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Title: Prince Napoleon in America, 1861 (2nd son of Jerome Bonaparte and by his second wife Princess Catherine of Wurttemberg).
Description: London, Galley Press, (1960). G in G DJ ex-library. Some of the most engaging footnotes to history are the accounts of on-the-spot observers who have left graphic accounts in. letters. 1861 was a critical date in American affairs, the summer after the first battle of Bull Run. He went everywhere and met everybody and , and the letters his aide-de-camp wrote of these visits preesnt a rare picture of a new country in its most critical phase of nationshood. Pennsylvania's model penitentiary, American trains, the farmers of Illinois, a moving picture of life. Pisani writes, "Will America some day be Europe's protector and master, just as a hundred years ago Europe was Ameirca's?" Library markings, first page removed, illustrated endpapers showing scenes of his travel, edge wear.

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Price: US$ 18.00 Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books
- Book number: BOOKS054279I

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