Howe Dwolf (1 results)

Sewn binding. Condition: Very good -. First Edition (?). Octavo, 23pp. About very good in a sewn binding. Appears to be missing its wrappers. Sewn binding is fragile, but mostly intact. Just a few foxing marks, but overall a very clean, bright example. An uncommon religious treatise against dueling, with perhaps a dozen copies in library holdings, and none in the marketplace at the time of listing. The text mostly discusses religious stories and examples, but a short preface refers to the "disgraceful transaction which has buried one of [our] legislators and imbued others with his blood." Published in the year that Cilley, a Maine Cogressman, was killed in a duel, this episode was the pretext for the publication of this text, and Cilley's name appears at least once in the text itself.