MEMOIRS OF AARON BURR. WITH MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE
1836 · New York
by Davis, Matthew L
New York, 1836. Two volumes. 436; 449pp., plus ads. Frontispiece portraits. Original cloth, printed paper spine labels. Cloth sunned, some wear to extremities, spine labels slightly chipped. Small bookplates on rear pastedowns. Light foxing. A good set. First edition. A good biography of Burr, with much of the information collected first hand as Davis was "intimately acquainted" with his subject. The motto printed on the titlepage is "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." SABIN 18864. HOWES D126. (Inventory #: WRCAM52011)