1824–1844. French manuscript on paper, In contemporary green morocco with gilt-tooled spine and panels (monogram to the center of front panel) and silk moiré endpapers. All edges gilt. Stored in contemporary hard paper slipcase in matching color. Altogether 47 ff. (separated with tissue paper, some leaves removed) with 26 tipped-in..... More

(Paris): Limbourg et Comp. (1794). 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. More

Massachusetts? Dated 1896 and 1901. Albumen print. Mounted on card. Two mugshots of the turning of the century on printed card. On the verso the offender’s identification number, name, the committed crime (both larceny), age (18 and 30), birth place, physical description, the officer’s name, date of arrest (October 12..... More

[Prague]: The Press Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, 1952. First edition. With 16 full-page photographic reproductions. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 34, (2) p., and 9 double plates. Scarce cold war document about the American terrorist activities in Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s. On October..... More

Basse-Terre: Imprimerie de la République; Imprimerie du Gouvernement; Cabre, 1803–1805. First editions. In contemporary leather. Spine gilt, with red title vignette (“Mémoire”). A collection of fourteen early and unrecorded imprints of legal briefs dated and printed between 1803 and 1805 in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe. Each of the..... More

New York: From Jewish Encyclopedia, 1904. 106 x 25 cm. Shows the places of the Jewish institutions in the city: synagogues, cemeteries, schools in New York. More

Issued and signed by Georges-René Le Pelley de Pléville, the Minister of Colonies. Dated on November 21, 1797 (1e Frimaire, an 6 de la République française). One page printed and written document with the headline of the “Marine et Colonies. Administration des Colonies”. Temporary citizenship is given to the Saint-Domingue..... More

Paris: Frederic Leonard, 1697. First editions. Six brochures bound into one volume, with some pamphlet sections restructured. In contemporary or slightly later leather binding. Tinted edges. A sammelband of key treaties from the Nine Years' War, including the Treaty of Ryswick, which reshaped North American and Caribbean territories, transatlantic trade..... More

[N. p. but Paris]: [N. p. but d’Albaret or Blagrove], 1776. In later cardboard. Folio. 10 p, and 20 engraved plates. First edition of the first architectural pattern book for the West Indies and one of the first architectural books concerning the Americas. Literature devoted to rural architecture in..... More

Budapest: 1948. Illustrated by Gitta Gyenes. In original paper. 48 p. Poems by Sterling A. Brown, Langston Hughes ,Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Fenton Johnson Angelina Weld Grimke, Claude McKay, Frank Horne ,Waring Cuney, Lowis Alexander, Gwendolyn Bennett, Otto Leland Bohannan, Joseph S. Cotte. More

Habana: Imp. de G. Montiel y Comp., Calle de la Amargura, num. 36. 1878. In contemporary half leather. 280, 35 [1] p. First edition of the first catalog of Cuban mollusks. Contribucion a la Fauna Malacologica Cubana was written by the most notable Cuban malacologist of all time Rafael Arango..... More

Saint-Marc: 24 April 1790. Manuscript on paper. 1 leaf, written in a clear secretarial hand on both sides, signed by Bacon La Chevalerie, Hanus de Jumécourt, Valentin de Cullion, de Bourcel, Vincendon Dutour, and Guerin (?) (secretary). 2 pp. Signed manuscript document from the escalating confrontation between the colonial Assembly..... More

[Paris]: [Imprimerie Nationale], [1791]. First edition. Bound in later hardpaper boards covered with pastepaper, spine with red gilt leather title vignette. 18 [2 (blank)] p. Official report on the 1786 “Commission de Tabago,” an extraordinary tribunal established to examine debts between British creditors and settlers after the French conquest of..... More