[Saint Domingue]:

$4,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

CORRESPONDANCE DE M. LE GÉNÉRAL AVEC L'ASSEMBLÉE GÉNÉRALE DE LA PARTIE FRANÇOISE DE SAINT-DOMINGUE. A rare imprint containing correspondence between the royally appointed Governor General of the island and the illegally formed Provincial Assembly. The correspondence runs from April 27 to May 16. The governor, Antoine de Thomassin Peynier, would subsequently attempt to disband the assembly. Peynier resigned at the end of 1790. Four copies in OCLC, at the Bibliothèque Nationale, John Carter Brown Library, New York Public Library, and American Antiquarian Society.

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