![Caption title:] Déclaration du Roi, Sur la Contribution en cas de Déconfiture, dans les...](/pictures/thumb/557.jpg?v=1436588520)
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 about Caption title:] Déclaration du Roi, Sur la Contribution en cas de Déconfiture, dans les...
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Paris: P. G. Simon, Imprimeur du Parlement, 1777. First edition. With woodcut head piece. 4 p. Royal act regarding the property of the minors in French India (Établissements français dans l’Inde). More about Caption title:] Déclaration du Roi, Sur l’Administration des Biens des Mineurs dans les...
![Caption title:] Décrets de la Convention Nationale, Des 27 Juillet & 7 Août 1793, l’an second...](/pictures/thumb/453.jpg?v=1432094542)
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 about Caption title:] Décrets de la Convention Nationale, Des 27 Juillet & 7 Août 1793, l’an...
![Caption title:] Loi Qui fixe la disposition des Couleurs dans les différens genres de Pavillons,...](/pictures/thumb/1240.jpg?v=1501775373)
A Paris: De L’Imprimerie Royale, 1790. 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... More about Caption title:] Loi Qui fixe la disposition des Couleurs dans les différens genres de Pavillons,...
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 about Signed Certificate of Temporary Citizenship
![Caption title:] Loi relative au mémoire en forme d'instruction destiné pour les colonies....](/pictures/thumb/661.jpg?v=1439958205)
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 about Caption title:] Loi relative au mémoire en forme d'instruction destiné pour les colonies....
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 curious book on sacerdotal celibacy. Geoffroy Boussard (1439–1522)..... More about De continentia sacerdotum. Sub hac questione nova. Utrum Papa possit cum sacerdote dispensare ut...
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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 about Caption title:] Extrait des registres des délibérations de l’assemblée provinciale du Sud de...
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 about Discours de M. Benjamin-Constant, Député de la Seine, Dans la discussion des articles du...
![Caption Title:] Motion de M. De Curt, député de la Guadeloupe, Au nom des Colonies réunies....](/pictures/thumb/942.jpg?v=1469547986)
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 about Caption Title:] Motion de M. De Curt, député de la Guadeloupe, Au nom des Colonies réunies
Boston: Printed by F. Ingraham, No. 34, Congress Street, 1830. First edition. Bound by sewing, with no wrappers, as published. 85, (1), L [50], (2) p. Reprinted documents of the legal case of John Dodge versus Thomas H. Perkins related to an unpaid interest on a loan paid for the... More about Report of the Case of John Dodge, Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Unite Dodge,...
Paris: F. Champenois, Imprimeur-Éditeur (Gravé par A. Simon), (1909). First edition.With a mounted photographic advertisement of the Tesseron distillery at Châteauneuf-sur-Charente. In publisher’s folder. 720 × 620 mm. In May 1909 a very precise definition of the outer boundaries of the cognac region and the appellation control (appellation d'origine contrôlée)..... More about Carte des crus des eaux-de-vie des Charentes ou de Cognac par J. M. Guillon, Inspecteur de la...
[Rohnstock?]: 1772–1774. 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... More about Cadastral Maps of the Domains of the Hochberg Family in Lower Silesia
![Caption Title:] Chambre des Pairs. Séance du 20 avril 1826. Opinion de M. le comte de Kergorlay,...](/pictures/thumb/663.jpg?v=1439958205)
(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 about Caption Title:] Chambre des Pairs. Séance du 20 avril 1826. Opinion de M. le comte de Kergorlay,...
(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 about Lettres Patentes du Roy. Données à Paris au mois de May 1720. En Faveur de la Redemption Des...
![Caption Title:] Chambre des Pairs. Séance du 11 avril 1826. Rapport Fait à la Chambre par M. le...](/pictures/thumb/662.jpg?v=1439912104)
(Paris?): (S.n.), 1826. First edition. Published unbound. Attached with string. 32 p. Report of the special commission for inspecting the distribution of the indemnity payed by Haiti for the former French settlers after gaining her independence. The members of commission were Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis (1764–1830), marquis de Lally-Tollendal (1751–1830), Emmanuel..... More about Caption Title:] Chambre des Pairs. Séance du 11 avril 1826. Rapport Fait à la Chambre par M. le...
![Caption Title:] Chambre des Pairs. Séance du 19 avril 1826. Opinion de M. le comte de Noé, Sur...](/pictures/thumb/664.jpg?v=1439912571)
(Paris?): (S.n.), 1826. First edition. Published unbound. 11, (5) p. Comte de Noé’s (1777–1858) 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... More about Caption Title:] Chambre des Pairs. Séance du 19 avril 1826. Opinion de M. le comte de Noé, Sur...
(Aurillac): (S.n.), (ca. 1825.). 1 page printed document. With handwritten correction in ink. 220 × 315 mm. Announcement for the pensioners, annuitants, depositors and former landowners of Saint-Domingue about the payment of their incomes by the state. Guy, the Paymaster of Aurillac reassures the payment of dues for those... More about Avis. A MM. les Pensionnaires et Rentiers de l'Etat, Les Titulaires de Cautionnemens et les...
A Paris: Chez tous les marchands de nouveautés de l’Imprimerie de Jacques Cot, Prairial. – An VI. [1798]. First edition. In contemporary blue paper. (5), II–III, (2), 2–148 p. Although Sabin describes Les veillées de Cayenne as a “large collection of proclamations, laws, and orders issued at Cayenne, between 1790–1797”..... More about Les veillées de Cayenne, par un déporté
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Budapest: July 7, 1945. 1 typed page, dated. Signed in ink by Szent-Györgyi. 210 × 172 mm. Szent-Györgyi attests that Miklós Krivátsy-Szüts (1898–1982; Hungarian sculptor) was member of Szent-Györgyi’s resistance group and took part in its activities during WWII. Szent-Györgyi mentions that Krivátsy-Szüts was a responsible member of the “Nemzeti..... More about Nyilatkozat. [Statement
[Paris]: De l'Imprimerie de L. Potier de Lille, rue Favart, no. 5, 1791. First edition, with the four-page addendum. In later cardboard, covered with marbled paper. Red leather, gilt title vignette on spine. (7), 4–31, (1) p. Tausia-Bournos’ letter to the Colonial Committee (pp. [3]–[5].) and his treatise about the... More about Coup-d'oeil impartial sur les décrets de l'Assemblée national, relativement aux colonies, par...
Berlin: Bühnen- und Buchverlag russischer Autoren J. Ladyschnikow, [1909]. First separate edition. Text in Russian. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 28, (4). First separate edition of Tolstoy’s essay on capital punishment and Christianity. Martial law was introduced in Russia during the turmoil time of repression after the 1905 Russian... More about Smertnaja kazn’ i christianstvo. (Die Todesstrafe und das Christentum.) [The Death Penalty and...
[S.l.]: [S.n.], (1771?). First edition. Published unbound. Stitched. 44, (4) p. A fictional correspondence between R** and T*** “deux Américaines originaires du Port-au-Prince dans l'Isle de S. Domingue. Le premier réside a Paris depuis quelques années” (two Americans from Port-au-Prince on the island of Saint-Domingue. The first lives in Paris..... More about Lettres Américaines sur les Parlemens. 1770 & 1771