![Item #2709 [Album Amicorum.] French Autograph Friendship Album with Original Drawings and Paintings](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2709.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1657889246)
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
![Item #453 [Caption title:] Décrets de la Convention Nationale, Des 27 Juillet & 7 Août 1793,...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/453.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1432049547)
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
![Item #598 [Caption title:] Loi Relative au remboursement des actions et portions d’actions de...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/598.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1557739576)
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. 3, (1) p. As a result of the decree of the National Assembly that removed all the privileges of Compagnie des Indes (French..... More
[Poland]: Early 1940s. Handwritten map of the Lodz ghetto with legend, marks and signs in red, green, and black ink, and pencil. Drawn on a contemporary German, mimeographed map, printed in black. Handwritten legend in Polish. 55 cm × 39 cm. Handwritten map of the Lodz Ghetto, drawn by a...... More
![Item #3281 [Tractatus de officio fiscalis.] D. Francisci de Alfaro, Fiscalis Quondam Procuratoris...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3281.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1722173205)
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
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
Tot Amsterdam: By Johan ten Hoorn, Boekverkooper tegen over het Oude Heeren Logement, inde Historischryver, 1695. First edition. In modern calf. Engraved frontispiece and two folding engraved plates. Woodcut initials and tailpieces. 4º: [𝜋]4 A–S4; engraved frontispiece and 3 preliminary leaves, [6] 139 [5] p., and [2] folded engraved plates..... More
![Item #3050 Moi Egal à toi. […]. / En Liberté comme toi. […]. François Bonneville](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3050.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691411974)
Paris: F. Bonneville del el Sculp, [1794]. Framed. Papar size: ca. 15 × 20 cm. Important public propaganda images commemorating the abolition of slavery in France in 1794. The abolition of slavery in Saint Domingue in 1793, a major achievement of the slave revolt, the Haitian Revolution, the..... More
![Item #3448 [Register of the deceased of the French Army in Saint-Domingue.] État des Officiers...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3448.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742841405)
[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
[Côte-d’Or]: [1793]. Côte-d’Or imprint, dated in Paris 21 June 1793. Folio broadside (ca. 27 × 20 cm), printed on one leaf, verso with official manuscript certifications and signatures. Unbound, as issued. Rare Revolutionary decree regulating the status and military integration of Caribbean refugees during the Haitian Revolution. Official decree..... More
![Item #942 [Caption Title:] Motion de M. De Curt, député de la Guadeloupe, Au nom des Colonies...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/942.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1469547985)
A Paris: Chez Baudouin, Imprimeur de L’Assemblée Nationale, rue du Foin Saint-Jacques, No. 31. 1789. 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..... More
Stockholm: tryckt hos Carl Delén, 1802. First Swedish edition. 87, [1] p. First edition of the Swedish translation of the first biography of the “Black Napoleon” Toussaint-Louverture. François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803) was an ex-slave, the best-known and the most successful black commanders of the Haitian Revolution, the only successful..... More
Kostantiniyye [Constantinople]: Mekteb-i Bahriye-i Sahane Matbaasi, 1285 AH [1868 AD]. First edition. Text in Ottoman Turkish. In publisher’s half leather. The panels are decorated with floral ornamentation. (1), (1)–62, (1), (63)–81, (1) p. Extremely scarce, first edition of Mühendis Faik’s memoir about his adventurous travel from Constantinople to Basrah through..... More
[Baltimore]: [lithographed by E. Sachse & Co.], [1866]. Tinted lithographic title; one typeset leaf of text (Navassa; Explanation of the Plates); six colored lithographic plates (Topographical Map; Low Beach; The Harbor; Lulutown and Old Diggings; Lulu Bay; Diggings). First edition. In the publisher’s brown half cloth, embossed title on both..... More
![Item #3596 [Signed MS.] Discours prononcé à l’assemblée paroissiale de la Croix des Bouquets...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3596.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755359071)
[La Croix-des-Bouquets?]: [30 May 1790]. Signed manuscript. Contemporary written record in a secretarial hand in brown ink on laid paper. With cancellations and corrections. Unbound. [8] pp., folio (ca. 375 × 225 mm). A contemporary signed manuscript to our knowledge unpublished: a constitutionalist defense of the recently formed Saint-Marc Assembly..... More
Maribor: Izdal OOOF, 1945. Second edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by France Cegnar, printed in red and black. Saddle-stitched. 31, (1) p. Scarce, first-hand account of the Mauthausen concentration camp, written by the Slovenian Partisan survivor, France Hribar, also known under his nom de guerre Savinjsek. In..... More
![Item #663 [Caption Title:] Chambre des Pairs. Séance du 20 avril 1826. Opinion de M. le comte de...](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/663.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1439912254)
(Paris?): (S.n.), 1826. 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..... More
A Rouen: Chez Julien Courant, derriere le Pallais pres la Bastille à l’Image Sainct Nicollas, M. DC. L [1650]. First edition. Woodcut title ornament, headpieces, and initials throughout. Printer’s corrections in ink and mounted paper slips in the dedication; a corrected royal printing privilege mounted over the originally printed text..... More
Le Cap: October 3, 1802. 1 leaf, manuscript on both sides. Printed heading: “Armée de Saint-Domingue, le Général en Chef. Liberté, Égalité.”Dated 11 Vendémiaire an XI (October 3, 1802). Written at the Headquarters of Le Cap (Quartier-Général du Cap, today Cap-Haïtien). Signed by General Charles Leclerc. 2 pages. Autograph letter..... More
Le Cap: 1802. 1 bifolium, 2 pages of manuscript text. Printed heading: “Armée de Saint-Domingue, le Général en Chef. Liberté, Égalité.” Dated 18 Vendémiaire an XI (October 10, 1802), written at the Headquarters of Le Cap (Quartier-Général du Cap, today Cap-Haïtien). Signed by General Charles Leclerc. 2 pages. Autograph letter..... More
(Sur la Copie imprimée) a Grenoble: Chez Gaspard Giroud, Imprimeur - Libraire de Nosseigneurs de la Cour de Parlement, Aydes & Finances de Dauphiné, à la Sale du Paris, M. DCC. XXVI. [1726]. First edition. Signed by Augustin D’Arcisas on the last page. With embosses seal at the end. With..... More
[Paris?]: [S.n.], 1788. First edition. Sewn binding. Protected with blank paper wrappers. [6] 52 [2] p. A scarce and interesting source of the French efforts to colonize Guiana in the late 18th century. By the Treaty of Paris in 1763 France lost almost all her possessions in the Americas..... More
Milano: Dalla Stamperìa e Fonderìa de Genio Tipografico presso il ponte di S. Marco, No. 1997. 1803. First edition. In later hard paper. [6] [2] 3–136 p. One of the earliest Italian accounts on Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution. First edition of this narrative detailing a voyage..... More
![Item #3495 Tizón de España. [Tizón de la nobleza de España.]. Francisco Mendoza y. Bobadilla](https://foldvaribooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3495.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1751039300)
[Spain]: late 18th century. Manuscript in Spanish, in brown ink, on good quality laid paper (“Albers” watermark). [3] [122] [1] [3 (blank)] ff. A rare 18th-century manuscript copy of this important 16th-century genealogical text, cataloging the Semitic heritage of the Spanish nobility. As early as the fifteenth century, the..... More
(Paris): (S.n.), (1799). First edition. Published unbound. 15, (1) p. Mentor’s speech on behalf of the “black and colored” soldiers of the French army. An important stage of the emancipation. In May 1798 Baron Étienne Bruix, the Minister of the Colonies ordered to create segregated military units for the..... More