Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 208

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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
RARE ACCOUNT OF TOUSSAINT (HAITI.) [PERIN, RENE.] L'incendie du Cap, ou, Le règne de Toussaint-Louverture. Folding copper engraved frontispiece of blacks attacking whites. 102 pp., 16mo, later marbled wrappers. Paris: Chez les Marchands, 1802
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first edition. An attack on the character of Toussaint and the Revolution in Haiti, stressing violence and attacks on whites. A striking frontispiece shows a well-dressed Toussaint standing among a mob of blacks attacking innocent whites, many of them women and children. Less than a year after the publication of this little book, Napoleon tricked Toussaint into a meeting to discuss a settlement on the issue of Haitian independence. There he was seized and placed on a ship bound for France where he was locked in a dungeon in the mountains. Toussaint died later in 1803. RARE, OCLC locates only 4 copies.