Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 195

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(LAW.) Large group of early Congressional journals and acts. 18 volumes. 8vo, unmatched bindings, most contemporary and quite in need of binding; variously worn, and not collated; most with library markings. Vp, 1789-1800

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Acts Passed at the First Congress. Later printing; signed by member Daniel Carroll of Maryland. Philadelphia, 1795 Acts Passed at the Third Congress. Philadelphia, 1794 Acts Passed at the First Session of the Fifth Congress. Philadelphia, 1797 The American Senator: or, a Copious and Impartial Report of the Debates in the Congress of the United States . . . by Thomas Carpenter. 3 volumes, unmatched. Philadelphia, 1796-97 The Congressional Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the First House of Representatives . . . Taken in Short Hand by Thomas Lloyd, Volume I. New York, 1789 The Congressional Register . . . Taken in Short Hand by Thomas Lloyd, the Second Edition, Volume II. 2 volumes in one, 449 and 144 (of 185) pages only. New York, 1790 and 1789 Journal of the House of Representatives . . . First Session of the Third Congress. Title page defective. Philadelphia, 1793 Journal of the House of Representatives . . . Second Session of the Fifth Congress. Philadelphia, 1797 Journals of Congress, Containing their Proceedings. Volumes II, IV, V, VI, and VII only. Philadelphia, 1800 The Laws of the United States. 3 of 3 volumes, Elisha Boudinot and John Pintard signatures. Philadelphia, 1796.