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Lot 277

TOCQUEVILLE (ALEXIS DE)
Rapport... relative aux esclaves des colonies, Paris, A. Henry, 1840; and another report, multiple copies (8)

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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TOCQUEVILLE (ALEXIS DE)

Rapport... relative aux esclaves des colonies, 104pp. [OC, vol. 3, i, pp.41-78; OD 2], January 1840, 3 copies; Rapport... le projet de loi sur les prisons, 128pp. [OC, vol. 4, ii, pp.117-82], July 1843, 5 copies, minor stains but in unsophisticated condition, sewn as issued, 8vo, Paris, A. Henry (8)

Footnotes

The first mentioned item is headed "Réimpression par suite de reprise"; the first edition (BNF only) runs to p.98. OC records publication by the Chambre des Députés as part of their proceedings and "en brochure par les soins de la Société pour l'abolition de l'esclavage". The second item is recorded in WorldCat by an edition "Extrait du Moniteur" and printed by Panckoucke (BNF only, and running to p.98 only) and another headed "Réimpression par suite de reprise" printed by Henry (2 copies: Basel, and Paris at the Université Panthéon). Both of the present issues appear to be author's offprints, and unrecorded.

On the slavery text, Brogan comments, "it exhibits many of his most characteristic virtues: it was based on thorough research... eloquently written but coolly argued, and advocated that all slaves should be promptly and simultaneously emancipated in the French Empire" (p.342). All from the Tocqueville library.

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