(Burr, Aaron) | Jefferson accuses the former Vice President of treason

(Burr, Aaron)

Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr, (Late Vice President of the United States,) for Treason, and for a Misdemeanor, in Preparing the means of a Military Expedition against Mexico, a territory of the King of Spain, with whom the United States were at peace, in the Circuit Court of the United States, Held at the City of Richmond, in the District of Virginia, in the Summer Term of the Year 1807... Taken in Short Hand by David Robertson. Philadelphia: Published by Hopkins and Earle, Fry and Kammerer, Printers, 1808



2 volumes, 8vo (215 x 128 mm). Scattered dampstaining and soiling. Antique style half morocco over marbled boards, leather title labels to spines.

Jefferson accuses the former Vice President of treason

First edition. Jefferson accused former Vice President Aaron Burr—along with a host of co-conspirators—of treason. They were indicted for plotting to detach portions of the American West and South, as well as Spanish Texas, from the United States with the aim of creating their own empire. Burr was ultimately acquitted of treason, but the affair ended his already precarious political career. 

REFERENCE

Howes B1013, Sabin 9434