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Society, Manners and Politics in the United States: Being a Series of Letters on North America, by Michael Chevalier, Translated from the Third Paris Edition, Weeks, Jordan and Company, Boston, 1839, 467 pp, original blind cloth, 9.5 x 6 , 8vo. In fair condition. Boards are worn, scuffed and light soiled. Corners rubbed with loss at spine at bottom at top compartments. Binding exposed. Spine fragile overall with shattered cloth. John C. Hines Bookseller, Baltimore, MD sticker on top left corner of pastedown. Interior lightly toned with scattered foxing. Notations on rear fly leaf. A few small check marks and x s to the margins of the text. Binding intact. Please see photos. First American edition. Chevalier, later a well-known economist, went to America to study public works for the French government. He spent two years in America, from 1833 to 1835. He had a reputation among his contemporaries equal to that of de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, according to Monaghan, and his book still remains as one of the most important French commentaries on the United States. He travelled extensively in the Northeast and the South, including Virginia, South Carolina and New Orleans. Seller Inventory # COLT1839ABFZ
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