A STATISTICAL ACCOUNT AND POLITICAL DESCRIPTION OF VENEZUELA, MARGARITA, AND TOBAGO: CONTAINING VARIOUS ANECDOTES AND OBSERVATIONS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF THESE COUNTRIES....
Dauxion-Lavayasse, Jean François:
London. 1820. xxxix,[1],479pp. plus folding map. Contemporary three quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt- stamped spine. Neat armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Internally bright and clean. An excellent copy. Lacks the half title. First London edition, after the original French edition of two volumes published in 1813, with unfavorable comments about the British removed by the British editor. "The author sailed from France in 1791 at the age of 18 to visit an uncle in Guadeloupe. The latter died soon after the young man's arrival and our writer, left without resources, fled to Trinidad upon the outbreak of revolution in the French Antilles and became a resident planter there. He subsequently departed from that island after it passed under British control, going first to the United States and later to France...Gives a splendid picture of life in Trinidad from 1792 to 1806 and contains useful commercial and production statistics" - Ragatz. The folding map depicts the northern part of South America. SABIN 18674. RAGATZ, p.222. PALAU 13228. MAGGS 612:422.
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