[POLITICS IN AMERICA]. A group of 18th century Congressional publications, comprising:

A Sammelband of government publications, 1802-1805. 8vo. Folding chart. (Toning, occasional brown spotting). Contemporary one-quarter calf, morocco gilt-lettered spine label (boards detached, heavy wear to extremities). With a manuscript contents page. Most publications are issued from the 8th Congress (as noted on the spine label). RARE, most titles have not sold individually, and most with 10 or less copies listed in OCLC.

Titles include: JEFFERSON, Thomas. Message from the President of the United States, Accompanying Certain articles of agreement and cession, which have been entered into and signed by the Commissioners of the United States, and the Commissioners of the State of Georgia. [Washington, D.C.?]: N.p., April 1802. A printing of the Compact of 1802, signed in type by Jefferson and James Madison. -- Report of the Commissioners Appointed in Pursuance of an Act for the Amicable Settlement of Limits with the State of Georgia, and Authorizing the Establishment of a Government in the Mississippi Territory. [Washington, D.C.?]: Published by order of the House of Representatives, 1804. -- Documents Accompanying the Report of the Commissioners, on the Georgia Mississippi Territory, Ceded to the United States. [Washington, D.C.?]: N.p., 10 February 1803. -- Report, From the Committee of Claims... Washington, D.C.: William Duane & Son, 1805. -- JEFFERSON, Thomas. Report, by the Secretary of State, on the 16th Decem. 1793, Relative to the Privileges and Restrictions of the Commerce of the United States. [Washington, D.C.?] Printed by order of the Senate of the United States, 26 January 1803. Signed in type by Jefferson. -- GALLATIN, Albert. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting a Statement of Fees. Washington, D.C.: William Duane & Son, 1805. With folding table "A Statement of Monies." -- Translation of a Memorial in the French Language of Sundry Citizens of the County of Wayne in the Indiana Territory. Washington, D.C.: William Duane & Son, 1805. -- TUCKER, Thomas T. Letter from the Treasurer of the United States, Accompanying his General Accounts of Receipts and Expenditures; as ALso his Accounts for the War and Navy Departments. [Washington, D.C.?]: N.p., 22 January 1805.

[With:] Acts Passed at the Third Congress of the United States of America. Philadelphia: Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1794. 8vo. Charts. (Spotting.) Contemporary one-quarter calf with marbled boards, rebacked (wear to extremities, scuffing). Provenance: H.S. Funk, Springtown, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania (ownership inscriptions). FIRST EDITION. Evans 29674/27827. ESTC 14495, W14497.