Transatlantique

MID-19th-CENTURY FRENCH MANUSCRIPT INVENTORY DETAILING PERSONAL AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS INCLUDING BOOKS MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS SENT FROM FRANCE TO NEW YORK AND FROM THE UNITED STATES BACK TO FRANCE

1840 · WRCAM38241 — France & the United States 1840. 26 leaves plus forty-eight blank leaves. Contemporary mottled calf spine gilt edges marbled. Slight wear to outer joints. Composed in a clear clean hand. Occasional minute soiling. In very good condition. A detailed manuscript inventory listing personal and household goods transported to the United States from France and separately items shipped from America back to France. The volume records the possessions of Eugène Mourgue his wife Colombe and their domestic servants beginning with the dozen trunks which they had shipped to the United States. The objects shipped for their travels includes cloth clothing porcelain china and silver. The manuscript also provides detailed lists of the objects the Mourgue household shipped back to France upon their return to the Continent. Of particular interest is a box of books with specific titles briefly noted. These include La Pérouse's VOYAGE in four volumes plus atlas; a multi-volume set of Duhamel du Monceau a twenty-volume set of Buffon; Abbé Raynal's ATLAS; numerous books for children; geographies dictionaries and other educational volumes; and numerous other works including Oliver Goldsmith's VICAIRE DE WAKEFIELD. Morgue also returned to France with numerous maps and prints including "Amerique septentionale" "Golphe du mexique" "La morte de Captain Cook" views of New York and Mount Vernon and portraits of Washington and Franklin. hardcover books