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[GREAT LAKES REGION]. –– [TREATY OF GHENT]. Letter from the Secretary of State, Transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the nineteenth ultimo, a Copy of the Maps and Report of the Commissioners under the Treaty of Ghent, for Ascertaining the Northern and Northwestern Boundary between the United States and Great Britain. Washington, D.C.: Gales & Seaton, 18 March 1828. Oblong folio (406 x 521 mm). Letterpress title–page, one leaf of commissioner’s text by H. Clay, Peter Porter and Anthony Barclay, 8 stone lithograph maps with hand–colored outlining (one folding) by James Eddy of Pendleton’s Lithography in Boston (short tape repairs verso to final two maps and with some spotting, otherwise fine). Original stitched plain wrappers (usually seen disbound and lacking wrappers). (Upper wrapper chipped with spotting or soiling, also with a tape repair verso to closed tear, title–page gently soiled with some marginal browning). Provenance: Ward Hunt (1810–1886) of Utica, New York, ownership signature on upper wrapper. Hunt spent most of his life in Utica (where this boundary was negotiated), serving as mayor in 1844. In 1865, he was elected as Republican to the New York Court of Appeals and in 1872 he was named by President Ulysses S. Grant to the United States Supreme Court. FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE SET OF MAPS denoting the boundaries between the United States and Great Britain in the Great Lakes region after the War of 1812 according to the 6th and 7th articles of the Treaty of Ghent. The maps depict the newly negotiated land and water boundaries from Lake Earie down the St. Clair River and across Lake Huron to the eastern part of the Upper Peninsula. 3 of the 8 maps are devoted to the boundary at Detroit. Each map is “shaded on the British side with red, and on the American side with blue” with information about the commissioners and surveyors (Decision of the Commissioners). The boundary was negotiated and finalized at Utica, New York in 1822, and this report was issued 6 years later. “Neither the series nor individual maps are recorded in Phillips or Karpinski. The only copy located by the Union Catalog is in the U. S. State Department Library. This folio edition is not to be confused with the octavo edition that consists only of text” (Streeter). 6 of the 8 maps are indeed listed in Karpinski, each in separate entries meaning Karpinski must have only seen this folio disbound and incomplete. Karpinski 664–668 (maps only); Streeter Sale 1080.