1801 VOYAGE dans LA HAUTE PENSYLVANIE 3 VOLUMES illustrated AMERICANA antique

VOYAGE dans LA HAUTE PENSYLVANIE  et dans l’état de New York par un Membre Adoptif de la Nation Oneidaby [Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Saint Jean de.] Paris, Crapelet, 18013 volumesFirst edition of this celebrated account of the Northeast following the Revolutionary War. Size: 5 by 8"Vol.I: xxxi (i) pp., including half-title and title, 427 pp., 5 consecutively numbered plates, the last a large folding map of the United States; Vol II:xiv, 434 pp., 4 consecutively numbered folding plates (maps)Vol. III:xii, 409 pp., [1] errata, 5 folding illustrations (plan, tables)Uniformly bound in library cardboard, with title labels to the spinesVery good conditionText in FrenchCrevecoeur remains one of the best-known authors on 18th century American life, but here rather unusually devotes a great deal of space to accounts of the surviving Indian tribes in the region – principally the Mohawk, Oneida, and Onondaga.Crevecoeur’s personal relationships with Washington (to whom the present work is dedica