Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 387

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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) BARNES, DAVID M. The Draft Riots in New York July, 1863. The Metropolitan Police, Their Services during the Riot Week. Their Honorable Record. 117 pages, plus index. 8vo, original printed gray wrappers, a few chips to the edges, still an excellent copy of a fragile piece. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1863
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rare first edition of the best contemporary account of the new york city draft riots. Published just 2 months afterward, this volume is drawn from police reports, articles in the New York Times, and eye-witnesses testimony. oclc locates only two copies of this work, though the schomburg center collection has a copy.