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141 - [TRAVELS]. CHEVALIER (Michel). LETTERS ON NORTH AMERICA.
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[TRAVELS]. CHEVALIER (Michel). LETTERS ON NORTH AMERICA. Paris: Gosselin, 1837. Two volumes bound together in a single in-8 volume in black shagreen, with gilt coats of arms in the centre of the covers, ribbed spine, gilt title, inner border, marbled edges (contemporary binding). Volume 1: (2) folios of half-title and title page, XV–470 pages, (1) folio of errata - Volume 2: (2) folios of half-title and title page, 527 pages, (1) page of errata, folding map. Scattered light foxing, a few foxed leaves, discolouration on the spine. FIRST EDITION. COMPLETE volume containing the large fold-out MAP of the ‘United States of America in 1836’, engraved on stone by Boussard, lithographed and hand-coloured by Benard. Michel CHEVALIER (1806–1879), a Saint-Simonian economist, presents in this work an economic overview of the United States, the only one to have been published in France at that time. COPY BEARING THE COAT OF ARMS OF Guillaume PAVÉE DE VENDEUVRE (1779–1870). ¶ Sabin, IV, 17 – Walch, “Michel Chevalier”, pages 120–121.
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