The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators: David E. Herold, Mary E. Surratt, Lewis Payne, George A. Atzerodt, Edward Spangler, Samuel A. Mudd, Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlin containing the orders convening the Commission to the findings and sentences of the Accused
by Benn Pitman
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- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
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About This Item
25 West Fourth St. Cincinnati, 60 Walker St. NYC: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1865. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. As Recorder to the Military Commission investigating the conspiracy to assassinate the late President Lincoln and other Federal officers Benn Pitman complied and arranged this 421 page transcript of documents bound in hardcover (1865,c1865) in black embossed cover boards with gold gilt titles to spine, the portraits of each conspirator are engraved by A.H. Ritchie as frontispiece as well as a full page map showing the alleged escape route from Washington D.C. to the Garrett's Farm and a diagram of the theater where Lincoln was assassinated, inner hinges are preserved and text is secure and in very good shape, dust tone to cover boards and chips missing to spine below titles, there is soil to end papers with previous owners markings, tear to frontispiece tissue guard, this rare book survives as an important research tool and an artifact of a tragic period of time in post-civil war America
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- Philosopher's Stone Books (US)
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- Title
- The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators: David E. Herold, Mary E. Surratt, Lewis Payne, George A. Atzerodt, Edward Spangler, Samuel A. Mudd, Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlin containing the orders convening the Commission to the findings and sentences of the Accused
- Author
- Benn Pitman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin
- Place of Publication
- 25 West Fourth St. Cincinnati, 60 Walker St. NYC
- Date Published
- 1865
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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