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NOOTKA SOUND CONVENTION – Declaration and Counter-Declaration, Signed and Exchanged at Madrid, the 24th of July, 1790, between His Britannick Majesty's Ambassador, and the Minister of the King of Spain. London: printed by Edward Johnston, 1790.
A very rare preliminary document of the Nootka Sound Convention. While questions of ultimate sovereignty over the disputed territory were deferred, Spain here agreed to indemnify owners of British ships seized by the Spanish Navy at Nootka bay, including John Meares's Iphigenia. According to ABPC and RBH, no other copies have appeared at auction since the Streeter copy. Streeter sale 3487.
Quarto (203 x 162mm). Woodcut vignette on title page, woodcut ornament (without final blank). Modern quarter morocco over marbled boards. Provenance: Franklin Brooke-Hitching (his sale, Sotheby's, 19 March 2015, lot 949).
A very rare preliminary document of the Nootka Sound Convention. While questions of ultimate sovereignty over the disputed territory were deferred, Spain here agreed to indemnify owners of British ships seized by the Spanish Navy at Nootka bay, including John Meares's Iphigenia. According to ABPC and RBH, no other copies have appeared at auction since the Streeter copy. Streeter sale 3487.
Quarto (203 x 162mm). Woodcut vignette on title page, woodcut ornament (without final blank). Modern quarter morocco over marbled boards. Provenance: Franklin Brooke-Hitching (his sale, Sotheby's, 19 March 2015, lot 949).