Haiti

1792 · WRCAM45082 — Philadelphia 1792. 32pp. Bound with ten other titles detailed below. Contemporary marbled boards neatly rebacked in antique-style half calf gilt leather label. Contemporary manuscript contents list on front pastedown contemporary ownership inscription on fly leaf. Light foxing throughout. Very good. Fourth edition with notes and an appendix extracted from authentic original papers. An important narrative of the Haitian Revolution of 1791 recounting the many violent and brutal events to which the inhabitants were subject. The author writes: "At this time one hundred thousand negroes were in rebellion and all the buildings and plantations of more than half the Northern province appeared only as one general conflagration." <br> <br> This work is bound with ten other early American imprints primarily sermons as detailed below: <br> <br> 1 Aufrer Anthony: THE CANNIBALS' PROGRESS; OR THE DREADFUL HORRORS OF FRENCH INVASION. Newburyport Ma.: Edmund M. Blunt 1798. 351pp. EVANS 33332. <br> <br> 2 Gifford John: A LETTER TO THE HON. THOMAS ERSKINE. Philadelphia. 1797. 128pp. Lacks titlepage and second leaf. EVANS 32191. <br> <br> 3 Tappan David: A DISCOURSE DELIVERED TO THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY IN BRATTLE-STREET BOSTON. Boston. 1798. 31pp. Half title. Second edition. EVANS 34628. <br> <br> 4 M'Keen Joseph: TWO DISCOURSES DELIVERED AT BEVERLY ON THE DAY OF THE NATIONAL FAST MAY 9 1798. Salem Ma.: Thomas C. Cushing 1798. 31pp. Half title. EVANS 34039. <br> <br> 5 Prince John: A DISCOURSE DELIVERED AT SALEM ON THE DAY OF THE NATIONAL FAST MAY 9 1798. Salem Ma.: Thomas C. Cushing 1798. 44pp. Half title. EVANS 34414. <br> <br> 6 Osgood David: SOME FACTS EVINCIVE OF THE ATHEISTICAL ANARCHICAL AND IN OTHER RESPECTS IMMORAL PRINCIPLES OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC STATED IN A SERMON DELIVERED ON THE 9th OF MAY 1798. Boston. 1798. 27pp. Half title. EVANS 34284. <br> <br> 7 Thayer John: A DISCOURSE DELIVERED AT THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN BOSTON ON THE 9th OF MAY 1798. Boston. 1798. 31pp. Half title. EVANS 34646. PARSONS 196. WALGREN 417. <br> <br> 8 Tappan David: A DISCOURSE DELIVERED IN THE CHAPEL OF HARVARD COLLEGE JUNE 19 1798. Boston. 1798. 28pp. EVANS 34629. <br> <br> 9 Eckley Joseph: A DISCOURSE DELIVERED ON THE PUBLIC THANKSGIVING DAY NOVEMBER 29 1798. Boston. 1798. 23pp. Half title. EVANS 33664. <br> <br> 10 Morse Jedediah: A SERMON PREACHED AT CHARLESTOWN NOVEMBER 19 1798 ON THE ANNIVERSARY THANKSGIVING IN MASSACHUSETTS. Boston. 1798. 746pp. With the six pages included in the appendix of the second edition printed separately for those who purchased the first edition. EVANS 34151 34152. EVANS 24766. hardcover books