Feb 02, 2006 - Sale 2065

Sale 2065 - Lot 188

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(NEW YORK CITY.) Account of the Terrific and Fatal Riot at the New-York Astor Place Opera House. Frontispiece. 32 pages. 8vo, publisher's wrappers, detached and chipped. New York: H. M. Ranney, 1849

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On 10 May 1849, 22 were killed and almost 100 protestors and police injured in the second bloodiest riot in New York City history (after the draft riots).