EDWARDS (Bryan). Histoire civile et commerciale des colonies - Lot 67

EDWARDS (Bryan). Histoire civile et commerciale des colonies anglaises dans les Indes occidentales, depuis leur découverte par Christophe Colomb jusqu'à nos jours ; suivie d'un tableau historique et politique de l'île de Saint-Domingue avant et depuis la Révolution française. Paris, Dentu, An IX (1801). In-8, VIII, 490, 8 pp. half calf, smooth spine, title page (contemporary binding). (Rubbed). First edition of the French translation. Illustrated with an engraved fold-out map of the West Indies. Bryan Edwards, an English historian, left for Jamaica and later became an influential member of the island's Colonial Assembly. A moderate supporter of the emancipation of the colony's blacks, he returned to England, became a member of Parliament and pleaded the colonists' cause before this assembly on several occasions. (Monglond, V, 659; Sabin, 21902 (for the second edition)).