1857 First Edition. Shelf Wear. Damage to top of spine as shown. Foxing throughout. Tight binding. 
An important historical memoir of the life of Thomas Jefferson. Written by Samuel Mosheim Schmucker, ‘The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson’ follows the third US president from his birth to his death with an appendix of 17 articles of different letters by Jefferson. Schmucker includes:
Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of the Independence
Jefferson elected to Congress, Vice-President and Presidency
Abolition of slavery
Religious freedom
Events of the French Revolution
Jefferson’s opinion of George Washington
Jefferson’s opinion of Bonaparte
Jefferson’s family and descendants