Lot n° 72
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600 - 800
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Saint-Domingue - Abolitionism
GARRAN de COULON... - Lot 72 - Briscadieu
Saint-Domingue - Abolitionism
GARRAN de COULON (Jean-Philippe)
Rapport sur les Troubles de Saint-Domingue, fait au nom de la commission des colonies Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, an V.
4 volumes in-8. Occasional foxing.
½ period fawn basane, ornate smooth spines, fawn titles and endpapers, one cap torn off at the head and one at the foot, used rubbing on boards.
First edition of this voluminous report, the most important and complete ever published on the Revolution in Saint-Domingue, from the Black slave uprising in August 1791 to the general emancipation of the Blacks in February 1794.
The author, a member of the Colonial Commission, had to examine around one hundred thousand documents (Sabin 26685).
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