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Mirabeau,H.G. De Riquetti de.

Collection of some philosophical and political writings concerning the united states of North America. Together with a letter from him to the translator (i.e. J. Brahl). Berlin and Libau 1787. front cover, VI, 326 p., 1 leaf. Old hardcover with missing parts. (amateurishly rep.). (150) Sabin 49396; Howes M 653; Fromm 17740; Dippel 434; cf. INED 3183 (EA. 1784). - First German edition of "Considerations sur l'ordre de Cincinnatus" (1784). Mirabeau's commentary on the North American Order of Cincinnatus, founded in 1783, which - despite its first president G. Washington - was classified as anti-republican and became extinct. The appendix contains the first German translation of Richard Price's late work "Bemerkungen über die Wichtgkeit der americanischen Revolution", published in 1784 and expanded in 1785, together with Mirabeau's commentary. (cf. Sabin 65450 and Howes P 584). "Price, intimate friend of Franklin, was the most influential British advocate of American independance" (Howes). - On the Negro trade and slavery.

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