Books and Manuscripts

Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, Being the First Session of the Second Congress, Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia, October 24th, 1791; and In the Sixteenth Year of the Sovereignty of the Said United States
Philadelphia: Printed by John Fenno, 1791. First edition. 4to. 228 pp. Folio. Full contemporary sheep, tan morocco spine label, stamped in blind and in gilt, boards and extremities rubbed, front board bowed; all edges trimmed; marbled endpapers; title-page lightly toned. Evans 24991

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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America; Being the Second Session of the Second Congress, Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia, November 5th, 1792…
Philadelphia: Printed by John Fenno, 1792. First edition. 4to. 100 pp. Folio. Title-page toned; offsetting to text. Evans 26333

An important pair of Senate journals from the Second Congress of the United States. Published during the emergence of the national partisan political divide, the legislative actions described include the official ratification of the Bill of Rights, the passage of the whiskey tax that would result in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, the Northwest Territory Acts, the Judiciary Act of 1793, and much more.