Morris BIRKBECK
Lettres sur les nouveaux établissemens qui se forment dans les parties occidentales des Etats-Unis d'Amérique.[Letters on the New Settlements Being Formed in the Western Parts of the United States of America]
L'Huillier • Delaunay|Paris 1819|12.7 x 20.3 cm|Relié
First edition of the illustrated French translation, with a folding map (cf. Sabin 5568).
Only three copies recorded in the French Union Catalogue (BnF, Ministère des Affaires étrangères, Draguignan).
Contemporary-style half calf, smooth spine rubbed, joints split at head and foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, in a slightly later binding.
Light foxing, a paper flaw in the right margin of the final leaf not affecting the text.
It should be noted that the translator mistook the genitive form for part of the author’s surname, spelling it “Birkbecks”.
The American first edition appeared in 1818 under the title of “Let
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