Beschreibung:

Minutes of Conferences held with Indians at Easton, in the Months of July, and August, 1757.
Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1757. 24 pp., folio (395 x 255 mm). Pennsylvania provincial seal on the title. Stitched self-wrappers, uncut, as issued. Housed in a cloth chemise and morocco backed slipcase. Condition : worming in the top margin of the terminal six leaves not affecting text. Provenance : Herman LeRoy Edgar (Anderson Galleries, 22 November 1920, lot 316); Frank T. Siebert (Sotheby’s New York, 21 May 1999, lot 530). the edgar-siebert copy of an important french and indian war treaty with the delaware. “The Treaty was a most important one, for at it peace was made between the Province of Pennsylvania and the Indians that had for years devasted frontiers” (De Puy). Chief Teedyuscung had been expected to attend the 1757 conference at Harris Ferry and Lancaster, but did not due to continued conflicts with the Six Nations. At this Treaty, however, Teedyuscung, with Charles Thomson at his side, was given an elevated status and allowed to negotiate on behalf of the Ten Nations, i.e. the Delawares, the Six Nations, and the Shawnese, Nanticokes and Mohicans. very rare . We could locate only this copy and one other (the Park-Guthman copy) appearing at auction in the last quarter century. Boyd X; Campbell 597; De Puy 42; Evans 7921; Howes E23 “dd”; Miller 675; Sabin 49347; Siebert Sale 530 (this copy).