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18067234Mexico City: Juan López Cancelada en la oficina de Mariano de Zuniga y Ontiveros 1806. First Mexican edition and first with the plates. Quarto 20.5 x 14.8 cm pp 4 1-10 1-18 2 19-106 with frontispiece and nine engraved plates. The plates are by Jose Simon de Larrea and Manuel Lopez Lopez and consist of portraits of the leaders of this famous slave revolt and some scenes of the atrocities committed. The rebellion against French rule in Haiti St. Domingue is painted in the worst light part of the French propaganda about this revolt but the facts were indeed grim. Jean-Jacques Dessalines fought alongside L'Ouverture for Haiti’s freedom became the first emperor of the new nation: his bloodthirsty ways were notorious even in his time. The engravers depict their subjects as virtual caricatures of themselves with overly large lips and noses and bulging eyes and engaging in brutal atrocities while the whites are shone in the most humane forms. The plates are unique to this edition and appear nowhere else and have a nightmarish quality. Emperor Maximilian owned a copy of this book. Dubroca the author wrote an equally disparaging life of Toussaint L'Ouverture. The publisher Juan López Cancelada was a Spanish-born emigrant who became a well-known polemicist and political agitator in Mexico: he may well have published this book as a warning about what could happen in Mexico with its huge "caste" population. Binding is contemporary full Mexican tree calf with leather spine label spine gilt marbled endpapers sprinkled edges. The final leaf of text has some old repairs. Very good copy. <br/><br/> Juan López Cancelada en la oficina de Mariano de Zuniga y Ontiveros hardcover books
18053145Leipzig: : bey Johann Conrad Hinrichs 1805. First German edition. In its first blue paper binding. Binding chipped opened at upper front joint. Untrimmed. Pages tanned. First 2 leaves loose. Otherwise in fine condition. First German edition. In its first blue paper binding. The first German translation of the first biography of Jean-Jacques Dessalines the first ruler of an independent Haiti with one of the earliest portraits of the Emperor. <p><br /> First edition in German of Jean-Louis Dubroca’s La vie de J. J. Dessalines originally published in French in Paris 1804. Contains one of the earliest portraits of Dessalines based on the first French edition. <p><br /> Considered the first biography of Jean-Jacques Dessalines c. 1758–1806 a former slave one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution the only successful slave rebellion in history which culminated in the elimination of slavery and the founding of the Republic of Haiti the first independent black republic and the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere in 1804. Dessalines became the first ruler of an independent Haiti as Emperor Jacques I 1804–1806 until being assassinated in 1806 by opponents who resisted his autocratic rule.<p><br /> Written by Jean-Louis Dubroca 1757–1835 who also authored the first biography of Toussaint Louverture as part of the ongoing propaganda of Bonaparte’s regime to vilify the Haiti revolution and its leaders. Both of Dubroca’s biographies were soon published in other languages the present one in German 1805 Leipzig - the present edition Spanish 1805 Madrid; 1806 Mexico and Dutch 1805 Haarlem. <p><br /> Scarce no records in RBH. WorldCat locates only 3 copies in the US NYPL; Berkeley; Harvard in addition a copy is held at the JCB Library. : bey Johann Conrad Hinrichs unknown
18052476Madrid: en la Imprenta Rea 1805. First Spanish edition. In contemporary leather gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. Darker blots on binding. Pages tanned. Wormholes to the lower margin throughout signature G no effect to the text. Otherwise in fine condition. First Spanish edition. In contemporary leather gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. 4 1–132. p. <p><p> <br /> The first Spanish translation of the first biography of Jean-Jacques Dessalines the first ruler of an independent Haiti.<br /> <p><br /> First edition in Spanish of Jean-Louis Dubroca’s La vie de J. J. Dessalines originally published in French in Paris 1804. Considered the first biography of Jean-Jacques Dessalines c. 1758–1806 a former slave one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution the only successful slave rebellion in history which culminated in the elimination of slavery and the founding of the Republic of Haiti the first independent black republic and the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere in 1804. Dessalines became the first ruler of an independent Haiti as Emperor Jacques I 1804–1806 until being assassinated in 1806 by opponents who resisted his autocratic rule.<br /> <p><p> <br /> Written by Jean-Louis Dubroca 1757–1835 who also authored the first biography of Toussaint Louverture as part of the ongoing propaganda of Bonaparte’s regime to vilify the Haiti revolution and its leaders. Both of Dubroca’s biographies were soon published in various other languages the present one in Spanish 1805 Madrid - the present edition; 1806 Mexico Dutch 1805 Haarlem and German 1805 Leipzig. <br /> <p><p> <br /> Extremely scarce WorldCat locates only one copy in the US Howard University and seven in European institutional holding 6 in Spain 6; 1 in Germany. RBH lists no copies. en la Imprenta Rea unknown
1802WRCAM56661Paris: Dubroca Fuchs Veuve Deveaux Rondonneau 1802. 4104pp. plus large folding map partially handcolored. Half title. 12mo. Early 19th-century marbled boards. Boards lightly rubbed bookplate on rear pastedown. Contemporary ownership inscription dated Paris 1804 on half title. Some light toning and soiling heavier to first and last leaf. Very good untrimmed. In a blue half morocco and cloth slipcase and chemise spine gilt. First edition of this exceedingly rare French imprint promoting the possession of Louisiana in the early 19th century. It was published during the brief return of France's control of the territory between the Spanish and American periods of ownership between March and December 1803. The large folding map "Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi avec les Colonies Anglaises" is a revised version of Guillaume Delisle's map first published in 1718. The work includes a history and description of the colony a description of the natives of the area and their customs and the state of commerce in the region. Dubroca who evidently published the work himself argues for a much greater French presence in Louisiana. <br> <br> The Streeter copy was bought by Nebenzahl for $1500 in 1968. SABIN 21028. HOWES D526 "b." STREETER SALE 1572. SIEBERT SALE 682. Dubroca, Fuchs, Veuve Deveaux, Rondonneau hardcover books
