Dec 04, 2003 - Sale 1988

Sale 1988 - Lot 416

Price Realized: $ 201
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
ADMITTING MISSOURI, SEIZING FLORIDA UNITED STATES. Acts Passed at the First Session of the Seventeenth Congress. 8vo, publisher's lettered wrappers, spine worn, a bit tattered along one edge; foxed and toned; uncut and unopened. Washington, 1822

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An important journal of Congress, as it contains the final measures of the Missouri Compromise (acknowledging Missouri's compliance with the Second Compromise and admitting Missouri as a slave state, pages 114-116) and several important acts concerning Florida (including Andrew Jackson's proclamation taking possession of the territory, page 113, and the act establishing the territorial government and dividing the territory into East and West Florida, pages 10-16).