
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: