Feb 02, 2006 - Sale 2065

Sale 2065 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 316
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
[ROBERTSON, JAMES.] An Account of the Trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. Younger, of Huntershill . . . for Sedition. Portrait frontispiece. 148 pages. 8vo, disbound; frontispiece with few small chips at edges; early owner's signature and library markings on title. New York: Samuel Campbell, 1797

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From the library of Brockholst Livingston, with his signature on the title-page. Livingston was appointed to the Supreme Court by Jefferson. The pamphlet concerns Thomas Muir, a Scottish proponent of parliamentary reform, who was tried and found guilty of sedition. He escaped from Botany Bay and eventually joined Thomas Paine in France. Evans 27633.