VAN BUREN, MARTIN, President. Engraved document signed ("M. Van Buren") as President, countersigned by John Forsyth, Secretary of State. New Bedford, 15 February 1840. One page, folio, 380 x 266 mm. (15 x 10 1/2 in.), ON FINE PARCHMENT, finely engraved italic text at top, "By the President of the United States," beneath a large engraved two-part vignette, with a large fully-rigged sailing ship at top and a light-house on a rocky isle with a distant harbor in the background below, scallop edge at top, accomplished in manuscript, large papered seal; handsomely matted and framed with an engraved portrait, accomplished in manuscript. SHIP'S PASSPORT for the Brig James Monroe of Plymouth, Gideon Dike, Master, with a crew of 15, which vessel should be allowed passage "without any hindrance, seizure or molestation."