First-third Sessions of the 5th Congress
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Author: United States Congress
Title: Acts Passed At the First-third Sessions of the Fifth Congress of the United States of America: Begun and Held At the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the Fifteenth of May, 1797 to the Third of March, 1799
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:Printed by William Ross
Date Published: 1797
Description:
Author: United States Congress
Title: Acts Passed At the First-third Sessions of the Fifth Congress of the United States of America: Begun and Held At the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the Fifteenth of May, 1797 to the Third of March, 1799
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:Printed by William Ross
Date Published: 1797
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3 sessions bound in one. 561; 26 (Constitution); iv, Table of Contents; [48] index. pp. (8vo) 21x12 cm (8x5 "), early full calf, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt.
A highly important period of early American history during John Adams' first 2 years of presidency. Also important as a collection of early American treaties, with the appendices including the treaties of the United States with foreign powers and Indian tribes" (Reese). According to Reese "the official printings of these treaties are rare in the extreme" therefore these collected editions constitute the earliest available printings.
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Some general wear and scuffing to calf; first leaf a bit loose but holding, toning, scattered foxing, areas of wormholing to edge of last rear blank and rear endpapers, hinges starting; very good.
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