Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 128

Price Realized: $ 1,170
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
CREVECOEUR, MICHEL GUILLAUME ST. JEAN DE. Lettres d'un Cultivateur Américain. 5 folding maps, 4 plates. 3 volumes. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 calf, moderate wear, joints starting; closed tear and moderate wear to two maps, minor dampstaining to Volume II. Paris, 1787
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Second French (and best) edition. "This edition is greatly enlarged, the whole of the third volume being added. This translation was made by the author himself. . . . Boucher de la Richarderie says that the author had been so long unaccustomed to his native language that his translation abounds with Anglicisms"--Sabin 17495. Howes C883 ("aa").