Paris. [1852]. [4],248pp. plus eight handcolored plates (including frontispiece). Half title. Original gilt cloth, neatly rebacked, original gilt spine laid down, a.e.g. Very clean internally. Very good. Scarce French novel of an adventurer's journey to California to partake in the Gold Rush. While such works were usually meant as cautionary.....

Paris. 1667. [24],362,329-528,[2]pp. plus engraved titlepage. Small quarto. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked in matching style. Minor scattered foxing, else very good. Samuel Chappuzeau (1625-1701), a French writer in the service of the Duke of Brunswick, compiled this review of the government, politics, and prospects of Europe for the year 1666.....

Paris. [ 1801]. [4],viii,458pp. plus advertisement. Half title. Contemporary half calf and boards, vellum tipped corners. Extremities slightly rubbed, unobtrusive library bookplate on front pastedown, additional bookplate. Internally fine. A good French history of the American Revolution, with coverage of the major battles and events, and contrasting the goals and.....

[Paris]. 1785. 228pp. Contemporary plain wrappers. Wrappers bit chipped at extremities, repaired at head of spine. Internally quite fine, untrimmed. The third issue of this work, preceded by the ultra-rare Newport edition of 1781, and a 1785 issue. The publication of this edition was not approved by the author, who.....

Paris: Chez Prault, 1786. Two volumes. [8],390; [4],362,[2]pp., plus two folding maps and three folding plates. Half titles. Modern half calf and marbled boards, leather labels. Scattered foxing. Half titles repaired. Very good. The first complete edition of this narrative. One of the most notable of all American travel accounts.....

Paris. 1814-1819. Eight volumes. 425 color plates (two folding). Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Corners rubbed. Light foxing. Very good. An interesting and beautifully illustrated series, with plates produced during the great period of French color printing. The title appears to have been loosely interpreted.....

Paris. 1837. [4],xvi,439; [4]504pp. plus folding map. Two volumes. Contemporary red half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Corners rubbed. Unopened. Near fine. Fourth edition, augmented and corrected. Chevalier, later a well known economist, went to America to study public works for the French government. He spent two years in.....

Ratisbonne: Chez les Freres Zunkel, [1761]. 94pp. Quarto. Contemporary mottled calf. Boards bit warped. Minor marginal dampstain. Else very nice. The Ratisbonne edition of this important collection of state papers relative to the establishment of the Treaty of Paris, ending the French and Indian War, the cession of Canada, the.....

Amsterdam. 1783. viii,264pp. plus folding map and three folding tables. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Near fine. The second edition, following the first edition of the previous year, of Mandrillon's work on the United States and.....

[Paris]: de l'imprimerie de Moreau, 1822. [4],iv,175,[1]pp. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, gilt morocco label. Binding slightly rubbed. Occasional minor soiling. A fine copy. The first Paris edition of the constitution of the republic of Gran Colombia, following the first Spanish edition printed in Caracas the same year. In 1822.....

Paris. 1773. 4pp. Quarto bifolium. Light stain, else good. Relates to various problems and disturbances in the port of Marseilles, including fraud in the tobacco tax and trade. Not in Wroth.

Paris. 1719. 3pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Some very minor foxing. Contemporary inscription. Fine. A French royal decree concerning shares in the Compagnie d'Occident. "Apparently a variant issue to Wroth 685, of which only the one copy in the British Museum is known and which seems to bear.....

Paris. 1718. 4pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Contemporary inscription. Fine. A French royal decree regarding stock in the Compagnie d'Occident. This is the beginning of the end for the Compagnie d'Occident, as the Mississippi Bubble begins to burst. "A variant and unrecorded issue of Wroth 654" - Maggs.....