Letterpress broadside, text in three columns. (18 x 11 inches). News reaches America of peace between Napoleon and the British. Three lines of text below the dateline read: "The subsequent important and highly interesting News, was exclusively received at the Chronicle Office, yesterday, in a sealed packet, and by the Printers of that paper kept locked until this morning. We embrace the earliest moment to present it to our respectable readers." After giving the particulars of the preliminary agreement between Lord Hawsbury and Louis-Guillaume Otto, which would shortly thereafter lead to the Treaty of Amiens and the end of the War of the Second Coalition, the American editors note: "the Preliminaries of a Peace, between the two countries, are without doubt, signed; but innumerable difficulties, long delays and insurmountable barriers will probably arise to prevent final ratification. It will indeed be a phenomenon in the political world if these difficulties should not appear." Although the final treaty would be ratified, the editor's comment would prove prescient, with the peace between France and Great Britain proving only temporary, lasting but a single year before the renewal of hostilities. Seller Inventory # 29325

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Title: Commercial Gazette, Extra. Monday Morning, ...

Publisher: Russell and Cutler, [Boston]

Publication Date: 1801

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Donald A. Heald Rare Books offers the finest examples of antiquarian books and prints in the areas of Botany, Ornithology, Natural History, Americana & Canadiana, Native Americans, Voyages & Travels, Maps & Atlases, Photography and more. Founded in England in 1972, we have formed and contributed to important private and institutional collections. Items of note which we have placed include a unique copy of Abbot?s "Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia" with plates on vellum, an extremely rare extra-illustrated large paper Spanish edition of Blaeu?s "Atlas Mayor," Curtis's "North American Indian," a copy of the Federalist Papers in boards, the first separate printing of the Bill of Rights, and a large paper issue of Redout�'s "Les Roses" with the plates in two states. We are renowned for our extensive print inventory which is unsurpassed in quality. Our Sporting collection recently incorporated the complete print stock of Ackermann & Son of London, established in 1783. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, where Mr. Heald has served on the Board of Governors as Treasurer, Security Chairperson, and as Chairman of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. We are members of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, and the American Historical Print Collectors Society. Mr. Heald is a member of the Grolier Club, and the American Antiquarian Society.

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