Nov 29, 2001 - Sale 1916

Sale 1916 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 431
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CIVIL WAR.) The Demon of Andersonville; or, the Trial of Wirz, for the Cruel Treatment and Brutal Murder of Helpless Union Prisoners in his Hands.<> Frontispiece map, 4 plates. 8vo, original color lithographed pictorial wrappers, short tear to front wrapper, short tear to rear wrapper. Philadelphia, (1865)

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The illustrations show a view of Andersonville, a ball and chain gang, dogs attacking a Union soldier, and Wirz beating a soldier. The publisher evidently wanted the public to assume the pamphlet was longer than it actually was, beginning the pagination of the text with page 29.<