1870 Life of Aaron Burr Americana Thomas Jefferson Alexander Hamilton Duel 2v

1870 Life of Aaron Burr Americana Thomas Jefferson Alexander Hamilton Duel 2v

Aaron Burr was an 18^th-century American politician best known for his famous duel with Alexander Hamilton. Burr served as an officer in the American Revolution and later became the United States vice president under Thomas Jefferson. Author James Parton published a biography of the life of Burr which became a popular and reliable work on Burr, Jefferson, and Hamilton.

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PARTON, James

The life and times of Aaron Burr

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes
  • I – XXII, [2], 25-443, [1]
  • II – XII, 13-431, [1]
  • Engraved portrait frontispiece in each volume
• Provenance: Handwritten – Andrew Price, 1872
  • Andrew Price (1854–1909) was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1889 to 1897. Price attended various private schools, graduating from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1875. Price was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father-in-law, Edward James Gay, being reelected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses (December 2, 1889, to March 3, 1897). He was elected to these positions after participating in the Thibodaux massacre, which claimed the lives of up to 300 innocent African Americans.
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; secure
  • Green cloth
• Size: ~8.25in X 5.75in (20.5cm x 14.5cm)

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