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Verlag: Paris: A Colle, et se trouve Paris chez Froulle,, 1788
Anbieter: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 4 vols, 8vo (7.75 in x 5 in), pp. (4), 383, (1); (4), 259, (1); (4), 292; (4), 366. Original French old full mottled calf gilt, smooth backs in seven compartments, gilt leather lettering pieces in the second, gilt center and corner ornaments or gilt roll tooled ornamentation in the rest, French marbled edges and matching endpapers. Bindings are good with cracked joints but bands holding, lacks lettering piece for volume 2, backs worn and rubbed with chipped end caps. Darkening and chipped area to back of vol 2. Sheets of volumes 1, 3, and 4 unusually clean with small margin edge ink stain to half-title of volume 4 and some paste action only a few sheets deep to the sheets of all near the boards. Volume 2 with intermittent faint water stain to only some of the lower margins and volume 3 with spotting to recto of the rear endpaper and some associated lower margin water stain to only a few sheets adjacent to the rear endpaper. Complete. H10063 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping. All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges.
Verlag: Chez Froullé, libraire, quai des Augustins, Paris, 1788
Anbieter: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, USA
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First edition. First edition. (4), xvi, 383, (1); (4), 259, (1); (4), 292; (4), 366 pp. 4 vols. 8vo. Mazzei emigrated to America from Italy in 1773 and introduced the cultivation of grapes and olives to the United States. He became a neighbor of Jefferson in Virginia, settling near Monticello at Jefferson's request, and this association led to their long friendship and the author's acquaintance with Franklin and Adams. A staunch Republican, Mazzei took an active role in the Independence movement. In this work he outlines the history of the American colonies, the causes of the Revolution, and the economy and government of the United States. Also discussed are Indians, slavery, emigration, and the Society of the Cincinnati. The book was a contemporary success and remains an important work which Malone characterizes as "probably the most reliable of all the works of the period on the United States" (Thomas Jefferson 2:109-110). Jefferson aided Mazzei in the compilation of the work while acting as American minister in Paris. Sabin 47206; Leclerc 957; Howes M456; Monaghan 1052; Muller 1612; Fay 24; Einaudi 3807; Reese Revolutionary 87 Contemporary quarter leather, pastepaper boards, french tips, flat spines with red leather title and volume labels. Spines rubbed, some minor starting of joints to two volumes, small loss to head of vol. I, a very good contemporary set (4), xvi, 383, (1); (4), 259, (1); (4), 292; (4), 366 pp. 4 vols. 8vo.