17.
Enquiry into the causes of the insurrection of S
t. Domingo.
An Inquiry into the causes of the insurrection of the negroes in the Island of St. Domingo. To which are added, observations
of M. Garran-Coulon on the same subject, read in his absence by M. Guadet, before the National Assembly, 29th Feb. 1792.
London: printed:
Philadelphia: reprinted and sold by
Joseph Crukshank,
1792.
22 leaves including the title and half-title, the last 2 for the Appendix.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Sabin 75135.
Evans 24426.
Hazard, page xxiv.
Bissainthe 6250.
Jean Philippe Garran-Coulon, 1749-1816, published his
Rapport sur l’insurrection des nègres de Saint-Domingue
in 1791.
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18.
Reflexions sur les revolñs de 1688. & 10. Aout 1792. par Condorcet.
CONDORCET,
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de.
Réflexions sur la Révolution de 1688, & sur celle du 10 Août 1792. Par Condorcet. [Imprimé à
Dunkerque
1792.]
10 leaves with sig. A, caption title, imprint at the end.
Several leaves in this copy unopened.
This edition not in Quérard. Tourneux 3408.
For another edition see no. 2671.
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J. 128
d
o.
[Pamphlets.
French.
] 92
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 101. no. 142, Pamphlets, French, 1792, 8vo.
Thirty-four pamphlets on the French Revolution bound together in one volume, 8vo., half sheep. [
sic--
Ed.] later labels on the back lettered
Political /
Pamphlets. /
Vol. 10. / With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
JA36 .P8 vol. 10
The pamphlets are numbered on the first pages in ink, from 1-30; those omitted in the numbering have been given
a and
b numbers at a later date, which arrangement has been retained in this catalogue.
For Jefferson’s detailed account of the French Revolution, which he witnessed, see his autobiography.
1. LOUIS XVI.
Discours du Roi à l’Assemblée Nationale, suivi de sa proposition de Guerre; avec le rapport du ministre des affaires étrangères.
Déclaration de Guerre.
[
Paris:] de l’Imprimerie du
Patriote François,
20 avril 1792.
8 leaves, imprint at the end, on the first page of text a woodcut, the “Logotachigraphe”.
The
Discours was
prononcé a l’assemblée nationale le 20 avril 1792; suivi du rapport fait au Conseil du Roi par le Ministre des Affaires etrangères
. . . copiés d’après les procédés inventés par E. F. Guiraut, de Bordeaux
.
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2. BERTRAND DE MOLLEVILLE,
Antoine François, marquis de.
Dénonciation faite au Tribunal correctionel par M. Bertrand de Molleville, Ministre d’État, contre le Sieur Carra, journaliste.
4 leaves, caption title, no title-page and no imprint. Signed and dated at the end:
Bertrand, Ministre d’Etat, Paris, le 12 mai 1792.
1792 written in ink on the first page (cut into), probably by Jefferson.
Antoine François, Marquis de Bertrand de Molleville, 1744-1818, held various ministerial offices under Louis XVI. He was hostile to the principles of the Revolution.
Jean Louis Carra, 1743-1793, journalist, was député de Saône-et-Loire at the Convention. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the Revolution,
and the editor of the
Annales Politiques
. His connection with the Girondins brought about his condemnation and execution in 1793.
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