LITERATURE and miscellaneous. 19th century. - Set of 17 volu - Lot 65

LITERATURE and miscellaneous. 19th century. - Set of 17 volumes. BEAUMONT (Gustave de). Marie ou L'Esclavage aux États-Unis. Tableau de moeurs américaines. Paris, Librairie de Charles Gosselin, 1842. In-12, ornate black half calf (period binding). Originally published in 1835 by this friend of Alexis de Tocqueville, who accompanied the latter on his trip to the United States. - BRYANT (William Cullen), ed. United States and Canada. Picturesque North America. Paris, A. Quantin, G. Decaux, 1880. Large in-4, ornate garnet half-chagrin, illustrated percaline boards; volume is loose, binding rubbed with worn headpieces and corners, small angular tear to two leaves including title leaf (publisher's binding). First edition of the French translation, by Bénédict-Henry Révoil who enlarged the text, of this work originally published in 2 volumes in 1872 and 1874 in New York. Extensive illustrations, including a color lithographed map and numerous woodcuts, many of them full-page. - CAMPE (Joachim-Heinrich). Histoire de la découverte et de la conquête de l'Amérique. Paris, Lavigne, 1845. Small in-4, ornate black half-chagrin (period binding). New translation by Charles de Saint-Maurice. Extensive woodcut illustrations outside and inside the text. - DUMAS père (Alexandre). Un Gil-Blas en Californie. Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1861. In-12, dark green half cloth; marginal stain to first few leaves (old binding). Novel originally published in 1852. Provenance: "P. Leboeuf" (gilt bookplate on tail of spine). - GIRARD (Just-Jean-Étienne). Les Aventures d'un capitaine français, planteur au Texas, ancien réfugié du Champ-d'asile. Tours, Alfred Mame et fils, 1872. Large in-12, illustrated percaline bradel (publisher's binding). A full-page woodcut stamped opposite the title. - COZZENS (Samuel Woodworth). La Contrée merveilleuse. Travels in Arizona and New Mexico. Paris, Garnier frères, 1876. Large in-8, unclipped in worn cover. First edition of William Battier's translation of this work, originally published in English in Boston in 1873. Wood-engraved illustration by Jean-Édouard Dargent dit Yan' Dargent. An account by a Massachusetts lawyer, based in part on his personal experience as a district judge in New Mexico, Arizona. His portrait of the Apache chief Cochise seems to follow an actual encounter with him around 1860. - HARTE (Francis Bret). Scenes of Californian Life and Sketches of Transatlantic Manners. Paris, C. Reinwald et Cie, 1873. In-12, paperback; covers worn. First French edition by Amédée Pichot of these short stories originally published in English, by a writer originally from Albany, New York, who settled in California in 1853. - LABOULAYE (Édouard-René Lefebvre-Laboulaye dit Édouard)]. Paris en Amérique. Paris, Charpentier, 1865. In-12, ornate black half-chagrin (period binding). Published under the name "René Lefebvre", originally published in 1862. - LABOULAYE (Édouard-René Lefebvre-Laboulaye dit Édouard)]. Paris en Amérique. Paris, Charpentier, 1869. In-12, ornate red half-chagrin; spine slightly rubbed (period binding). Autograph signed letter from publisher Gervais Charpentier. - MAY (Karl). La vengeance du farmer. Souvenirs d'Amérique. Tours, Alfred Mame et fils, 1890. In-8, illustrated percaline (publisher's binding). Wood-engraved illustrations in the text, including several full-page compositions. - REVOIL (Bénédict-Henry Révoil). Memoirs of an old American fisherman. Tours, Alfred Mame et fils, 1886. Large in-12, illustrated hardback bradel (publisher's binding). - REID (Thomas Mayne). L'Habitation du désert ou Aventures d'une famille perdue dans les solitudes de l'Amérique. Paris, librairie Hachette et Cie, 1871. In-16, worn half-basane (period binding). Full-page woodcuts in the text by Gustave Doré. - ROUSIERS (Paul de). La Vie américaine. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1892. In-4, worn half-basane (period binding). Numerous photographic views (one frontispiece and over 300 in the text), with a few maps and plans also in the text. - ROUSSELET (Louis). Le Tambour du Royal-Auvergne. Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1883. In-8, illustrated percaline bradel (publisher's binding). Wood-engraved illustrations in the text, including several full-page compositions. - ROUX DE ROCHELLE (Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard). United States of America. Paris, Firmin Didot frères (collection "L'Univers pittoresque. Histoire et description de tous les peuples"), 1837. In-8, paperback; spine broken. Original edition published in installments, here collected in a single volume under publisher's color illustrated cover. Importa