Essai sur l'administration des colonies françoises
Subtitle: et particuliérement d'une partie de celles de Saint-Domingue. Avec deux cartes & deux tableaux géographiques & politiques
Publisher: Chez Monory, Libraire de S.A.S. Mgr le Prince de Condé, rue de l'ancienne Comédie Franç.
Published: 1788
Place of publication: A Antonina [i.e. Paris], et se trouve a Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Politics and government; Colonies; Administration
Notes: Attributed to de Bleschamp by Bissainthe.

Place of publication supplied by Bissainthe and the online catalogue of the Bibliotheque nationale de France.

A proposal for a new form of colonial government in all the colonies of France, with a detailed plan for Saint-Domingue, the southern part of which was to be called "Antonine"

For discussion of Bleschamp, see manuscript notes dated 1847 (which state that his daughter Alexandrine married Lucien Bonaparte) and Alexandrine Lucien-Bonaparte. Paris, [1939] / by Paul Fleuriot de Langle, p. 12-14.

Signatures: pi² (pi1 verso blank) a⁴ A-G⁸

Errata: p. 112.

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

Includes two folded maps: "Carte des possessions françoises dans l'isle d'Aïti communémnet appellée Saint-Domingue, contenant les provinces Antonine, de Lartibonite et Françoise" bound to face p. 8, and "Carte de la province Antonine, divisée en ses douze cités", bound to face p. 47; also includes two folded tables bound following p. 112: "Projet d'une nouvelle division géographique et politique des colonies françoises occidentales et orientales" and "Distribution des quatorze provinces coloniales en six grands départemens civils et militaires"

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 22926.

Kress Library of Business and Economics. Catalogue, with data upon cognate items in other Harvard libraries, B1404.

Bissainthe, M. Dictionnaire de bibliographie haïtienne 4799.

Bissainthe, M. Dictionnaire de bibliographie haïtienne 5691.

Brown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana, III:3185.

John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in contemporary calf with marbled boards.