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In original wrappers. In very good condition.. In original wrappers. 12 p. Ça Ira! was one of the most important avantgarde publication. This issue issue illustrated with a lino by Josef Cantre.

[Rohnstock?], 1774. Original manuscript index and hand painted watercolor maps. Many signed by E. G. Mütz and Gottfried Riedel. Sizes vary, the single sheets are ca. 400 × 250 mm, the folded maps are ca. 400 × 530; 640 × 260; 360 × 460 mm. Maps are titled in German in ink, the index is written in brown and red ink. Some leaves with light brown stains, more significant at foldings. Sheets are loose, housed in a folder. Restored artistically. Overall in very good condition.. Original manuscript index and hand painted watercolor maps. Many signed by E. G. Mütz and Gottfried Riedel. Sizes vary, the single sheets are ca. 400 × 250 mm, the folded maps are ca. 400 × 530; 640 × 260; 360 × 460 mm. Maps are titled in German in ink, the index is written in brown and red ink. (4) pages of index, and 16 watercolor maps (14 folded). A unique collection of sixteen watercolor, late 18th century, Lower Silesian cadastral maps. The Lower Silesian Duchy of Pless with its capital Pless (present-day… Read More

Vilnius: Ludwika Chomińskiego, 1923. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. Pencil marks on back cover. Shelfmark on half-title, old ownership stamp on title page. Pages tanned, due to aging. Unopened. In very good condition.. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. 80 [4] p. The first collection of poems of the Polish writer, Jerzy Wyszomirski, with cover design by Kazimiera Adamska-Rouba, the Polish painter and graphic artist. .

[Madrid?]: [s.n.], 1644. First edition. Unbound, disbound from a larger volume. Contemporary handwritten note on first page. Pages numbered in ink (ff. 207-220). Wide margins, untrimmed. Chipped at the edges, light stain on the first and last leaves. Last blank leaf torn. Otherwise in fine condition.. First edition. Unbound, disbound from a larger volume. ff. 13 [1 (blank)]. Unrecorded memorandum related to José Maldonado's scandal caused by appointing Luis Catena as Comisario General del Perú in 1643. Soon after Maldonado became Comisario general de las Indias in 1641, he dismissed Fray José Cisneros and appointed Luis Catena, a father from Quito just as Maldonado, as General Commissioner of Peru (Comisario General del Perú). It was out of Maldonado's authority, as such assignments were in the power of the General Minister of the Order, at the time Juan Merinero. After a noisy lawsuit and due to the averse of the Peruvian church officials, the General Minister revoked Catena's patent and… Read More

[S.l. (Paris?)]: [S.n.], 1652. One of the first editions. . In modern cardboard. Pages restored at the gutter. The second and last leaves slightly over-trimmed at the outer edge, shaving the marginal note. Otherwise in fine condition.. One of the first editions. . In modern cardboard. 8 p. Scarce Americana, Scarron's mazarinade, praising America. Supposedly published in 1652, the year when Scarron planned to leave Paris for Cayenne in the West Indies, escape the misery in Europe, and flee from the Fronde and the Cardinal Mazarin. Scarron describes America as a calm place, with no cold, war, or taxes, especially where there is no Cardinal Mazarin. Published anonymously, with no imprint, but the poem also appeared with the title Adieu du sieur Scarron fait au roi sur son départ pour l'Amérique. Scarce on the market, no record in RBH. Sabin 0; Moreau 3063 (variant); Gagnon (Bibl. Canadienne) 2954; Magne (Bibl. [...] de Scarron) 94; Literature: Kullberg, C. (2020). Lire l'Histoire générale des… Read More

[S.l.]: [s.n.], [N.d.; Second half of the 18th century]. Scarce edition. Woodcut headpiece. Paper with watermark of fleur-de-lis. Trace of folding and crease. Stains on the front page. Overall in very good condition.. Scarce edition. Woodcut headpiece. Paper with watermark of fleur-de-lis. (4) p. A previously unknown version of a "Gebrauchszettel", the only advertisement material used by Johann Marian Farina, the creator of Eau de Cologne or Kölnisch Wasser. The four-page pamphlet informs about the possible uses of the essence as a beauty product and adverts its health benefits and invigorating effects. Such labels were only sent with larger delivery or by the request of the costumer (Leschke, 2006), however, later it was used also as a trademark. Farina provided the buyers the right to return the perfume, thus the address of the supplier was always indicated on the pamphlets. (Leschke, 2006.) The present "Gebrauchszettel" provides the address of "Gebrüderen Rossi" in Cologne. Although the… Read More

(Paris): Imprimerie de Pain, 1794. First edition. Published unbound. Foxing throughout. Overall in good condition.. First edition. Published unbound. 7, (1) p. Statement of Belley, the first black deputy of the French National Convention, respecting the affairs of Saint-Domingue on August 23, 1794. Jean-Baptiste Belley (1747-1805) was born in Senegal, and as a child transported to Saint-Domingue where he overcame slavery by buying his own freedom. He served in the French army and became one of the representatives from Saint-Domingue of the French National Convention in 1793 thus becoming the first black deputy to take a seat in the Convention and an active spokesman for people of colour. His famous portrait as a Convention member, with a tropical landscape behind him and a bust of the philosopher Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, the supporter of the abolition of slavery, was painted by Anne-Louis Girondet in 1797. Sabin 4546. .

Buenos Aires: Imprenta de Niños Expósitos, 1815. First edition. First edition. Traces of paper-band at spine. Paper discolored at upper inner corner. Clusters of worm holes, not effecting the legibility. Pages loose. Overall in very good condition. First edition. First edition. 15 [1] p. Important manifesto concerning the deposition of Alvear's Directory, and the reason of his exile. A scarce document with great importance, particularly because of its second part, the note by José Gervasio Artigas (1764-1850) "the father of Uruguayan nationhood", in which he details the reasons for Alvear leaving Argentina. Carlos María de Alvear (1789-1852) participated in the Argentine War of Independence, and in January 1815 he became the Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. Due to the lack of any support he had to resigned on April 15, 1815 and leave the country. In his note, Artigas points out that it was rather the members of the former Argentinian government than he… Read More

A Paris: Chez Baudouin, Imprimeur de L'Assemblée Nationale, rue du Foin Saint-Jacques, No. 31, 1789. First edition. Published unbound. In fine condition.. First edition. Published unbound. 15, (1) p. Curt's proposal to establish a committee of twenty members, who composes constitutions for the French colonies. Louis de Court (1722 or 1752 - ca. 1805) who was the Captain of the colonial troops at Guadeloupe until 1779, and the representative of Guadeloupe in the National Constituent Assembly. He suggested the formation of a commission to write particular constitutions for the colonies (see this pamphlet), and argued that exclusively white planters should write it. His proposal was failed to pass. In 1794, he signed the Whitehall Accord, an agreement between counter-revolutionary colonists from the French possessions of Saint-Domingue, Martinique and Guadeloupe with the British Empire, that allowed them to maintain slavery, which had been abolished by the French French government, while the… Read More

Paris: Baudouin, Imprimeur de l'Assemblée Nationale, 1790. First edition. Published unbound. In fine condition.. First edition. Published unbound. 2, (2) p. Official order to commemorate the decree of March 8, 1790 with festivities. The decree of the National Assembly on March 8, 1790 granted full legislative powers to the Colonial Assembly, gave Saint-Domingue and all French colonies almost complete autonomy. The decree reached Saint-Domingue only in May, and the Colonial Assembly began to issue radical decrees and reforms, pushing the colony further toward autonomy from France, thus the decree had a crucial role in the history of the Haiti Revolution. Sabin 75115.

(Paris): Limbourg et Comp, 1794. First edition. Published unbound. Torn at folding, two small holes at inner marginals.. First edition. Published unbound. 7, (1) p. Petition concerning the situation of the colonies within France, financial matters and a statement of fidelity toward the one and inseparable France. Not in Sabin. .

[Madrid]: [s.n.], 1818. First edition. Bifolio. Signed by Joaquín de Ibarra (subinspector of the 2nd Artillery Regiment). Annotations in ink, dated on November 16, 1818. Chipped at folding. Otherwise in fine condition.. First edition. Bifolio. (4 [last blank]) p. A contemporary account on the siege of San Fernando de Apure, the "Toma de las Flecheras", a bloody battle of the Venezuelan War of Independence in 1818. After the successful siege of Angostura (today Ciudad Bolivar) in 1817, Simon Bolivar (El Libertador; 1783-1830), marched to the west to link up with his new ally, the llanero jefe José Antonio Páez (1790-1873; later the President of Venezuela), to continue the renewed campaign against the heart of Venezuela. They united their forces at the south bank of the Apure River near to the Spanish garrison, San Fernando de Apure. While Bolivar was preparing the attack on Pablo Morillo's army at Calabozo (12 February 1818), Páez attempted to take the flecheras (shallow drafted vessels) of the… Read More

A Rouen: De l'Imprimerie de J. J. le Boullenger, imprimeur du Déparrement de la Seine inférieure, rue du Grand-Maulévrier, 1792. First edition. Imprint from colophon. Published unbound. Number "1123" in ink on title page. In very good condition.. First edition. Imprint from colophon. Published unbound. 3, (1) p. As a result of the decree of the National Assembly that removed all the privileges of Compagnie des Indes (French East Indian Company) on April 3, 1790 the company fall into decline, grappled with financial challenges. With this act the National Assembly helped it by the reimbursement of its shares in the value of 1,177,200 livres. To put an end to the monopolies of companies involved in slave trade like Compagnie des Indes was an important step toward abolishment of slavery. .

[Paris]: [De l'Imprimerie National], 1791. First edition. Text of Washington's letter printed in English and French in parallel columns. With the letter of the President of the Assemblée Nationale, dated 20 June 1790. .Papered spine. The final leaf discolored at the edges, otherwise in fine condition.. First edition. Text of Washington's letter printed in English and French in parallel columns. With the letter of the President of the Assemblée Nationale, dated 20 June 1790. .Papered spine. 7 [1] p. The extremely scarce first edition of Washington's letter to the French National Assembly, dated on January 27th, 1791. Washington's reply (dated and signed: "United States, Jan. y. 27th 1791. G. Washington") to the National Assembly's tribute to Benjamin Franklin upon his death. Followed by the letter in French on pp. 5-7, to which it is an answer, addressed "A M. Washington, Président des États-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale", signed and dated: "Em. Sieyes, Président. Paris, 20 Juin 1790".… Read More

[S.n.]: [N.p.], 1901. First separate edition. Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. In publisher's yellow wrappers. Traces of folding. Cover somewhat dusted. Title and date in pencil on cover. Pages wavy at lower edge. Otherwise in very good condition.. First separate edition. Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. In publisher's yellow wrappers. 295-300, (2) p. Stein's early paper on the archeological excavations and findings in Khotan during his first major expedition to Central-Asia in 1900-1901. Originally published in Journal of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 33, Issue 2, April 1901. Sir Marc Aurél Stein (1862-1943) was a Hungarian born British archaeologist, mainly concerned with exploring ancient Central Asia. Member of "The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire" as Knight Commander (KCIE), and Fellow of British Academy. He made four major expeditions to Central Asia in 1900, 1906-1908, 1913-1916 and 1930.… Read More

Paris: P. G. Simon, Imprimeur du Parlement, 1777. First edition. With woodcut head piece. In fine condition.. First edition. With woodcut head piece. 4 p. Royal act regarding bankruptcy in French India (Établissements français dans l'Inde).

[Spain]: [s.n], 1821. First edition. Unbound as published. Signed at the end (undecipherable). With date (1821 29. de Enero) and summary note on the first page by a contemporary hand in ink. Folded once. Small closed tears at the gutter. Sporadic foxing. In fine condition.. First edition. Unbound as published. [4] p. A scarce royal decree on the creation and definition of the office of the General Superintendency in the Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas. During the dusk of the Spanish Empire, a bulk of administrative reforms were introduced trying to avoid the disintegration of the overseas territories, especially in the Americas. By the present royal instruction, Fernando VII introduced the office of the Superintendencies in the Viceroyalties of New Spain, Peru, New Granada, and Buenos Aires (the Río de la Plata) and detailed the duties of the position in fifteen articles. "Y ellí también el de 29 de enero de 1811[sic!], impreso, que contiene una Instrucción en 15 Artículos para los… Read More

Madrid: Juan Delgado, 1624. First edition. Bifolio. Chipped at outer margins, not affecting the text. Contemporary numerical inscriptions in upper margin of the first page. Tears, with tiny losses at the gutter, and slight loss to text at folds. Faint damp staining. Artistically restored, losses repaired in Japanese paper. Overall in good condition.. First edition. Bifolio. (4) p. First edition of this scarce, Spanish, first-hand account about the first phase of the Siege of Breda, a significant battle of the Thirty (and Eighty) Years' War, whose end was immortalized by Velázquez's famous painting The Surrender of Breda (Las lanzas). The letter gives eyewitness information about the first months of the Spanish efforts in the Siege of Breda, led by Ambrogio Spinola, and about the successful driving off of the Dutch relief army under the leadership of Maurice of Nassau. Not much is known about Rodrigo de Lara, the author of the report, who must have been accompanying the troops as a secretary or… Read More

(Paris?): (S.n.), 1826. First edition. Published unbound. Attached with string. Untrimmed. In fine condition.. First edition. Published unbound. Attached with string. 46, (2) p. Comte de Kergorlay's (1769-1856) speech concerning the "Haiti Indemnity" at the Chamber of Peers on April 19, 1826. After the successful slave rebellion of Saint-Domingue which culminated in the elimination of slavery and the founding of the Republic of Haiti it took more than twenty years until the French ruler, King Charles X of France recognised the independence of the island in return of 150 million gold franc indemnity in April 1825. The sum was later reduced to 90 million in 1838. The issue of the indemnity appeared again in 2003 when the President of Haiti demanded France to pay back over 21 billion U.S. dollars, the equivalent in today's money of the 90 million gold francs, however in 2004 the prime minister rescinded the reparations demand. Not in Sabin. Not in the Haiti Collection of John Carter Brown Library. .

A Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1790. First edition. Imprint from colophon. With a woodcut headpiece above title. Published unbound. Number "113" in ink on title page. In fine condition.. First edition. Imprint from colophon. With a woodcut headpiece above title. Published unbound. 4 p. The law about the French Tricolor, the birth of the French flag. The royal, Paris edition. The Revolution of 1789 led to the need for a new national flag, that expresses the radical changes and reforms that were introduced. The first Tricolor was established by this decree of the National Assembly, that specified all the details of the flag, the material and the placement of it. It was originally a naval jack a maritime flag with an outer border blue at the hoist and red at the fly surrounded a white border that was around the tricolor, with the colors the reverse of what they are today, red at the hoist and blue to the fly. The order was reversed later, in 1794 and has remained in use ever since. Red and… Read More