PITOU, Louis-Ange - Lot 131

PITOU, Louis-Ange Journey to Cayenne in the two Americas and among the anthropophagi. Second edition. Paris, L.A. Pitou, October 1807. 2 volumes in-8 (198 x 123 mm) with one engraved folding plate in frontispiece, XLVII, [48]-60, 312 pp. for volume I ; 2 ff.n.ch., 1 engraved folding plate in frontispiece, 404 pp. for volume II. Half calf eggplant, spine ribbed, marbled edges (period binding). Sabin, 63059; Chadenat, 943. Second edition, identical to the first. It contains the important account of the deportation and stay in French Guiana of the counter-revolutionary journalist and songwriter Louis-Ange Pitou (1767-1846), who was under "preventive" arrest after the directorial coup d'état of 18 fructidor year V [September 4, 1797], condemned to the penal colony, and released from his exile only after the 18 brumaire. The second volume with important nominal lists of deportees, dead on the spot, or repatriated. The two plates illustrate the "Prison of the deportees on the frigate La Décade" and the "Desert of Konanam in French Guyana - cemetery and burial of the deportees". Spines sunned, otherwise a nice copy.