VOYAGE DANS L'INTERIEUR DES ETATS-UNIS, A BATH, WINCHESTER, DANS LA VALLEE DE SHENANDOAH....
Bayard, Ferdinand M.:
Paris. [1798]. xxv,[1],[347]pp. (with usual errors in page numbers, but complete). Half title. Contemporary calf and boards. Calf bit rubbed, some light foxing. Good. The second edition, enlarged. Bayard was twenty-three when he made this trip with his wife and children to summer at Bath in the Shenandoah Valley to escape the heat of the Baltimore summer. His book is devoted mainly to observations of society in Virginia, and is one of the better pictures of life there at the time. MONAGHAN 151. CLARK II:77. HOWES B255.
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