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AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. Recueil d'Estampes Representant les Differents Evenemens de la Guerre qui a Procure l'independence aux Etats Unis de l'Amerique . Paris: Ponce and Godefroy, [1784].
AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. Recueil d'Estampes Representant les Differents Evenemens de la Guerre qui a Procure l'independence aux Etats Unis de l'Amerique . Paris: Ponce and Godefroy, [1784]. Broadsheets (275 x 230 mm). Engraved title and 16 engraved plates (some occasional spotting). Contemporary French calf-backed boards, morocco lettering-piece (rubbed); cloth slipcase. Provenance : Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), Durdans Library (inkstamp on front free endpaper, armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION of a work often cited as the first French book with a title-page mentioning the United States. The plates include depictions of the tarring and feathering of British customs official John Malcolm, the battle of Lexington, the surrender at Saratoga, the attack of French forces on the island of Dominica, the surrender of Senegal, the capture of Grenada, the capture of Pensacola, the capture of Tobago, the surrender of Cornwallis, and three plates of heroic French activity on Guadeloupe. Two maps show the newly-formed United States and four territories ceded to France by Britain after the war, and a series of vignettes commemorate the Treaty of Versailles in 1783. Howes C-576; Sabin 68421; Winsor VI:185n.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 5
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Datum:
10.04.2012
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
10 April 2012, New York, Rockefeller Center
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AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. Recueil d'Estampes Representant les Differents Evenemens de la Guerre qui a Procure l'independence aux Etats Unis de l'Amerique . Paris: Ponce and Godefroy, [1784].
AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. Recueil d'Estampes Representant les Differents Evenemens de la Guerre qui a Procure l'independence aux Etats Unis de l'Amerique . Paris: Ponce and Godefroy, [1784]. Broadsheets (275 x 230 mm). Engraved title and 16 engraved plates (some occasional spotting). Contemporary French calf-backed boards, morocco lettering-piece (rubbed); cloth slipcase. Provenance : Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), Durdans Library (inkstamp on front free endpaper, armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION of a work often cited as the first French book with a title-page mentioning the United States. The plates include depictions of the tarring and feathering of British customs official John Malcolm, the battle of Lexington, the surrender at Saratoga, the attack of French forces on the island of Dominica, the surrender of Senegal, the capture of Grenada, the capture of Pensacola, the capture of Tobago, the surrender of Cornwallis, and three plates of heroic French activity on Guadeloupe. Two maps show the newly-formed United States and four territories ceded to France by Britain after the war, and a series of vignettes commemorate the Treaty of Versailles in 1783. Howes C-576; Sabin 68421; Winsor VI:185n.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 5
Auktion:
Datum:
10.04.2012
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
10 April 2012, New York, Rockefeller Center
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