A Complete History of the Marquis de Lafayette, Major-General in the American Army in the War of the Revolution Embracing an Account of His Tour Through The United States, to the Time of His Departure, September, 1825. By an Officer in the Late Army.

[LAFAYETTE, Marquis de].

Item Number: 116377

Columbus: J. & H. Miller, 1858.

Scarce first edition of the definitive biography of “The Hero of Two Worlds”, Marquis de Lafayette. Octavo, original brown cloth elaborately stamped in blind, engraved frontispiece portrait. In very good condition with light toning to the page edges and endpapers.

Often referred to as "The Hero of Two Worlds", French aristocrat and military officer Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette was a key figure in both the American and French Revolutions. Commissioned an officer at age thirteen, he became convinced that the American revolutionary cause was noble, traveled to America, and was made a major general at age nineteen, soon commanding American troops in several battles including the Siege of Yorktown. He later returned to France where he was appointed commander-in-chief of France's National Guard and played a major role in the composition of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen with Thomas Jefferson's assistance.