COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Book Collection
Title:
Gazette de Saint-Domingue, : politique, civile, économique et littéraire. Affiches, annnonces et avis divers
Date:
1791
Publisher:
Au Port-au-Prince : Chez Mozard, imprimeur du Roi.
Book Collection:
Haiti
Language:
French
Call Number:
b3905922
Digitizing Sponsor:
John Carter Brown Library
Book Contributor:
John Carter Brown Library
Identifier:
gazettedesaintdo01moza
Added Date:
2010-03-17 16:27:34
Identifier Url:
Image Count:
514
PPI:
400
Operator:
xephyr@archive.org
OCR:
ABBYY FineReader 8.0
Camera:
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Author:
Mozard, M
Author:
Huard, jeune
Description:
Place of publication and name of printer from colophon
Description:
Caption title
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At head of caption titles on all regular issues and supplements: Première année. [followed by issue no.] 1791
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Edited by Mozard and then by Huard le jeune from no. 62 (Jul. 3, 1791)
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Imprint varies from no. 9 (January 29, 1791) as: Au Port-au-Prince : chez Mozard, imprimeur du Roi & du Conseil supérieur
Description:
Bissainthe gives title as: "Gazette officielle de Saint-Domingue" and cites this series as a possible continuation of the "Gazette de Saint-Domingue", founded in 1764, and suppressed in 1764, reappearing under the title "Avis divers et petites affiches americaines", or more commonly known as "Affiches americaines", no. 1 issued either in February 1764 (Martin & Walter) or 1766 (Bissainthe)
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Regular and supplement issues numbered consecutively; p. 933 misnumbered 633
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Includes death notices, lost animals, slaves and maroon information, political notices, to sell and to let notices, and arrivals and departures of citizens to and from the island
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Some issues printed on blue paper
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Martin & Walter. Révolution française. Journaux
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Bissainthe, M. Dict. de bib. haïtienne. Journaux
Description:
Supplements, no. 1 (January 1, 1791) - no. 65 [i.e. 55] (November 19, 1791) accompany some issues
Description:
Supplements no. 60 (October 12, 1791) - 65 (November 19, 1791) misnumbered 50-55
Description:
John Carter Brown Library copy has nearly complete run bound into 2 volume with spine title: Gazette de St Domingue. Issues no. 69 (August 27, 1791) bound as 71st item of 106 and supplement no. 54 (November 3, 1791) bound as 79th item of 106 in 2nd volume of 4 volume set with binder's title: Revolutions de St Domingue (E789 T653m 1-SIZE)
Description:
John Carter Brown Library copy has prospectus for the Gazette de St. Domingue bound before issue no. 1 with title and imprint: Gazette de St. Domingue, politique, civile, économique et littéraire / rédigée au Port-au-Prince, par M. Mozard, de la Société royale des sciences & arts du Cap-François, et autres coopérateurs. Au Port-au-Prince : de l'Imprimerie de Mozard, 1790
Description:
John Carter Brown Library copy has 1 leaf bound before issue no. 14 (February 16, 1791), consisting of a statement from the compositors and printers hired by M. Mozard beginning: "Nous soussignés, compositeurs & imprimeurs, travaillant chez M. Mozard, jurons & attendons que depuis le 1er janvier qu'a paru la Gazette de Saint-Domningue ..., with imprint: Au Port-au-Prince : Chez Mozard, imprimeur du Roi, and dated: Au Port-au-Prince, le 16 février 1791
Description:
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: some issues very closely cropped at foredge and foot with some slight loss of text; some leaves slightly multilated with some loss of text; wanting issue no. 74 (September ??, 1791)
Notes:
Book contained tight margins.