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Scarce book: Journals of Congress, Vol. II: containing their proceedings from January 1, 1776 to to December 31, 1776. First edition. Philadelphia: Folwell's Press, 1800. Hardcover bound in full calf, 5.5 x 8.5, 480 pages. This volume, part of a set printed for Congress limited to 400 copies, follows the influential legislative actions of America's founding fathers in the critical year of 1776, including the actions taken surrounding the creation and signing of the Declaration of Independence. The entry of July 2nd documents a resolution that "these United Colonies are, and, of right, ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown. and that all political connexion between them, and the state of Great-Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." The entry for July 4th prints the complete text of the Declaration of Independence, famously beginning: "When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature, and, of nature's God. entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind, requires, that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." Book condition: G+/None, with dampstaining and scuffing to boards, ex-library plates to front pastedown with associated spine label, mottled toning to textblock, split leather at joints, and the ownership inscription of "Francis A. Dickens" to front board and title page.
