Gallatin, Albert | The pioneering work of the Jeffersonian financier

Gallatin, Albert

A Sketch of the Finances of the United States. New York: William A. Davis,1796; [Bound with:] James Monroe. A View of the Conduct of the Executive, in the Foreign Affairs of the United States, connected with the mission to the French Republic during the years 1794, 1795 and 1796. Philadelphia: Benj. Franklin Bache, 1797

8vo (206 x 123 mm). Contemporary manuscript index, title to each work, 3 (of 4) folding plates to Finances; Finances lacking folding plate "(B)", some browning and offsetting, a few stray spots. Full speckled calf, gilt-lettered label to spine, marbled endpapers. 

First edition of Alfred Gallatin's pioneering work, bound with a first edition of Monroe's defense of his term as Minister to France. Gallatin served as Jefferson’s Treasury Secretary, and helped to define the manner in which a president used executive power to limit governmental power. 

REFERENCE

Gallatin: ESTC W29430; Evans 30469; Federal Hundred 60; Goldsmith I:16719; Howes G29; Kress G3130; Sabin 26394; Sowerby 3523 — Monroe: ESTC W29655; Evans 3249i; Howes M-727; Larned 1661; Sabin 50020