Des Herrn Ritters von Chastellux Reise durch Amerika / aus dem Französischen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chastellux, François Jean, marquis de, 1734-1788.

Contributor:

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Voyages de M. le marquis de Chastellux dans l'Amérique septentrionale dans les années 1780, 1781 & 1782. Selections. German

Language:

French

German

Subjects (All):

United States--Description and travel.

United States.

United States--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Penn Provenance:

Rosengarten, J.G. (Joseph George), 1835-1921 (donor)

Schaefer & Koradi Buchhanlung (Philadelphia) (label)

Physical Description:

113, that is, 213 pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Reise durch Amerika

Fingerprint:

u-h- atde e-te sczu (3) 1786 (A)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; Leipzig : Bey Joseph Stahel, 1786.

Notes:

Translation of the unauthorized: Voyage de Mr. le chevalier de Chastellux en Amérique. [Cassel], 1785, which was based on extracts from Chastellux's manuscript journals, first published in a periodical at Gotha in 1784.

Title vignette; woodcut head-piece.

Signatures: A-N⁸ O⁴ (leaf O4 blank).

Pages 212 and 213 misnumbered 112 and 113.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is presented to Penn Libraries by Mr. Joseph G. Rosengarten.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookseller's label on front pastedown, which reads: "Schaefer & Koradi Buchhanlung Philadelphia, PA."

Cited in:

Brown, J.C. Lib. cat., 1493-1800, III, 3066

Sabin, 12232

Dippel, H. Americana Germanica, 404

Palmer, P.M. German works on Amer., p. 337

OCLC:

13254915