(TRAVEL) [Crevecoeur Michel Guillaume Saint Jean de] Voyage

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(TRAVEL.) [Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Saint Jean de.] Voyage dans la Haute Pensylvanie et dans l'etat de New York. 4 maps, 7 plates, 4 folding tables. xxxi, [1], 427; xiii, [1], 434; xii, 409, [1] pages. 3 volumes. 8vo, early 1/2 morocco, worn, front board detached; minor dampstaining on fore-edge; uncut; American Catholic Historical Society bookplates and other library markings. Paris, 1801

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first edition. Crevecoeur styles himself "an adopted member of the Oneida tribe" for this tour of Pennsylvania and New York, which can be regarded as a sequel to his better-known Letters of an American Farmer. Much of the material relates to American Indians. The plates include an unusual frontispiece portrait of Washington (Hart 207), 2 Indian portraits, and 2 views of Niagara Falls. Dow, Niagara Falls page I:69; Field 388; Howes C884; Monaghan, French Travellers 503; Sabin 17501.