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[THE FEDERALIST PAPERS]. Le Fédéraliste, ou Collection de quelques Écrits en fabeur de la Constitution propose aux Estats-Unis de l’Amérique, par la Convention convoquée en 1787. Paris: Chez Buisson, 1792.
2 volumes, 8° (194 x 119 mm). Half-titles. (Some pale spotting or stains.) Contemporary pasteboards, paper spines and title-labels renewed, vellum corners (some light wear).
FIRST FRENCH EDITION of Hamilton, Madison and Jay’s series of essays representing “the anxieties of men of property…show[ing] an underlying distrust of popular democracy” (PMM). With the incorrect spelling of “Jay” on the title-page (here spelled “Gay”), and with 511 pages in volume two (512 blank), though Sabin calls for only 506. Sabin 23993.
2 volumes, 8° (194 x 119 mm). Half-titles. (Some pale spotting or stains.) Contemporary pasteboards, paper spines and title-labels renewed, vellum corners (some light wear).
FIRST FRENCH EDITION of Hamilton, Madison and Jay’s series of essays representing “the anxieties of men of property…show[ing] an underlying distrust of popular democracy” (PMM). With the incorrect spelling of “Jay” on the title-page (here spelled “Gay”), and with 511 pages in volume two (512 blank), though Sabin calls for only 506. Sabin 23993.