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GUILLERMIN Gilbert Journal historique de la Révolution de la partie de l’est de Saint-Domingue, commencée le 10 août 1808 avec des notes statistiques sur cette partie.

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Philadelphie, Lafourcade, 1810

8vo (211 x 130 mm) 4 nn.ll. including a portrait, XII, 314 pp., errata leaf and a folding table. Contemporary blue half-calf, flat spine gilt (some wear, front hinge partly split).

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1800,00 

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Rats as part of the daily diet

Leclerc, 1286 ; Sabin, 498.

First edition.

Guillermin was a member of the general headquarters of the colonial army in the Dominican Republic. Dedicated to Count Decrès, then minister of the Marine, the author gives detailed accounts of the price of various foods during the revolution. The folding table gives prices for bread, meat, sugar, oil, etc. and indicates that "rats, although not traded as meat, were eagerly consumed when possible".

Some occasional foxing, some light wear to the binding.

Fom the library of J.P. Alaux (book plate).

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