In The Case of Louis Riel, Convicted of Treason, and Executed Therefor. Memorandum of Alexander Campbell: Ottawa, 25th November 1885. Memorandum respecting the case of The Queen v. Riel, prepared at the request of the Committee of the Privy

~ ~ ~ No online listings located. No modern auction records on hub. There are 4 records on Hub between 1944 and 1973, one being a repeat of the record the year previous. "The case of Louis Riel, convicted and executed for high treason, has excited unusual attention and interest, not merely in the Dominion of Canada but beyond its limits. Here it has been made the subject of party, religious, and national feeling and discussion; and elsewhere it has been regarded by some as a case in which, for the first time in this generation, what is assumed to have been a political crime only has been punished with death. .". Paragraph one. , tall8vo, 24.8cm, 10p., in the original printed blue wraps, small dust soil on the fore-edge of the upper cover and two such on the rear wrapper, still extra ordinary fine condition to the very rare Riel item.