Paris: P. G. Simon, Imprimeur du Parlement, 1777. First edition. With woodcut head piece. 4 p. Royal act regarding the property of the minors in French India (Établissements français dans l’Inde). More

A Paris: De L’Imprimerie Royale, 1790. First edition. Imprint from colophon. With a woodcut headpiece above title. Published unbound. 4 p. The law about the French Tricolor, the birth of the French flag. The royal, Paris edition. The Revolution of 1789 led to the need for a new... 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: 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

Paris: F. Champenois, Imprimeur-Éditeur (Gravé par A. Simon), (1909). First edition.With a mounted photographic advertisement of the Tesseron distillery at Châteauneuf-sur-Charente. In publisher’s folder. 720 × 620 mm. In May 1909 a very precise definition of the outer boundaries of the cognac region and the appellation control (appellation d'origine contrôlée)..... 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

(Paris?): (S.n.), 1826. First edition. Published unbound. Attached with string. 32 p. Report of the special commission for inspecting the distribution of the indemnity payed by Haiti for the former French settlers after gaining her independence. The members of commission were Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis (1764–1830), marquis de Lally-Tollendal (1751–1830), Emmanuel..... More

[S.l.]: [s.n.], [n.d., but after August 27 1516]. First edition. Title page with large woodcut illustration showing the King on his throne surrounded by the delegates. In Bastarda type, with two floral woodcut initials. In later hard paper. Gilt title vignette on spine, damaged. [20] p. A bibliographically unrecorded, early... More

A Paris: Chez tous les marchands de nouveautés de l’Imprimerie de Jacques Cot, Prairial. – An VI. [1798]. First edition. In contemporary blue paper. (5), II–III, (2), 2–148 p. Although Sabin describes Les veillées de Cayenne as a “large collection of proclamations, laws, and orders issued at Cayenne, between 1790–1797”..... More

[Paris]: De l'Imprimerie de L. Potier de Lille, rue Favart, no. 5, 1791. First edition, with the four-page addendum. In later cardboard, covered with marbled paper. Red leather, gilt title vignette on spine. (7), 4–31, (1) p. Tausia-Bournos’ letter to the Colonial Committee (pp. [3]–[5].) and his treatise about the... More

[S.l.]: [S.n.], (1771?). First edition. Published unbound. Stitched. 44, (4) p. A fictional correspondence between R** and T*** “deux Américaines originaires du Port-au-Prince dans l'Isle de S. Domingue. Le premier réside a Paris depuis quelques années” (two Americans from Port-au-Prince on the island of Saint-Domingue. The first lives in Paris..... More