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 55 hand-colored copper-engraved and aquatint

55 hand-colored copper-engraved and aquatint plates by Havell after Margaret Roscoe's drawings on wove paper with J

The two works have a total of 419 hand-colored plates - these two works represent the foundation for the study of South African orchids by the first orchidologist of South Africa

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70 full page color plates of molluscs (from color paintings) and color distribution maps

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 55 hand-colored copper-engraved and aquatintPp. 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