concludes on p. 1 of the February 27 issue.
Item #22858, $1,250
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The First Act Limiting the American Slave Trade and Four Other Early Acts of Congress
[GEORGE WASHINGTON],
Newspaper. Columbian Centinel. Boston, Mass., April 16, 1794. 4 pp., 11½ x 18¼ in.
Item #22463, $1,400
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New York Revolutionary War Muster Roll with Reference to Valley Forge
[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] “Return of 1st Massachusetts Regiment of foot Commanded by Col.o John Bailey.”,
Autograph Document Signed (“Luther Bailey, Adjt.”), “Camp Crotens [Croton] Bridge,” [NY], July 18, 1778. 12 5/8 x 8 1/8 in. 2 pp.
Item #20632.37, $1,750
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Brown University Roll of Honorary Degrees, Including One to George Washington
[GEORGE WASHINGTON],
Broadside. Catalogus Eorum qui in Collegio Rhod. Ins. et Prov. Plant. ab Anno 1769, ad Annum 1795 alicujus Gradus Laurea donati Sunt. Providence, R.I., Carter and Wilkinson, c. 1795. 1 p., 18 x 22 in.
Item #22628.01, $1,800
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