The Laws of the United States of America. Volume III - Acts Passed at the First Session of the Fifth Congress of the United States of America

Philadelphia: Richard Folwell [III]; William Ross [IV], 1796. Some browning and occasional spotting. The third and fourth volumes of the collected laws of the United States. Together two volumes, 8vo. Contemporary calf (rebacked). FIRST EDITIONS, comprising the "first collected laws of the United States and including the acts of Congress still in force passed by the first four Congresses... This set is also important as a collection of early American treaties, with the appendices including the treaties of the United States with foreign powers and Indian tribes" (Reese). According to Reese "the official printings of these treaties are rare in the extreme" therefore these collected editions constitute the earliest available printings. ESTC W20624; Evans 329763; Reese Federal Hundred 63 (Vols. I-III).