[Rarebooks] FS: 1850 THE LIFE OF HARMAN BLENNERHASSETT, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $60 NET

SAFFORD, William. THE LIFE OF HARMAN BLENNERHASSETT. COMPRISING AN 
AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE BURR EXPEDITION: AND CONTAINING MANY 
ADDITIONAL FACTS NOT HERETOFORE PUBLISHED. Chillicothe, OH: Ely, Allen & 
Looker, 1850. First Edition. Original gilt-decorated cloth; duodecimo 
(4-3/4" x 7-1/2"), 239 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece view of 
Blennerhassett's mansion. Howes S-12; New Howes S-13 "b". The first 
attempt by this early expert to unravel the Burr-Wilkinson Conspiracy. 
General James Wilkinson, the Commanding General of the United States 
Army and the first Governor of Upper Louisiana Territory, was also a spy 
for Spain and was used as a double agent by President Thomas Jefferson. 
The conspiracy between Wilkinson and Aaron Burr, hatched in 1805, was to 
lead a private, armed expedition of more than a thousand men into Mexico 
and establish a new government there, with themselves at the head of it. 
Also much information on Ohio, West Virginia, etc. Rebacked with 
original endpapers and backstrip which was replaced upside down. Very 
Good, clean copy. (#004494) $85.00

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