UNITED STATES Journal of the House of Representatives of the

Sale 1988 - Lot 411

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UNITED STATES. Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States. 164, clxv-clxxvii pages. Small folio, contemporary calf with a morocco label on the front cover "Table of the Senate," worn, front cover almost detached; some dampstaining; inscribed "Senate of Pennsylvania" on the first text leaf; ex-library, with bookplates on the front pastedown, an embossed stamp to the title, and an inked numerical stamp to the first text leaf. New York: Francis Childs and John Swaine, [1789]

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The journal of the first session of the First Congress, including discussions and a printing of the Bill of Rights (page 107). This copy presumably used by William Maclay and Robert Morris, the first Senators from Pennsylvania. With the index bound at the rear numbered in roman numerals (often found lacking). Evans 22208; Sabin 15554.