COMETTANT, Oscar. - Voyage pittoresque et anecdotique dans le Nord et le Sud des États-Unis d'Amérique.

Paris, A. Laplace, 1866. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco (1 hinge sl. dam.), spine gilt, a.e.g. With 22 steelengraved plates (including 4 handcoloured depicting native Americans). VII,(1),469,(1),(2) pp. Best edition, the first to be illustrated. - Comettant visited New York, Niagara Falls, Montreal, Quebec, Saratoga, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, Washington, Charleston, Mobile, New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, and comments on hotels, food, fire-fighting, theatres, black minstrels, elegant society, painting, music, steam boats, commercial life in Lower Canada, the Iroquois, Girard College, slavery and social life in the South. The fine plates are by Willman, Outhwaite, Ferdinand Dellannoy Lalaisse and Golin after Saintin, Noel, Lebreton and Foulquier. - Fine. Sabin 14940; Howes C641.

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