Confederate States of America | Including the first printings of the first two versions of the Confederate constitution

Confederate States of America

Congress of the Provisional Government. Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America. Montgomery: Shorter & Reid, Advertiser Office, 1861 and five other works, bound in one volume

6 works in one volume, 8vo (220 x 140 mm). Title-pages where called for, signed by Thomas Jefferson Devine on several pages; foxing, browning, especially in 3rd and 4th work. Contemporary sheep, signed by Devine on upper board, spine and boards ruled blind; signature faded, extremities and boards rubbed, chips to spine, repaired at head of spine, some soiling to rear board. In black quarter morocco slipcase, with folding chemise.

Works include: Congress of the Provisional Government. Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America. Montgomery: Shorter & Reid, Advertiser Office, 1861 — Constitution of the Confederate States of America. Adopted unanimously by the Congress of the Confederate States of Ameriea [sic], March 11, 1861. Montgomery: Shorter & Reid, Advertiser Office, 1861 — Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. 1861. Montgomery: Barrett, Wimbish & Co., 1861 — Acts and Resolutions of the Second Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. 1861. Montgomery: Shorter & Reid, Printers and Binders, 1861 — Acts and Resolutions of the Third Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Held at Richmond. Richmond: Enquirer Book and Job Press, by Tyler, Wise & Allegre, 1861 — An Act to alter and amend an Act entitled "An Act for the Sequestration of the Estates, Property and Effects of Alien Enemies, and for Indemnity of citizens of the Confederate States, and persons aiding the same in the existing war with the United States," approved August thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, 1861. [Richmond: np, 1861]

A remarkable collection of some of the earliest and foundational texts of the Confederate States.

A significant Confederate sammelband, signed in several places by Thomas Jefferson Devine, a Texan jurist and Confederate diplomat, who compiled the volume. In addition to being a prominent jurist, Devine was the diplomatic representative for the Confederacy in Mexico, where he traveled at the end of the Civil War so as to avoid taking the oath of allegiance to the federal government. He was one of three Confederates charged with treason during the war, but he was pardoned without a trial, and his citizenship was restored in 1867.

Included in the volume are the first printings of the first two versions of the Confederate constitution, as well as the official proceedings of the first three provisional Confederate congresses.

REFERENCE

Parrish & Willingham 1, 8, 23, 25, 27, 66