Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt, Attorney General of the United States

by John P. Kennedy

$250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Philadelphia, PA : Lea and Blanchard, 1849. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: 417; 450, 1 pp. Portrait frontispiece to volume one, folding facsimile; errata leaf. Wirt served as prosecutor in the 1807 treason case against Aaron Burr and as United States Attorney General, 1817-1829. Howes K-87 aa . Sabin 37414. BAL 11056. Larned 1708: Valuable for history of the practice of law rather than statesmanship. Concerns early Virginia politics, the cabinets of

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