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The London Chronicle. THE DEFINITIVE TREATY BETWEEN GREAT-BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SIGNED AT PARIS, THE 3RD DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1783. London, Saturday, September 27 to Tuesday, September 30, 1783. Vol. LIV, No. 4199. Entire issue present [the main article occupies the first two pages]. Tabloid [30.5 by 22.5 cm], 8 pages numbered 313–320. Tax stamp on page 2. Folded. Minimal marginal browning; near fine. A rare contemporary printing of the Treaty of Paris, which brought to an end the American Revolutionary War. The ten articles of the Treaty, signed on the British side by David Hartley and on the American side by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay, stated that "His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia, to be free, sovereign, and independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof," and carefully defined the terms and limitations governing the rights and practices of the signing parties thereafter. A very early printing of this enormously important document in American history. Ex Cardinal Collection Library.