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[AYMÉ, Jean-Jacques].
See original version (French)
186
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[AYMÉ, Jean-Jacques].
See original version (French)
Estimate
€120 - €220
Voluntary lot
Description
[AYMÉ, Jean-Jacques].
THE DEPORTATION AND SHIPWRECK OF J. J. AYMÉ, former Member of Parliament, followed by an account of the lives and deaths of the deportees upon his departure from French Guiana, with some observations on that colony and on the Black people.
PARIS, MARADAN, undated (1800).
One volume, in-8 (20 x 13 cm), comprising 269 pp., (1) p., (13) ff., in a full contemporary binding in speckled calfskin. Smooth, decorated and gilt spine bearing the gilt title, decorated and gilt edges, marbled edges. Engraved portrait pasted onto the first leaf. Armorial ex-libris vignette.
First edition of his account of his deportation to French Guiana following the coup d’état of 18 Fructidor 1797. Member of the Council of Five Hundred representing the Drôme. He also recounts his escape and the shipwreck off the Scottish coast of the vessel that was taking him back to France. This account concludes with a list of the deportees embarked on the various ships in 1798 and 1799. Chadenat, 2775–Sabin, 2521.
A fine copy.
See original version (French)
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ID: 89078093
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