239 - (Dubuisson, P.-U.). An account of the political changes in North America, from the first unrest in 1774 to the alliance of the French crown with the colonies. By an American. Second edition, augmented with the reflections of an Englishman. Bern, Haller, 1784. VIII, 174 (recte 374) pages (pagination jumps from page 351 to 153), 1 blank leaf. With 1 engraved title vignette. Contemporary half-leather binding with spine label (scuffed, head and tail ends bumped).

(Dubuisson, P.-U.). An account of the political changes in North America, from the first unrest in 1774 to the alliance of the French crown with the colonies. By an American. Second edition, augmented with the reflections of an Englishman. Bern, Haller, 1784. VIII, 174 (recte 374) pages (pagination jumps from page 351 to 153), 1 blank leaf. With 1 engraved title vignette. Contemporary half-leather binding with spine label (scuffed, head and tail ends bumped). Howes V, 143 and D 528; Sabin 100776.- The French original 'Abrégéde la revolution de l'Amérique Anglois' was published in 1778 in three volumes; the first edition of the translation (under the title 'Historischer Abriss der in Nord-Amerika vorfallenen Staats-Veränderung') without the appendix by John Wesley, the (co-)founder of the Methodist movement, appeared in 1779; the translator is unknown.- A contemporary reviewer of the first edition accuses the author of being too close to the American revolutionaries, uncritically so (ADB 1779, Volume I, pp. 207ff.).