Buchanan, James, Fifteenth President, as Secretary of State

Document signed twice, 70 pages (13 3/4 x 9 7/8 in.; 350 x 252 mm) on 35 quired bifolia, written in a neat clerical hand in facing pages of Spanish and English, Washington, 9 February 1848, countersigned by the Peruvian Minister to the United States, Don Joaquim José de Osma, Buchanan and Osma's signatures sealed with wax and ribbons. Quires stab-sewn with ribbon (broken), gilt edges; first (blank) page soiled, some short marginal tears and splits.

Document signed twice, 70 pages (13 3/4 x 9 7/8 in.; 350 x 252 mm) on 35 quired bifolia, written in a neat clerical hand in facing pages of Spanish and English, Washington, 9 February 1848, countersigned by the Peruvian Minister to the United States, Don Joaquim José de Osma, Buchanan and Osma's signatures sealed with wax and ribbons. Quires stab-sewn with ribbon (broken), gilt edges; first (blank) page soiled, some short marginal tears and splits.
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A treaty of "peace and friendship, commerce and navigation," between the United States and Peru, confirming thirty-one articles of agreement in order to establish "perpetual and sincere friendship between the United States of America and the Republic of Peru, and between their respective territories, people and citizens without distinction of persons or places."