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[BERQUIN-] DUVALLON. Vue de la Colonie Espagnole du Mississipi, ou des Provinces de la Louisiane et Floride Occidentale, en l'année 1802. Paris: à l'Imprimerie Expéditive 1803. 8vo, 191 x 118 mm. (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.), contemporary tree calf, covers with gilt border, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece, edges blue-sprinkled, joints and extremities rubbed, folding maps each with a short tear at mount and faint offsetting of coloring. FIRST EDITION, half-title, 2 hand-colored folding maps of upper and lower Louisiana. Howes B-389; Sabin 4962; Streeter sale III:1530 ("This gives an entertaining and gossipy first-hand picture of life in New Orleans at the turn of the century, its theatrical companies, dances, the high status of medical doctors, gaucheries of the Creoles, and so on..."). The work was translated into English in 1806 under the title Travels in Louisiana and the Floridas.

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[BERQUIN-] DUVALLON. Vue de la Colonie Espagnole du Mississipi, ou des Provinces de la Louisiane et Floride Occidentale, en l'année 1802. Paris: à l'Imprimerie Expéditive 1803. 8vo, 191 x 118 mm. (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.), contemporary tree calf, covers with gilt border, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece, edges blue-sprinkled, joints and extremities rubbed, folding maps each with a short tear at mount and faint offsetting of coloring. FIRST EDITION, half-title, 2 hand-colored folding maps of upper and lower Louisiana. Howes B-389; Sabin 4962; Streeter sale III:1530 ("This gives an entertaining and gossipy first-hand picture of life in New Orleans at the turn of the century, its theatrical companies, dances, the high status of medical doctors, gaucheries of the Creoles, and so on..."). The work was translated into English in 1806 under the title Travels in Louisiana and the Floridas.