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1765WRCAM40686Paris 1765. 3pp. Quarto on a folded folio sheet. Some soiling and minor foxing. Light creases. Contemporary inscription. About very good. A French royal decree concerning the payment of bills of exchange for the French colonies of Louisiana Saint-Domingue Isle-Royale today Cape Breton Island in Nova Scota and Martinique. Wroth cites two copies in the Archives Nationales and the John Carter Brown Library; OCLC locates no further copies. Rare. <br> <br> From the library of Cardinal Etienne Charles de Lomenie de Brienne 1727-1794 Minister of Louis XVI Archbishop of Toulouse and of Sens. A friend of Voltaire and a member of the Académie Française Brienne wielded significant power as as head of the Finance Ministry which earned him many enemies. He died in prison during the French Revolution despite having renounced Catholicism in 1793 presumably as an attempt to save his life. MAGGS FRENCH COLONISATION OF AMERICA 527 this copy. WROTH ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 1683. unknown books
1711WRCAM37434Paris 1711. 4pp. Quarto on a folded folio sheet. Contemporary inscription. Minor foxing; light tanning at "spine" edge. Very good. A French royal decree which confirms an earlier decree of May 12 1693 ensuring that cocoa arriving from French colonies overseas and cocoa from non-French territories will pay equal duty. Not in Wroth or OCLC. From the library of Cardinal Etienne Charles de Lomenie de Brienne 1727-94 Minister of Louis XVI Archbishop of Toulouse and of Sens. A friend of Voltaire and a member of the Académie Française Brienne wielded significant power as head of the Finance Ministry which earned him many enemies. He died in prison during the French Revolution despite having renounced Catholicism in 1793 presumably as an attempt to save his life. MAGGS FRENCH COLONISATION OF AMERICA 75 this copy. unknown books
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
174236184London 1742. 6 works in one volume folio. 12 1/2 x 8 inches. Manuscript index. Contemporary English mottled calf expertly rebacked to style spine gilt with raised bands red morocco lettering piece.<br/> <br/>Provenance: Samuel Sandys 1st Baron Sandys 1695-1770<br/> <br/>An extraordinary sammelband of early 18th century Parliamentary reports and colonial laws relating principally to the English colonies in America including the first collected printing of colonial charters and an important early work on Georgia.<br/> <br/>1 Report from the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations . a Scheme for the Registering the Wool of Great Britain and Ireland. London: 1741 but 1742. 11 1pp. This Parliamentary report dated Feb. 12 1741-2 and issued under Walpole's administration details a fifty-point process for the licensing of wool from the moment of shearing in an attempt to reduce the smuggling of wool and the avoidance of export tariffs. ESTC T150068. 2 An Abridgement of Several Acts and Clauses of Acts of Parliament Relating to the Trade and Navigation of Great Britain to and from and in the British Plantations in America. London: John Baskett. 1739. Text in two columns. 44pp. Includes text from the Molasses Act of 1733 as well as other British Acts of Parliament relating to colonial trade the fisheries piracy and more from as early as 1660 to 1735. Sabin 80; ESTC T111534 recording only four copies in North America. 3 MARTYN Benjamin 1699-1763. An Account shewing the Progress of the Colony of Georgia in America from its First Establishment. London: 1741. 2 71 1pp. Ordered to be published by the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia this work -- the first history of the Colony of Georgia -- was issued as a Parliamentary paper ordered to be printed 26 February 1741. "While Martyn's two earlier pieces of 1732 his Some Account and New and Accurate Account were in the nature of prospectuses for the proposed colony of Georgia the Account shewing the Progress is a year by year record of happenings there preceded by a discussion of the charter and especially its reasons for the prohibition against Negroes. There is also much on the relations between Georgia and South Carolina. This is the first year by year account of the colony of Georgia." Streeter. A very few examples are extant with a map of Georgia inserted not present here and not present in either the Streeter or Siebert copies. Rare. Clark I:121; De Renne I pp. 90--91; European Americana 174/147; Howes M353; Sabin 45000; Siebert sale 573; Streeter sale 2:1145; Vail 411; ESTC T103222. 4 A List of Copies of Charters from the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations . Viz. Maryland . Connecticut . Rhode-Island . Pensylvania sic . Massachusets Bay . Georgia . London: 1741. 2; 12; 10; 14; 12; 21 1; 18pp. Text of the Maryland Charter in Latin. The first collected edition of American colonial charters issued as a Parliamentary paper and ordered to be printed 11 February 1741. ESTC notes two issues: the present with "John Clarke" on the last line of the first page of the Connecticut charter. Rare with only a single example in the auction records for the past half century. Rich I:15; Sabin 41430; Tower 8; ESTC T80993. 5 Acts of Assembly Made and Enacted in the Bermuda or Summer-Islands From 1690 to 1713-14. London: John Baskett 1719. 2 v 1 79 1pp. With separate title pages to each of the various sessions i.e. at pages 28 41 and 55. The first collected laws of Bermuda. Very rare with no examples in the auction records for the past half century. Sabin 4906; Tower 4; ESTC T145163. 6 Acts of Assembly Passed in the Island of Barbadoes; From 1717-18 to 1738 inclusive. Part II. London: John Baskett 1739. x 2 blank 315-484pp. Preceded by pp. 315-318 i.e. a supplement to Part I. The first part was separately published in 1721 and reissued in 1732 comprising the laws from 1648 to 1718. This second part recording the laws from 1717 to 138 also includes an abridgment of the previous Acts of Assembly in the rear. Sabin 3260; ESTC T19070. 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
