"Carte de la Partie Septentrionale des Etats-Unis", Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume De

This highly detailed map extends from the northern reaches of Chesapeake Bay to Maine and eastward to show most of Lake Erie. It is filled with a remarkable number of place names and details including a surprisingly well developed road system in the nascent nation. Also provides a large amount of information on Indian tribes and villages. Crevecoeur was a French immigrant to the United States who gain notoriety describing the emerging American national character in his Letters of an American Farmer, 1782. This uncommon map was included in Volume I of Crevecoeur's work and was engraved in Paris by P.F. Tardieu. At upper left is "Pl. V. a la Fin du Tom. I." Blank verso.

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Condition: B+

Folded as issued. Full margins and early, dark impression with resulting faint offsetting visible in blank ocean.