[Rarebooks] FS: The Magna Charta of the United American States, Boston 1785

[Charles Agvent]

CONSTITUTIONS OF THE SEVERAL INDEPENDENT STATES OF AMERICA; THE 
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION BETWEEN THE 
SAID STATES; THE TREATIES BETWEEN HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY AND THE 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. --AND THE TREATIES BETWEEN THEIR HIGH 
MIGHTINESSES THE STATES GENERAL OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS AND THE UNITED 
STATES OF AMERICA. Boston: Norman & Bowen, 1785. Second Edition. 
Duodecimo (4" x 6-7/8") in 4s in contemporary sheep; 28, 5-181, 29 
pages. Evans 19306. The second publication in America of the 
Constitutions after the first printing of only 200 copies in 
Philadelphia in 1781. Howes (C-716) cites several European printings in 
the interim. An important and somewhat scarce book. Pencil signature 
"Ferguson" on front endpaper and title page. Small dark stain at the 
bottom of one page, otherwise quite clean. Most of leather lacking from 
spine; front cover a little loose but holding strong by the cords. Very 
Good.

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. (#015346)        $2,000.00

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