Blouet, Guillaume Abel
Journal d’un voyage de Paris aux Etats-Unis de l’Amérique du Nord., 1836–1837. 11 May 1837.
A French Tour of the United States and its Prisons in 1837, Tocqueville’s successor.
Blouet´s unpublished and unofficial autograph journal describing a tour in the United States in the winter of 1837, designed to study the United States’ renowned penitentiary system, organized by the French government in the wake of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont’s similar seminal mission a few years earlier in 1831 and predates Charles Dickens’ tour in 1842, signed and dated, of which no other copies have been found. The manuscript is joined by a letter from John Haviland to Blouet, in which Haviland shows his appreciation to Blouet for sending his publication and also to inform Blouet of some of the modifications he had recently made to improve penitentiary architecture.
Blouet´s unpublished and unofficial autograph journal describing a tour in the United States in the winter of 1837, designed to study the United States’ renowned penitentiary system, organized by the French government in the wake of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont’s similar seminal mission a few years earlier in 1831 and predates Charles Dickens’ tour in 1842, signed and dated, of which no other copies have been found. The manuscript is joined by a letter from John Haviland to Blouet, in which Haviland shows his appreciation to Blouet for sending his publication and also to inform Blouet of some of the modifications he had recently made to improve penitentiary architecture.
$ 38,000.00
Further images
Autograph manuscript. 4to (250 x 220 mm). 85 pp., mounted on tabs. Pebble-grain navy cloth lettered in gilt on front cover. [offered with] Haviland, John. A.L.S. in English from Haviland to Blouet, Philadelphia, 10 February 1839. 2 pp., 1 blank with address on verso, New York and Paris postal stamps, and Haviland’s wax seal.
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