PITOU (Louis-Ange). - Lot 120

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PITOU (Louis-Ange). - Lot 120
PITOU (Louis-Ange). Trip to Cayenne, both Americas and to the Anthropophagi... Paris, chez l'Auteur, 1807. Two volumes in-8 of (2) ff, 10 pp., pp. V-XLVII, pp. 48-60, 312 pp.; (2) ff, 10, 404 pp., two plates, contemporary binding in calf. First edition. Despite the mention of second edition, it is the same as the one dated 1805. Two folding plates by Binet. First a priest, then a "political singer" during the Revolution, Pitou was deported to Cayenne under the Directory for having made royalist remarks. He was pardoned by Napoleon. His account, which is sometimes questionable, contains several lists of those who died in deportation.
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