[British Treaties]:

$2,750 · Offered by William Reese Company

A GENERAL COLLECTION OF TREATYS, DECLARATIONS OF WAR, MANIFESTOS, AND OTHER PUBLICK PAPERS, RELATING TO PEACE AND WAR, AMONG THE POTENTATES OF EUROPE, FROM 1648 TO THE PRESENT TIME.... [with:] VOLUME ... The first collected English treaties. The first volume covers material from 1648 to 1709; the second covers pre-1648 material and new material. This set was the precursor of the much more thorough General Collection..., published in 1732, which is the major source for early English treaties. This two-volume set contains many treaties of Canadian and American interest, including the important 1670 British title for Hudson straits and bay, and a treaty of July 8, 1670 between Spain and Great Britain to reach a peace in America. Also included are the first and second Grand Alliances; treaties of commerce between England, France, Spain and Holland; and the treaty granting the right of the Crown of England to Hudson's Bay, among many others.

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