Publisher's Synopsis
Title: Constitutions des treize États-Unis de l'Amérique.
Author: La Rochefoucauld-d'Enville, Louis-Alexandre, duc de
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP05408300
CollectionID: CTRG05-B10600
PublicationDate: 17830101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: Translation of "The Constitutions of the several independent states of America, the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation between the said states, and the treaties between His Most Christian Majesty and the United States of America," first published by order of the Continental Congress (Philadelphia: Francis Bailey, 1781). To the original treaties of amity and commerce and of alliance between the U.S. and France have been added the treaties of amity and commerce between the United States and Sweden and between the United States and the Netherlands. Translated by Louis Alexandre, duc de La Rochefoucauld d'Enville. Translated and printed at the instigation of Benjamin Franklin. The notes are probably at least in part by Benjamin Franklin. Title vignette: the Great Seal of the United States. "The device on the t-p seems to be the first appearance of the Arms of the U.S. in any printed book"--Stevens cat. slip, item 1752.
Collation: 540 p.; 20 cm
