Voyage à Cayenne, dans les deux Amériques, et chez les antropophages [sic]. Ouvrage orné de gravures, contenant le tableau général des déportés, la vie et les causes de l'exil de l'auteur ; des notions particulières sur Collot et Billaud, sur les îles Séchelles et les déportés de nivôse, sur la religion, le commerce et les moeurs des sauvages, des noirs, des créoles et des quakers

First edition of this important first-hand account of the deportation and enforced stay in French Guiana of the counter-revolutionary journalist and songwriter Louis-Ange Pitou (1767–1846), placed under “preventive” arrest after the Directory’s coup d’état of 18 Fructidor, Year V [4 September 1797], sentenced to transportation, and released from exile only after 18 Brumaire (cf. Fierro, 1170. Sabin 63057. Leclerc 3445.)

The work is illustrated with two folding engraved frontispieces: La détention des déportés sur la frégate La Décade and Le désert de Konanama dans la Guyane.

Contemporary bindings in fawn calf, half-bound with small vellum corners, smooth spines decorated with dentelle tools and double gilt fillets, cherry morocco lettering- and volume-labels, with an inlaid green morocco piece on the volume labels, some rubbing to the spines, marbled paper boards, speckled edges; period bindings.

A pleasing copy preserved in its contemporary bindings.