The only edition of a virtually unknown novel set in the Americas. A wealthy father casts his only son out of the family mansion and sends him off to a French colony in the Americas - the Isle de C***. The novel follows the adventures of the outcast son with great imagined local color. Not in standard bibliographies. Only two copies located per OCLC [Princeton and UCLA] and a slightly defective copy at Lyons.      

The volumes have an interesting association, presumably owned by either Phillipe de Noailles (1715-1794), Comte de Noailles, Baron puis Duc de Mouchy, Price-Duc de Poix, Marquis d'Arpajon et Vicomte de Lautrec Maréchal de France, or his son, by whom it was presumably read, Louis-Marie, vicomte de Noailles (April 17, 1756, Paris- January 9, 1804, Havanna) second son of Phillippe, duc de Mouchy. He served brilliantly under Lafayette in America, and was the officer who concluded the capitulation of Yorktown in 1781. He was elected to the Estates-General in 1789. On August 4, 1789, during the French Revolution, he began the famous "orgy," as Mirabeau called it, when all privileges were abolished, and with the duc d'Aiguilion proposed the abolition of titles and liveries in June 1790. When the Revolution became more pronounced he emigrated to the United States and became a partner in William Bingham's Bank of North America in Philadelphia. He was very successful and might have lived happily had he not accepted a command against the English in San Domingo, under Rochambeau. He made a brilliant defence of the Môle St. Nicholas and escaped with the garrison to Cuba, but en route there his ship was attacked by the English frigate Hazard, and after a long engagement he was severely wounded, dying of his wounds in Havana on January 9, 1804