Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 204

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CREVECOEUR, MICHEL GUILLAUME ST. JEAN DE. Lettres d'un Cultivateur Américain. 5 folding maps, 4 plates. 3 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn; repaired short tears and intermittent dampstaining to maps only. 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").