Verlag: Duke University Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 0822352885 ISBN 13: 9780822352884
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Zustand: Used - Like New. Fine. Paperback. 2013. Originally published at $30.95.
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Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 101489459X ISBN 13: 9781014894595
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Verlag: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011
ISBN 10: 1241418624 ISBN 13: 9781241418625
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ISBN 10: 1019393610 ISBN 13: 9781019393611
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Verlag: Albion Press Prinmted: Published by James Cundee, London, 1805
Anbieter: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
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Full Description: RAINSFORD, Marcus. An Historical Account if the Black Empire of Hayti. Comprehending a View of the Principal Transactions in the Revolution of Saint Domingo; With its Ancient and Modern State. London: Albion Press Prinmted: Published by James Cundee, 1805. First edition. Quarto (11 x 8 3/4 inches; 280 x 222 mm). xxiii, [1, errata], 467, [1, blank], [9, index], [3, advertisements] pp. Complete with eleven engraved plates including the frontispiece and a two leaf facsimile letter in French of Toussaint Louverture. In addition, there is a folding map and a folding plan. With half-title. Original drab boards, rebacked to style with original printed paper label. Uncut and partially unopened. Boards and spine rubbed and a bit soiled. Paper label is a bit rubbed but still legible. Some foxing and toning, mainly to preliminary leaves. Edges a bit darkend and brittle. Small closed tear to lower margin of plate captioned "View of a Temple", just barly touching caption. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Overall very good. "Marcus Rainsford was a soldier who served for many years with the British Army in the British West Indies. He visited Haiti in 1799, where he became an admirer of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the former slave who led Haiti's revolution and struggle to end slavery. This book is Rainsford's account of the slave uprising that began in August 1791 and the subsequent fighting that, at different times, involved French, Spanish, and British troops and various factions in Haiti. The book includes the first known representations of Toussaint, which were engravings made from Rainsford's sketches and descriptions. Also included are extensive documentation of the revolution and Rainsford's disturbing accounts of the brutal treatment of the slave population by their French masters, as well as of the atrocities committed by all sides in the course of the struggle. Toussaint died in Paris in April 1803, after having been seized by French forces acting under orders from Napoleon Bonaparte, who in 1802 sent an army to Haiti in attempt to reassert French control. Rainsford's wholly admiring account of Toussaint appears in chapter 5 of the work." (Library of Congress). Sabin 67531. HBS 68646. $1,850.
Verlag: Albion Press Printed / Published by James Cundee and Sold by C. Chapple, [London], 1805
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Large quarto. 467, [8], [3] ads pp., half-title present and especially wide-margins. Illustrated, complete with all plates including a folding map of the Island of St. Domingo, frontispiece portrait of "The Author in Conversation with a Private Soldier in the Black Army," a letter by Toussaint Louverture reproduced in holograph facsimile, and several dramatic full-page engraved plates. Rebound in full modern leather with green morocco spine, black morocco boards, titled in gilt on spine and stamped with gilt device on both boards, extra spine label laid in. Contemporary brief ink notation on front flyleaf, original endpapers intact and archivally reinforced along inner hinges of endpapers and a few pages, light foxing on title page and a few pages of plates and text, two-inch chip to corner of one page of text (not affecting printed text), else a handsome and near fine copy, with the text and plates otherwise fresh and clean. An important history of Haiti.
Verlag: Albion Press, London, 1805
Anbieter: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, USA
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hardcover. Zustand: very good. First. Beautifully illustrated with 8 plates, a folding map of Haiti, a folding plan of the city of Cap Francois, and a facsimile. xxiii, errata, 467, 9 page index and 3 pages of advertisements, deckled edges. Scattered foxing with the maps heavily browned. Thick 4to, handsomely rebound in 3/4 black morocco, red leather spine labels. (London): Albion Press, Printed: Published by James Cundee, 1805. First Edition. Very good (+). Internally a tight and bright copy. Among the illustrations are full length portraits of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the author. In 1799, "The Author was a British officer in West Indian service. While on board a Danish vessel, en route from Jamaica to Martinique, he was storm driven to St. Domingo, where he passed as an American to avoid arrest. At Fort Dauphine, some weeks later, he was arrested as a spy and was sentenced to death by court-martial. His release was ordered by Toussaint L'Ouverture, although the latter, according to Rainsford, had divined his true identity." Ragatz, p. 175 note. Brunet IV, 1090.
Verlag: (London), Albion Press und Cundee,, 1805
Anbieter: Antiquariat Werner Steinbeiß, München, Deutschland
Mit gestoch. Frontisp., 8 Kupfertafeln, gefalt. Kupferstichkarte, gefalt. gestoch. Plan und doppelblattgr. Faksimile. XXIII, 467 SS., 6 Bll. (die letzten 3 SS. mit Anzeigen) Etwas gebräunt, teils. fleckig, Erste Ausgabe. - Sabin 67531. - Geschichte der Revolution der französischen Kolonie Haiti, bei der es 1791 unter Führung von Toussaint L?Ouverture und Jean Jacques Dessalines zum Sklavenaufstand kam, der schließlich 1804 zur Unabhängigkeit Haitis führte, Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000 späteres Halbleder mit vergold. Rückentitel, 4°.
Verlag: (London), Albion Press und Cundee,, 1805
Anbieter: Antiquariat Werner Steinbeiß, München, Deutschland
Mit gest. Frontisp., 8 Kupfertafeln, gefalt. Kupferstichkarte, gefalt. gest. Plan und doppelblattgr. Faksimile, XXIII, 467 S., 6 Bl. (die letzten 3 S. mit Anzeigen) Etwas gebräunt, teils fleckig, Erste Ausgabe. - Sabin 67531. - Geschichte der Revolution der französischen Kolonie Haiti, bei der es 1791 unter Führung von Toussaint L`Ouverture und Jean Jacques Dessalines zum Sklavenaufstand kam, der 1804 schließlich zur Unabhängigkeit Haitis führte, Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000 späteres Halbleder mit vergold. Rückentitel, 4°.
Verlag: Albion Press Printed : Published by James Cundee, London, 1805
Anbieter: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, USA
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Hardcover. First Edition. xxiii, [1], 467, [9]pp index + 3pp of publisher's advertisements. Recent deep brown half calf, five raised bands, spine ruled, decorated and lettered in gold. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and eight engraved plates by J. Barlow after drawings by the author, letter facsimile, folding map of the island of St. Domingo, folding plan of the city of Cape Francois as it existed before the revolution. Includes A Succinct historical View of the Colonies of Hispaniola and St. Domingo, Origin of the Revolutionary Spirit of this Period in St. Domingo, Account of the Progress and Accomplishment of the Independence of St. Domingo, State of Manners on the Independence of the Blacks in St. Domingo, View of the Black Army, and of the War between the French Republic and the independent Blacks of St. Domingo, On the Establishment of a Black Empire, and more. Margins very slightly trimmed, faint stain to the verso of the frontispiece, mild toning and foxing to text block. A near fine copy. Sabin 67531. Brunet V.1090. ; Quarto.