CREVECOEUR, MICHEL GUILLAUME ST. JEAN DE. Letters from an American Farmer...London: Printed for Thomas Davies ..and Lockyer Davis...1782. 8vo , ORIGINAL GRAY-BLUE BOARDS, UNCUT, backstrip lacking, fore-corners worn, red cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, 2 folding maps (giving the first detailed representations of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket). Vail, Voice of the Old Frontier 674: "Had a greater influence in attracting its readers to America than any other book of the period." Howes C883: "As literature unexcelled by any American work of the eighteenth century"; Streeter sale 711: "These are a series of twelve charming letters, describing life in America, four of them about Nantucket, and one about Martha's Vineyard and the Whale Fishery."
CREVECOEUR, MICHEL GUILLAUME ST. JEAN DE. Letters from an American Farmer...London: Printed for Thomas Davies ..and Lockyer Davis...1782. 8vo , ORIGINAL GRAY-BLUE BOARDS, UNCUT, backstrip lacking, fore-corners worn, red cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION, 2 folding maps (giving the first detailed representations of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket). Vail, Voice of the Old Frontier 674: "Had a greater influence in attracting its readers to America than any other book of the period." Howes C883: "As literature unexcelled by any American work of the eighteenth century"; Streeter sale 711: "These are a series of twelve charming letters, describing life in America, four of them about Nantucket, and one about Martha's Vineyard and the Whale Fishery."
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