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

[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

Sevilla: Andrea Pescioni, 1582. First edition. With 35 woodcut illustrations, some recurring. Decorated with heraldic woodcut on the title page, numerous woodcut initials and a tailpiece, and woodcut printer's devices on 4¶4 and on the last leaf. Text printed in two columns. In 19th century, empire style, red morocco binding..... More

Aix: Imprimerie de la Vauve d’André Adibert, Imprimeur du Roi & du Départment, vis-à-vis le College, 1791. First edition. With a woodcut head piece. Published unbound. 3, (1) p. Law by the National Assembly concerning the legislation at Saint-Domingue and the rights of the colonial assembly and the governor of..... More

France: c. 1825. Oval clear lead-glass plaque with serrated edges, enclosing a finely molded white sulphide cameo of President Boyer (inscribed “Pt. Boyer” at the base of the bust). The reverse is deeply sunburst-cut and polished. Original gilt-bronze suspension mount. Height 11 cm (excluding mount). Rare French cut-glass sulphide portrait..... More

Paris: : Se vend à Paris chez Depeuille, Rue Franciade, Section de Bon Conseil [François Jules Gabriel Depeuille], [1794]. First edition. Hand-colored engraving. In contemporary or near contemporary frame. Engraved by Louis Darcis, after Boizot (Boizot del.t : Darcis Sculp.t). Showing a black man with a red Phrygian liberty cap..... More

[Saint-Domingue]: 1802. Manuscript document, 1 page, written on both sides. Certified and signed by Brigadier General Pierre François Joseph Boyer (1772–1851), Chief of the General Staff of the Army of Saint-Domingue. Stamped “État Major Général de l’Armée de St. Domingue.”. Signed death report by General Boyer documenting the demise of..... 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

Habana: Tipografía “El Fígaro,” Obispo 62, 1901. First edition. The Constitution signatory, José de Jesús Monteagudo’s copy. Inscribed by the delegates of the Constitutional Convention and signatories of the Constitution. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 36 [4] p. The exceedingly rare first edition of the first version of the first Cuban..... More

[Madrid]: [1874 (dated on p. 304)]. Manuscript in Spanish. Written by a neat hand. Signed and dated by the author on p. 304. In contemporary green half morocco. Spine tooled, raised bands, gilt title. [12] 1–304 [2] 305 [1] p. An unpublished journal of the Spanish Consul General in New..... More

Pesten (Pest): Szent-István-Társulat (Herz János), 1856. First edition. In contemporary half leather. Gilt ornaments and title on spine. VI, 2, (1)–416, (2) p., and 2 plates protected with tissue (portrait of Columbus and a double portrait of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile) and a folding map..... More

Madrid: Alonso Victor Panoja, 1654. In contemporary limp vellum. ff. [1 (woodcut frontispiece, verso blank)] [1 (letterpress title page, verso blank) [1 (“Ex.mo Señor”)] [1 (Distrito de la Audiencia […])]–4 [1 (“Armas que se d. First edition of the exceedingly rare work displaying the governing structure of the Spanish Indies..... More

[Sabin gives Port-au-Prince as place of publication, while Bissainthe and Echeverría record Paris.]: [S.n.], [1789(?)]. First edition. Bound in later hardpaper boards covered with pastepaper, spine with red gilt leather title vignette. [2] 37 [1] pp and one large folding table. Printed record of the 1789 Saint-Domingue grain shortage, revealing..... More