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Lot 28
18th Century Americana
CREVECOEUR, Michel Guillaume St. Jean de (1735-1813). Lettres d'un Cultivateur Americain...Traduites de l'Anglois. Paris: Cuchet 1787.
Sale 2112 - Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection
Oct 24, 2024 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati

Estimate
$600 - 800
Lot Description
18th Century Americana
CREVECOEUR, Michel Guillaume St. Jean de (1735-1813). Lettres d'un Cultivateur Americain...Traduites de l'Anglois. Paris: Cuchet 1787.

3 volumes, 8vo (197 x 121 mm). Engraved title-pages, 5 folding maps, 4 engraved plates (one folding). (Very occasional light spotting.) Modern half calf (spines lightly sunned).

SECOND EDITION, that is "greatly enlarged, the whole of the third volume being added... The work is highly recommended in two letters, by way of introduction, from M. de Lacretelle. Boucher de la Richarderie says that the author had been so long unaccustomed to his native language that his translation abounds with Anglicisms, which, however, he adds, give greater energy to his expressions" (Sabin 17495; records only 3 plates).


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