Mar 22, 2007 - Sale 2108

Sale 2108 - Lot 279

Price Realized: $ 132
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 150
(REVOLUTION.) Seward, Anna. On the Unfortunate Major Andre; Who was executed at Tappan, November ---, 1780 . . . Second New-York Edition. 48 pages. 8vo, stitched self-wrappers; unevenly trimmed with some loss to text, browning. New York: for T. Allen, 1792

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An early printing of Seward's famous Monody which blames George Washington for the execution of the spy Andre, along with letters written to her by Andre before the war and an extract from a letter supposedly written by Alexander Hamilton. Evans 24782.