De la Democratie en Amerique Democracy in America
$15,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books
First edition
Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1835. First edition of the first part, text in French. Two volumes. Finely bound in contemporary quarter calf over mottled paper covered boards, with all edges marbled. Pp. 4 + xxiv + 367; 4 + 459, engraved, handcolored folding map. Near Fine, with contents toned, and faint speckling to top corner of front cover of Volume I. Small edge tear to folding map. Tocqueville was sent to America by the
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