Coffee.- Slavery.- Laborie (P.J.) The Coffee Planter of Saint Domingo...Containing a View of the Constitution, Government, Laws and State of that Colony... To which are Added, some Hints on the Present State of the Island, Under the British Government, 2 parts in 1 (including Appendix), first edition, 22 engraved plates on 21 sheets (18 folding), ex-library copy with ink stamps (including to versos of plates), plate 10 little trimmed at lower corner just within border, pencil notes to verso of title, occasional spotting, lightly browned, modern tan morocco, spine gilt (including library numbering) and with red morocco label, [Hünersdorff, Coffee, p.839; Mueller p.124; Goldsmiths' 17286; Sabin 38430], 8vo, Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1798.*** Rare at auction, with only two other copies traced since 1963 (the last of which The Rothamsted Collection copy, in our rooms 11th July, 2018, lot 701, £4600 hammer). Account of coffee planting and life in 18th century Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), which at that point accounted for around sixty percent of the world's coffee production. This extensive work was written as a manual for British coffee planters, and includes a chapter on slave management, along with an account of the 1790s slave revolt.