State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States

Boston: Printed and Published by T. Wait & Sons, 1815

A scarce early United States government publication documenting American foreign relations during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, covering the years 1809–1814, including the period of the War of 1812.

This is a complete single-volume work, bound in its original early 19th-century full leather binding with gilt-lettered spine titled “State Papers – 1809–14.” The binding is period-authentic and not a later rebinding.

🔖 Notable Feature

Includes the original District of Massachusetts copyright registration page, dated November 12, 1814, signed by William S. Shaw, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. This page documents the legal registration of the work under early U.S. copyright law and is often lacking in surviving copies.

📚 Condition

• Original leather binding with expected age-related wear, rubbing, and small losses at the spine ends

• Gilt lettering remains legible

• Binding is solid and intact

• Pages are complete and readable

• Age-related toning, foxing, and scattered staining consistent with early 19th-century paper

• No modern repairs or restoration observed

Overall Good condition, fully appropriate for a book printed in 1815.

🎯 Notes for Collectors

• Early U.S. government publication

• War of 1812 era material

• Original period leather binding

• Original 1814 copyright registration present

• Desirable Americana and early federal history reference

A genuine and substantial artifact of early American political and diplomatic history.