MOREAU DE SAINT-MÉRY (Médéric-Louis-Élie). Description - Lot 614

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MOREAU DE SAINT-MÉRY (Médéric-Louis-Élie). Description - Lot 614
MOREAU DE SAINT-MÉRY (Médéric-Louis-Élie). Description topographical, physical, civil, political and historical aspects of the French part of Santo Domingo Island. Philadelphia, Chez l'Auteur; Paris, Dupont; Hamburg, Chez les principaux Booksellers, 1797-1798. 2 volumes in-4, bradel cartonboard marbled, smooth spine, red title coin (modern binding). Sabin, number 50571. - Leclerc (1867, n°1038). VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK FOR THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH COLONY OF SANTO DOMINGO JUST BEFORE THE UPRISING OF 1791. Published with the financial assistance of Talleyrand, it has been printed by the author himself, born in 1750 at Fort-Royal in Martinique, Lawyer in Santo Domingo, Member of Parliament for Martinique to the Constituent and then emigrated to the United States where he settled in as a bookseller and printer in Philadelphia. A folding map of the island of Santo Domingo, dated 1796. and engraved by Vallance, and a large folding board. The two large volumes of the French Part are full of valuable information for the history of the West Indies. Everything had been written, until 1789, before the eyes of the inhabitants. of the colonies and with the help of the knowledge of many of them. No other historian before Moreau de Saint-Méry had spent fourteen years searching, either in the colony, either at Versailles, historical details intended to make more useful is its topographical description. He alone possessed, since the catastrophe in the French colonies, a documentation on the history of the West Indies as complete as this one (Anthony Louis Elicona, A Colonialist during the Revolution in France and in America: Moreau de Saint-Méry, 1934, p. 144). Two engraved maps of Saint-Domingue are attached. Bites to many notebooks and on the board; small colour mould The wine lees in the upp
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