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Sale 2708 - Lot 85

Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
MICHEL GUILLAUME ST. JEAN DE CREVECOEUR. Lettres d'un Cultivateur Américain. 5 folding maps, 4 plates. 3 volumes. xxxii, 478, [2]; 438, [6], 592 pages. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, minor wear; minor foxing, edges tinted red; modern collector's book labels on front pastedowns. Paris: Chez Cuchet Libraire, 1787
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Second Paris (and best) edition of this classic depiction of early America. Subjects range from sociological observations, natural history, Nantucket Quakers, whaling, the evils of slavery in South Carolina, and the early years of the American Revolution.

"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. Clark, Old South 218 (9); Howes C883 ("aa").

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