La Traite L'émigration et la Colonisation au Brésil.
Paris: A. LaCroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie, 1865. ix, 336, 2 pp. 8vo. Green buckram with original yellow wrappers bound in, gilt titles. First edition thus. A very good or better copy, gilt accession numbers on spine, otherwise no further external or internal markings, original wrappers lightly soiled, small chip on corner of front wrapper professionally repaired, scattered foxing, new binding fine. Borba de Moraes I, 253. Leclerc 3203. Garraux p.103. Conrad: Brazilian Slavery 116. Item #33969
"Extrait de la Revue du monde colonial, asiatique et americain." Expilly, who explains the details of emigration, was very critical of Brazil's treatment of slaves especially away from the major population centers. Quite uncommon. Last at auction in 1978.
Price: $1,000.00