[AMERICANA] - GERMAIN (George). Correspondence of Lord G. Germain, with Generals Clinton, Cornwallis & Admirals in the Station of America, with several intercepted letters from General Washington, Marquis de La Fayette & M. de Barras, Chief of Squadron. Translated from the English on the originals published by order of the Chambre des Pairs. Berne, chez la Nouvelle société typographique, 1782, in-8, XVI pp., 304 pp. with 2 folding tables out of text, lacking the portrait of Washington, marbled fawn basane, cloisonné and fleuronné ribbed spine, bottle title-piece, framed with simple cold fillet on the boards, speckled edges (period binding). First edition of the French translation. George Germain or Germaine, first Viscount Sackville (176-1785) was George III's Minister of War, who bears the main responsibility for the defeats at Yorktown and Saratoga, where the Insurgents were victorious. (Covers missing, corners bumped, beginning of split at spine ends, epidermis on boards).