Michel-Guillaume Jean CRÈVECOEUR

CREVECOEUR Michel Guillaume Saint Jean
Voyage dans la Haute Pensylvanie et dans l'état de New-York, par un membre adoptif de la nation Oneida
De l'imprimerie de Crapelet, Paris 1801 (An IX), In-8 (13 x 20 cm), xxxj (1) 467 pp. et xiij (1) 434 pp. et xij, 409 pp. (1), old half-vellum
First edition illustrated with 11 paper boards and 4 charts, of which 7 can be folded out, with one big map of Northern United States, one of the Southern part, several charts of cataract in Nigeria, a warrior in the Oneida nation, the portrait of Washington featured in a medallion… Dedicatory epistle to George Washington.
Old half-vellum binding with small corn

First French edition. The first edition appeared in London, in English, in 1782. The French edition was nonetheless reworked, corrected, and translated by the author himself who then added a second volume and even went so far as changing the name of the narrator, James, to his own. What's more, the French edition is much more anti-English and pro-American.
Contemporary light brown marbled calf, spines gilt, red morocco title- and volume- pieces. Orange edges. Very good copies in very good condition.
Crèvecoeur (1735-1813) came to New France in 1755 as an officer and geographer during the French and Indian Wars. He fought for the French, then travelled extensively before eventually