180- [MAZZEI (Filippo)]. Recherches historiques et politiques sur les États-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale [Historical and political researches on the United States of North America], which deals with the establishment of the thirteen Colonies, their relations & dissensions with Great Britain, their governments before & after the Revolution, &c. By a citizen of Virginia. À Colle et à Paris, Chez Froullé, 1788, 4 volumes in 2 vols. in-8, half-fawn speckled basane, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, red edges (period binding). Spines rubbed, one spine slightly damaged. First edition. The author, Filippo Mazzéi (1730-1816), an Italian émigré in America, was very close to Thomas Jefferson. He paints a comprehensive picture of the situation in the United States: State formation, Institutions, polemics with Mably and Raynal, Finance and Commerce, Cincinnatus Society, Slavery...