[LA FAYETTE (Marquis de)]. - TOWER (Charlemagne). The Marqui - Lot 41

[LA FAYETTE (Marquis de)]. - TOWER (Charlemagne). The Marquis de La Fayette and the American Revolution. Paris, Librairie Plon, 1902-1903. 2 large volumes in-8, (6 of which the 2nd and last are blank)-v-(one blank)-468-(4 of which the 2nd and last are blank) + (4 of which the last is blank)-516 pp. in red chagrin, spine ribbed with partitions and fleurons, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, filleted edges, gilt inner lace, gilt edges; spine a little faded, a few brown spots (period binding). FIRST EDITION OF THE FRENCH TRANSLATION, EXEMPLAIRE PRINTED ON HOLLAND VERGE, NOMINATED by the medievalist Gaston Paris, administrator of the Collège de France, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres as well as the Académie française and... husband of the translator of the present work, Marguerite Savary. 2 frontispiece portraits. Professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, Charlemagne Tower (1848-1923) was also a lawyer, businessman and U.S. ambassador to Austria, Russia and Germany.