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1777WRCAM37443Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale 1777. 10pp. Quarto. Sheets folded and gathered as issued. Very minor foxing. Fine. A French royal decree consisting of twenty- seven articles concerning the founding and operation of an archive in France solely devoted to collecting and preserving documents generated in the French colonies. "Copies of all registers of baptisms marriages and deaths are to be made by the Registrars and Curates in the colonies as well as of all other official or legal documents with the exception only of inventories and family divisions but including wills court judgements laws and regulations etc." - Maggs. Wroth cites a single copy in the French National Archives OCLC adds copies at NYPL and the Newberry Library. MAGGS FRENCH COLONISATION OF AMERICA 593 this copy. WROTH ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 1868. OCLC 41040855. de l'Imprimerie Royale unknown books
1778WRCAM14147Paris 1778. 8pp. on folded sheets. Large quarto. Light dampstaining and soiling; a bit chipped at edges. Good. Unopened and untrimmed. A French royal decree which changes regulations on the planting of tobacco. Wroth locates only one copy at Harvard; OCLC locates no further copies. WROTH ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 1900. unknown books
1776WRCAM31361Paris: L'Imprimerie Royale 1776. 3pp. Quarto. Dbd. Light foxing. About very good. A scarce French law relating to trading privileges between the named ports and French colonial possessions in America. Not in MAGGS FRENCH COLONISATION OF AMERICA nor on OCLC. WROTH ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 1865. L'Imprimerie Royale unknown books
1704WRCAM44504London 1704. 2193-199pp. Folio. Dbd. Fine. In a half morocco folding clamshell case. An official British Act encouraging the importation of naval stores from the American colonies including tar pitch hemp masts and yardarms and other similar items. The colonies aided greatly in the expansion of the British Navy especially their stocks of large trees for naval timber. Only a handful of copies in ESTC. ESTC N53404. unknown books
1776WRCAM31356Paris: P.G. Simon 1776. 3pp. Quarto. Dbd. Light dampstaining to corners. Good. A scarce French law relating to port privileges for ships trading with the American colonies. Wroth locates two copies of the official royal printing though neither he nor OCLC locate the present printing commissioned by the French legislature. WROTH ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 1875 another ed. MAGGS FRENCH COLONISATION OF AMERICA 595 another ed. P.G. Simon unknown books