A critical piece of primary resource print material related to John Brown, The Secret Six, and the Raid on Harper’s Ferry. And this copy very handsomely inscribed by Vice President to Abraham Lincoln, Hannibal Hamlin.

The text includes first-hand correspondence and extensive testimony from John Brown, William Seward, Robert E. Lee, George L. Stearns, etc., An important primary text. 

The volume was gifted either just before or right after the beginning of hostilities in the Civil War, presented [in Hamlin's hand] to John Monroe of Maine, Hamlin's home state. A wonderful association copy. 

United States Senate. 36th Congress, 1st Session. Rep. Com. No. 278. Invasion at Harper's Ferry. Washington D.C. Government Printing Office. 1860. 255pp.

A very good copy, bound in cloth with a minor chip at the head of the spine. The prelims are just slightly shaken, but generally solid, with light foxing, and generally bright pages.