Description:
A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, Perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March 1770 by Soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment. London: Printed by Order of the Town of Boston, Re-printed for E. and C. Dilly and J. Almon, 1770. Octavo, engraved frontispiece of the Boston Massacre bound opposite title, bound in later half red morocco, buckram boards, 8 x 4 7/8 in.
The Appendix (more than 120 pages) contains ninety-six sworn affidavits of witnesses to the Massacre.
Estimate $7,000-9,000
[frontis], [pi]4, B-X4 (final leaf X4 blank and present).
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508-970-3293
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