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SOCIETY, MANNERS AND POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES: BEING A SERIES OF LETTERS ON NORTH AMERICA
by Chevalier, Miche
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Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Compan, 1839. iv,467,[1]pp. Original cloth, stamped in blind, gilt title on spine. Spine ends a bit chipped, small gouge in front cover. Scattered foxing. Withal, just about very good. First American edition, translated from the third Paris edition of the previous year. Chevalier, later a well-known economist, went to America to study public works for the French government. He spent two years in America, from 1833 to 1835. He had "a reputation among his contemporaries equal to that of ... de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont," according to Monaghan, and his book "still remains as one of the most important French commentaries on the United States." He travelled extensively in the Northeast and the South, including Virginia, South Carolina, and New Orleans. CLARK III:20. HOWES C359. MONAGHAN 422
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- Title
- SOCIETY, MANNERS AND POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES: BEING A SERIES OF LETTERS ON NORTH AMERICA
- Author
- Chevalier, Miche
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Weeks, Jordan and Compan
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1839
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Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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