8vo (214 x 123 mm). (Some browning and spotting). Contemporary half morocco gilt (some light rubbing and wear). Provenance: Dr. Edward Livingston (engraved bookplate, see below).  

FIRST EDITION of Clark's work, which published for the first time the text of documents demonstrating that the leader of America's army was a secret Spanish agent. One of Wilkinson's New Orleans associates, "Clark...broke with Wilkinson, with whom he had been intimate, and in this book gives much evidence of the General's treachery" (Streeter Sale III:1694). Wilkinson was Burr's co-conspirator in the so-called "Burr Conspiracy," Burr's attempt to detach the Western states and the Louisiana territory from the Union.  

Edward Livingston acted simultaneously as U. S. Attorney for New York and the mayor of New York City from 1801-1803. He moved to New Orleans in 1804, and was falsely accused of abetting Aaron Burr in the Burr Conspiracy.  He no sooner cleared himself of the charges before he was brought into controversy alongside President Jefferson over land rights in New Orleans.  Livingston later organized the people of Louisiana in their resistance to the British invasion of 1814, and served as Andrew Jackson's aide-de-camp in the Battle of New Orleans.  A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.  Howes C-431; Sabin 13265.