LEFEBVRE, René (Eduard René Lefèbvre de Laboulage). - Paris en Amérique. 8me édition.

Paris, Charpentier, 1863.Sm.8vo. Contemporary half calf. 450 pp.First edition published the same year, this satirical romance went through at least eight editions in 1863 . - Through the wonderful adventures of a Parisian doctor of the conventional type, who with his whole family is spirited away to America by a sorcerer, Laboulaye sets forth an amusing contrast between many customs and institutions of the New World and those of his own. Written by Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye (1811 - 1883), a French jurist, poet, author and anti-slavery activist. Sabin 38439.

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