L’Univers. Histoire et description de Tous les Peuples. Etats-Unis d’Amerique, par M. Roux de Rochelle,..

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L’Univers. Histoire et description de Tous les Peuples. Etats-Unis d’Amerique, par M. Roux de Rochelle,..

The book describes, over 388 pages, by Mr. Roux de Rochelle (1762-1849), the history of the peoples, their religion, customs, and traditions of the USA. Index on 12 pages, one page with notes on the placement of the 96 engravings such as a plan of Boston and New York, Native Americans from Florida and Virginia (after Theodor de Bry), and the fold-out map of the USA in the book .French text. Some pages are slightly stained.

c. 1838

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Frères (c.1790-c. 1840)

The Didot family were influential in the development of type design and printing. Firmin Didot, one of the prominent figures, was a French printer and typographer, known for developing the Didot typeface in the late 18th century. By 1838, the Didot family, particularly François-Ambroise Didot (Firmin’s nephew), had already solidified their legacy in the printing world. In 1838, Frères Didot (which means "Didot Brothers") was the name under which François-Ambroise Didot and his relatives worked. The Didot printing house was a major force in French typography during the early 19th century.

Historical Description

Under the discovery of Americans, we understand the first sighting of the continent by seafarers from the global civilization. Around 1000, the Vikings established a short-lived settlement in Newfoundland, now known as L'Anse aux Meadows. Speculations exist about other Old World discoveries of the New World, but none of these are generally or completely accepted by most scholars. Spain sponsored a major exploration led by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492; it quickly led to extensive European colonization of the Americas. The Europeans brought Old World diseases which are thought to have caused catastrophic epidemics and a huge decrease of the native population. Columbus came at a time in which many technical developments in sailing techniques and communication made it possible to report his voyages easily and to spread word of them throughout Europe. It was also a time of growing religious, imperial and economic rivalries that led to a competition for the establishment of colonies. The formation of sovereign states in the New World began with the United States Declaration of Independence of 1776. The American Revolutionary War lasted through the period of the Siege of Yorktown — its last major campaign — in the early autumn of 1781, with peace being achieved in 1783. The Spanish colonies won their independence in the first quarter of the 19th century, in the Spanish American wars of independence. Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín, among others, led their independence struggle. Although Bolivar attempted to keep the Spanish-speaking parts of Latin America politically allied, they rapidly became independent of one another as well, and several further wars were fought, such as the Paraguayan War and the War of the Pacific. (See Latin American integration.) In the Portuguese colony Dom Pedro I (also Pedro IV of Portugal), son of the Portuguese king Dom João VI, proclaimed the country's independence in 1822 and became Brazil's first Emperor. This was peacefully accepted by the crown in Portugal, upon compensation.