2 - [America] [CRÈVECOEUR (Michel-Guillaume Jean)]. A Journey Through Upper Pennsylvania and the State of New York, by an Adopted Member of the Oneida Nation. Translated and published by the author of *Letters from an American Farmer*. Paris, published by Maradan, Year IX, 1801. 3 volumes in-8, modern cardboard binding. Water stains on the margins and scattered foxing on the fold-out map. XXXI, 427 pp., XIII, 434 pp.; XII, 409 pp.

[America] [CRÈVECOEUR (Michel-Guillaume Jean)]. A Journey Through Upper Pennsylvania and the State of New York, by an Adopted Member of the Oneida Nation. Translated and published by the author of *Letters from an American Farmer*. Paris, published by Maradan, Year IX, 1801. 3 volumes in-8, modern cardboard binding. Water stains on the margins and scattered foxing on the fold-out map. XXXI, 427 pp., XIII, 434 pp.; XII, 409 pp. First edition illustrated with a portrait of George Washington as a frontispiece, 1 fold-out map (of 2), 2 plans, 6 plates, and 4 illustrations. Presented as the translation of a manuscript written by an adopted member of the Oneida Nation, the work is in fact an original work by Michel Guillaume Jean de CRÈVECOEUR, known as John Hector Saint John (1735–1813). Chadenat, 1201: “This work contains fascinating details on the condition of the indigenous peoples of this part of North America before the arrival of Europeans. ” Handwritten “Dupuy-Montbrun” bookplate, later from the Mariette Auriol library, belonging to a family of merchants in Montauban, where a private mansion bears that name, with a repeated bookplate stamp.