[Continental Congress]:

$20,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

JOURNALS OF CONGRESS. CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS FROM SEPT. 5, 1774 TO JAN. 1, 1776. [with:] JOURNALS OF CONGRESS. CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS FROM JAN. 1, 1776 TO JAN. 1, ... A nice set of the Journals of the Continental Congress for the first two years. The first volume was published by Robert Aitken in Philadelphia and was the first collected set of the Journals. These had been published previously in two separate volumes (both of extreme rarity) in 1774 and 1776. This collected issue became the first volume of the series, which continued until the end of the Confederacy and the adoption of the Federal Constitution in 1788. The volume contains a wealth of the most important documents of the Revolutionary period, with all of the proceedings of the first, and part of the second, Continental Congress for 1774 and 1775. Rare in such nice condition and especially so with the twelve pages of index.The second volume was published by John Dunlap in York and is one of the rarest of the series issued from 1774 to 1788, with a peculiar and romantic publication history. Textually it covers the exciting events of 1776, culminating with the Declaration of Independence on July 4, an early printing of which appears here, as well as all of the other actions of Congress for the year. It is thus a vital document in the history of American independence and the American Revolution. Through the middle of 1777 the printer of the Journals of Congress was Robert Aitken of Philadelphia. In 1777 he p

• Printing: later

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