[Rarebooks] FS: The Magna Charta of the United American States, 1783

[Charles Agvent]

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JACKSON, William (editor). THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE SEVERAL INDEPENDENT 
STATES OF AMERICA; THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; AND THE ARTICLES OF 
CONFEDERATION BETWEEN THE SAID STATES. TO WHICH ARE NOW ADDED, THE 
DECLARATION OF RIGHTS; THE NON-IMPORTATION AGREEMENT; AND THE PETITION 
OF CONGRESS TO THE KING DELIVERED BY MR. PENN. WITH AN APPENDIX, 
CONTAINING THE TREATIES BETWEEN HIS MOST CHRIISTAN [SIC] MAJESTY AND THE 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; THE PROVISIONAL TREATY WITH AMERICA; AND 
(NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED) AN AUTHENTIC COPY OF THE TREATY CONCLUDED 
BETWEEN THEIR HIGH MIGHTINESSES THE STATES-GENERAL, AND THE UNITED 
STATES OF AMERICA. THE WHOLE ARRANGED, WITH A PREFACE AND DEDICATION, BY 
THE REV. WILLIAM JACKSON. London: J. Stockdale, 1783. Second Edition. 
Octavo (5-1/2" x 9") in later 3/4 red morocco leather and marbled 
boards, recently and neatly rebacked retaining the original 
gilt-lettered and decorated spine, new endpapers; [i], xxix, [iii], 367, 
[1], 401-472, [4] pages. Lacks the engraved frontispiece portrait of 
George Washington. A reissue of the First British Edition of the 
previous year with the title page reset. The best edition, American or 
English, because of the additions of important treaties relating to the 
United States including what is certainly the first English printing of 
the American-Dutch treaty of 7 June 1782, the first commercial treaty 
concluded by the United States with any nation other than France, making 
possible essential Dutch loans to the United States. Owner name and 
notation on a front endpaper; some pages browned toward the front with 
occasional scattered light foxing. Near Fine.

Evans 17390 (for the 1781 American edition): "In its review of the 
London edition of this work, printed the following year, the Monthly 
Review says: 'It contains a greater portion of unsophisticated wisdom 
and good sense, than is, perhaps, to be met with in any other 
legislative code that was ever yet framed. It is, in short, the book 
which may be considered the Magna Charta of the United American States"; 
Howes C-716. (#017278)        $1,500.00

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