A Paris: de l’Imprimerie Nationale Exécutive du Louvre, An II.e de la République [1794]. First edition printed in Paris. Published unbound. 2 [2 (blank)] p. The first official printing of the Law of 4 February 1794, the decree enacting the first general abolition of slavery in the modern world... More

Issued and signed by Georges-René Le Pelley de Pléville, the Minister of Colonies. Dated on November 21, 1797 (1e Frimaire, an 6 de la République française). One page printed and written document with the headline of the “Marine et Colonies. Administration des Colonies”. Temporary citizenship is given to the Saint-Domingue..... 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

Saint-Marc: 24 April 1790. Manuscript on paper. 1 leaf, written in a clear secretarial hand on both sides, signed by Bacon La Chevalerie, Hanus de Jumécourt, Valentin de Cullion, de Bourcel, Vincendon Dutour, and Guerin (?) (secretary). 2 pp. Signed manuscript document from the escalating confrontation between the colonial Assembly..... More

[Paris]: [Imprimerie Nationale], [1791]. First edition. Bound in later hardpaper boards covered with pastepaper, spine with red gilt leather title vignette. 18 [2 (blank)] p. Official report on the 1786 “Commission de Tabago,” an extraordinary tribunal established to examine debts between British creditors and settlers after the French conquest 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

Paris: Chez Clousier, Imprimeur du Roi, (1789 or 1790). First edition. In later half leather, spine gilt. Bound by Claude Honnelaitre. Some pages misbound, but complete. 16 p. Cocherel's paper concerning the importation of American grain to Saint-Domingue to alleviate famine. In his pamphlet Nicolas-Robert Cocherel (1741–1826) an early..... More

Paris: Imprimerie de Mme veuve Agasse, (1826). First edition. Published unbound. 12 p. Benjamin Constant’s speech regarding a draft law related to the Haiti indemnity. After the successful slave rebellion of Saint-Domingue which culminated in the elimination of slavery and the founding of the Republic of Haiti it took..... More

[Côte-d’Or]: [1793]. Côte-d’Or imprint, dated in Paris 21 June 1793. Folio broadside (ca. 27 × 20 cm), printed on one leaf, verso with official manuscript certifications and signatures. Unbound, as issued. Rare Revolutionary decree regulating the status and military integration of Caribbean refugees during the Haitian Revolution. Official decree..... 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

Bourg du Cul-de-Sac, Saint-Domingue, January 11, 1703. Four-page manuscript notarial act, bifolio (approx. 35 × 23 cm), written in brown ink on laid paper, signed by the notary Perigny and the royal counselor Vernoy. With contemporary marginal notes, including a concise summary of the transaction. A rare 1703 notarial act..... More

Boston: Printed by F. Ingraham, No. 34, Congress Street, 1830. First edition. Bound by sewing, with no wrappers, as published. 85, (1), L [50], (2) p. Reprinted documents of the legal case of John Dodge versus Thomas H. Perkins related to an unpaid interest on a loan paid for the..... More