QUELQUES MEMOIRES SUR DIFFERENS SUJECTS; La plus part d'Histoire naturelle, ou de Physique generale et particuliere.
Paris: De L'Imprimerie De Belin, 1813. Second edn. 8vo, pp. x, 428. Bound with one engraved plate and folding map (of the northeastern portion of the US, especially New York and New Jersey.) Bound in later morocco backed boards. A very good tight clean copy. Rare. Expanded from the 374 page first edition. Item #30987
A French political enconomist, Dupont de Nemours (1739-1817) was twice elected President of the National Convention and was a prominant anti-Jacobin. He escaped France to the US where he developed a plan for Thomas Jefferson to help in the establishment of a national education system. Upon his return to France, he wrote this memoir on the subject of morals, the science of natural history, and the like. Much of the volume concerns the US: "sur la nature de la Cote est de l'amerique septentrionale; Sur les Isles et islots qui sont aux embrouchures de l'Hudson, de la Passaik, et l'Hackinsack et du Rariton". There are also essays about the rain, and the conservation of grain. The second part has a long piece on instinct, with its dictionary of the raven.
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