Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Établissemens et du Commerce des Européens dans les Deux Indes.
à Geneve: Chez Jean-Leonard Pellet, Imprimeur de la Ville & de l'Academie, 1780.
Price: $900.00
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Third edition (octavo issue). Half titles, frontispieces in each volume, engraved vignettes. Pp. xvi, 532 ; [2] ff., viii, 582; [2] ff., viii, 580 ; [2] ff., viii, 472 ; [2] ff., vii, 405 ; [2] ff., vii, 484 ; xvi,558 ; [2] ff., viii, 548 ; viii, 412 ; vi, 538. Lacking atlas volume. 10 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf, morocco spine labels gilt. Paper labels of Morlin, Libraire, at heads of spines; ticket of Piltin, Librairie on pastedowns. Rubbed, heads worn, front joints on vols. 2, 5, and 10 tender. Very good.
Item #264646
The celebrated attack on the excesses of European colonial economies, slavery, the complicity of the church, and the ancien régime; the book was condemned and Raynal was obliged to leave France.
