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Lot 96
By: Michel Guillaume de Crevecoeur
Subject: Ohio River
Date: 1787 (published)
Publication: Lettres d'un Cultivateur Americain
Condition Code: B+
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Color: hand color
Size: 20.5 x 9 inches
52.1 x 22.9 cm
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Interesting map from a French edition of Crevecoeur's important early collection of essays (Letters from an American Farmer). The sheet contains three separate maps showing the Indian villages in the region of the Ohio River. Engraved by Pierre Francois Tardieu. At upper left above neatline is "Tome IIIme. Page 413."
Crevecoeur was a French-born surveyor who settled in New York, where he produced this classic collection of twelve essays that reflected on the nature of American life, particularly its customs and manners. His description of bountiful American lands spurred many French people to immigrate to America. Howes says that Crevecoeur's work is 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."
Condition Description: Issued folding, and now flattened, on thick hand-laid watermarked paper with light soiling and minor extraneous creasing.
Ref: Howes #C883.
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