Thomas Wiltberger EVANS
Lettres d'un oncle à son neveu sur le gouvernement des Etats-Unis. Pouvoir législatif. - Pouvoir exécutif. - Pouvoir judiciaire des Etats.- Constitution des Etats-Unis[Letters from an Uncle to His Nephew on the Government of the United States. Legislative Power. Executive Power. Judicial Power of the States. Constitution of the United States]
Dentu & Cie|Paris 1866|15.5 x 24 cm|Relié
First edition (cf. Sabin 23192).
Contemporary half brown shagreen, spine with four raised bands decorated with blind-stamped compartments, slight rubbing to the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
A few small spots of foxing, with several imperial colportage stamps at the foot of certain leaves.
The sole edition of this commemorative text, apparently composed directly in French for the author’s nephew.
The physician Thomas Wiltberger Evans (1823-1897) had practised as a dentist in Maryland until 1847, before moving to Paris at the invitation of a fellow American, Dr Cyrus Starr Brewster (1799-1870), who had been...
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