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Book Condition: Used
Seller: Bauman Rare Books

United States
About Item: 1787. First Edition . (CONSTITUTION) CAREY, Mathew, editor. The American Museum, Or Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces, &c. Prose and Poetical. Volume II, Numbers I-VI. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, July-December, 1787. Thick octavo, original marbled boards rebacked and recornered to style in calf gilt, red morocco spine label; pp. (i), (1-3), 4-11, (12-15), 16 (17), 18-103, (104-107), 108-199, 203, 201-206, (207-211), 212-311, (312-315), 316-415, (416-419), 420-518, (519-523), 524-600, 1-15, (16-17), 18-22. $18,500.First edition of a true American classic: Mathew Carey's American Museum for 1787 (Volume II: Nos. I-VI), containing in the September issue the first serial printing of the U.S. Constitution and featuring the first serial printings of the first six Federalist papers issued outside of New York City, in original marbled boards.As Mathew Carey foresaw in the Preface to this volume's July issue of The American Museum, its ""good effects… are likely… Read More
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