HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 18th century. - Set of 12 volu - Lot 61

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 18th century. - Set of 12 volumes. [BRISSOT DE WARVILLE (Jacques-Pierre)]. Testament politique de l'Angleterre. S.l.n.n. 1680 [sic for 1780]. In-12, half marbled basane (modern binding in the taste of the period). Anti-English pamphlet in support of the insurgents, originally published in 1778. - DUBUISSON (Pierre-Ulric). Abrégé de la révolution de l'Amérique angloise, depuis le commencement de l'année 1774, jusqu'au premier janvier 1778. À Paris, chez Cellot & Jombert, fils jeune, 1778. In-12, ornate brown half calf, marbled edges; worn binding with lacks, spotting, unsightly bookplate on title leaf. First edition. - FRANKLIN (Benjamin). La Science du bonhomme Richard. Paris, à l'imprimerie des sciences et des arts, an II [1793-1794]. In-12, half marbled basane (period binding). French translation originally published in 1777. - HISTOIRE D'UN POU FRANÇOIS, ou l'Espion d'une nouvelle espèce, tant en France qu'en Angleterre. Paris, s.n., 1781. In-8; worn copy with ff. B4 and B5 missing. Pamphlet originally published in 1778. Attributed to Delauney by Barbier, in fact probably the printer-library Jacques Delaunay, it includes one of the most important satirical portraits of Benjamin Franklin. With a passage on Marie-Antoinette. - MANDRILLON (Joseph). Le Spectateur américain. [À Amsterdam, et se trouve à Bruxelles, chez Emmanuel Flon, Barrois l'aîné, 1785; ou à Amsterdam, et se trouve à Bruxelles, chez De La Haye & compagnie, 1785]. Fort in-8, paperback in dust jacket, last leaf used as a glued flyleaf; missing 2 introductory sections (title, dedication, introduction and table). Second edition, partly original, of this work originally published the previous year. Copper-engraved fold-out map. Presentation of all the North American colonies, from Florida to Canada, with historical reminders, reflections on the mode of government, trade, American Independence, and a passage on Washington. Includes a denunciation of the mistreatment of Canadian Indians: "Anglois & François [...] When will your injustices & cruelties towards a people so worthy of indulgence & humanity cease?" - MERCURE DE FRANCE. Paris, chez Panckoucke, January 1-26, 1785. In-12, paperback in dust jacket with handwritten label on spine; one quire detached, wetness and worm work in inner margin. From Lettres d'un cultivateur by Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crèvecoeur, in the January 22 and January 29 issues, pp. 150-170 and 203-221 of the fascicule. - RAMSAY (David). History of the Revolution in America, with reference to South Carolina. À Londres, et se trouve à Paris, chez Froullé, 1787. 2 volumes in-8, the last two leaves corresponding to Jacques-François Froullé's publisher's catalog, speckled brown calf, smooth threaded spines with garnet and black title and tomaison pieces, cold-edged spines; ff. Ll2 and Ll7 missing, worn binding with split jaws, marginal wetness (period binding). First edition of the French translation of this work originally published in English in Trenton in 1785. 4 (of 5) copper-engraved folding maps hors texte. The physician, politician and historian David Ramsay himself took part in the military operations of the Revolutionary War in the South. - SOULES (François). Histoire des troubles de l'Amérique anglaise. À Paris, chez Buisson, 1787. 4 volumes, hardback bradel, spines threaded with garnet-red title-pieces, red edges; occasional heavy wetness, worm work with damage to text in first volume (Laurenchet workshops). FIRST EDITION. Without the 3 copper-engraved hors texte maps. A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE WAR, ADMIRED BY THOMAS JEFFERSON, who said: "I consider it the best I have ever leafed through".