THE LIFE OF HARMAN BLENNERHASSET. COMPRISING AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE BURR EXPEDITION: AND CONTAINING MANY ADDITIONAL FACTS NOT HERETOFORE PUBLISHED.
Chillicothe, O. Ely, Allen & Looker, 1850. Original cloth [spine renewed] with gilt-decorated front cover. Frontis lithograph of 'Blennerhassets' Mansion'. 239pp. Very Good.
"The first attempt by this early expert to unravel the [Burr-Wilkinson] conspiracy" [Jenkins]. Burr visited Blennerhasset in 1805, "and succeeded in involving him in his treasonable schemes" [Thomson].
FIRST EDITION. Howes S13. Tompkins 89. Thomson 1009. Jenkins, Full Howes 2209 [1853 ed.]. Item #30687
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