"Whites: 27,717; Slaves: 405,526"

In-depth analysis of Saint-Domingue, by its Attorney General

Guillaume-Pierre-François de La Mardelle (1732-1813).

Éloge funèbre du Comte d'Ennery et réforme judiciaire à Saint-Domingue.

Paris, Imprimerie nationale, [1789 or after].

4°, [X], 154 pp. (leaves A-A2 doubled). With a full-page engraved map and several tables.

Modern grey card board with title-label on spine.

First edition of a eulogy for Victor-Thérèse Charpentier d'Ennery (1732–1776), Governor General of Saint-Domingue, followed by a report on a judicial reform project for the colony of Saint-Domingue. Both works are expanded with a vast amount of statistical information about the state of the colony, authored by De La Mardelle (De Lamardelle; Delamardelle), who was Attorney General to the Superior Council of Port-au-Prince. He was born in Fort-Dauphin (Saint-Domingue) in 1732 and was the author of various books on geology and law. The eulogy for D’Ennery was delivered in a session of the Superior Council of Santo Domingo on April 2, 1788, and is here printed in 30 pages, enhanced with several tables and notes. The second part of this book is devoted to a judicial reform project; the whole work offers a great deal of information on the state of the colony at the time, including the number of enslaved people "imported" from Africa. This edition is illustrated with an engraved map of Saint-Domingue before the title page, showing the new judicial geographic divisions of the colony following the reform, with a border line between the French and Spanish parts drawn in 1776. The second part includes the date May 6, 1789, indicating that the book was printed in or after that year. A second edition of this work was published in 1789 at Port-au-Prince by Mozard.

Condition: a few pages slightly browned, otherwise in very good condition.

Reference: Sabin 19337(?).