(MISSISSIPPI RIVER) Real Cedula de SM y Señores del Consejo

Sale 2163 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 4,080

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

(MISSISSIPPI RIVER.) Real Cedula de S.M. y Señores del Consejo, en que se Manda Observar y Guardar el Tratado de Amistad, Límites y Navegacion Concluido y Ratificado entre su Real Persona y los Estados Unidos de América. 31 pages. Folio (12 x 8 inches), disbound and sewn into contemporary plain vellum, some soiling; slight foxing on title page only, treaty title added to top of title page in early hand, trimmed with slight loss to official seal on page 1, otherwise quite clean. Madrid, 1796

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first edition. The Spanish publication of an important treaty variously known in English as Pinckney's Treaty, the Treaty of San Lorenzo, the Treaty of Madrid, or by its official title "Treaty of Friendship, Limits, and Navigation Between Spain and the United States." This treaty set the boundaries between what became Mississippi in the United States and the Spanish territories in present-day Florida and Louisiana. It also granted the United States joint navigation rights to the Mississippi River, which made possible the rapid expansion of American settlement and trade in the western states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The only other copy of this printing we have traced at auction sold for $5,000 at the 1967 Streeter sale (III:1524). Medina BHA 5765; Palau 250427-II; Sabin 96587 (different printing).