Droit public, ou Gouvernement des colonies françoises
Subtitle: d'après les loix faites pour ces pays
By: Par M. Petit, député des Conseils supérieurs des colonies françoises
Contributors: Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Publisher: chez Delalain, libraire, rue de la Comédie françoise
Published: 1771
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Other titles: Droit public.; Gouvernement des colonies françoises, d'après les loix faites pour ces pays.; Gouvernement des colonies françoises.
Notes: A treatment of French colonial public law including a general account of the legal foundation of various colonies in 1635, 1642, 1664. Reviews political, military and religious administration. Included are details on taxation on Martinique, Guadelope and Saint-Domingue, and on the organization of the judicial system.

Pagination: v. 1: [4], xvi, 474, [2] p.; v. 2: [4], 521, [1] p.

Signatures: v. 1: pi² a A-2F 2G; v. 2: pi² A-2I 2K (-2K6)

Cf. Bissainthe, M. Dict. de bib. haïtienne, 7326 (2nd ed., 1771-1773)

Engraved printer's ornament on title pages; head pieces.

Sabin 61252.

Kress Lib. B.54669.

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, III:1802.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 quarter bound in contemporary calf with marbled boards; copy 2 bound in full contemporary mottled calf.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: P.S. Duponceau: bookstamp on title page leaves.