Paris : jouxte la copie de l'Imprimerie royale, 1761 In-8, (6)-192 pages. Cartonnage moderne.
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Edition parue l'année de l'originale. "A collection of state papers relative to the cession of Canada, the limits of Louisiana, the fisheries of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, Guadeloupe, and other islands of the West Indies, etc., preliminary to the treaty of 1762, which ended the old French war [la guerre de Sept Ans]" (Sabin 47516).
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Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1761 In-8 de (1) f., III, 147 pp., broché sous couverture muette.
Edition originale. Important recueil donné par l'Imprimerie royale et qui rend compte des négociations menées par le duc de Choiseul-Stainville avec l'Angleterre. Elles aboutirent à la perte du Canada, à une définition précise des frontières de la Louisiane et aux limites de pêche à Terre-Neuve, Cap Breton et en Guadeloupe. Sabin, Dictionary of Books Relating to America, 47516 (qui donne une collation fausse).
Imprimrie Royale. Paris, 1761. In-16 gr. (mm. 178x108), brossura muta coeva, pp. (4),150,(2). Edizione in piccolo formato, stampata nell'anno della prima (in-8, di 196 pp.), non comune. L'opera di questo celebre ministro di Stato costituita da una importante raccolta di 31 documenti (corrispondenza diplomatica, dichiarazioni, ecc.) scambiati tra la Francia (le Duc de Choiseul e M. de Bussy) e gli inglesi (Pitt and Stanley), in vista della conclusione della catastrofica Guerra dei Sette anni. Sono pure evocate le questioni coloniali, soprattutto quelle relative alle Antille, al Canada e alla pesca in Terranova. Cfr. Cioranescu Bibliogr. de la littrature Franaise,I,19558.Pagine ingiallite per la qualit della carta ma buon esemplare con barbe.
A Paris, De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1761. (2), iv, 194 pp. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, joint with short split at head and foot, lightly rubbed, extremities slightly shaved. Sabin 47516; Howes M.507; JFBL C309; Conlon 61:583; Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 230. First edition. A document of great importance, marking the important beginning of the negociations which later resulted in the British securing much of North America. Deals also with Treaty of Paris which ended the French-Indian War, the cession of Canada, limits of Louisiana, Cape Breton, etc.Choiseul, Comte de Stainville and later Duc de Choiseul, had served as ambassador in Rome and in Vienna when he was appointed Secretary for War in 1761 and two years later Secretary for Marine. He was therefore the statesman who directed France through the closing scenes of the Seven Years War. A man of energy and ability, he could not save his country from defeat, but at least he perceived the defects of her military and naval organisation, defects which he did much to remedy. It was mainly by his reforms that France proved such a formidable adversary in the War of the American Revolution. -With small library stamp (Bib. du Dist. d'Amiens) on the title-page.
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Très bon Petit in-8. 196 pages. Édition facsimilée de ce texte du 18è siècle.