Voyages de M. Le Marquis de Chastellux Dans l'Amerique Septentrionale, Dans les annees 1780, 1781 & 1782 (2 vols.)
Paris: Chez Prault, 1788-1791. Second Edition. Hardcover. 2 vols. Brown leather boards, red title and volume blocks on spines, gilt letters and decorations on spines, marbled flyleaves and marbled edges all around; 759 pp. total, 3 BW illus., 5 fold-outs. G- (Ex-library, with markings and bookplates in both vols.; average edge wear to bindings, heavy corner and spine wear; pages are generally clean with foxing only present on outer pages of both vols.). Item #146703
Text is in French. Title on spines: Voyage de l'Ameriqu. Here French military officer Francois-Jean de Beauvoir, the Marquis de Chastellux (1734-1788) recounts his travels in North America, from Massachusetts to Virginia. Includes two fold-out maps of his routes and three fold-outs of BW illustrations. Please note that a pagination printing error makes volume 2 seem as though it contains 251 pages when it really has 351. The page numbers advance in it from 320 to 221, and the error continues for the rest of the volume. The marbling is exquisite. Includes a boxed set of the 1963 English translation published by Chapel Hill and prepared by Howard C. Rice, Jr.
Price: $525.00