Laws of the United States of America (12 volumes)

US Congress; Zephaniah Swift

Washington, Philadelphia, Richard Folwell; U.S. Government, 1796-1811

[Early American Law: Early Printing of the US Constitution]  12 volume set.  The first three volumes contain US Laws enacted up to 1796, the following 8 volumes continue it to 1811.  Printed in Philadelphia or Washington City, 1796-1811. Includes the early laws of the United States passed in the First through Thirteenth Congresses. 

Bound in contemporary leather.  Leather dry, some chipping, rubbing.  One of the volumes boards detached (13th  Congress). Some foxing, browning to pages.   Some volumes have contemporary signatures of Robinson and M. Daeri (sp?).   Volumes 1-3: v. 1: 494, [2] p.; v. 2: 576 p.; v. 3: 477, [131] p. 

  "Contains the acts passed by the first, second, third, and fourth Congress...This edition published under an order of the Congress of the United States, has many peculiar advantages...There is one copious, luminous Index (in Volume Three), compiled by Zephaniah Swift, esq., referring to all the volumes, and comprising in itself a complete Digest of all the Laws of the United States." - Evans.  Also includes foreign treaties, notably with Indian Tribes.  Refs: Evans 31356, 32973, 36523.  Sabin 39424.