Item #74027 Recueil D'Estampes Representant Les Differents Evenemens De La Guerre. Nicolas PONCE.

Recueil D'Estampes Representant Les Differents Evenemens De La Guerre

Item #74027

PONCE, Nicolas. Recueil D'Estampes Representant Les Differents Evenemens De La Guerre Qui A Procure L'Independance Aus Etats-Unis L'Amerique. Paris: chez M. Ponce et chez M. Godefroy, [1784]. Engraved throughout: title with integral text and vignettes, fifteen plates and maps with integral explanatory text (twelve views, two maps, and a final plate celebrating the peace of 1783). Quarto. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Corners lightly bumped. Some light foxing. Very good. This collection of striking views is one of the few contemporary publications to illustrate scenes from the American Revolution. The first leaf is an engraved title with explanatory text and vignettes of battles. The plates illustrate the tarring and feathering of a tax collector; the battle of Lexington; the surrender at Saratoga; the attack of French forces on the island of Dominica; the surrender of Senegal; the capture of Grenada; Galvez capturing Pensacola; the capture of Tobago; the surrender of Cornwallis; three more scenes of fighting on Guadeloupe; two maps; and the final plate is a series of vignettes commemorating the Treaty of Versailles in 1783. Howes notes that this is the first French book to name the United States in the title. HOWES C576, "aa." SABIN 68421. CRESSWELL 303-307, 333-342. BEINECKE, LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 359.

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