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UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION -- [FRANKLIN, Benjamin, printer.] Constitutions des Treize États-Unis de L’Amérique. Philadelphia and Paris: [Printed for Franklin by] Ph.-D. Pierres and Pissot, Father and Sons, 1783.
8° (192 x 118 mm). Title-page with circular woodcut Great Seal of the United States: its first use in a printed book. Contemporary French mottled calf, smooth spine gilt (joints and corners renewed).
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, one of 600 copies (there was also a large-paper issue of 100 copies). Another copy, see previous lot. Howes C-716; Livingston, Franklin and His Press at Passy, pp.181-188; Sabin 16118; Streeter sale II:1035.
8° (192 x 118 mm). Title-page with circular woodcut Great Seal of the United States: its first use in a printed book. Contemporary French mottled calf, smooth spine gilt (joints and corners renewed).
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, one of 600 copies (there was also a large-paper issue of 100 copies). Another copy, see previous lot. Howes C-716; Livingston, Franklin and His Press at Passy, pp.181-188; Sabin 16118; Streeter sale II:1035.