Crevecoeur Michel Guillaume Jean Later (3 results)

8vo., (7 6/8 x 5 inches). 2 fine engraved portraits of prominent local native Americans. Contemporary light orange speckled boards (extremities scuffed). Provenance: with the small library label of Wolfgang A. Herz, his sale "Important Voyages and Travels", 9th December 2009, lot 207. "No other writer has so well described the Indian great councils, or assemblies, where they deliberate on their public interests" (Sabin). First German edition, being volume 23 of the "Magazin von merkwurdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen", first published in Paris in 1801. A classic American narrative. After installing himself on a farm in Orange County, New York following the French and Indian War, the French-born Crevecoeur began writing about America. His "Letters of An American Farmer" became the first "best-seller" in Europe by an American, and forged an American identity in the minds of Europeans, and in a large part helped to begin the mythology of the American Dream. However, by the time he wrote the present title, dedicated to George Washington, he had been largely forgotten about, and the book was generally ignored. "This work is distinguished by its valuable details on the aboriginal tribes, and their gradual disappearance. No other writer has so well described the Indian great councils, or assemblies, where they deliberate on their public interests." Sabin 17502. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.

4 volumes: 3 volumes, text, 8vo., (9 x 6 inches). Half titles (a bit spotted). Later half black morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt (extremities a bit worn). Atlas, folio (19 x 12 4/8 inches).Engraved portrait of George Washington, portraits of Kesketomah and Koohassen, fine folding engraved maps "Carte de la Partie Septentrionale des Etats-Unis", "Carte de la Partie Meridionale des Etats-Unis" with original hand-colour in full, folding map of Niagara, and a fort on the Ohio, 2 folding views of Niagara and 2 full-page plates edges a bit frayed). Original blue paper wrappers (wrinkled, edges frayed); preserved in a modern black morocco backed clamshell box to match the text volumes. Provenance: with the ink library stamp of the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.C. on the half titles; with the small library labels of Arthur T. Hamlin, librarian at the University of Cincinnati between 1956 and 1958, on the front paste-down of each text volume. "HIS VERACITY MAY BE RELIED ON. AND YOU WILL BE EASILY ABLE TO SEPARATE FROM THEM HIS REFLECTIONS" (Jefferson) First edition, WITH THE PLATES AND MAPS BOUND SEPARATELY AND ON LARGE PAPER. "No other writer has so well described the Indian great councils, or assemblies, where they deliberate on their public interests" (Sabin). A classic American narrative. After installing himself on a farm in Orange County, New York following the French and Indian War, the French-born Crevecoeur began writing about America. His "Letters of An American Farmer" became the first "best-seller" in Europe by an American, and forged an American identity in the minds of Europeans, and in a large part helped to begin the mythology of the American Dream. However, by the time he wrote the present title, dedicated to George Washington, he had been largely forgotten about, and the book was generally ignored. "This work is distinguished by its valuable details on the aboriginal tribes, and their gradual disappearance. No other writer has so well described the Indian great councils, or assemblies, where they deliberate on their public interests" (Sabin 17502). Catalogued by Kate Hunter.

3 volumes. 8vo., xvii, 427; 434; 409 (1) pp. (errata). 11 engraved plates, both views and maps, of which 7 are folding (light dampstaining throughout the lower third of the textblock in the second volume, otherwise the text is clean and bright). Original blue paper wrappers (lightly worn, but still vivid and attractive, with some skilful repairs to the spine); preserved in a modern blue cloth, gilt slipcase and chemises. "HIS VERACITY MAY BE RELIED ON. AND YOU WILL BE EASILY ABLE TO SEPARATE FROM THEM HIS REFLECTIONS" (Jefferson) First edition. "No other writer has so well described the Indian great councils, or assemblies, where they deliberate on their public interests" (Sabin). A classic American narrative. After installing himself on a farm in Orange County, New York following the French and Indian War, the French-born Crevecoeur began writing about America. His "Letters of An American Farmer" became the first "best-seller" in Europe by an American, and forged an American identity in the minds of Europeans, and in a large part helped to begin the mythology of the American Dream. However, by the time he wrote the present title, dedicated to George Washington, he had been largely forgotten about, and the book was generally ignored. "This work is distinguished by its valuable details on the aboriginal tribes, and their gradual disappearance. No other writer has so well described the Indian great councils, or assemblies, where they deliberate on their public interests" (Sabin 17502).