398. [AMERICANA] - HILLIARD D'AUBERTEUIL (Michel-René). Essais historiques et politiques sur les Anglo-Américains. Bruxelles, s.n., Paris, chez l'auteur, 1781 - 1782, 4 parts in 2 vols. in-8, xvj pp., 198 pp., xij pp., pp. 199-441, with jump in figures from 230 to 239; xij pp., 208 pp., xiv pp, pp. 209-436, without plates and maps, marbled fawn calf, smooth spines with partitions and fleurons, title and giblets in bottle, triple gilt fillet on covers, gilt edges, gilt cross-hatching on back covers, blue paper endpapers (period binding). Unique edition. BINDED AT THE HEAD OF VOLUME I: the very rare prospectus of the work (Paris, Imprimerie de Couturier, 4 pp.). Upper covers bumped, spine rubbed, corners bumped.