TABLEAU DU CLIMAT ET DU SOL DES ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE: Suivi D'eclaircissements sur la Floride, sur la Colonie Francaise a Scioto, Sur quelques colonies Canadiennes et sur Les Sauvages.

Paris: Parmantier, Libraire / Froment Libraire, 1825. New edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo; xix, 478 pages, small ink spot in 3 final leaves, contemporary full sprinkled leather, gilt rules, marbled endpapers, corners edgeworn, spine rebacked with original spine laid down. Lacking the first map, but has the rear map, with some hand coloring, shows the winds and currents of North America, from the Gulf to American Siberia - aka Alaska, including the Gulf Stream

Count Volney spent 3 years touring in the U.S.A., including visiting with Jefferson at Monticello, Chapters on Florida, Fort Vincennes, Les Indiens - with a short Appendix of a vocabulary of the Miamis tribe on the Wabash. Niagara Falls, Gulf of Mexico, climate. [ Sabin 100692: there were two variants of the 1825 edition, of which this has no half-title and a different setting of type; see Sowerby 4230; Howes V141; Clark II:69; Field 2449; Buck, ILLINOIS, 49 - "an extensive account of the French settlements on the Wabash and in the Illinois country"]. "Contains an account of an extended interview, at Philadelphia in 1798, with Little Turtle and Captain William Wells - Milo M. Quaife." Remarkably this folding map also shows a mountain range, running east-west across lower Canada, above the Great Lakes, titled Chaine des Monts Algonkin