[Caribbean. Slavery] Histoire civile et commerciale des colonies anglaises dans les Indes Occidentales

(...). Traduit de l'Anglais de Bryan Edouard. Paris, Dentu, an IX (1801). viii,490 pp. With folding engraved map of the Caribbean and Central America. Quarter leather with gilt spine, gilt title on letterpiece.

Half title with mounted strip with bookseller's address and lacking small piece from head margin (no loss to text); boards and leather spine worn, some dam. to leather. First French translation of the work written in English in 1793 by Bryan Edwards, owner of a sugar cane plantation in Jamaica and an abolitionist. Several chapters are devoted to slave trade and slavery on sugar cane plantations.