Recensement

3730502 — <p>Washington City D.C.: Printed at the Apollo Press by Wm. Duane & Son 1802. 88pp. 8vo. Removed and folding table with old loss at top margin else Very good.</p> <p>First octavo edition of the Second Federal Census a foundational building block in the maintenance and coordination of Federal powers. </p> <p>The American population in 1800 was 5.3 million people. For this census the “Indian slave and free black populations were listed by total number only. Memorials from Thomas Jefferson and Timothy Dwight requested that much more information be collected in the census. Both men wanted occupational or economic data to be collected and asked that the census distinguish the native-born and immigrant populations.†Anderson p18 quoted and paraphrased</p> <p>Signed in print by then-Secretary of State James Madison and preceded only by the rare folio edition.</p> <p>Howes R-221. SABIN 70147. Shaw & Shoemaker 3442. Sowerby 3289; Jefferson’s copy at Monticello then sold to the Library of Congress. Anderson The American Census.</p> unknown