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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
1802314211Paris: Dubroca et Bonneville 1802. First edition. Frontispiece portrait by Bonneville. iv 74 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Mid-nineteenth century green cloth front cover stamped with gilt arms of Ernest Augustus I of Hanover 1771-1851 and his ink stamps on half-title and title. Fine. First edition. Frontispiece portrait by Bonneville. iv 74 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. First edition of one of the first biographies of the Haitian revolutionary general Toussaint-Louverture 1743-1803 published in the year before his death. A profoundly anti-revolutionary and colonialist work which portrays Toussaint-Louverture as violent duplicitous and tyrannical: "Au moment où le voile est entièrement déchiré sur l'hypocrisie profonde et sur les projets ambitieux de Toussaint-Louverture; au moment où le trahison de ce chef de noirs est consommée . quel Français ne lira pas avec intérêt la vie de cet homme ." <br/><br/>The author Jean-Louis Dubroca was hired by Napoleon's regime to produce this propagandistic and counter-revolutionary work prior to the French army's attempt to repress the Haitian slave revolt. The portrait by Bonneville is apocryphal - no portraits from life of Toussaint-Louverture exist - but is similar to the portrait in Charles Yves Cousin d'Avallon's Histoire de Toussaint-Louverture Paris 1802. <br/><br/>"Many biographies of Louverture have appeared in the past two centuries although most of them recycled oral traditions or previous secondary works. The first full-length biography which attacked Louverture as a pro-independence traitor to France was Louis Dubroca La vie de Toussaint Louverture ." Girard Toussaint-Louverture: A Revolutionary Life p. 321. Among Dubroca's many other works are a Louisiana travelogue Paris 1802 and biographies of Napoleon Paris 1802 and Dessalines Paris 1804 leader of the Haitian revolution following Toussaint-Louverture's death in a Paris prison in 1803. <br/><br/>English editions of the present work were published in 1802 in London and Charleston South Carolina - a town to which many white Haitians had fled during the revolution - as well as editions in Dutch Danish Swedish and German. Quérard II 613; Sabin 21030; Palau 76339; Streeter sale 4133; Martin & Walter 11283; Cundall 434a; M. Dict. de bib. haitienne 5540 Dubroca et Bonneville unknown books
18021336372Walpole N.H.: Printed for Thomas & Thomas by D. Newhall 1802. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii 276 pages; VG; bound in full calf rebacked with new spine morocco label with gilt titling; moderate rubbing and wear to boards; mild age-toning and foxing; creasing to upper fore corner of page 83/84; shelved case 7. Translation of 'Histoire de Bonaparte premier consul.';. 1336372. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Printed for Thomas & Thomas, by D. Newhall hardcover books
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
