[Rarebooks] FS: John Adams A DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS, 1797

[Charles Agvent]

ADAMS, John. A DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED 
STATES OF AMERICA, AGAINST THE ATTACK OF M. TURGOT IN HIS LETTER TO DR. 
PRICE, DATED THE TWENTY-SECOND DAY OF MARCH, 1778. Philadelphia: Budd 
and Bartram, For William Cobbett [volume 1]; H. Sweitzer for William 
Cobbett [volume 2]; William Young for William Cobbett [volume 3], 1797. 
Third Edition. Three volumes in early 19th Century half polished black 
calf with marbled boards and calf corners; 6, xxxiii, [1], [3]-392; 
[vi], 451; [ii] 528, [36] pages. With the six-page subscriber list in 
the first volume and the half-title page in the second volume. The 
portrait frontispiece, found in some copies, is not present here. The 
Third and final edition, a reprint of the 1794 London edition, which is 
itself a reprint of the first edition, and the first complete 
three-volume text published in the United States of this important work 
in which the second president states the principles on which his new 
country was founded. Pencil signature on front pastedown of each volume, 
ink signature "Blair" dated 1798 on the title page of the first volume, 
the title page of the third volume browned but in general the text is 
clean and free from foxing. Very Good. (#018975)      $4,000.00

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