[Rarebooks] F/S: Americana

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We offer today:

Carlo Botta
Storia della guewrra della independenza degli Stati Uniti di America
Napoli, presso la vedova d'Amula, 1830
4 volumes in16mo with a nice half leather binding with gilt impressions
(images on request), pp. 630+544+579+309
Light pot foxed  thorough.
euro 200,00


Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta (1766-1837) was a Piedmontese who
  threw in his lot with the French Revolution and Napoleon. He wrote a
  number of historical works, including this history of the American
  Revolution, first published in 1809. This work was very popular,
being translated into English and French and seeing numerous
  19th-century editions.

Carlo G. G. Botta, a professor at the University of Turin, was involved
in revolutionary politics and sympathized with the American Revolution.
  When France took over northern Italy after the French Revolution of
1789, he became part of the government, but was forced to retire after
  Napoleon was deposed. In 1809 he wrote Storia della Guerra dell
Independenza d'America (History of the War of American Independence).
  Jefferson read this book in Italian, thought it excellent, and told Adams,
  " The work is...more judicious, more chaste, more classical, and more true"
  than others. In 1820, George Alexander Otis, a Boston attorney and an
  editor of the Boston Gazette, translated Botta's book from Italian into
English. Jefferson read a copy of the translation; this book appears in
  Jefferson's library catalog in the Library of Congress.