(CONSTITUTION) Martin Luther The Genuine Information Deliver

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(CONSTITUTION.) Martin, Luther. The Genuine Information, Delivered to the Legislature of the State of Maryland, Relative to the Proceedings of the General Convention. 8vo, disbound; title page browned, minor dampstaining, I3 and I4 trimmed tightly, lacks final leaf; signatures of early owners on title and rear flyleaf. Philadelphia, 1788

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An insider''s report on the Constitutional Convention, by a Maryland delegate who refused to sign because he thought it would place the small states "under the most abject and servile subjection" (page 9) to the large states. Evans 21220; Howes M343 (b: "obtainable only with some difficulty"); Sabin 44897. We know of only one other copy at auction since 1933, which was bound in with other pamphlets and sold for $130,000 in 2005.