Paris: Didot, 1730. Ecrite particulierement sur des Memoires Manuscrits du P. Jean-Baptiste le Pers, Jesuite, Missionnaire a Saint Domingue, & sur les Pieces Originales, qui se conservent au Depot de la Marine. 14 engraved plates (most folding maps), vignettes. 2 volumes, small square 4to, 1/2 calf, ornately gilt spine (rubbed); some pages darkened, worming, few inked markings. Paris: Francois Didot, 1730. Very good. Recounts the island's history from its discovery by Columbus to the 1720s. Author was a Jesuit historian... More about Histoire de L'Isle Espanole ou de S. Domingue

photo. illus., musical notations. xv, 371pp. 4to, cloth, d.w.; (d.w. lightly soiled, pencil notes on last blank page, otherwise very good). Univ. of California Press, 1960. More about The Drum and the Hoe; Life and Lore of the Haitian People

Paris: V. Regnard & Demonville, 1771. 2 volumes. 16mo, contemporary tree calf, leather label, gilt spines, spine ends, edges of corners, and top of back cover, all lightly worn on volume II, blank page near end of volume II has 2 inch tear, first and last blank pages lightly soiled on volume II, inner hinge strengthened on volume I. A Lausanne, et se trouve a Paris: V. Regnard & Demonville, 1771. First Edition Jacques-Vincent Delacroix was a prominent French lawyer... More about Memoires d'un Americain, Avec une Description de la Prusse & de L'Isle de Saint-Domingue

London: Peter Owen, 2012. Illus. 8vo, brown cloth, d.w., cloth lightly soiled, some right margins slightly wavy. London: Peter Owen, (2012). More about Seeds of Fiction; Graham Greene's Adventures in Haiti and Central America, 1954-1983

Paris: Chez Arthus - Bertrand, 1803. Illustrated with 2 folding charts and 1 large folding map. [4], CCVIII, 216; [4], 406 pages. 2 volumes, 8vo, attractively bound in older 1/2 black morocco over green boards; blind-stamped spines with raised bands; marbled endpapers. iParis: Chez Arthus-Bertrand, 1803, An XI. Second printing of this rather scarce book -- OCLC lists only 3 copies of this edition. A near fine copy with minimal scattered foxing and toning. The treatise "Medicine domestique de Saint-Domingue" and the "Pharmacopee" are by Jean B. Poupee-Desportes. More about Manuel des Habitans de Saint-Domingue, contenant un precis de l'Histoire de cette Ile, depuis sa...

1798. To which is added, an Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo. Abridged Edition. Folding map of the West Indies and Central America. xvi, 373pp. + 7pp. of publisher's ads. 8vo, original tree calf with elaborately gilt spine; (front cover detached, spine ends and corners worn, some light foxing, not affecting map). London: B. Crosby, 1798. "A classic in British Caribbean literature and probably the most famous work in the field. Standard for over... More about The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies

Ouvrage ecrit d'apres des documents inedits et les papiers historiques et secrets de la famille Louverture. Frontis. portrait of Toussaint Louverture. viii, 402pp. 8vo, later half black morocco; (edges of boards worn, some foxing including margins of portrait, very small tear in margin of first few pages, otherwise very good). Paris: A. Durant et Pedone-Lauriel, 1877. The portrait of Toussaint Louverture is based on a painting of him from the collection of his son, Isaac. The painting was painted by... More about Toussaint Louverture, general en chef de l'armee de Saint-Domingue, surnomme le premier des noirs

New York: Bleak Beauty, 1988. Photographic illustrations. 63pp. Slim 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. (New York: Bleak Beauty Books, 1988). First edition. A near fine copy, signed by the photographer on the half-title. A photographer's account of Haiti and the February Revolution. More about Merci Gonaives

Boulder: East European Monographs, 1986. Illus. and maps. xii, 378pp. 8vo, blue cloth. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1986. First Edition. More about Poland's Caribbean Tragedy; A Study of Polish Legions in the Haitian War of Independence, 1802-1803

Port-au-Prince: 1814. 4 pages, 2 blank, 12 x 7.5 inches, manuscript on printed official stationery, Port-au-Prince, October 11, 1814. Written to the republic's treasurer, directing him to pay a month's pension to a disabled soldier, in large part: "Je vous invite, Citoyen Tresorier, a payer des fonds de la Caisse Militaire la somme de deux gourdes, quatre vingt-un cens, montant du decompt ci joint faveur du Cne Jre Pierre, Invalide, poNTun mois de pension accordee par la loi." Chipping at... More about Autographed Letter Signed as President

488pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Doubleday, 1947. vg. More about Lydia Bailey

several maps, one in color. several plates and text illus. 2 vols. 8vo, modern full morocco with island of Hispaniola stamped on both volumes; (spine of both volumes sunned, some margins repaired, some margins chipped, some illus. including the folding map have foxing, mostly to margins). Paris: Charles Blot, (1892, 1893). More about Dictionnaire Geographique et Administratif Universel D'Haiti...ou Guide General en Haiti. large...

New York: Abrams, 1978. 200 Illus., 16 in colors. 176pp., slim small 4to, blue cloth, d.w. New York: Abrams, (1978). A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. From an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. More about Haitian Art