This is a rare and valuable book titled "Lafayette in America". It is a first bicentennial edition, published in 1975 by l’Espirit de Lafayette Society. The book is leather-bound and contains 24K gold ornamentation. It is autographed and numbered by the author, Louis Gottschalk. The book is written in English and is about historical events related to Lafayette's visit to America. It has 6 bound-in plates on Woodbine enamel that are direct lithographs of the original Revolutionary War maps.