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Chastellux, Travels in North-America, 1787
Chastellux, Travels in North-America, 1787
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Author: Chastellux, Francois Jean
Title: Travels in North-America in the Years 1780, 1781 and 1782
Place Published: London
Publisher:J. Robinson
Date Published: 1787
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2 volumes. xv, 462; xii, 432 pp.With 2 folding copper-engraved maps & 3 folding copper-engraved plates. (8vo) period style quarter calf and marbled boards, spines with gilt rule and design, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. First English Edition.



A record of Chastellux's stay in America during the American Revolution as a French general who served under Rochambeau and who acted as the principal liaison officer between the French commander in chief and George Washington. He traveled extensively through Newport, Philadelphia, Albany and Virginia, where he was a guest of Thomas Jefferson. He visited the "Natural Bridge," which is shown in one of the three plates. Chastellux is recognized as a talented man of letters.

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Light wear to bindings with some scuffing to leather; library stamp on title pages, light scattered foxing and toning, very solid and handsome copies; very good.
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