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ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

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“BY FAR THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ABOUT AMERICA, AND THE MOST PENETRATING BOOK EVER WRITTEN ABOUT DEMOCRACY”

TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. Democratie en Amerique. Paris, 1835. Two volumes.

First edition presentation copy in the original French of the first two volumes of Tocqueville's classic work, one of no more than 500 copies published, inscribed by Tocqueville in Volume I "Donne par l'Auteur, 1836." "One of the most important texts in political literature" (PMM 358). Accompanied by the two volumes of the second edition of Part II in a contemporary binding. $62,000.

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"THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ABOUT AMERICA"

TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. Democracy in America. London, 1835, 1840. Four volumes.

First editions in English of both parts of Tocqueville's important and influential analysis of American democracy, one of the most outstanding intellectual achievements of the 19th century—"one of the most important texts in political literature" (PMM)—with very scarce folding map colored in outline, handsomely housed in half morocco clamshell boxes. $60,000.

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"A BRILLIANT SUCCESS… SETTING THE STANDARD THROUGHOUT EUROPE FOR ALL SUBSEQUENT PRISON STUDIES"

TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de, and BEAUMONT, Gustave de. On the Penitentiary System in the United States. Philadelphia, 1833.

First edition in English of Beaumont and Tocqueville's highly influential classic, published the same year as the first French edition and soon followed by Tocqueville's masterpiece, Democracy in America, a rare uncut copy in original boards. $4500.

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