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Guillaume-Thomas Raynal

Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Établissements et du Commerce des Européens dans les Deux Indes, 1780

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Geneva, Pellet, 1780. In 4th. 5 vols (including the Atlas). With 4 plates and the portrait of the author in the front door of a subsequent edition glued to the guard paper in the 1st vol., With numerous tables folded into the text, light browning, some sporadic flowering, half leather binding with corners, title imprinted in gold within smooth back gusset, slight defects. Contropiatto ex libris. The textual part is accompanied by the volume of the Atlas de toutes les parties connues du Globe Terrestre , & nbsp; s.l., s.e., s.d. [c.ca 1780]. In 4 °, pp. 4 n.n., 28, with 50 geographical maps by R. Bonne numbered from 1 to 49 and 17 bis, 23 statistical tables of which many folded, some papers with light browning, rare and light blooms Contemporary binding in rigid cardboard, edges and corners worn , flaws in the hinges, some slight halo to the plates. Paper ex libris on the counterplate.



Specialist Notes

Pillar of anti-colonial thought and anti-slavery of the century. XVIII by Father Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, French religious and historian. Published anonymously in 1770, it was reprinted by Abbe Raynal in 1772 and put on the index. In 1780 the third edition was published in two formats by the same publisher. The tones are even more controversial than the previous editions and the author claimed authorship by having his portrait printed in the first volume. The copies of this third edition were publicly burned by the Parliament of Paris and Raynal was forced to flee to avoid arrest. The volumes are accompanied by an atlas with 50 geographic maps with different binding.

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