![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
![Caption title:] Déclaration du Roi, Sur l’Administration des Biens des Mineurs dans les...](/pictures/thumb/555.jpg?v=1436540603)
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
![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
![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
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
Au Cap François: Chez Marie, Imprimeur-Libraire bréveté du Roi pour l’Isle S. Domingue, à l’execution de tous autres [Antoine Marie], M. DCC. LXIV [1764]. First edition. Woodcut and typographical printer's ornament on the title page. With a typographical headpiece and initial. In publisher’s blank paper, bound by sewing. (2), 90..... More
![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
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
![Caption title:] Extrait des registres des délibérations de l’assemblée provinciale du Sud de...](/pictures/thumb/1063.jpg?v=1483116315)
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
![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
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
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
[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
![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
(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
![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
![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
En Madrid: Imprenta de Francisco Martinez, Año de M. DC. XXXII [1632]. First edition. In later hardpaper, using contemporary material. ¶–3¶4, A–M8, N4, A[i.e. O]8; ff [12], 100, [8]. Scarce Spanish legal book considered the first work dealing with the question of proof, a manual for tortured testimonies. Antonio..... More
[S.l.]: [s.n.], [n.d., but after August 27 1516]. First edition. Title page with large woodcut illustration showing the King on his throne surrounded by the delegates. In Bastarda type, with two floral woodcut initials. In later hard paper. Gilt title vignette on spine, damaged. [20] p. A bibliographically unrecorded, early..... More
(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
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
![Nyilatkozat. [Statement.]. Albert Szent-Györgyi](/pictures/thumb/616.jpg?v=1438789089)
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
[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
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