Georges
Paris, France. Dumont éditeur, 1843.
3 volumes in 8°. Volume I: 330 pages. Volume II: 323 pages. - Volume III: 322 pages. Contemporary half binding in glazed calf. Slight wear to spines. Minor defects to head and foot covers.
Rare first edition of this anti-slavery work, almost the entire edition of which was, it is said, bought by the large West Indian landowners who opposed the abolition of slavery [which was promulgated in 1848].
Copy of Pontchartrain (inscription at the foot of each volume).
Vicaire pages 257 - 258 indicates that it is not in the B. N. F. nor announced in the Bibliographie de France.
Ryckebusch I, 2810: "Extreme rarity of the first edition".
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