Voyages de M. Le Marquis de Chastellux dans l'Amerique Septentrionale dans les annees 1780, 1781 & 1782 [WITH] Examen Critique des Voyages dans l'Amerique Septentionrale, de M. le Marquis de Chatellux [sic]
- Paris / Londres: Prault, 1786
Paris / Londres: Prault, 1786. Very Good. Three volumes bound in two (see below); octavos; full contemporary gilt-ruled calf, gilt spines in six compartments, red spine labels, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Leather a bit scuffed with some flaking of gilt, tiny losses to Vol. I spine ends, scattered foxing to textblocks, short split to Vol. I folding map frontispiece, Vol. l lacking rear free endpaper, else a Very Good, bright and sound set. Contents as follows:
1. Marquis de Chastellux. "Voyages de M. le Marquis de Chastellux dans l'Amérique Septentrionale dans les Années 1780, 1781, & 1782." Paris: Chez Prault, Imprimeur du Roi, Quai des Augustins, à l'Immortalité, 1786." First Edition. Two volumes; 390; [4],262 [i.e. 362],[2]pp.; five steel-engraved folding plates including two maps and three views. Lacking final blank, else collated complete with half title pages. SABIN 12227
Bound at end of Volume II:
2. J.P. Brissot de Warville. "Examen Critique des Voyages dans l'Amerique Septentionrale, de M. le Marquis de Chatellux [sic]; ou Lettre a M. le Marquis de Chatellux, dans laquelle on refute principalement ses opinions sur les Quakers, sur les Negres, sur le Peuple, & sur l'Homme." Londres: 1786. First Edition. [4],143,[1]pp. (collated complete). SABIN 8019.
Memoirs of the American Revolutionary War and subsequent travels through the United States by the Marquis de Chastellux (1734-1788), the French military officer who served as Major General in the French expeditionary forces, acting as principal liaison between General Comte de Rochambeau and George Washington, of whom the author glowingly writes here.
Unusually, the second volume is bound with the uncommon rebuttal to Chastellux's memoirs by the fiery French abolitionist Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), who here "attacks the Marquis for having...exposed to ridicule, and grossly misrepresented the principles and manners of the Quakers." Brissot also criticizes Chastellux's portrayal of Black Americans and "the condition of mankind" in general." The work, in contrast with Chastellux's, is "replete with liberal sentiments on religious and political subjects" (Sabin).
1. Marquis de Chastellux. "Voyages de M. le Marquis de Chastellux dans l'Amérique Septentrionale dans les Années 1780, 1781, & 1782." Paris: Chez Prault, Imprimeur du Roi, Quai des Augustins, à l'Immortalité, 1786." First Edition. Two volumes; 390; [4],262 [i.e. 362],[2]pp.; five steel-engraved folding plates including two maps and three views. Lacking final blank, else collated complete with half title pages. SABIN 12227
Bound at end of Volume II:
2. J.P. Brissot de Warville. "Examen Critique des Voyages dans l'Amerique Septentionrale, de M. le Marquis de Chatellux [sic]; ou Lettre a M. le Marquis de Chatellux, dans laquelle on refute principalement ses opinions sur les Quakers, sur les Negres, sur le Peuple, & sur l'Homme." Londres: 1786. First Edition. [4],143,[1]pp. (collated complete). SABIN 8019.
Memoirs of the American Revolutionary War and subsequent travels through the United States by the Marquis de Chastellux (1734-1788), the French military officer who served as Major General in the French expeditionary forces, acting as principal liaison between General Comte de Rochambeau and George Washington, of whom the author glowingly writes here.
Unusually, the second volume is bound with the uncommon rebuttal to Chastellux's memoirs by the fiery French abolitionist Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), who here "attacks the Marquis for having...exposed to ridicule, and grossly misrepresented the principles and manners of the Quakers." Brissot also criticizes Chastellux's portrayal of Black Americans and "the condition of mankind" in general." The work, in contrast with Chastellux's, is "replete with liberal sentiments on religious and political subjects" (Sabin).