[American revolution] Plan of a Treaty of Commerce (...) between (...) the Estates of the Seven United

States of Holland, and 13 United States of North America, to wit, New Hampshire, (...). In: Extract uit het Register der Resolutien van de Hoog Mogende Heeren Staaten Generaal der vereenigde Nederlanden. Veneris den 20 October 1780. 48 p., text in English and Dutch, cord-bound, folio. Contains a draft of the Lee-Neuville treaty, resulting from a secret negotiation between the United States and the city of Amsterdam. The treaty of amity and commerce was never ratified, but its discovery caused great outrage in Great Britain and was an important justification for the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. This is the only contemporary publication of the treaty and was followed by a few relevant letters incl. by Jean Neuville, Henry Laurens and J.D. van der Capellen. Cord partially detached, sl. creased along edges. Extremely rare.

With: Three other extracts of resolutions of the Staaten Generaal der vereenigde Nederlanden with resolutions concerning Dutch-American relations, publ. 1777-81. Incl. one discussing the salutations fired by Johannes de Graaff, governor of St. Eustatius, generally considered the first international acknowledgment of American independence. (total 4)