GARRAN DE COULON (Jean-Philippe). Report... - Lot 591 - Rossini

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GARRAN DE COULON (Jean-Philippe). Report... - Lot 591 - Rossini
GARRAN DE COULON (Jean-Philippe). Report on the troubles in Saint-Hubert Domingue, made on behalf of the Colonial, Salvation and Colonial Commission... Public, Legislation and Marine. Paris, de l'Imprimerie nationale, An V-An VII of the Republic. 4 volumes in-8, stapled, untrimmed, in large case modern. Sabin, number 26685. Original edition of this voluminous report printed by order of the National Convention, MOST IMPORTANT AND FULLEST EVER PUBLISHED ON THE REVOLUTION OF SAINT DOMINGUE, since the uprising of black slaves in August 1791 until the general emancipation of blacks in February 1794. For his writing, Jean-Philippe Garran de Coulon (1748-1816), Member of Parliament for the department of Loiret and member of the Colonies Commission, tells us that he he had to devour everything, examining perhaps more than a hundred thousand pieces (!) (t. I, p. 2). The author has placed his book under the abolitionist values by quoting on the back of each title this sentence from the Voyages d'un philosophe by Pierre Poivre (1769): What did the policed Europe, the Europe so enlightened on rights, gain? of humanity, by authorizing by its decrees the daily outrages made to the human nature in our colonies, by allowing the debasement of human beings in the not to look at them absolutely as beasts of burden? COPY BROOCH, AS PUBLISHED, NOT PRUNED. It is complete with errata sheets, and IV general table pages at the end of Volume IV. Volume IV, some pitting and small marginal wetness touching the false title and the title, dirt on the last page, minimal stitching on the side edge. Significant lack of paper on the spine.
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