37 CHEREAU, J. Débarquement des Troupes Angloises à Nouvelle Yorck. Paris, ca. 1776. Col. d'époque. Papier jauni, fortes rousseurs, taches brunes dans les marges. - Paper age-toned and foxing, 2 brown stains in the margins. 260 x 385 mm.

200 - 300 €
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¤ Shows English troops landing in New York City during the Revolution prior to the conquest of the city. With reversed title in French along top margin, captioned again in French at the bottom. The image shows warships by the docks, soldiers landing, and a Revolutionary War, Colonial period view of part of the City. Although meant to depict an important historical event from the American Revolutionary War, the view of New York is quite fantastical. Nevertheless, this is a rare and wonderfully significant image of British troops invading New York. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devices and special engravings to be viewed through them. In the 18th century the "optical print" or "vue optique" came into existence, whose exaggerated converging lines were intended to produce the optical illusion of deep recession. The viewing devices for which these perspective prints were produced consisted of a lens and a mirror, this requiring the use of reversed or mirror-image pictures.

38 CASTRIES, Maréchal de. Carte Réduite du Sud des Etats-Unis Avec l'Intérieur du Pays, Pour Servir à l'Intelligence de cette Histoire. Paris, 1787. Déchirure à gauche, sur 6 cm à l'int. de la carte restaurée, pliure horizontale et verticale, 2 infimes trous de ver, coupée le long du filet d'encadrement. - Repair of tear left hand part 6 cm into engraved area, vertical and horizontal folds, 2 small worm holes, cut close to the neatline. 530 x 443 mm.

400 - 500 €
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¤ Carte "Copiée Par Permission de M.gr le Maréchal de Castries, Ministre et Secrétaire d'Etat de la Marine et des Colonies, Sur le N° 2 du Neptune Américo-Septentrional". Publiée dans : "Le Boucher. Histoire de la dernière guerre, entre la Grande-Bretagne et les Etats-Unis. Paris, Brocas, 1787".
- The map was used to illustrate a French history of the Revolutionary War. "One of the best contemporary histories of the American Revolution, described by Howes as the "best French chronicle of the Revolution; particularly valuable on naval affairs." The map shows the American coast from Pennsylvania to Georgia, with Chesapeake Bay and Savannah. - Phillips, Maps of America, p. 866