$350
Estimate: $250 - $400
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer, Part III
Auction: January 30, 2020 10:00:00 AM EDT
New York: Southwick & Pelsue, 1810. Second American edition. 8vo. (1)-385, [7] pp. Illustrated with tables at rear. Modern quarter calf over paper-covered boards; all edges untrimmed; scattered light foxing and spotting to text, some dampstaining at bottom edge of title-page and prelims; early ownership signature at head of title-page. Sabin 33060; Howes H-652.
"Chief source on the 'Negro Plot' of 1741; of the 174 indicted two thirds were found guilty, on what seems frail evidence [of conspiring to kill slave owners by poisoning their water supply]..." (Howes H-652)