Souvenirs sur la vie privée du General La Fayette.
Paris: A. et W. Galignani, 1836. First edition (published simultaneously, in English, in London and New York). 8vo. (4), xvi, 394 pp. Illustrated, facsimiles, frontispiece plate. Inscribed by "l'auteur" at the head of the title page. Sabin 13772: "Written at the request of Mr. Isaiah Townsend, of Albany, and translated by him and published in the New York Evening Star; afterwards published simultaneously in London, Paris, and New York." OCLC locates three copies in the United States (Clements, Princeton, Pepperdine). Later navy quarter-cloth (flecked) and marbled boards, leather spine label, original printed brown wrappers bound in. Text uniformly browned, but a very good copy. (1755). Item #54879
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