MICHEL GUILLAUME JEAN DE CRÈVECOEUR (1735-1813) LETTRES D’UN CULTIVATEUR AMÉRICAIN 1 VOLUME. SECOND TOME. 1784. IN FRENCH.

Paris, chez Cuchet, M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784] First French edition. Second volume. Letters from an American farmer, written to W. S. [William Seton] Ecuyer, from 1770 to 1781. 1 volume in-8, p. half-title, p. title, warning and errata iv, 400 p., Table of contents contained in this volume 2 p. unnumbered. Contemporary brown marbled calf binding, spine with 5 raised bands, compartments decorated with fleurons and small irons, red labels. 20.1 x 13.5 x 3 cm Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur, known as J. Hector St John, a Norman gentleman who emigrated to the United States, writer and farmer, offers in the second volume, presented here, a detailed view of American lifestyles, manners, customs, education, a description of landscapes, animal and plant life, and a reflection on American identity. These ‘letters’ were first written and published in English as ‘Letters from an American Farmer’ in London in 1782 (one volume), then translated into French by the author himself in an expanded and more literary version in 1784 (two volumes), with an expanded edition in 1787 (three volumes).