WASHINGTON AND ALGERIA – Federal Gazette Extra. [Baltimore], 12 March 1796. Vol. 4, No. 734.
WASHINGTON AND ALGERIA – Federal Gazette Extra. [Baltimore], 12 March 1796. Vol. 4, No. 734.

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WASHINGTON AND ALGERIA – Federal Gazette Extra. [Baltimore], 12 March 1796. Vol. 4, No. 734.

Broadside extra printing, in full, of one of America’s first independent treaties with a Muslim nation. This treaty was negotiated by David Humphreys and Joseph Donaldson with Vizir Hassan Bashaw, Dey of Algiers. Signed in type by George Washington and dated from Philadelphia just five days before this printing.

One page, folio (488 x 314mm). (Light marginal chipping, some toning, centerfold with loss of several letters and taped on verso.)

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