«Merge Record #»«Title» - Susanne Schulz-Falster

Handbuch für Deutsche, (1819), and was designed to help resident German speakers and
recent arrivals to compose business and legal letters. Sample letters are given in German
and English. A detailed contents list of the respective constitutions concludes the work.
There were, of course, earlier German translations of the American Constitution, but it is
rather attractive to have it in this form of a 'citizen's manual' for recent immigrants.
Sabin 16126; Seidensticker, O., German Printing, p. 220; Shoemaker 12244; RLIN/OCLC list copies at the
Newberry Library, Harvard, Penn State, Eastern Mennonite, American Antiquarian, Huntington, and the
University of Pennsylvania.
Statistics at your Fingertips
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AMERICANA. BEAUFORT. Le grand Porte-feuille politique, à l'usage des Princes et
des Minstres, des Ambassadeurs et des Hommes de lois, des Officiers généraux de terre
et de mer, ainsi que le Noblesse, du haut Clergé, des Financiers, des Voyageurs, Amateurs
et Connoisseurs des Sciences politiques. A Paris, chez l'Auteur, l'Hotel de Flandres
...Maradan, Libraire ... 1789. $2400
Large folio (528 x 402mm), pp. [iv], xv, [1] contents, with 19 double-page tables on guards, [2]
approbation and privilege, with one large folding engraved map inserted; occasional light
browning;contemporary half red roan over marbled boards, extremities a little rubbed and leather
dry; with Beaufort's presentation signature to half title, from the library of the economist Daniel
Boileau; a fine, large and clean copy.
First edition, rare, of this commentated statistical account of the principal European
powers on the eve of the French Revolution with the inclusion of the newly founded
United States of America. The nineteen double page tables each deal with one country or
political entity, covering Austria, France, Russia, Turkey, Spain, England, Prussia,
Portugal, Sardinia and the Pontifical States, Sweden and Denmark, Polen, Venice,
Switzerland, Genua and Malta, the German States, and America. Each table is arranged
in six columns, which in turn cover geographical location, population and population
density, with main cities and towns; military strength; financial position with figures of
national debt and public revenue; political situation and form of government; agriculture
and natural resources; and finally commerce, manufacturing and exchange.
This fascinating statistical-political survey of Europe immediately before the French
Revolution also includes information on America, with a particular discussion of the
democratic form of government and additional information on issues like freedom of the
press, slavery, etc. As indicated on the title page, it was aimed at ambassadors, high
governement officials, and the general reader. Due to its large size, it certainly would not
have served as a travelling manual, but in its tabular form, it gives easy access to vital
statistical information. These statistical tables would certainly have been used by Peuchet
and Chanlaire, and might easily have influenced Playfair in his statistical tables.
In this copy an additional large folding map is bound in, entitled 'Chart of the Passage to
the East of Banka. Laid down from observations in ship Van Sittart by Capt Lestock
Wilson 1789'.