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Chevalier, Michael : Society, Manners and Politics in the United States: Being a Series of Letters on North America

Weeks, Jordan and Company, Boston, MA, 1839

First English Language Edition. "Translated from the Third Paris Edition." Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. 5 3/4" x 9 1/2." 467 pages, complete. One additional page in back advertising other books by the publisher. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Pages are foxed. Covers have some rubbing and slight fading to the edges and along the spine. Dampstain in lower portion of spine not affecting pages. Front free endpaper has a crease in the lower-right corner. A Very Good copy. Excerpt from the "Notice": "M. Chevalier was sent to this country in 1834, under the patronage of Thiers, then Minister of the Interior, in France, to inspect our public works. But attracted by the novel spectacle presented by society in the United States, he extended the time of his stay and the sphere of his observations amongst us, and spent two years in visiting nearly all parts of the Union, and studying the workings of our social and political machinery. His letters give the results of his observations, the impressions made on his mind, his speculations in regard to the future destiny of our institutions, rather than a detailed narrative of facts and events, which, however, is introduced when necessary for illustration or proof." Michel (Michael) Chevalier (1806-1879) was a French statesman, economist, and engineer. Chevalier was sent to the United States and Mexico by Minister of the Interior Adolphe Thiers to observe and report on the countries' industrial and financial institutions.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

1st English Language Edition

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