[ANBUREY (Thomas)]. Voyages dans les parties intérieures de - Lot 3

[ANBUREY (Thomas)]. Voyages dans les parties intérieures de l'Amérique, pendant le cours de la dernière guerre. À Paris, chez Briand, 1790. 2 volumes in-8, (4 of which those on verso are white)-396 + (4 of which those on verso are white)-480 [erroneously numbered 1 to 464 and 455 to 470] pp. in granulated brown basane, smooth spine decorated with gilt and cold motifs with red and green title and appendix pieces, fine gilt frieze framing the covers, decorated edges; spine rebound; spotting, more visible in the second volume (period binding restored). FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION, by P. L. Lebas, of this work originally published in English in London in 1789. Off-text copper-engraved illustration: frontispiece depicting an "Indian warrior" and fold-out map. AN ENGLISH OFFICER'S ACCOUNT OF HIS PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AND HIS EXPERIENCE AS A PRISONER IN AMERICAN HANDS. A lieutenant in the English Expeditionary Force, Thomas Anburey served first in 1776 at Quebec, besieged by insurgents, then, the following year, under General Burgoyne, at the Battle of Saratoga, where he fell into American hands. He was then successively held by the Americans at Cambridge in Massachusetts, Mystic in Connecticut, Charlottesville in Virginia, Frederick in Maryland and New York, before being released in 1781.