Paul-Ulrich Dubuisson - Abrégé de la Révolution de l'Amérique Angloise, depuis il commencement de l'année 1774, jusqu'au - 1779

SUBJECT: History / America / American and Diplomatic Revolutions of the 18th Century
TITLE ON THE TITLE PAGE: Abrégé de la Révolution de l'Amérique Angloise, depuis le commencement de l'année 1774, jusqu'au premier Janvier 1778.
AUTHOR: Paul-Ulrich Dubuisson (published under the pseudonym "Par M. ***, Américain").
PUBLISHER / PRINTER: [Société Typographique d'Yverdon].
PLACE OF PRINTING: Yverdon (Switzerland).
YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 1779 (MDCCLXXIX).
LANGUAGE / ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: French.
EDITION: Rare and sought-after first Swiss edition (antique counterfeit from Yverdon), printed the year after the very first Paris edition of 1778.
PAGES: XII, 345 pages. (Complete volume).

NOTE ON THE RARITY OF THE WORK
What makes this volume an item of exceptionally collectible interest is not only its objective scarcity on today’s global markets, but its value as a real-time historical testimony. We are not reading a history book written after the fact: this text was printed in Yverdon in 1779, in the midst of the American War of Independence, while George Washington led the troops on the field and the fate of the United States was still wholly uncertain.
The presence at the end of the volume (p. 319) of the original and complete text of the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce signed between France and the thirteen colonies elevates the work to a cornerstone of diplomatic historiography, bearing the names of founding fathers such as Benjamin Franklin. To find the Swiss-printed variant from 1779, moreover preserved in this state, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Americana enthusiasts.

CONDITION REPORT
• EXTERNAL CONDITIONS: Excellent. The volume is elegantly bound in contemporary half-leather with marbled paper boards in splendid condition. The five-railed spine is enhanced with rich decorations and gilded ornaments done with small tools (refined motif of braziers/lamps), perfectly crisp and without missing elements. The binding structure is solid, the hinges intact, and the edges of the paper dyed in bright red. An aesthetically captivating antique appearance.
• INTERNAL CONDITIONS: Excellent. The pages are extraordinarily fresh, white, crisp, and clean. The text is entirely free of the spotting, damp-stains, or browning that typically afflict late 18th-century paper. Wide margins and tight internal binding. A showroom specimen.