Mississippi Question : Report of a debate in the Senate of the United States on the 23d, 24th, & 25th February, 1803, of certain resolutions concerning the violation of the right of deposit in the Island of New Orleans.
1803 · Philadelphia
by Duane, William (1760-1835).
Philadelphia: W. Duane, 1803. Fair. 24cm; [2], 198 pages. Bound in mid 20th-century paper-covered boards, joints split with spine mostly peeled away. Despite the unfortunate binding, a very nice untrimmed copy, tanned only with a pervasive light dampstain through signatures C to E and Q to Z (apparently dampened in manufacture, prior to sewing). References: Sabin 20990 ; Howes D-517; Shaw & Shoemaker 4113.
On Spains violation of the article in the treaty of 1795 dealing with U.S. rights to Mississippi navigation & deposit at New Orleans, by which U.S. western trade was obstructed. The dispute helped spur the Louisiana Purchase. William Duane was the publisher of the Philadelphia Aurora and the principal voice of Jeffersonian Republicans in post-Colonial America. (Inventory #: 4103)
On Spains violation of the article in the treaty of 1795 dealing with U.S. rights to Mississippi navigation & deposit at New Orleans, by which U.S. western trade was obstructed. The dispute helped spur the Louisiana Purchase. William Duane was the publisher of the Philadelphia Aurora and the principal voice of Jeffersonian Republicans in post-Colonial America. (Inventory #: 4103)