PITOU (Louis-Ange). Trip to Cayenne, in the... - Lot 132 - Richard Maison de ventes

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PITOU (Louis-Ange). Trip to Cayenne, in the... - Lot 132 - Richard Maison de ventes
PITOU (Louis-Ange). Trip to Cayenne, in the two Americas, and among the anthropophagi. The book is decorated with engravings, containing the general picture of the deportees, the life and causes of the exile of the author; particular notions about Collot and Billaud, about the Dry Islands and the deportees of Nivose, about the religion, the trade and the customs of the savages, the blacks, the Creoles and the Quakers. By Louis-Ange PITOU, deported to Cayenne for three years, by judgment of the criminal court of the department of the Seine, and given back his freedom by letters of grace from His Majesty the Emperor. Paris, chez l'Auteur et tous les Marchands de Nouveautes, An XIII- 1805. 2 volumes. 12 par 19,5 cm. 60-312; 404 pages. Brown half-basane, period binding; one split bit, two skinned caps, one piece of title missing. Some slight browning on the first pages of volume 1. 2 serious folding frontispieces, representing a view and section of the frigate La Décade, and a scene of the burial of deportees in a cemetery in the Konanama desert in French Guiana. Original edition of this detailed account of these three years in prison, in a binding that deserves to be restored.
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