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[AMERICANA]. Sammelband of Three First Editions in French About America, including: L’ABBE RAYNAL (1713-1796). Révolution de l’Amerique. London: Chez Lockyer Davis. The Hague: Chez P. F. Gosse. 1781 Rare First edition. xvi, 171 pp. 8vos (three volumes bound in one). All approximately 7 ½ x 5”. This title written in favor of the Americans.The work sparked numerous vitriolic responses, none more vehement than that of Thomas Paine. Paine objected to what he claimed were numerous falsehoods in the Abbe’s history, though he admitted that it was likely the text was stolen by an unscrupulous printer and rushed into print before Raynal had a chance to revise it. One of the more colorful contemporary histories of the Revolution. Scarce. [Bound with:] [CERISIER, Antoine Marie (1749-1828), translator]. Le Destin de l’Amérique ou Dialogues Pittoresques dans Lesquels On Developpe la Cause des Evenemens Actuels, la Politique et les Interets des Puissances de l’Europe Relativement a Cette Guerre, et les Suites qu’elle Devroit Avoir pour le Bonheur De l’Humanité. London, Printed for J. Bew, [1780]. xvi, 124 pp. Nice copy of this rare pamphlet on the United States Revolution in the original first edition. Published anonymously. Not translated from the English and, apparently not printed in London. (Sabin Vol. 3 pp. 459). The author Antoine Marie Cerisier was attached to the French Embassy at the Hague (Netherlands). “Probably published in Europe, an original work consisting of conversations between North, Bute, Franklin and others.” (Howes). [Bound with:] Le Philadelphia a Geneve ou Lettres d’un American. Sur la Derniere Revolution de Geneve, sa Constitution Nouvelle L’émigration en Irlande, &c., Pouvant Servir de Tableau Politique de Geneve Jusqu’en 1784. Dublin, 1783. xvi, 216, [8] pp. Bound together in contemporary half calf leather binding over marbled boards, double gilt ruled spine with five raised bands, a red gilt lettered morocco label (joints starting, some wear to binding, some gutters starting, some occasional soiling, foxing in text). Fine. SCARCE FIRST EDITIONS.