Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 122

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CRIME.) Group of 4 trial accounts including the Lincoln assassination, John Brown, and General Daniel Sickles. 4 volumes in 2. 8vo, various bindings, Lincoln volume rebacked; moderate wear. Vp, 1859-70

Additional Details

First volume is Pitman, The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators. Cincinnati, OH, 1865. Bound together in the second volume are: The Trial of Daniel McFarland for the Shooting of Albert D. Richardson, the Alleged Seducer of his Wife. New York, [1870] [Trial of the Hon. Daniel E. Sickles for Shooting Philip Barton Key. New York, 1859] Lacking title page The Life, Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown. New York, 1859. McDade 610; 655, 871.
with--2 modern paperback biographies of Sickles and a group of 4 issues of the New York Times regarding the Sickles trial, April 1859.