Making Our Nation: Constitutions and Related Documents. Sold to Benefit the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation. Part 2
Making Our Nation: Constitutions and Related Documents. Sold to Benefit the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation. Part 2
Illinois | The earliest obtainable printing of the first Illinois Constitution
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Lot Closed
December 2, 05:46 PM GMT
Estimate
500 - 700 USD
Lot Details
Description
Illinois
Constitution of the State of Illinois. November 16, 1818, Read and Ordered to lie upon the table. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. Washington City: Printed by E. De Krafft, 1818
8vo (206 x 126 mm). 24 pp.; stamp to verso of title and last leaf, lightly spotted and toned. Black library buckram.
The second printing of the first Illinois Constitution. The first printing, the Kaskaskia issue of the same year, is very rare.
PROVENANCE
The New York City Bar Association (Doyle, their sale, 24 November 2014, lot 209)