[Rarebooks] FS: Early Massachusetts Resolves.

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for sale: three Massachusetts Resolves concerning: Maine & 
the Missouri Compromise, Nullification, and John Adams first speech 
as Governor.

1. [Maine & the Missouri Compromise]. Massachusetts. RESOLVES OF THE 
GENERAL COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. PASSED AT THEIR 
SESSION WHICH COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE TWELFTH OF JANUARY, AND 
ENDED ON THE TWENTY FIFTH OF FEBRUARY, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND 
TWENTY. Boston: Printed by Russell & Gardner, 1820. [89-205] pp. + 
index [8 pp]. Sm. 4to. Original blue gray wrappers, stitched. First 
edition. By 1820 Maine was ready to separate from Massachusetts (as 
noted in Governor Brooks' speech) and admitted into the Union. The 
issue, however, was coupled with the admission of Missouri to the 
Union; the result became known as the Missouri compromise which 
allowed slavery in Missouri. "The extension of so great a moral and 
political evil as slavery... and to make such a prohibition a 
condition of the admission of any new state into the Union" wrote 
Saltonstall's Massachusetts' committee in Resolve CXXI which also 
provided a succinct list the issues. The final resolution would of 
course await the outcome of the Civil War. Includes a 12 page section 
listing the ownership and status all lands in Maine. Lacking the 
spine and rear wrapper, foxing to margins, contents very good. 
Shoemaker 2166. [35330] $150.00

  2. [Nullification]. Massachusetts. RESOLVES OF THE GENERAL COURT OF 
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, PASSED AT THEIR SESSION, WHICH 
COMMENCED ON WEDNESDAY, THE SECOND OF JANUARY, AND ENDED ON THURSDAY, 
THE TWENTY-EIGHTH OF MARCH, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND 
THIRTY-THREE. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, Printers to the State, 
1833. [237-542] pp., ix pp. Sm. 4to. Original blue gray wrappers, 
stitched. First edition. The Governor's addresses and much of this 
long volume is taken up with Nullification, the South Carolina 
Convention, and issues of Federal versus states' authority (though 
there was time to pass one resolve to purchase a copy of Audubon's 
Birds of America). Provides a view on the issue of preservation of 
the Union through the lens of a New England legislature. Lacking the 
rear wrapper, scattered foxing, else a very good untrimmed copy. 
Shoemaker 20044. [35338] $150.00

  3. [Adams,John]. Massachusetts. Adams, John. RESOLVES OF THE GENERAL 
COURT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS: BEGUN AND HELD AT BOSTON, 
IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, ON WEDNESDAY THE TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF MAY, 
ANNO DOMINI, 1793; AND FROM THENCE CONTINUED BY ADJOURNMENT AND 
PROCLAMATION TO WEDNESDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF JANUARY FOLLOWING. 
[-28 FEBRUARY, 1794]. Boston: Printed by Adams & Larkin, 1794. 33-61 
pp. Folio. Stitched. First edition. John Adams first speech as 
Governor to the joint session of the Massachusetts legislature. 
Discusses Hancock, the Constitution, the French Republic, and the 
need for education. Untrimmed edges ragged as usual else about very 
good. Evans 27289. [35374] $125.00


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