MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM WIRT, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES

by John Kennedy, endleton

$450 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition · Signed

Philadelphia PA : Lea and Blanchard, 1849. First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. 417; 450pp., 1 errata Frontispiece portrait, folding facsimile. Wirt 1772-1834 served as prosecutor in the 1807 treason case against Aaron Burr and as Attorney General of the United States, 1817-1829. Inscribed in volume one by the author in 1863 to Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe. Howes K-87 aa . Sabin 37414. BAL 11056. Larned 1707: Valuable for history of the practice of law

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