Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection

Folio (348 x 208 mm). Disbound gatherings with stab-holes present. (Title-page and a few leaves browned).

FIRST EDITIONS of the only two sessions of the Third Congress, which met at Congress Hall in Philadelphia during the fifth and sixth years of Washington's presidency. During the third congress, Washington began his second term, Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin, the federal government authorized the construction of the original six frigates of the U. S. Navy, and the Whiskey Rebellion began. Evans 27911 and 29724.