Journal of the Senate of the United States of America Being the First Session of the Second Congress, Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia, October 24th, 1791; and in the Sixteenth Year of the Sovereignty of the Said United States

 United States. Congress. Senate; John Adams; George Washington

 Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1791

[Congress during the Washington Administration, John Adams presiding] Folio, 32 x 20 cm (12 1/2 x 7 1/4 in).  Bound in full contemporary sheepskin.  Solid binding and cover. Inconsequential scrapes to the cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. 228 p.  Marginal worming to 211 p. through the appendix, (doesn't effect text).  Evans, 24911.  Includes an address by President George Washington, a tax on distilled spirits (a lead up to the Whiskey Rebellion), acts that established the United States Mint, the Post Office, and the admission of Vermont as the 14th state. "First edition, first issue of the rare journal containing numerous messages from Pres. Washington official ratification[s] of the Bill of Rights, the Presidential Succession Act debate and passage, the establishment of the U.S. mint and coinage, the first militia act, and foundation Northwest Territory Acts." - Jenkins 505.