Histoire de la révolution d'Amérique par rapport à la Caroline méridionale; / par M. David Ramsay, membre du Congrès Américain; traduite de l'anglois. ; Ornée de cartes & de plans. Tome premier [-second].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramsay, David, 1749-1815.

Contributor:

Lefort, tr.

Froullé, bookseller.

Picquet, J.-P., engraver.

Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

History of the revolution of South-Carolina. French

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Slavery--South Carolina.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--South Carolina.

Enslaved persons.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

United States.

South Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

South Carolina.

Charleston (S.C.)--History--Siege, 1780.

Charleston (S.C.).

Physical Description:

2 v. ([4], xxxvi, 520, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; [4], 673, [7] p., [4] folded leaves of plates) : folded maps ; 21 cm. (8vo)

Place of Publication:

À Londres, et se trouve à Paris, : Chez Froullé, libraire, quai des Augustins, au coin de la rue Pavée., M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]

Notes:

Translation of: The history of the revolution of South Carolina, originally published: Trenton : Printed by Isaac Collins, 1785.

Translated by Lefort, Cf. Sabin.

Imprint is false; possibly printed in Paris. Cf. ESTC.

Maps engraved by Picquet.

With half-titles.

Signatures: v. 1: [pi]² a-b⁸ c² A-2I⁸ 2K⁴ [2L1] (2L1] verso blank); v. 2: [pi]² A-2T⁸ 2V⁴.

Errata, v. 1, p. [521] and v. 2, p. [675].

Bookseller's advertisements, final [4] p. of v. 2.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Livres français conservés grâce à la Fondation Florence Gould," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2003.

Athenaeum copy: Conserved and rebound in 2002 with a grant from the Florence Gould Foundation.

Athenaeum also has copy of original English edition.

Cited in:

ESTC (RLIN), T139660

Sabin, 67692