A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America

by John Adams

$28,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Philadelphia: Printed for Hall and Sellers; J. Crukshank; and Young and McCulloch, 1787. First American edition of John Adams' influential treatise on government. Association copy owned by John Beckley, his signature and that of Mary Anne Beckley to title page. xx, 3 - 390 pp., laid paper, collated complete. Duodecimo, bound in sixes, contemporary calf rebacked in leather, contemporary morocco title lable laid on spine.

• Binding: Leather

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