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17811099761781 Un volume In-16 (9,5 x 16cm environ), reliure pleine peau, filets, et fleurons dorés au dos, tranche marbrées en couleurs, reprenant le motif des gardes - Cinq ouvrages reliés en un volume intitulé "Recueil II" à l'aide d'une pièce de titre au dos, répartis comme suit : (1) A Amsterdam; et se trouve à Paris, Chez Méquignon l'aîné, Librairie, rue des Cordeliers - M. DCC. LXXIX. 1779 - 46 pages - (2) A Berlin, et se trouve, à Paris, Chez l'Auteur , Barrière de Reuilly; Fauxbourg Saint-Antoine. Et Chez Belin, Librairie, rue Saint-Jacques - M DCC LXXIX. 1779 - 35 pages - (3) A Paris, Chez l'Auteur, rue Croix des Petits-Champs, Maison de M. Bourdet, Chirurgien-Dentiste du Roi. et Chez Blaizot, Librire du Roi, rue Satory, à Versailles - Avec Approbation et Permission - M. DCC. LXXXI. 1781- 139 pages - Cul-de-lampe - (4) A Amsterdam; et se trouve à Paris, Chez Bastien, Libraire, rue du Petit-Lion, Fauxbourg Saint-Germain - M. DCC. LXXIV. 1774 - 56 pages - (5) A Paris, Chez Saugrain, Libraire, Quai des Augustins, près de la rue Pavée - M. DCC. LXXXI. 1781 - 116 pages
1781166651781 basne marbrée, dos à nerfs. (mouillure marginale au coin supérieur du Compte rendu). in-4, (2ff.), 116pp., 1 tableau dépliant, 2 grandes cartes aquarellées sur papier fort. et Raynal : (2ff.), 28pp., 50 cartes aquarellées., 23 tableaux économiques - la plupart dépliants - ont été reliés in-fine. P. 1781
1779GIT00c6c1°) A Villefranche-de-Rouergue 1780-1781 2 parties VIII 148pp; 1f n ch 1f blanc 1f n ch 304pp. 2°) A Auch chez Jean-Pierre Duprat 1787-1788 2 parties 251pp; 189 VIIpp 1f errata, 10ff n ch (entre les p132-133), 2ff n ch (entre les p180-181), 2ff n ch (entre les p184-185). Ensemble de 2 ouvrages (chacun en 2 parties) en 1vol in-4. Pleine basane havane, dos à nerfs orné de compartiments dorés, tranches brique, rel époque. Coiffe en tête et 2 coins usés, petit manque sur la coiffe en queue, 2 mors fendus su 3cm. Haute-Guienne: 1re et 2e parties inversées. Auch: p1 à 16 reliées avant la page de titre.
176315240, , 1763. 2 parties en 1 vol. in-4 de 230-161-(1) pp. suivi de : Pièces justificatives des faits contenus au mémoire. Relié à la suite :Réponse du Sr Dupleix, à la lettre du sieur Godeheu. Paris, Cellot, 1763. In-4 de 330 pp.2 pièces reliées en 1 vol. in-4, cartonnage vert, dos lisse orné, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque).
17582792A Rouen, Chez Richard Lallemant, 1758. 2 vol. in-8 de (VII)XII-524-(2)-319 pp. ; IV-VI-(2)-LII-764 pp., basane havane marbrée, dos orné à nerfs, pièces de titre et de tomaison en veau blond et vert, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque).
175611024A Metz, Chez Joseph Collignon, 1756. In-4 de 7 pp., demi-maroquin lie-de-vin à la Bradel (reliure moderne).
178815755Londres et Paris, Buisson, 1788. In-8 de 174 pp., basane fauve, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre en maroquin, double filet à froid d'encadrement sur les plats (reliure de l'époque).
172444821Paris, De l’imprimerie royale, 1724. 1 vol. In-8 broché de 4 pp.
172444822Paris, Chez Louis-Denis Delatour & Pierre Simon, 1724. 1 vol. In-4 broché de 4 pp.
1788WRCAM47396London 1788. Paginations given below. Folio. Four of the titles string-tied as issued. First title lightly foxed and toned. Very good. In a half morocco and marbled boards box spine gilt. An interesting assemblage of British legislation from the period immediately following the Revolutionary War documenting British efforts to allow only very limited trade with the newly independent United States. British trade policy during this period is an excellent example of a foreign power taking advantage of the weak structure of the American Articles of Confederation which made it difficult for the thirteen states to act in concert and out of a any position of strength through unity. <br> <br> By 1783 the United States had formal trade relations with only two nations: France secured through the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce; and the Netherlands via a Commercial Treaty negotiated by John Adams in 1782. Before the Revolution British merchants had relied heavily on exports sent to the British colonies in North America which greatly outweighed goods imported to Britain from the colonies. After the war the British government was reluctant to sign a formal commercial treaty with the United States. The states at the time were operating under the relatively weak structure of the Articles of Confederation and the British felt that they could secure the benefits of trade with the American states without making any treaty concessions. <br> <br> Britain opted instead for a series of acts that established limited trade with the United States and between the United States and Canada and the British colonies in the West Indies. The first of these laws was passed in 1783 and the evolution of that law is reflected in the first three items below. In all these British laws severely circumscribed American trade with England and with English colonies though they did allow some markets for American exports and did facilitate the flow of much needed imports into the United States. In 1784 British exports to the United States were valued at more than £3.5 million while American exports to England were less than one-fifth of that sum. The United States and Great Britain would not sign a formal trade treaty until the Jay Treaty which was approved in 1795 and which gave the United States limited trading rights in the British West Indies. <br> <br> The first second third and fifth titles below were printed in very small numbers for the use of members of Parliament during debate and action on the bills. Known as "slip bills" they are a snapshot of the legislation as it proceeded through the legislative process. The first and fifth titles contain blank spaces in the text where dates and tariff rates would be filled in later and all four of the slip bills have printed docketing on the final page. The first and fifth items also contain a printed note before the text of the bill reading "the figures in the margin denote the Number of the Folios in the written copy" which indicates just how early in the legislative process these bills were printed. <br> <br> The four bills and one act included in this group are: <br> <br> 1 A BILL FOR THE PROVISIONAL ESTABLISHMENT AND REGULATION OF TRADE AND INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE SUBJECTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THOSE OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA caption title. London. 1783. 31pp. This bill gives the United States the same trading status as other independent sovereign states but restricts American exports to Great Britain only to those goods that are "the growth produce or manufacture of the said United States." It thus forbad the "triangular" trade in which American merchants liked to engage while not imposing the same restriction on British exporters. ESTC locates only five copies. ESTC N32490. BELL G578 ref. <br> <br> 2 A BILL AS AMENDED IN THE COMMITTEE FOR THE PROVISIONAL ESTABLISHMENT AND REGULATION OF TRADE AND INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE SUBJECTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THOSE OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA caption title. London. 1783. 51pp. This bill expands on and further defines the previous bill clearly spelling out the limitations on American trade with England while imposing no such restrictions on English merchants and in fact making every provision to facilitate British exports to America. ESTC locates six copies. ESTC N32061. <br> <br> 3 A BILL AS AMENDED IN THE COMMITTEE TO WHOM THE SAME WAS RE-COMMITTED FOR THE PROVISIONAL ESTABLISHMENT AND REGULATION OF TRADE AND INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE SUBJECTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THOSE OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA caption title. London. 1783. 51pp. As with the previous two versions of this bill the language here explains that it would be "highly expedient" to have a trade treaty with the United States but until that point England would make due with legislation regulating Anglo- American commerce. The same restrictive language regarding exports from America is carried over. ESTC locates only five copies. ESTC N32016. <br> <br> 4 AN ACT TO EXTEND THE POWERS OF AN ACT.FOR GIVING HIS MAJESTY CERTAIN POWERS FOR THE BETTER CARRYING ON TRADE AND COMMERCE BETWEEN THE SUBJECTS OF HIS MAJESTY'S DOMINIONS AND THE INHABITANTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE TRADE AND COMMERCE OF THIS KINGDOM WITH THE BRITISH COLONIES AND PLANTATIONS IN AMERICA.caption title. London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan 1784. 2715-716pp. This law specifically relates to British exports of iron hemp and sail cloth from the Baltic states to the United States. ESTC locates only three copies. ESTC N58431. BELL G585. <br> <br> 5 A BILL FOR REGULATING THE TRADE BETWEEN THE SUBJECTS OF HIS MAJESTY'S COLONIES AND PLANTATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA AND IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS AND THE COUNTRIES BELONGING TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; AND BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY'S SAID SUBJECTS AND THE FOREIGN ISLANDS IN THE WEST INDIES caption title. London. 1788. 91pp. This bill essentially prohibits American trade with Britain's colonies in the West Indies and prohibits American exports to Canada as well. The sole exemption is with regard to salt from the Turks Islands a product the English wanted to encourage. The bill allows American ships to receive salt on the islands. It also limits exports from the West Indies to America on such goods as sugar molasses coffee etc. to British ships only. ESTC locates only four copies. ESTC T201245. RAGATZ p.95. BELL G618 ref. <br> <br> An important group of rare working drafts of British legislation. hardcover books
1778WRCAM39128London 1778. 3pp. plus printed docket title on verso of second leaf. Bifolium. Three early horizontal folds. Very minor foxing and soiling. Near fine untrimmed. The rare Parliamentary printing of a bill relating to American trade under consideration by the house of Commons. In 1660 during the reign of Charles II Parliament passed a bill "for the encouraging and encreasing of Shipping and Navigation" which granted bonding for ships and vessels transporting goods from British plantations in Africa Asia and America directly to another British plantation or to a port in England Ireland or Wales. Three years later Ireland was struck from the list. The present law passed during the American Revolution restores Ireland's bonds privileges allowing her ports to accept goods directly from the colonies in the Americas now mostly limited to Canada and the West Indies Asia and Africa. Not in Kress Goldsmiths' or TPL. OCLC locates three copies at the University of Arizona the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Regina Saskatchewan. A rare example of a law reflecting the changes of British mercantilism at the close of the First Empire. unknown books
1794354283Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine 1794. 8pp. Dbd. Contemporary ownership signature on titlepage and manuscript notes on final leaf. Very good. 8pp. Dbd. This copy bears the ownership signature of noted New York jurist and legal scholar James Kent who ran for Congress from New York in 1793 but was defeated by his brother-in-law Theodorus Bailey. He would go on to a distinguished career as a judge on the Chancery court and as an author of legal commentaries. At the conclusion of the text is a manuscript note:<br /> "Mr. Wadsworth stated in the House of Representatives the 19th May 1794 that within the last six months American vessels & property had been captured by the British Privateer in the W. Indies to the extent of one million of dollars - & that other nations had seized American property to ½ mil. dol. & that the total loss to our commerce was 1½ mil. dol."<br /> In this report to President Washington the new Secretary of State Edmund Randolph details the depredations against American shipping caused by the powers involved in the French Revolutionary Wars. He quotes from a study by the "committee of Philadelphia" on the interference with American trade by the British French Spanish and Dutch and summarizes the methods used by those countries. The British impress American sailors into service the French are embargoing American goods etc. He makes no recommendations as to an appropriate response.<br /> OCLC locates four copies. Scarce. EVANS 27917. OCLC 8090321 Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine unknown
1794WRCAM30005Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine 1794. 8pp. Dbd. Contemporary ownership signature on titlepage and manuscript notes on final leaf. Very good. This copy bears the ownership signature of noted New York jurist and legal scholar James Kent who ran for Congress from New York in 1793 but was defeated by his brother-in-law Theodorus Bailey. He would go on to a distinguished career as a judge on the Chancery court and as an author of legal commentaries. At the conclusion of the text is a manuscript note: <br> <br> "Mr. Wadsworth stated in the House of Representatives the 19th May 1794 that within the last six months American vessels & property had been captured by the British Privateer in the W. Indies to the extent of one million of dollars - & that other nations had seized American property to 1/2 mil. dol. & that the total loss to our commerce was 1 1/2 mil. dol." <br> <br> In this report to President Washington the new Secretary of State Edmund Randolph details the depredations against American shipping caused by the powers involved in the French Revolutionary Wars. He quotes from a study by the "committee of Philadelphia" on the interference with American trade by the British French Spanish and Dutch and summarizes the methods used by those countries. The British impress American sailors into service the French are embargoing American goods etc. He makes no recommendations as to an appropriate response. <br> <br> OCLC locates four copies. Scarce. EVANS 27917. OCLC 8090321. Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine unknown books
1730GITj082Paris Hôtel de Thou 1730. In-8 438pp 1 feuillet non chiffré table et errata. Pleine basane havane racinée, dos à nerfs orné de cadres de filets et fleurettes dorés, pièces de titre grenat et de tomaison tabac, tranches brique, reliure de l'époque. Orné de 4 belles gravures hors texte dépliantes dont 2 grandes. Bel exemplaire frais, complet, reliure en excellent état et décorative. TOME XIX seul contenant: nouveaux voyages dans les Mers du Sud, Byron, Carteret, Wallis, M de Bougainville, Cook. (4756)
1730GITj080A Paris Hôtel de Thou 1730. In-8 510pp dont la table. Pleine basane havane racinée, dos à nerfs orné de cadres de filets et fleurettes dorés, pièces de titre grenat et de tomaison tabac, tranches brique, reliure de l'époque. Orné de 4 belles gravures hors texte. Pages légèrement brunies par endroits. Bel exemplaire frais, complet, reliure en très bon état et décorative. TOME XVII seul, contenant: suite du Livre II des voyages au Nord Ouest et au Nord Est, Islande, Jean Mayen, Nouvelle Zemble, Kamtchatka, climat, minéraux, animaux, habitants du Kamtchatka. (4754)
1730GITj081A Paris Hôtel de Thou 1730. In-8 660pp dont table. Pleine basane havane racinée, dos à nerfs orné de cadres de filets et fleurettes dorés, pièces de titre grenat et de tomaison tabac, tranches brique, reliure de l'époque. Orné d'une belle gravure hors texte. Bel exemplaire complet et en bon état, reliure fraîche et décorative. TOME XVIII seul contenant: Livre IV Kamtchatka, découverte et conquête par les Russes, leur commerce, pays et peuples voisins (Koriaques), vocabulaire de la langue du Kamtchatka et des îles Kourites, dialectes des Koriaques, des Kourites, Groënland, glaces, climat, minéraux, végétaux, bêtes, oiseaux et poissons, habitants du Groënland, Annales ou histoire du Groënland, 1ers établissements Danois dans le Groënland, établissements du Groënland depuis l'année 1733 jusqu'à l'an 1740. (j081)
1730GITj083Paris Hôtel de Thou 1730. In-8 490pp 1 feuillet non chiffré table. Pleine basane havane racinée, dos à nerfs orné de cadres de filets et fleurettes dorés, pièces de titre grenat et de tomaison tabac, tranches brique, reliure de l'époque. Orné de 4 belles gravures hors texte dont 3 grandes dépliantes. Bel exemplaire frais, complet, reliure en excellent état et décorative. TOME XX seul contenant: suite du Livre VI et du chapitre V (continuation des voyages du Capitaine Cook), second voyage du Capitaine Cook. (4757)
178728413Nantes 1787 un Acte de Donation de 2 pages (une feuille pliée en deux), sur papier vergé crème, ligné et filigrané , format : 21 x 29 cm, manuscrit à l'encre brune sur les 2 premières pages, cachet fiscal imprimé en noir en haut à droite de la 1ère page : REP. FRANC. LOIRE-INFÉRIEURE 75 C, signature manuscrite des notaires in-fine , ACTE DE DONATION MUTUELLE ENTRE PAUL LOUIS JULIEN RAZEAU DE BEAUVAIS, ÉCUYER, CONSEILLER DU ROY, AUDITEUR HONORAIRE EN LA CHAMBRE DES COMPTES DE BRETAGNE (ONCLE DE DANYEL DE KERVÉGAN - MAIRE DE NANTES - CONSUL AU CONSULAT DU COMMERCE DE NANTES), & PERRINE BRÉGEON SON ÉPOUSE, DEMEURANT A NANTES, RUE DUMOULIN, PAROISSE SAINTE CROIX, FAIT A NANTES LE 22 NOVEMBRE 1787,
179013111790 s.n., Paris, 1790. In-12, brochage moderne muet, 34 pages, 2 tableaux dépliants
18003655Dritte durchgesehene mit Zusätzen vermehrte und verbesserte Auflage von Johann Heinrich Stricker. Mit 1 gefalt. Tabelle. Frankfurt a. M., Andreä, 1800. 8vo. (19,2 x 11,6 cm). VIII, 459 S. Einfacher Halblederband d. Zt. mit Sprenkelpapierbezug.
1712WRCAM40325London 1712. 2323-324pp. Folio. Dbd. Small tear to fore edge of p.323 not affecting text. Lightly soiled. Very good. An act "for the incouragement of the trade to America" alleviating duties on incoming goods from the colonies. Mainly aimed a relieving duties on goods seized in the then on-going war between England France and Spain. ESTC N52389. unknown books
17781076London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan. 1778. First edition. Folio 32 x 20cm. Unbound. 2 1007-1012. Woodcut coat of arms to the title page decorative woodcut initial to the first text page text in black letter. A very good copy with just a little toning slight separation and minor wear to the left-hand margin where once bound within a larger volume. An act restoring Ireland's ability to export goods directly to the colonies in the Americas and Africa issued in the context of the American Revolutionary War and amending what became known as the Navigation Acts. Restricting the freedoms of Britain's colonies with regard to the import and export of goods the Navigation Acts had been a significant factor in fermenting rebellious discontent in America - requiring all of a colony's imports to be either bought from Britain or resold by British merchants in Britain regardless of the price obtainable elsewhere. The acts were also resented in Ireland and damaged its economy as they permitted the importation of English goods into Ireland tariff-free and simultaneously imposed tariffs on Irish exports travelling in the opposite direction. The present act removing some of these barriers demonstrates the changing nature of British mercantilism as the American Revolution progressed. London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan. unknown
1787162443London: Printed by Charles Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1787 i.e. 1788. Among the earliest Parliamentary responses to the British slave trade First edition of the first British law to regulate slave shipping preserved in its original volume of yearly parliamentary acts. The law bound 54th in this volume pioneered techniques of popular abolitionist appeal. The Slave Trade Act 1788 limited the number of enslaved persons that could be transported on British ships. It also required that all ships carried a doctor to monitor the conditions of the enslaved persons. The Act was supported through Parliament by Sir William Dolben 1727-1814 and Charles Stanhope 1753-1816. LoGerfo notes of their campaign that "the machinery used to appeal to the literate public would also be used in the future" p. 450. This volume collects 57 acts passed by the 16th Parliament of Great Britain which met from November 1787 to July 1788 and was led by Pitt the Younger. Like all Parliamentary statutes of this period the Slave Trade Act was separately printed with a general title page for inclusion in the yearly volumes of acts. Most of these statutes were printed with their own title pages included in the signatures and pagination - here all such pages have been removed. These laws were printed in limited numbers usually estimated at around 1100 copies only. The volume includes laws against chimney sweeps and child labour and measures to compensate dispossessed American loyalists in the years after the Revolution. Folio 304 x 191 mm pp. 1012 = 900 title pages of individual acts removed. Woodcut device to title page woodcut head- tailpieces and initials to contents. Contemporary quarter sheep spine lettered and with black morocco label in gilt marbled paper sides. Bumping and wear minor loss to spine ends joints cracked but holding firm slight browning and foxing to endpapers and contents slight marking to edges: a good copy. ESTC N58828; N58797 Slave Trade Act. James W. LoGerfo "Sir William Dolben and "The Cause of Humanity": The Passage of the Slave Trade Regulation Act of 1788" Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol. 6 No. 4 Jun. 1973. unknown
173932845London: Printed for H. Goreham 1739. Wraps. Very good. Stitched untrimmed wraps. 63 pages. iv 63 pages 1 page blank. The author defends the British policy against Spain to those who are sympathetic to Spain. Contents discusses interference with American trade and makes reference to the Negro population. <br /> <br /> Sabin 72044. Printed for H. Goreham unknown
1794703450Leipzig, Johann Samuel Heinsius, 1794. XXX, 662 Seiten, 12 nnr. Blätter Register u. 7 montierte Kupfertafeln. Schlichter Halbledereinband der Zeit auf 4 Bünden. Gering berieben. Innen sauber, die gefalteten Kupfertafeln in kräftigen Abdrucken. Nach der Vorrede wurde erneut ein Titelblatt mit verändertem Text eingefügt.