‎PENN - MARSILLAC, J.‎
‎La vie de Guillaume Penn, fondateur de la Pensylvanie; premier législateur connu des États-Unis de l'Amérique. Ouvrage contenant l'historique des premiers fondemens de Philadelphie, des loix et de la Constitution des États-Unis de l'Amérique, des principes et actions de la Société des Amis (vulgairemant connus sous le nom de Quakers, etc.)‎

‎A Paris, De l'Imprimerie du Cercle Social, 1791. 2 volumes. 264 pp.; 294 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt in compartments, labels with gilt lettering to spines, marbled boards, extremities very lightly shaved. Sabin 44820; Fay 28; Howes M.323; Muller 1201; JFBL M184; Echeverria & Wilkie 791/56. First edition. 'A laudatory biography used as a vehicle for promoting democratic ideas in France' (JFBL).Based almost exclusively on Penn's own writings, from which liberal excerpts are quoted. The appendix gives the text of several documents, including the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776" (Wilkerson). The work includes a description of Philadelphia as well as a printing of the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776. The author, who lived several years in America, was a French military physician who had converted to Quakerism and gave up his commission to become a spokesman for French Quakers. ‎

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