Lot n° 67
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UNITED STATES. - DOCUMENTARY FUND - Approximately 400 volume - Lot 67
UNITED STATES. - DOCUMENTARY FUND - Approximately 400 volumes.
VERY IMPORTANT WORKING LIBRARY DEVOTED TO THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ITS LINKS WITH FRANCE. It includes biographies, historiographical and legal studies, editions of sources (memoirs, diaries, correspondence) concerning the Revolutionary War, the French in America, Americans in France, and a few works on the history of the North American continent prior to Independence.
Historiography of the Revolutionary War and its aftermath
BELCHER (Henry). The First American Civil War. London, Macmillan and Co, 1911. 2 volumes in-8, percaline bradel (publisher's binding). Out-of-text plates, several in color. - BODINIER (Gilbert). Les Officiers de l'armée royale combattants de la guerre d'Indépendance des États-Unis. De Yorktown à l'an II. Château de Vincennes, Service Historique de l'Armée de Terre, 1983. Large in-8, paperback. - BOUVET (Maurice). Le Service de Santé français pendant la guerre d'Indépendance des États-Unis (1777-1782). Paris, Hippocrate, 1934. Large in-8, paperback. Autograph signed letter. - CLINTON (Henry). The American rebellion. New Haven, Yale University Press; London, Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1954. Large in-8, gray-blue percaline bradel (publisher's binding). Annotated edition by William B. Willcox. - DAWSON (Warrrington). Les 2112 Français morts aux États-Unis de 1777 à 1783 en combattant pour l'Indépendance américaine. Paris, society headquarters, 1936. Large in-8, paperback. Offprint from Journal de la Société des Américanistes, nouvelle série, t. XXVIII, 1936. - GOURD (Alphonse). The Colonial Charters and Constitutions of the United States of North America [...]. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1885-1903. 3 volumes large in-8, half-chagrin. - JOHNSTON (Henry Phelps). The Yorktown campaign and the surrender of Cornwallis. 1781. New York Harper & brothers, 1881. In-8, percaline bradel (publisher's binding). Illustrations in the text. - KERALLAIN (René de). Bougainville à l'armée du cte de Grasse, guerre d'Amérique. 1781-1782. Paris, Maisonneuve frères, 1929. Large in-8, paperback. - LYNCH (Barbara A.). The War at sea: France and the American Revolution. A Bibliography. Washington, Department of the Navy, Naval History Division, 1976. In-8, paperback. Frontispiece. - NOAILLES (Amblard de). French sailors and soldiers in America during the American War of Independence (1778-1783). Paris, Perrin et Cie, 1903. In-8, half-chagrin. - RICE (Howard C.) and Anne S. K. BROWN. The American campaigns of Rochambeau's army, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783. 2 volumes, large in-4, black cloth bradel in printed dust jackets, bound in publisher's slipcase. Includes annotated translations of the diaries of Count Jean-François-Louis de Clermont-Crèvecoeur, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine de Verger and future Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier, as well as an annotated edition of an important iconographic corpus. - ROCHAMBEAU (Achille de). Yorktown. Centenary of the Independence of the United States of America. 1781-1881. Paris, Honoré Champion, 1886. In-8, paperback. - THOMAS (William S.). The Society of the Cincinnati, 1783-1935. New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1935. In-8, gray half cloth bradel (publisher's binding). Numbered copy on deckle-edged, laid paper. Off-text plates. - TREATIES OF 1778 (THE) and allied documents. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1928. Large square in-8, half-calendar. Texts edited by Gilbert Chinard, with introduction by James Brown Scott. - Etc.
Monographs on the great actors of Independence
[FRANKLIN (Benjamin)]: CHINARD (Gilbert). The Apotheosis of Benjamin Franklin. Washington, Institut français de Washington ; Paris, Librairie orientale et américaine, 1955. In-8, paperback. Collection of texts, annotated, relating to funeral tributes to Benjamin Franklin. Off-text plates. - FRANKLIN (Benjamin)]: DULL (Jonathan R.). Franklin the diplomat: the French mission. Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, 1982. In-4, paperback. Autograph signed letter. - JEFFERSON (Thomas)]: CHINARD (Gilbert). Jefferson and the Ideologues, from his unpublished correspondence with Destutt de Tracy, Cabanis, J.-B. Say and Auguste Comte. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press; Paris, Les Presses Universitaires de France, 1925. Large in-8, paperback. - JEFFERSON (Thomas)]: SCHACHNER (Nathan). Thomas Jefferson. A Biography. New York, London, Thomas Yoseloff, 1969. Large in-8, gray cloth bradel (publisher's binding). Off-text plates. - JEFFERSON (Thomas)]: SOWERBY (Emily Millicent). Catalog of the library of Thomas Jefferson. Washington, The Library of Congress, 1952. 5 volumes, large in-4, illustrated bradel cloth.
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