J.P. Brissot de Warville

Nouveau Voyage dans les États-Unis de l’Amérique Septentrionale, fait en 1788 [3 vol. set]

Paris: Chez Buisson, 1791.

First Edition. Three volumes (complete). 
Full mottled calf, gilt spines, red and black morocco title labels, marbled edges. Light rubbing to extremities, scattered foxing typical of 18th-century paper, tight and complete.

Noted abolitionist and journalist Jacques-Pierre Brissot's celebrated travelogue through the newly founded United States, published in Paris in April 1791. Brissot’s observations, drawn from his 1788 tour of New England, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Carolinas, offer one of the earliest French eyewitness accounts of American social, political, and economic life under the new Constitution. He corresponded with leading figures including Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, whose ideals deeply influenced Brissot’s later role as a Girondin revolutionary.

An influential Enlightenment-era work bridging the American Revolution and the French Revolution, Nouveau Voyage shaped European perceptions of democracy, commerce, and moral virtue in the New World.

This First Edition, complete in three volumes, comes beautifully preserved in contemporary bindings. For collectors of French Revolutionary History and 18th-Century Travel Literature.

. Very Good. Item #286

Price: $1,250.00