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

Evreux: J. J. L. Ancelle, 1793. First edition. Published unbound. 4 p. Decree of the National Convention about slave-trade; the declaration of William Pitt as enemy of mankind; and a decree on sylviculture. 1º. Qui autorise le Ministre de la Marine à faire marquer & exploiter les Bois propres..... More

Austria: around 1822; 1830. Printed and handwritten documents: 2 printed documents (1 bifolio of printed Gaunerzinkens, ca. 1830; four-page printed police report “Beschreibung”, 1822); 3 handwritten letters, with the header “Das k.k. Kreisamt im Pusterthale und am Eisack”, 1830 (1; 3; 3 p); 1 lengthy handwritten report, 1830 (10 p.)..... More

( Przewodniczący Rady Państwa Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej ) Chairman of the State Council of the Polish People's Republic. 1981 december 13. Some writing on the back. 59 x 40 cm. Martial law in Poland (Polish: Stan wojenny w Polsce) was declared in the period between 13 December 1981 and 22..... More

Budapest: [S.n. (Várnay és Fia], [1912?]. First edition. Two original stitched fascicles with paper-covered spines. 74 [2 (blank)]; 56 p. Official register of approved surname changes during the great wave of surname Magyarization and Jewish assimilation in Hungary. Issued annually by the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior, the present..... 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

Matriti [Madrid]: ex officina Francisci Martinez [Francisco Martínez], Anno 1639. Second edition. Text in Latin, printed in two columns. In contemporary limp vellum with thongs. [12] 352 [56] p. Scarce Spanish legal work for the Audiencias in the New World. Francisco de Alfaro (1551–1644) was a significant Spanish jurist..... 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

Nürnberg (Nürmbergen): Johann Weißenburger (Joannem Weyssenburger), June 18, 1510. Woodcut on title by Wolf Traut, coloured by contemporary hand. First edition in German speaking territories, second in general (first in 1505, Paris, MarchantLaliseau). Papered spine. (32) p. a–b6, c4. Rare and controversial tract on sacerdotal celibacy, arguing that the Pope..... More

Tolosae [Toulouse]: apud Arnaldum & Iacobum Colomerios, Academie Tolosanae Typographos [Arnaud and Jacques Colomiès], 1580. First edition. [Mispagination: p. 91 numbered 19; after p. 129 the pagination recommences at 127; pp. 159–160 omitted in pagination, as issued; complete.]. Contemporary limp vellum binding, sewn on supports, with remains of four leather..... More

Paris: Baudouin, Imprimeur de l’Assemblée Nationale, (1790). 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..... More

Paris: Imprimerie de Mme veuve Agasse, (1826). First edition. Published unbound. 12 p. Benjamin Constant’s speech regarding a draft law related to the Haiti indemnity. 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