HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 19th century, mainly. - Set of - Lot 63

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. 19th century, mainly. - Set of 18 volumes. CASTILLE (Hippolyte). Lafayette. Paris, Ferdinand Sartorius (no. 43 in the "Portraits historiques au dix-neuvième siècle" collection), 1858. In-24, paperback; spine split. Copper-engraved portrait-frontispiece, lithographed fold-out facsimile out of text. - MONTBARREY (Alexandre-Marie-Léonor de Saint-Mauris de). Autograph memoirs. Paris, Alexis Eymery, Rousseau, 1826 (vol. I-II); Paris, Alexis Eymery, London, C. Knight, 1827 (vol. III). 3 volumes in-8, threaded green half calf; some spotting, heavier on the first leaves of volume II (period binding). First edition of the memoirs of Prince de Montbarrey (1732-1796), a career officer who served during the American Revolutionary War as Director of War (1776) and Secretary of State for War, deputy and then in title (1777-1780). - REGNAULT-WARIN (Jean-Joseph). Mémoires pour servir à la vie du général La Fayette et à l'histoire de l'Assemblée constituante. À Paris, chez Hesse et Cie, 1824. 2 volumes in-8, ornate rooted tawny basane; binding a little worn with one cap missing (period binding). - ROBERTSON (William). History of America. Paris, chez Panckoucke, 1777. 3 volumes in-12, black half-chagrin; spines faded (19th-century binding). First edition of Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard's translation of this classic work, published the same year as the English original. - SEGUR (Louis-Philippe de). Mémoires ou Souvenirs et anecdotes. Paris, Alexis Eymery, 1824-1826. 3 volumes small in-8, ornate green half-basin; leather missing from spine of vol. II (period binding). Composite copy of the first and second editions. 3 copper-engraved frontispieces; without folding map. Son of Louis XVI's Marshal and Secretary of State for War, Louis-Philippe de Ségur took part as a colonel in the final operations of the American War of Independence. He also served as French ambassador to Russia, where he became an intimate of Catherine II, and was later an important figure in the court of Napoleon I, who made him a State Councillor. - SPARKS (Jared). Washington. Foundation of the Republic of the United States of America [...]. Paris, Didier, 1851. 2 volumes in-8, bound in one volume in soft cardboard with soft percaline spine; without the title leaf of the second volume, some wetness. Second edition of the French translation of this biography of George Washington. Jared Sparks was responsible for ordering and editing the statesman's papers, which he published in Boston in 1834-1837, along with a biography. The historian and politician François Guizot was commissioned in 1840 to produce a condensed French translation (with a personal preface), and reissued the biography alone in 1851. 2 plates, including a fold-out map. Without the 2 portraits. - WARDEN (David Baillie). Description statistique, historique et politique des États-Unis de l'Amérique septentrionale, depuis l'époque des premiers établissemens jusqu'à nos jours. À Paris, chez Rey et Gravier, 1820. 5 volumes in-8, 2 folding tables printed out of text, half-brown basane, threaded smooth spines, faded, rubbed and stained, some marginal wetness (binding circa 1850). First edition of the French translation of this work originally published in English in London in 1819. 2 plates out of text, a view of the Capitol and a map of the District of Columbia. Without the general map.