The Life and Adventures of Seth Wyman, embodying the Principal Events of a Life Spent in Robbert, Theft, Gambling, Passing Counterfeit Money, &c. &c. Written

by Himself by Seth Wyman

$1,250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. iv, 310pp. 8vo. Contemporary brown cloth. Heavily worn, lacks lettering piece on spine. Foxing throughout, signature S sprung with several leaves chipped and torn. Howes W724; AI 43-4413. Item #321086 A worthy successor to two earlier New England practitioners of roguery, Stephen Burroughs and Henry Tufts Howes . Wyman was an audacious and incorrigible thief and swindler, but his prominence

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