CHASTELLUX, François-Jean de Voyage de Mr. le... Lot 601

CHASTELLUX, François-Jean de Voyage de Mr. le chevalier de Chastellux en Amérique. [Cassel] s.n. 1785 8vo: 228 pp. (minor soiling on title). Contemp. provisory blue gray paper covers, flat spine (local stains on cover). Nice untrimmed copy. Rare first ed., first state (second issue has 191 pp.), of the surreptitious edition of the travels of the Marquis de Chastellux (1734-1788) in America. It consists of an unauthorized reissue of fragments detached from the author's journals as they appeared in the Gotha periodical. Woodcut on title. Ref. Sabin 12226. - Howes C-324. - Not in Cox.