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[FRANKLIN PRINTING]. PENNSYLVANIA. INDIAN TREATY. Minutes of Conferences, held at Easton, in October, 1758 with the Chief Sachems and Warriors of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onandagas. Cayugas, Senecas, Tuscaroras, etc. Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, at the New-Printing-Office, near the Market, 1757.
Folio (14 x 9 ½mm). 31pp. UNCUT. Woodcut of Penn family crest on title, title within double rules. (Titlepage and following leaf severely browned, professional repairs to margins and center fold affecting a few words in title. Sewn, uncut, as issued. Quarter red morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION, PRINTED BY FRANKLIN AND HALL. Rare. Easton, Pennsylvania, on the western side of the Delaware River, was frequently the site of peace conferences with the Indians, especially during the French and Indian War. The Delaware tribes in particular had been openly hostile to the Pennsylvania settlers for some 20 years, since Thomas Penn's infamous "Walking Purchase," seizing as much land as could be walked (or run) in a day, by which thousands of acres were claimed. At the end of this negotiation “some wine and punch was then ordered in, and the conferences were concluded with great joy and mutual satisfaction.” De Puy 44; Evans 8156; Hildeburn 1593; Miller 696; Sabin 49348.
Folio (14 x 9 ½mm). 31pp. UNCUT. Woodcut of Penn family crest on title, title within double rules. (Titlepage and following leaf severely browned, professional repairs to margins and center fold affecting a few words in title. Sewn, uncut, as issued. Quarter red morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION, PRINTED BY FRANKLIN AND HALL. Rare. Easton, Pennsylvania, on the western side of the Delaware River, was frequently the site of peace conferences with the Indians, especially during the French and Indian War. The Delaware tribes in particular had been openly hostile to the Pennsylvania settlers for some 20 years, since Thomas Penn's infamous "Walking Purchase," seizing as much land as could be walked (or run) in a day, by which thousands of acres were claimed. At the end of this negotiation “some wine and punch was then ordered in, and the conferences were concluded with great joy and mutual satisfaction.” De Puy 44; Evans 8156; Hildeburn 1593; Miller 696; Sabin 49348.