Sep 30, 2010 - Sale 2223

Sale 2223 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Jefferson, Thomas. Message of the President . . . Transmitting a Treaty, Lately Concluded between the United States and the Kaskaskia Tribe of Indians. 8 pages. 8vo, disbound. [Washington], 25 November 1803

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A significant cessation of land along the eastern bank of the Mississippi in present-day Illinois, as it united Indiana Territory with the newly-acquired lands from the Louisiana Purchase and provided the U.S. with, as Jefferson said in his 17 October 1803 message to Congress, "among the most fertile [land] within our limits." Sabin 96613.