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Item #29404 A Sketch of the Claims of Sundry American Citizens on the Government of the United States, for Indemnity, for Depredations Committed on their Property by the French, (Prior to the 30th of September, 1800) which were Acknowledged by France. James H. CAUSTEN.
A Sketch of the Claims of Sundry American Citizens on the Government of the United States, for Indemnity, for Depredations Committed on their Property by the French, (Prior to the 30th of September, 1800) which were Acknowledged by France...

A Sketch of the Claims of Sundry American Citizens on the Government of the United States, for Indemnity, for Depredations Committed on their Property by the French, (Prior to the 30th of September, 1800) which were Acknowledged by France...

Baltimore: Robert Geddes, 1826. 8vo. 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. 145 pp.

Modern buckram over marbled boards, gilt leather label. Library stamp on title page and next two leaves.

This is the first separate printing, often confused with several later reprints, of forty-three papers which originally appeared in the Baltimore Chronicle. 'The claims against the French were assumed by the United States by the Convention of 1800 and by the terms of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty of 1803' (Eberstadt). However, many such claims were unpaid two decades later, prompting the author to turn to newspapers and printed books to state his case. Sabin has suggested Robert Purviance as a possible author instead of Causten, but more recent scholarship has settled on the latter. This document enumerates the claims up through 1800.

Cohen 7625; Eberstadt 136:26; Sabin 81514; Shaw & Shoemaker 24042.

Item #29404

Price: $750.00

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