Statistique générale et particulière de la France et de ses Colonies, avec une nouvelle description topographique, physique, agricole, politique, industrielle et commerciale de cet état; etc.. - Atlas seul[General and particular statistics of France and its Colonies, with a new topographical, physical, agricultural, political, industrial and commercial description of this state; etc. – Atlas only]
Atlas volume only from this important 8-volume work, produced within the broader movement to generalize the use of statistics initiated by ministers François de Neufchâteau and subsequently Chaptal.
Contemporary half flexible paper boards, smooth spine without lettering in blue cloth, marbled paper-covered boards with a printed title label of the period to the centre of the upper cover, spine restored.
Marginal dampstaining to the boards, occasional spotting or soiling to the margins of some leaves.
Herbin, who coordinated the work, draws upon official data that prefects were required to supply for this purpose.
This volume, in accordance with the table of contents, comprises 13 tables relating to population, imports and exports, trade and navigation, colonial commodities and colonial trade in general, the general state of the Black population, etc., and 9 engraved maps by Tardieu, after J.B. Poisson, with contemporary hand-colouring:
- Physical map of inland navigation in France...
- - Map of the Antilles - Map of Saint-Domingue
- - Map of French and Dutch Guiana
- - Map of Africa
- - Map of the western coast of Africa...
- - Map of India
- - Gulf of Mexico (sic) Course of the Mississippi including Louisiana, the two Floridas, part of the United States and adjacent territories.
- Followed by 55 pages devoted to the mines of France, with tables and a general summary of mineral production.