Basse-Terre: Imprimerie de la République; Imprimerie du Gouvernement; Cabre, 1803–1805. First editions. In contemporary leather. Spine gilt, with red title vignette (“Mémoire”). A collection of fourteen early and unrecorded imprints of legal briefs dated and printed between 1803 and 1805 in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe. Each of the..... More

Habana: Imp. de G. Montiel y Comp., Calle de la Amargura, num. 36. 1878. In contemporary half leather. 280, 35 [1] p. First edition of the first catalog of Cuban mollusks. Contribucion a la Fauna Malacologica Cubana was written by the most notable Cuban malacologist of all time Rafael Arango..... More

Aix: Imprimerie de la Vauve d’André Adibert, Imprimeur du Roi & du Départment, vis-à-vis le College, 1791. First edition. With a woodcut head piece. Published unbound. 3, (1) p. Law by the National Assembly concerning the legislation at Saint-Domingue and the rights of the colonial assembly and the governor of..... More

Paris: Libraire de Charles Gosselin (Imprimerie de Gueffier), 15 Janvier 1825. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Bound with sewing. Uncut. (4), (1)–40 p. Billecocq's advocacy of the finances of the French colonies in America, Guadeloupe and Martinique. Jean Baptiste Louis Joseph Billecocq (1875–1829) was an French advocate renown..... More

Paris: F. Bonneville del el Sculp, [1794]. Framed. Papar size: ca. 15 × 20 cm. Important public propaganda images commemorating the abolition of slavery in France in 1794. The abolition of slavery in Saint Domingue in 1793, a major achievement of the slave revolt, the Haitian Revolution, the..... More

1 page document. Ca. 1802–1803. Written both sides. Signed by Boyer. With the stamp of “État Major Général de l’Armee de St. Domingue”. List of the the deceased officers of the French Army during the Saint-Domingue expedition. Signed by the Brigadier General, the Chief of Stuff Pierre François Joseph Boyer..... More

Paris: Baudouin, Imprimeur de l’Assemblée Nationale, (1790). First edition. Published unbound. 2, (2) p. Official order to commemorate the decree of March 8, 1790 with festivities. The decree of the National Assembly on March 8, 1790 granted full legislative powers to the Colonial Assembly, gave Saint-Domingue and all French..... More

A Paris: Chez Baudouin, Imprimeur de L’Assemblée Nationale, rue du Foin Saint-Jacques, No. 31. 1789. First edition. Published unbound. 15, (1) p. Curt’s proposal to establish a committee of twenty members, who composes constitutions for the French colonies. Louis de Court (1722 or 1752 – ca. 1805) who..... More

Port-de-France [Nouméa]: Imprimerie du Gouvernement. 1865. Two separate sheets. Printed on silk. Framed with light blue silk ribbon frame (papered on verso). Silk sheet size: ca. 33 × 44,5 cm; frame: 2 cm. The programme and the results of the first horse races in New Caledonia took place on August..... More

Stockholm: tryckt hos Carl Delén, 1802. First Swedish edition. 87, [1] p. First edition of the Swedish translation of the first biography of the “Black Napoleon” Toussaint-Louverture. François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803) was an ex-slave, the best-known and the most successful black commanders of the Haitian Revolution, the only successful..... More

[Paris]: Testu, [1792]. First edition. In contemporary paper. Tinted edges. Ornamented with a woodcut head-piece. (2), (2), (1)–87, (1), (1)–4, (1)–12, 15 bis–16 bis, 13–24 p. The French general, Jacques François Dugommier’s memoir about the civil war in Martinique which broke out in 1790. With addresses of gratitude, that were..... More

(Paris?): (S.n.), 1826. First edition. Published unbound. Attached with string. 46, (2) p. Comte de Kergorlay’s (1769–1856) speech concerning the “Haiti Indemnity” at the Chamber of Peers on April 19, 1826. After the successful slave rebellion of Saint-Domingue which culminated in the elimination of slavery and the founding..... More

At the Headquarters of Le Cap (Au Quartier-général du Cap): Dated on 18 vendémiaire an 11 de la République française (October 10, 1802). With printed heading “Armee de Saint-Domingue, le General en Chef. Liberté, Égalité.”. Signed by Leclerc. 1 bifolio, 2 handwritten pages. Leclerc’s orders about the defence of the..... More