[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: ADAMS, DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTION, VOL. ONE

[Norman Kane]

ADAMS, JOHN.   A DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . . .THE THIRD EDITION IN THREE VOLUMES - VOLUME ONE [ONLY].   Philadelphia: Budd & Bartram for Wm. Cobbett, 1797.   Volume 1 only. Nicely bound in later half calf, marbled boards, raised bands, A clean, UNOPENED COPY.  Portrait after Copley engraved by Smither. Biography by Cobbett. Subscription list with the added leaf of additions. 6, xxii, [9], xxx-xxxiii, blank page, [3] -392 pages.   (In this volume Adams presents the history and philosophy of republicanism,  with reference to Franklin, Swift, Montesquieu, Harrington, et al.)  A major American document.

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