A philosophical and practical history of the settlements and trade of Europeans in the two Indies. A Genève, chez Jean Léonard Pellet, 1781.
Ten volumes in-8 (20x12,5cm), contemporary blond calf, triple gilt fillets on the boards, spine decorated with nerves (small snag towards the nerve of volume 7), title and tome piece (lighter for volumes 6-9 and 10). Edition illustrated with a portrait (wetness), nine beautiful frontispieces by Moreau le jeune, four folding maps and 22 folding tables. Anticolonialist work, against slavery, the church and the enslavement of peoples, it was written with the collaboration of Baron Holbach, Jussieu, Condorcet, Naigeon and especially Diderot who wrote more than a quarter of the work
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