A very early edition of Jay's Treaty, printed the same year as the first edition, being the second of three issues recorded by ESTC.
Importantly, this was the first issuance to append documents concerning the Treaty's long and tortured ratification process, including speeches and reports from members of Congress, resolutions by various local governments, and newspaper articles, plus the text of the U.S. Constitution, two 1778 treaties with France, and the 1783 treaty with Great Britain that ended the Revolution. J
ay's Treaty sought to resolve issues raised in the 1783 treaty, settle ongoing commercial problems, and resolve issues of neutrality. Great Britain agreed to withdraw from frontier posts in the Ohio country and Americans agreed to settle debts incurred before the Revolutionary War. The treaty provoked great hostility in the United States: only Washington's prestige managed to get it ratified in Congress. In retrospect, it is considered one of the signal diplomatic successes of the era.
Jay, John. 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 Appendix. Philadelphia. Printed by Henry Tuckniss, for Mathew Carey. 1795. 283pp.
A good + copy, bound in original wraps, generally solid, with generally bright pages and light foxing. Some signatures have been left uncut, and some corners have been turned.
