[Rarebooks] FS: US Laws, 5th Congress, 1797

[Bob Petrilla]

United States Laws, 5th Congress.  ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION 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, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-seven, and of the Independence
of the United States, the Twenty-first.  Also present: Acts Passed at the
Second Session...; ...Third Session...; Articles of a Treaty between the
United States of American and the Cherokee Indians; and The Constitution of
the United States.  Philadelphia: Printed by William Ross, 1797.  First
Edition.  Thick octavo. pp: 559; 26 Constitution; iv, Table of Contents;
(48) index.  Bound in old calf, blind-ruled borders, leather spine label.
Half of spine label is gone, dampmark at lower portion of first and last
few leaves, contents in Good condition.  8.25" x 4.75".
Provenance: Inked on free endpaper in an old hand: "New Salem Academy No.
166 / From Hon. E.A. Greenwood." [Sabin 15501-15503. Evans 32951, etc.]
$350.00

Postpaid in US.  Usual trade terms.



    *  R & A  Petrilla*



*          Antiquarian Booksellers                     PO Box 306
   Roosevelt, NJ 08555*


*           bob at petrillabooks.com <%28609%29%20426-4999>**        Member:
 ABAA, ILAB, IOBA*


*​ *