Feb 10, 2005 - Sale 2032

Sale 2032 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 316
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CREVECOEUR, MICHEL GUILLAUME SAINT JEAN de. Lettres d'un Cultivateur Americain. 2 volumes. 12mo, contemporary calf, backstrips abraded, one joint cracked; bookplate on the front pastedown (Caspar Joseph von Weber) and signed V. Weber on the half-titles of both volumes. Maestricht, 1785

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First published in London in 1782, this Dutch edition precedes the American edition of 1793. "Description of American life of great influence in attracting European immigration in the post-revolutionary period. As literature unexcelled by any American work of the eighteenth century"--Howes C883.