Dec 04, 2003 - Sale 1988

Sale 1988 - Lot 412

Price Realized: $ 288
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
UNITED STATES. [Laws of the United States of America . . . Comprising the Acts of the Second Session of the First Congress] [through the first session of the Second Congress]. 161-700 pages; lacks the title-page else complete. 8vo, later 1/2 morocco, worn, backstrip detached, rear cover loose; first few leaves chipped with paper loss (not affecting text), first leaf toned; ex-library, with ink and embossed stamps and a bookplate on the front pastedown. sold as is. [Exeter, NH, 1792]

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An uncommon early printing of the laws of the U. S. from the second session of the First Congress through the first session of the Second Congress. The pagination begins on page 161, suggesting continuous pagination with an earlier New Hampshire printing of the laws of the first session of the First Congress (perhaps Evans 22951). It includes a printing of the Bill of Rights with the State ratification votes on pages 531-552. OCLC locates only 2 copies of this imprint. Evans 24914; Sabin 39423.