AN EXAMINATION OF THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE GREEK DEPUTIES AND TWO MERCANTILE HOUSES OF NEW-YORK Together with a Review of the Publications on the Subject by the arbitrators, Messrs. Emmet and Ogden, and Mr. William Bayard

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Published in New York in 1827, this is a example in the original printed wrappers of this account of the dispute between the two mercantile houses of G. G. & S. Howland, and Le Roy, Bayard, & Company and representatives of the Greek Government who had requested two frigates to be built in an American Ship Yard in New York City to be named Hope and Liberator. The Greek Government ended up defaulting on payment, where one of the ships, The Liberator was sold off and the proceeds were used to pay for the other ship to be delivered, the book is bound in the original printed wrappers, 9.5 inches tall with untrimmed pages, many of the top edges remain unopened, some marking and creasing to the undersize wrappers, heavy foxing to opening and closing pages with foxing and browning present within. N° de ref. del artículo 002408

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