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Lot 405
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
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CREVECOEUR, Michel Guillaume St. Jean de (1735-1813). Lettres d'un Cultivateur Americain. Paris, 1784.
2 volumes, 8vo. ORIGINAL GREY WRAPPERS uncut, volume numbers in manuscript on spines. Provenance: D'aleslatour (signature).
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, a "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). Howes C-883 (the issue paginated: [24] 422 [2]; [4] 392); see Sabin 17494 (collation varies slightly).