VERGENNES (Charles Gravier, comte de). Mémoire historique et politique sur la Louisiane. Accompanied by a Précis de la vie de ce ministre, and followed by other Mémoires sur l'Indostan, Saint-Domingue, la Corse et la Guyane. Paris, Le petit jeune, An X-1802. In-8, first edition illustrated with an engraved portrait of the author of this collection of Vergennes' memoirs. The work includes, in addition to the advertised memoirs, the transcription of a letter from M. le chevalier Turgot to M. le Duc de Choiseul dated October 10, 1765 concerning the Chanvalon affair and the Kourou expedition. Bound in later brown half-percaline, gilt title. (slight stains, small paper losses in the margins of the first pages, some pages browned). Expert : Mr. Nicolas Asvisio