Author: AMPERE, J. J.:
Title: Promenade en Amérique. Etats-Unis - Cuba - Mexique. Nouvelle édition entièrement revue. Tome 1 et 2. En 2 vols.
Description: Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, 1856, in-8vo, XI + 421 p. / 425 p., reliures en toile. / Orig. clothbound. ¶ Interesting voyage in the french language to the United States, on p. 113 of the 1st. vol., there is a short description of a slave sale. The final price for a 'Nègre' (Nigger) got 69 dollars, a horse sold a bit later on the same sale, fetched 2 dollars more! Mr. Ampere visits prisons, libraries wherever he finds them, talkes aboud tabacco as a American habit, as this plant was not known to the old world, he states that only in the antiquity the Thraces inhaled the smoke of the hemp plant, or its derivate Haschich. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Sabin 1, 169.

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