Voyage dans la Haute Pensylvanie et dans l état de New York

Author: Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) Year: 1801 (IX)Publisher: Chez MaradanPlace: ParisDescription:3 volumes. xii+427 pages with frontispiece portrait, 3 plates (one folding) and folding map; xiv+454 pages with two folding plate and two folding maps; xii+409+[errata] with 4 folding tables and 1 folding plate. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5") bound in original half leather with brown label in gilt lettering over marbled boards. The scarce first edition of this little-known work by Crèvecoeur, was not translated into English until the 1960s with English edition. (Howes C884. Sabin 17501. Field 388. Monaghan 503.) First edition.This work by the author had been written in his declining years. In a biography of his great-grandfather the author alleges in his introduction that the Voyage is a manuscript found in a shipwreck-and even whole chapters of which are either lost or water-soaked beyond legibility, and that he is the translator of this work. Written with greater care tha