(Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume St Jean de)Letters from an American Farmer; Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs, Not Generally Known. London: Printed for Thomas Davies 1782 8vo (210 x 125 mm). Half-title, two engraved folding maps of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, 2 pp. advertisements at end; scattered light spotting, map of Martha's Vineyard just separating along one fold. Retrospective calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco title label to spine; spine faded and extremities lightly rubbed. In a half-red morocco slipcase with cloth chemise. First edition, "a series of twelve charming letters, describing life in America" (Streeter). Crevecoeur's observations of Colonial America were of great influence in attracting European immigration in the post-revolutionary period. "As literature unexcelled by any American work of the eighteenth century" (Howes). REFERENCEESTC T133373; Howes C883; Revolutionary Hundred 70; Sabin 17496; Streeter sale 711, Vail 674
(Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume St Jean de)Letters from an American Farmer; Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs, Not Generally Known. London: Printed for Thomas Davies 1782 8vo (210 x 125 mm). Half-title, two engraved folding maps of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, 2 pp. advertisements at end; scattered light spotting, map of Martha's Vineyard just separating along one fold. Retrospective calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco title label to spine; spine faded and extremities lightly rubbed. In a half-red morocco slipcase with cloth chemise. First edition, "a series of twelve charming letters, describing life in America" (Streeter). Crevecoeur's observations of Colonial America were of great influence in attracting European immigration in the post-revolutionary period. "As literature unexcelled by any American work of the eighteenth century" (Howes). REFERENCEESTC T133373; Howes C883; Revolutionary Hundred 70; Sabin 17496; Streeter sale 711, Vail 674
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