The Duplicate Letters, the Fisheries and the Mississippi. Documents relating to Transactions at the Negotiation of Ghent. Collected by John Quincy Adams, one of the Commissioners of the United States at that Negotiation

Pp. 256, (2, contents), (1, leaf of errata).  Later full tan calf leather, spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt in three compartments, front and rear covers tooled in blind, marbled endpapers, 8vo.  This volume examines the role that John Quincy Adams played in the negotiation of the Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of 1812.  There were numerous issues dealt with in this treaty among them was American access to the Mississippi River.  This volume was compiled when Adams was Secretary of State, just two years before he was elected President.  Old oval blind-stamp of the Library Company, R. B., Philadelphia, on the final page of the text (p. 256).  Very small sticker of ‘International Bookfinders,’ Inc. at the base of page 3.  No other ownership marks.