[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. in Spanish of Roux de Rochelle's 1841 work on the United States. w/96 plates & a map

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(AMERICANA) Roux de Rochelle, Jean Baptiste Gaspard. HISTORIA DE LOS
ESTADOS-UNIDOS DE AMERICA. Traducida al Castellano por Una Sociedad
Literaria. Barcelona: Imprenta del Guardia Nacional. 1841. First
edition in Spanish. (4),390,(4)pp. Double column text. Illustrated with
a copper engraved folding map, 96 fine copper engraved plates
(interesting views, plans, etc.) and a woodcut title page vignette.
Cont. tree calf, gilt decorated spine with black calf labels, minor
rubbing at extremities.	$300.00 (trade discount allowed)
A volume in the series, "Panorama Universal." Roux de Rochelle
(1762-1849) was the French minister to the United States. Sabin #73518
(listing in error only 75 plates & 4 portraits, map not noted).

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