Item #235168 A Narrative of the Suppression by Col. Burr, of the History of the Administration of John Adams, Late President of the United States, Written by John Wood, To Which is Added A Biography of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States; and of General C.C. Pinckney. By a Citizen of New-York. Aaron Burr, James Cheetham.

A Narrative of the Suppression by Col. Burr, of the History of the Administration of John Adams, Late President of the United States, Written by John Wood, To Which is Added A Biography of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States; and of General C.C. Pinckney. By a Citizen of New-York.

New-York: Printed by Denniston and Cheetham, No. 142 Pearl-Street, 1802.

Price: $300.00


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First edition. 72 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound. Old stab-marks, some early dampstaining to first and final few leaves, final three leaves a bit chipped at outer edge. Shaw & Shoemaker 2021; Howes C337; Sabin 12380.

Item #235168

Part of an ongoing attack on Burr by Cheetham, whose newspaper THE AMERICAN CITIZEN had become a mouthpiece for the Clinton faction of the Republican party. "Cheetham's attack on Burr was based partly on Burr's suppression of "a libelous and anti-Federalist work by one John Wood, called 'A History of the Administration of John Adams'" (DAB).