CREVECOEUR, Michel Guillaume St. Jean de (1735-1813). Letters from an American Farmer. London: Thomas Davies and Lockyer Davis, 1782. 8° (212 x 130mm). Half-title, 2 engraved folding maps of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, publisher's adverts. (Some mostly marginal spotting throughout, some soiling, light offsetting to maps.) 20th-century leather-backed boards (spine faded).

CREVECOEUR, Michel Guillaume St. Jean de (1735-1813). Letters from an American Farmer. London: Thomas Davies and Lockyer Davis, 1782. 8° (212 x 130mm). Half-title, 2 engraved folding maps of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, publisher's adverts. (Some mostly marginal spotting throughout, some soiling, light offsetting to maps.) 20th-century leather-backed boards (spine faded).

FIRST EDITION OF THIS AMERICAN CLASSIC. It 'had a greater influence in attracting its readers to America than any other book of the period' (Vail). The maps provide the first detailed descriptions of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Clark Old South I:218; Howes C-883: 'As literature unexcelled by any American work of the 18th century'; Meisel III, p. 352; Monaghan 497; Phillips Maps, pp. 389, 457; Sabin 17496; Streeter II:711; Vail 674.