PITOU (Louis-Ange) Travels to Cayenne, in... - Lot 194 - Rossini

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PITOU (Louis-Ange) Travels to Cayenne, in... - Lot 194 - Rossini
PITOU (Louis-Ange) Travels to Cayenne, in the two Americas, and to the antropophagous. Paris, Chez l'Auteur, And all the Novelty Merchants, Year XIII. - 1805. 2 volumes in-8, half brown basane, smooth spine decorated, yellow edges (contemporary binding). Chadenat, n°943. - Sabin, n°63057. Original edition, decorated with 2 folding plates engraved by Binet and placed in frontispieces: a view and section of the frigate La Décade, and a deportee burial scene in a cemetery in the Konanama desert in French Guiana. The author was deported to Cayenne for three years. Hinges and caps skillfully restored.
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