[NORTH AMERICA]. Collection of 5 works in 7 volumes: - Lot 323

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[NORTH AMERICA]. Collection of 5 works in 7 volumes: - Lot 323
[NORTH AMERICA]. Collection of 5 works in 7 volumes: 1) HURET, Jules. L'Amérique moderne. Illustrated with 150 plates out of text in colour and in black, Paris : Pierre Lafitte et Cie Éditeurs, 1911. 2 volumes in 2 in-4 (33 x 26 cm) of 240, VI (volume I) and 240, VI p. (volume II), 360 plates out of text (colour and nbl.) Half-basane with corners, double fillet framed in cold, marbled paper boards; on the first board: three boxes decorated with a cold composition, title and publisher's mention gilt; long spine decorated with the same motifs, old red morocco title-piece, publisher's mention gilt, marbled paper linings. An important documentary source on the United States of the early 20th century and on the fascination felt by the European observer towards American modernity, rich with a remarkable iconography in color and black and white. "One of the most reasoned and complete travel accounts of the period [early 20th]" (Lawton, Denis. Education and politics in the 1990s: conflict or consensus? p. 57). 2) DE MARLES. Descriptive and picturesque history of the island of Santo Domingo. New revised edition, 1850, 236 pp. 3) LABARERE, Jean-Paul. Pierre de Laclède-Liguest (1729-1778), the founder of St Louis (Missouri), 1984, 128 p. 4) HUARD, Charles. New York as I saw it. Text and drawings by Ch. Huard, 1906, 202 p., numerous illustrations. 5) WAGNER, Charles. Toward the Heart of America, 1906, 401 p.; 6) [Exhibition catalogue]. Naissance de la Louisiane : tricentenaire des découvertes de Cavelier de la Salle, 1982, 131 p.
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