(History / French Revolution / Travel / Guyana) Ramel... Lot 11

(History / French Revolution / Travel / Guyana) Ramel / Giguet. Secret anecdotes on the 18th of Fructidor, and new memoirs of the deportees in Guiana, written by themselves, and following the diary of Ramel, containing new details on their transport to Guiana, and their stay in this colony, the arrival of the frigate La Décade, having on board 193 deportees, the death of Rovère, Lavilleheurnois, Brothier, Gibert-Desmolières, d'Havelange, Letellier, etc., and all that happened in Guiana until 24 Ventôse year VII. To which we added a new relation of the escape of Pichegru, Barthélemy, Ramel, etc. At Giguet et Cie, printer and bookseller, no date (1799), in-12 bound half basane with corners, smooth spine, title page. Bookseller's label (XVIIIth). Complete with the frontispiece. (VIII) 252 pages and 1 ff of the bookseller's catalog. Rubbing to the paper of the first cover, angular lack of paper without affecting the text on 2 ff. Good copy.