Not for publication. 2017-142, Map (T-2017 Wooldridge Maps)

Histoire des Troubles de l'Amerique Anglaise

Date1787

Maker Francois Soules (1748-1809)

MediumFour volumes; Full leather binding with decoration, gold gilt borders on covers and on spine.

DimensionsA: OH:8" x OW: 5 1/4" x OD: 1 1/8" B: OH: 8" x OW: 5 1/8 x OD: 1 1/4" C: OH: 8" x OW: 5 1/4" x OD: 1 3/8" D: OH: 8" x OW: 5 1/8" x OD: 1 3/8"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number2017-142,1-4

DescriptionThe title page of Volume I reads: "HISTOIRE/ DES TROUBLES/ DE/ L'AMERIQUE ANGLAISE,/ Ecrite sur les Memories les plus authentiques;/ DEDIEE/ A SA MAJESTE TRES-CHERETIENNE;/ Par FRANCOIS SOULES./ TOME PREMIER./ Avec des Cartes./ Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur./ VIRG. AEnied. lib. I./ A PARIS/ Chez BUISSON, Libraire, Hotel de Mesgrigny;/ rue des Poitevins, N.o. 13./ 1787."
Label Text"Histoire des Troubles de l'Amerique Anglaise" was written by Francois Soules and published in Paris in four volumes. Soules was a teacher, translator, and writer who produced works in a variety of genres, including British, French, and American foreign policy. His account of the American Revolution was informed by Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau's personal experience of the events; Rochambeau's influence and Soules' own background result in an emphasis on French participation in the war.

Contains the following (All in Vol 4):
"CARTE D'UNE PARTIE DE L'AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE, pour servir a l'Histoire de la derniere Guerre." (Map)

Untitled [Map of Rochambeau's march to and from Yorktown]

"PLAN/ D'YORK EN VIRGINIE,/ avec les attaques et les Campemens/ de l'Armée combinée de France/ et d'Amérique." (Map)

This copy of "PLAN/ D'YORK EN VIRGINIE" was published in William C. Wooldridge, "Mapping Virginia: From the Age of Exploration to the Civil War" (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012), 178-179, #160.