Detail View: JCB Book Collection: Ossolinski, ou Marseille et St.-Domingue, après 1794 et en 1815. : Mémoires contemporains recueillis et publiés par E.-M. Masse

Title: 
Ossolinski, ou Marseille et St.-Domingue, après 1794 et en 1815. : Mémoires contemporains recueillis et publiés par E.-M. Masse
Date: 
1830
Publisher: 
Paris : Jules Lefebvre et Ce., libraires-éditeurs, rue des Grands-Augustins, no. 18
Book Collection: 
Haiti
Language: 
French
Call Number: 
b4495957
Digitizing Sponsor: 
John Carter Brown Library
Book Contributor: 
John Carter Brown Library
Identifier: 
ossolinskioumars04mass
Added Date: 
2010-06-21 18:57:50
Identifier Url: 
http://www.archive.org/details/ossolinskioumars04mass
Image Count: 
260
PPI: 
400
Operator: 
xephyr@archive.org
OCR: 
ABBYY FineReader 8.0
Camera: 
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Author: 
Masse, É.-M. (Étienne-Michel), b. 1778
Subject: 
Booksellers' catalogs
Subject: 
Masse, É.-M. (Étienne-Michel), b. 1778
Subject: 
Slave insurrections
Subject: 
Toussaint Louverture, 1743?-1803
Description: 
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund
Description: 
"Bourges, imp. de Mme. Ve. Souchois et compe.": versos of half-title pages of volumes 1-4
Description: 
"Bourges, imprimerie de Ve. Souchois et Ce.": printed at foot of back cover or wrappers of volumes 1-4
Description: 
Pagination: v. 1: [4], iii, [1], 252 p.; v. 2: [4], 251, [1] p.; v. 3: [4], 274 p.; v. 4: [4], 248 p
Description: 
Signatures: v. 1: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) 1¹ 1* 2 2* 3¹² 4 4* 5 5* 6 6* 7 7* 8 8* 9 9* 10 10* 11; v. 2: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) 1 1*¹² 2* 3 3* 4 4* 5 5* 6 6* 7 7* 8 8* 9 9* 10 10* 11 (11 verso blank); v. 3: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) 1 1* 2 2* 3 3* 4 4* 5 5* 6 6* 7 7* 8 8* 9 9* 10 10* 11 11* 12 (-12); v. 4: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) 1 1* 2 2* 3 3* 4 4* 5 5* 6 6* 7 7* 8 8* 9 9* 10 10* 11
Description: 
Bookseller's advertisements: printed on the outer back wrappers of volumes 1-4
Description: 
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: vol. 1 wanting p. 3-6, 4th count
Description: 
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in original printed contemporary mauve paper wrappers; cover title and bookseller's advertisements printed within ornamental border; all leaves untrimmed
Description: 
7 v. ;|c18 cm. (12mo) Fictionalized account of the author's life and experiences leading up to, and during the revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue and in France through the eyes of a Polish nobleman named Ossolinski. It includes an account of the first slave revolt, the burning of Cap-Français, the character of Toussaint Louverture, the treatment of black slaves and includes the French texts of some Creole songs. It also includes account of Ossolinski's voyage to the United States and an account of the island of Cuba
Notes: 
Contained some tight margins.