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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
Description: 2 volumes. xv, 462; xii, 432 pp. With 2 folding copper-engraved maps & 3 folding copper-engraved plates. (8vo) period style marbled calf, morocco lettering pieces. First English Edition.Important observations of America by a French nobleman, first published in much abbreviated form in 1781, with the complete and authorized edition published in Paris in 1786. Howes notes that "in its completed form constitutes the first trustworthy record of life in the United States." Records 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. The two maps are of the eastern seaboard from Philadelphia to below the Chesapeake, and westward to the Allegheny Mountains; and the northeast from Delaware Bay to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The three plates detail the "Natural Bridge" in Virginia with which the author was particularly fascinated.

Light wear to bindings, interiors remarkably clean; near fine.