Paris, chez Du Pont ; Buisson ; Charles Pougens, 1799. 8 volumes in-8° demi-veau, dos lisse, pièces de titre rouge et de tomaison verte (reliure de l'époque).
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Rare édition originale de ce texte important pour la découverte des Etats-Unis par les Français, avant celui de Tocqueville. Tableaux dépliants. Les trois cartes sont en déficit. (Sabin, n° 39056).Philantrope, épris de progrès agricoles et industriels, membre de l'Académie des Sciences, La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1747-1827) fonda à Liancourt, dans l'Oise, une ferme modèle pour tester les nouvelles techniques de culture ainsi qu'une école pour les enfants des soldats de son régiment. On lui doit également la création de l'École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers en 1780 et de la Caisse d'Épargne et de Prévoyance de Paris en 1818. À la Révolution, il émigra d'abord en Angleterre, puis en 1794, il se rend aux États-Unis. Pendant trois ans, parcourant une grande partie des États du Nord, il en étudie la constitution, l'économie et les moeurs des habitants. Défauts d'usage.
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Paris, Du Pont, Buisson, Charles Pougens, L'AN VII (1799). 8vo. Bound in 7 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines. Gilt lettering. Spines a bit rubbed. 4 volumes with some light cracking along hinges. Top of spines loosening on vols. I and II. Scattered mild brownspots. Lower right corners in vol. I damstained. Lower right corners of the last pages in vol. II, dampstained. Vol.I: XXIV,365 pp. - Vol.II:(2),IV,349 pp. - Vol.III: (2),IV,384 pp. - Vol.IV: 1-349 pp. (lacking title-page a. preliminaries). - Vol. VI:1-336 pp. (lacking title-page a. preliminaries). - Vol.VII: (2),IV,366 pp. - Vol. VIII: (4),244 pp. With 9 folded tables of letterpress (all) and 3 large folded engraved maps. (Carte des Etats-Unis. Provinces Septentrionales - Provinces Meridionales dampstained on verso, only faint on recto - Carte Générale des Etats-Unis de L'Amerique Septentrionale Divisée en ses 17 Provinces).
First editon. (Lacking volume V), but with all 3 maps and 9 tabels belonging to the full work. La Rochefoucault-Liancourt ""left England in 1794, and travelled to the United States. In 1795, he and five associates began a tour which covered much of the northern United States and Upper Canada. They crossed the Niagara River to Fort Erie and also saw Fort Chippawa. From there they travelled to Newark, Canada where they were entertained by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe. Their trip was cut short when they were prohibited from entering Lower Canada. Insulted, François Alexandre Frédéric returned to the US and, in 1799, his exile ended, he returned to France. (Wikipedia). He was ""Elected to the states-general of 1789 he sought in vain to support the cause of royalty while furthering the social reforms he had at heart. On the 12th of July, two days before the fall of the Bastille, he warned Louis XVI. of the state of affairs in Paris, and met his exclamation that there was a revolt with the answer, “Non, sire, c’est une révolution.” On the 18th of July he became president of the Assembly. Established in command of a military division in Normandy, he offered Louis a refuge in Rouen, and, failing in this effort, assisted him with a large sum of money. After the events of the 10th of August 1792 he fled to England, where he was the guest of Arthur Young, and thence passed to America."" (Encycl. Britannica). Sabin, 39056.