PROYART, Liévain Bonaventure (1743?-1808). Der entthronte Ludwig XVI. Washington: at the cost of the United States, 1804. 3 parts in 1 volume, 8° (175 x 102mm). (Lacking final blank (?) to first part, slight marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary half sheep, spine gilt in six compartments with lettering-pieces in two (slight chips to head of spine). Provenance: K. F. Gundermann (signature); Dr. R. Breithaupt (bookplate). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of this rare early Washington imprint, not in Shaw and Shoemaker; NUC catalogue (2nd edition, 1805, only). -- Johann Ludwig GOTTFRIED. Newe Welt und Americanische Historien. Frankfurt: Matheus Merian, 165[7]. 2° (326 x 190mm). Engraved folding map of Virginia (laid down), engraved double-page plate of the Magellan Straits (torn along centre fold), engraved folding plate of Cuba (torn with loss), engraved illustrations throughout. (Lacking engraved frontispiece, at least three plates and two preliminary text leaves, several tears, sometimes affecting text and illustrations, some repaired, a little staining.) Bound with a fragment of another work on Vespucci's expedition to America (signed A3-J4). Later half sheep, spien with red morocco lettering-piece (backstrip damaged, rubbed). Provenance: unidentified contemporary ownership inscription on title; Prince M. Lieven (ownership stamp). Cf. Borba de Moraes (1983) I, p. 372-3; Sabin 50 (wrongly attributed to Abelin); Palau VI, 106386. -- And 6 other works on America in 7 volumes (Hans Just WINKELMANN. Der Americanischen Neuen Welt Beschreibung. Oldenburg: 1664, oblong 4°; Siegmund Jacob BAUMGARTEN. Algemeine Geschichte der Länder und Völker von America. Halle: 1752-3. 2 vols, 4°; F. X. CLAVIGERO. Geschichte von Mexico. Lepizig: 1789, 8°; DEPONS. Reise in den östlichen Theil von Terrafirm in Sud-Amerika, unternommen in den Jahren 1801, 1802, 1803 und 1804. Berlin: 1808, 8°; C. B. TAYLOR. Allgemeine Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. New York: 1838, 8°; James RICHARDSON. Wonders of the Yellowstone Region in the Rocky Mountains. London: 1876, 8°). The lot sold not subject to return. (9)