Le commerce de l'Amérique par Marseille, ou explication des Lettres-Patentes du Roi, portant Reglement pour le Commerce qui se fait de Marseille aux Isles Françoises de l'Amérique, données au mois de Février 1719. Et des Lettres-Patentes du Roi, pour la liberté du Commerce à la Côte de Guinée, données à Paris au mois de Janvier 1716. Avec les reglemens que ledit commerce a occasionnés, par un Citadin

First edition of this important work on Marseille's colonial trade, published anonymously in Avignon in 1764 under the designation "par un Citadin" [by a Citizen]. The work has long been attributed to Chambon, described by the Bibliothèque nationale as a collector for the royal tax farms, while Barbier identifies him as a receiver-general of finances.

Two volumes, quarto. Volume I: engraved title, 4 unnumbered leaves comprising title, advertisement and table of chapters, 615 pp., with errata on the verso of the final page, 7 maps and 7 plates. Volume II: engraved title, 4 unnumbered leaves comprising title, advertisement and table of chapters, 618 pp., one unnumbered errata leaf, 3 maps and 5 plates.

The entirely copper-engraved illustration comprises two allegorical engraved title-pages signed "Arrivet inv. et Sculpsit", ten maps, nine of them folding, and twelve plates. The maps depict North and South America, with the former repeated in the second volume, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue, Cayenne and its surroundings, Louisiana and the coast of Guinea. The plates accompany discussions of colonial products and their exploitation, including sugar cane, cotton, tobacco and cocoa, sugar mills and indigo works, as well as technical devices and processes, turtle fishing and scenes of commerce, among them a slave market.

Modern bindings in period style, half mottled tan sheep over brown paper-covered boards, spines with five raised bands framed by gilt garlands and decorated with double gilt compartments, red edges. Minor black ink stains to the edges of the first volume. An attractive copy.

The entirely copper-engraved illustration comprises two allegorical engraved title-pages signed "Arrivet inv. et Sculpsit", ten maps, nine of them folding, and twelve plates. The maps depict North and South America, with the former repeated in the second volume, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue, Cayenne and its surroundings, Louisiana and the coast of Guinea. The plates accompany discussions of colonial products and their exploitation, including sugar cane, cotton, tobacco and cocoa, sugar mills and indigo works, as well as technical devices and processes, turtle fishing and scenes of commerce, among them a slave market.

Modern bindings in period style, half mottled tan sheep over brown paper-covered boards, spines with five raised bands framed by gilt garlands and decorated with double gilt compartments, red edges. Minor black ink stains to the edges of the first volume. An attractive copy.

First edition of this important work on Marseille's colonial trade, published anonymously in Avignon in 1764 under the designation "par un Citadin" [by a Citizen]. The work has long been attributed to Chambon, described by the Bibliothèque nationale as a collector for the royal tax farms, while Barbier identifies him as a receiver-general of finances.

Two volumes, quarto. Volume I: engraved title, 4 unnumbered leaves comprising title, advertisement and table of chapters, 615 pp., with errata on the verso of the final page, 7 maps and 7 plates. Volume II: engraved title, 4 unnumbered leaves comprising title, advertisement and table of chapters, 618 pp., one unnumbered errata leaf, 3 maps and 5 plates.

The entirely copper-engraved illustration comprises two allegorical engraved title-pages signed "Arrivet inv. et Sculpsit", ten maps, nine of them folding, and twelve plates. The maps depict North and South America, with the former repeated in the second volume, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue, Cayenne and its surroundings, Louisiana and the coast of Guinea. The plates accompany discussions of colonial products and their exploitation, including sugar cane, cotton, tobacco and cocoa, sugar mills and indigo works, as well as technical devices and processes, turtle fishing and scenes of commerce, among them a slave market.

Modern bindings in period style, half mottled tan sheep over brown paper-covered boards, spines with five raised bands framed by gilt garlands and decorated with double gilt compartments, red edges. Minor black ink stains to the edges of the first volume. An attractive copy.First edition of this important work on Marseille's colonial trade, published anonymously in Avignon in 1764 under the designation "par un Citadin" [by a Citizen]. The work has long been attributed to Chambon, described by the Bibliothèque nationale as a collector for the royal tax farms, while Barbier identifies him as a receiver-general of finances.

Two volumes, quarto. Volume I: engraved title, 4 unnumbered leaves comprising title, advertisement and table of chapters, 615 pp., with errata on the verso of the final page, 7 maps and 7 plates. Volume II: engraved title, 4 unnumbered leaves comprising title, advertisement and table of chapters, 618 pp., one unnumbered errata leaf, 3 maps and 5 plates.

The entirely copper-engraved illustration comprises two allegorical engraved title-pages signed "Arrivet inv. et Sculpsit", ten maps, nine of them folding, and twelve plates. The maps depict North and South America, with the former repeated in the second volume, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue, Cayenne and its surroundings, Louisiana and the coast of Guinea. The plates accompany discussions of colonial products and their exploitation, including sugar cane, cotton, tobacco and cocoa, sugar mills and indigo works, as well as technical devices and processes, turtle fishing and scenes of commerce, among them a slave market.

Modern bindings in period style, half mottled tan sheep over brown paper-covered boards, spines with five raised bands framed by gilt garlands and decorated with double gilt compartments, red edges. Minor black ink stains to the edges of the first volume. An attractive copy.