Lot 29

18th Century Americana
[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] -- [CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. Journals of Congress, and of the United States in Congress Assembled, for the year 1781. Published by Order of Congress. Volume VII. New York: John Patterson, 1787.

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Estimate: $500 - $700

Estimate$500 – $700

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18th Century Americana
[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] -- [CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. Journals of Congress, and of the United States in Congress Assembled, for the year 1781. Published by Order of Congress. Volume VII. New York: John Patterson, 1787.

8vo (220 x 130 mm). (Some browning and spotting, small wormtrack touching letters on several leaves.) ORIGINAL BOARDS UNCUT AND UNOPENED (covers detaching, lacking paper spine covering, overall wear).

FIRST NEW YORK EDITION, one of 500 printed by order of Congress. BOUND IN ORIGINAL BOARDS UNCUT AND UNOPENED

A close reprint of the Claypoole edition of 1782, correcting an error in the index and adding an appendix, which includes 4-pp. "Rules for Conducting Business in the United States in Congress Assembled," and a 13-pp. report on the Treasury (by a committee consisting of "Mr Duane, Mr. Sharp and Mr. Wolcott appointed to estimate and state the amount of debts due from the United States)." Evans 20773.

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Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection

18th Century Americana ﻿[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] -- [CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. Journals of Congress, and of the United States in Congress Assembled, for the year 1781. Published by Order of Congress. Volume VII. New York: John Patterson, 1787.

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18th Century Americana
[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] -- [CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. Journals of Congress, and of the United States in Congress Assembled, for the year 1781. Published by Order of Congress. Volume VII. New York: John Patterson, 1787.