Déportation et naufrage de J.J. Aymé, ex-législateur, suivi du tableau de vie et de mort des déportés, à son départ de la Guyane, avec quelques observations sur cette colonie et sur les nègres.

8vo: 269-[27] pp. (browned margins of first lvs, lower corner p. 153 torn off).

Cont. calf, gilt-tooled spine, sprinkled edges (sl. traces of use).

Rare Hamburg edition published in the same year as the original one (Paris, Maradan). The author Aymé (1752-1818) was deputy of the Council of Five Hundred ("Conseil de Cinq-Cents"), the lower house of the legislature of France during the Directory (Directoire), from 26 October 1795 until 9 November 1799. Following the coup d'état on 18 Fructidor 1797, he was deported to French Guiana (later: Devil's Island) as described in this work. The unnumbered leaves at the end contain three lists with the names of the deported: the deputies on "La Vaillante" and a large number of clergymen on the embarkments of "la Charente" and "la Bayonnaise". Ref. Sabin 2521. Prov. Thomas-Lavalette (bookpl.). Bound with: Prospectus of Arthur Young's "Le Cultivateur anglais" (11 pp.).