[Esclavage]. [CHAMBON]. Le commerce de l'Amérique par Marseille ou explication des lettres-patentes du Roi, portant reglement pour le Commerce qui se fait de Marseille aux Isles Françoises de l'Amérique, données au mois de Février 1719. Et des Lettre

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  3. [Esclavage]. [CHAMBON]. Le commerce de l'Amérique par Marseille ou explication des lettres-patentes du Roi, portant reglement pour le Commerce qui se fait de Marseille aux Isles Françoises de l'Amérique, données au mois de Février 1719. Et des Lettre
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[Esclavage]. [CHAMBON]. Le commerce de l'Amérique par Marseille ou explication des lettres-patentes du Roi, portant reglement pour le Commerce qui se fait de Marseille aux Isles Françoises de l'Amérique, données au mois de Février 1719. Et des Lettre
[Slavery]. [CHAMBON]. Le commerce de l'Amérique par Marseille ou explication des lettres-patentes du Roi, portant reglement pour le Commerce qui se fait de Marseille aux Isles Françoises de l'Amérique, données au mois de Février 1719. And of the Letters-Patents of the King, for the freedom of the Trade in the Coast of Guinea, Given in Paris in January 1716. With the regulations that the said trade has caused. In Avignon, s.n., 1764. 2 volumes in-4, [4] f., 615 p. + [4] f., 618 p., [1] f. (errata), front, pl, contemporary speckled tan calf, spine with five raised bands, title-pieces in garnet and green bronze basane, decorated boards, edges red (rubs, tears in two headpieces, two other bindings repaired as well as corners, worms on the boards not serious; front board of t.2 browned and stained, sporadic moderate russeting and browning). First edition of this guide to trade with America, intended for traders. Rich in information on the commodities produced by the French colonies, their exploitation, exchanges of all kinds, it also offers a detailed picture of slavery and the slave trade. In volume 2, almost entirely devoted to Guinea and the slave trade, there is an entire chapter in which the author virulently questions the equality of men as defined by Voltaire (p. 437-486). "An important work for the colonial history of America, containing all the French laws, ordinances, etc., for the colonial and slave trade. In vol.II is a curious account (with plates) of the "Culture et usage du coton", the production of sugar, etc. "(Sabin). "The most important work on the subject" (Chadenat). The illustration consists of 10 maps (9 and one repeated) and 12 plates, and a repeated frontispiece, all engraved on copper. The maps represent mainly America, in particular the West Indies, Louisiana, but also Cayenne and the coast of Guinea; the plates show products (cocoa, ginger, sugar cane, coffee), and various scenes, including turtle fishing and a slave market. (Sabin, 11812; Leclerc, 113; Chadenat, 270).
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