[LITTERATURE] - CHARPENTIER (Josane) -Livre Rare Book
[LONGCHAMPS, Pierre Charpentier de].Biblio.com
Histoire imperiale des événemens militaires et politiques de la derniere guerre dans les quatre parties du monde.
1785ref. ABC_46272Paris: the widow of Duchesne 1785. Uniformly bound in contemporary mottled calf gold-tooled spine red morocco spine labels with title in gold and one green morocco spine label for volume 2 with the volume number red edges marbled endpapers. 12mo. With Duchesnes woodcut publishers device DC monogram in a wreath and accompanied by oak branches and a different headpiece in each volume. 3 volumes. First edition volume 1 in the present copy with the title-page in a variant state with the year 1785 misprinted the numbers 1 and 7 are tilted to the right and the 8 is on its side printed and published in Paris of a famous and important history of the American Revolution by Pierre Charpentier de Longchamps 1740-1812. Although the title promises the description of all the wars raging in the four parts of the world the work concentrates on the American Revolutionary War or American War of Independence.The larger part relates to the military operations in North America primarily the French and British activities.In addition to the war in the North American colonies the book describes the French attacks on the English in the Caribbean India and Gibraltar.Variant issue with the year 1785 misprinted on the first title-page of the original Paris edition of this famous and important history of the American Revolution by Pierre Charpentier de Longchamps 1740-1812. Another page-for-page reprint appeared in Amsterdam in the same year followed by several other editions and translations including a Spanish translation in 1793. Foot of the spines of the second and third volumes damaged otherwise a set in very good condition.l Barbier II 812; Cioranescu 18th cent. 40820; Fay p. 21 Gephart 5702; Howes L-447; Sabin 41905. the widow of Duchesne, unknown
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