PIOLET (Père J.-B.), sous la direction de.-Livre Rare Book
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1900117811900 Paris, Armand Colin, 1900-03, 6 forts volumes grand in 8°, demi maroquin bleu nuit à coins, dos lisse orné de décors et encadrements dorés et de trois croix aux contours mosaïqués en maroquin rouge, tête dorée, couverture verte conservée ; très importante iconographie ; quelques menus défauts d'usage aux reliures, coins supérieurs émoussés, une coiffe très légèrement usée ; large tache brune au plat inférieur du Tome IV (ZAUGG Rel).
186944744Boston: Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1869-72. First Edition. Quarto 18cm. Bound volume of 25 consecutive monthly issues comprising the entirety of the first two years of publication. Mild external scuffing and wear; occasional spotting and soil within; Very Good. The official monthly organ of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. In addition to financial reports and notices of internal affairs includes much of interest on women's welfare in less-developed regions of the world primarily the Indian subcontinent where the Society's activities were the most prolific but also other regions of Southeast Asia China and North Africa. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church unknown books
189598940P., Letouzey et Ané, 1895-1896, 3 forts vol. in-8°, lxiv-488, 536 et 694 pp, 8 portraits gravés et 3 grandes cartes en couleurs dépliantes hors texte, pièces justificatives, reliures demi-basane brun-rouge, dos lisses avec titres et filets dorés (reliure de l'époque), dos passés et lég. frottés, bon état
1850DEMO015143ILille France: L. Lefort 1850. Stated Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. steel-engraved frontispiece. 8vo 258 pages 20th century half sprinkled calf marbled boards original wrappers bound in place. <br/><br/>Needs to be read with de Smet's LETTERS AND SKETCHES . AMONG THE INDIAN TRIBES OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS 1843 which contains several letters not included in this French text; but this French text "contains material not found in the English - Wagner-Camp-Becker 113a:5." Howes M288; Graff 3831; Monaghan 1332. Binding by "Reliure Francais". Issued in the Bibliotheque Historique et Morale this is actually the Third French Edition. Steel-engraved frontispiece. L. Lefort hardcover
1860004537Toronto: Anson Green 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo xi 424 pages minor foxing short breaks at the folds of the brown embossed cloth. Lacks the lithographed portrait frontispiece no evidence that it was ever inserted. Ex libris William Binkley. Rare - The Frank T. Siebert Library of the North American Indian Sales of 1999 had three works by Jones but not this one. <br/><br/>Kehkewaguonaby was a Mississauga Ojibwa Chief British father Ojibwa mother who converted to Wesleyan Methodism and was ordained a minister. These are the first journals kept by a Canadian native. He became the first native missionary to the Ojibwa and with his brother John was the first translator of books of the Bible into Ojibwa and Chippewa. He was also photographed in his native regalia circa 1844-46 - thus the earliest known photograph of a North American Indian. Sabin 36591. This work includes his autobiography with an account of his conversion experience and the details of his ministries. Anson Green hardcover
18822401020057Published by the American Board and Woman's Board of Missions Boston 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. An American Missionary Publication for Juveniles: Mostly Focused on China 24 issues 12 pages in each monthly issue. Paper is in fine condition. 20 cm Bound in publisher's red cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Spine slightly sunned. Clean unmarked pages. Printed on blue paper. 144 144 pages. Profusely illustrated. Early inscription to Edith F. Means 1886. <br> Includes interesting images and descriptions of contemporary China and India. Published by the American Board and Woman's Board of Missions, Boston hardcover
185478581854 4 volumes, reliure demi-chagrin vert in-octavo, dos long décoré or - titre frappé or - filets or et petits fers fleuron, papier frotté au tome premier sur le deuxième plat, trés légères rousseurs, illustré d'une carte dépliante de "l'Indostan" et de 4 planches dépliantes de fac-similé de documents, 380+416+459+498 pages, 1847-1854 Paris Librairie de Poussielgue-Rusand Editeur,
184624120Paris Gaume 1846-47 -in-8 demi-chagrin 2 Tomes reliés en 4 volumes, reliure demi-chagrin noir grand in-octavo (binding half shagreen in-4) (28 x 18,6 cm), dos long (spine without raised band), titre et tomaison frappés or (gilt title and volume numbering) avec un filet "or" de part et d'autre, roulette "or" en place des nerfs avec un filet à froid de part et d'autre, entre-nerfs à caisson "or" formé de 2 filets "or" en encadrement avec rinceaux "or" aux angles reliés ensemble par un filet courbe à froid, doubles filets "or" en tête et en pied, plats décorés à froid d'un filet large et d'un filet plus fin en encadrement, papier granité noir imitation percale aux plats, toutes tranches lisses, texte imprimé en noir sur 2 colonnes, orné de 2 gravures-titre gravées en noir par guillaumot + 117 planches hors-texte gravées en noir + 8 cartes Géographiques dépliantes en noir + 20 portraits hors-texte en noir, Tome I 1ère partie (XIV + 344 pages) + Tome I 2ème partie (de la page 345 à la page 624) + Tome II 1ère partie(328 pages) + Tome II 2ème partie (de la page 329 à la page 688) + 2 pages d'avis au relieur pour le placement des gravures, 1846-47 Paris Gaume Editeur,
189931401Bruxelles: Charles Bulens 1899. - 1913. 15 volumes = 15 years. 1899 and 1906 in 12 fascicules rest hardcovers half cloth. With illustrations. Very good set see image. Charles Bulens hardcover
1842WRCAM45847Louisville: J. Eliot & Co.'s Power Press 1842. 32pp. Dbd. Titlepage lightly foxed. Three pages printed at poor angles affecting a letter or two on each line on two of the pages more severe on the third page. Good. A scarce report by this Baptist organization dedicated to ameliorating the condition of American Indians by setting up missions for them and through education. The progressive- minded missionary Isaac McCoy was a leader of the group and one of the appendices contains a seven-page report by McCoy "on the propriety of forming in the Valley of the Mississippi an American Indian Mission Association." This Association was indeed founded later in the year. OCLC locates a dozen copies. OCLC 4499095. J. Eliot & Co.'s Power Press unknown books
1838WRCAM46567Philadelphia 1838. 10 pamphlets bound in one various paginations. Modern half calf and marbled boards leather label. Light toning and soiling. Contemporary manuscript notations to one report. Very good. A run of ten annual reports for the Board of Missions of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. Reports contain details on the missionary activities as well as a list of missionaries with much on American Indian missions during the 1830's. hardcover books
1840WRCAM29191N.p. 1840. Folding map 14 3/4 x 13 inches. Colored in blue and red. Split along one fold expertly repaired backed by tissue. Very good. Archival matting and protected with Mylar sheet. A map of the United States showing the area east of the Rocky Mountains and including "Texas" and the "Provinces of Mexico." Also depicted are "Canada West" i.e. Great Lakes region and the "British Possessions" in western Canada. The map was most likely produced by the American Baptist Board for Foreign Missions and details the parts of North America into which they contemplated expanding their operations. The targeted area in the United States is colored in blue and includes the upper Midwest from the southern border of Missouri to the Iowa and Wisconsin territories in the west western Pennsylvania in the east and north to the Canadian border. The area targeted for expansion in Canada colored in red is the portion of southern Canada surrounding the Great Lakes. Up to this point the American Baptist Board for Foreign Missions had conducted most of their operations abroad including a mission in Maulmain Burma. To our knowledge this is an unrecorded map. unknown books
1848DEMO015918IGand / Ghent: Chez Ve Vander Schelden 1848. First Belgian edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small octavo 589 pages contemporary full green sheep extra gilt aeg scuffed. Inked presentation in 1912 from Rev. Francis J. Harbe: Harbe died in 1913 at age 37 in San Antonio Texas. He may have acquired this when a seminarian at Belgium in 1900. <br/><br/>Howes D286; Graff 3826; Field 1425; Sabin 82266; Smith 9549; Strathern 511:iii. "This edition seems to have been prepared by the author himself. It contains more material than the edition in English "Oregon Missions" the illustrations are different and the three maps are entirely new - Sabin 82265." It has several additional letters and an Appendix pp. 360 - 378. "Origine des Americains." Contains Fr. De Smet's description of his travels through and about the central Columbia River Plateau . he continued . to the Fort Vancouver by way of Fort Colville -- Wagner-Cam-Becker 141.2." Contains 16 plates including the pictorial title-age and 3 folding maps. Chez Ve Vander Schelden hardcover
1855DEMO015061ICincinnati: Moore Wilstach Keys & Co. 1855. First edition. Duodecimo. Very Good. folding map. 12mo x 216 pages blind embossed chocolate cloth paper residue on spine Ex-library with pockets but no numerals on spine bookplates. minor splits; western margin of map crinkled torn chip in lower left blank margin lightly stained. <br/><br/>This was the Second Book on Kansas Territory and the first from personal observation. . Boynton and company were advance scouts for "The American Reform Tract and Book Society" and "The Kansas League" . They had many adventures traveling from Cincinnati in the Autumn of 1854 including cholera on board the riverboat. Howes B677; Graff 376; Streeter IV:1990; Wagner-Camp-Becker 250. Asks and answers the question of how Christians should respond to the proposed spread of slavery to Kansas Territory. With a folding map of Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma / Indian Territory by Henry V. Boynton Wheat TRANSMISSISSIPPI WEST 4. Uncommon: Note: Cora Dolbee in the Kansas Historical Quarterly states that the three only copies of this book she had seen are "of the same first and probably only edition of the book ever issued - Vol. 4 no.2 May 1935." Folding map. Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. unknown
18204634Philadelphia: Baptist Board of Foreign Missions for the United States 1820-1822. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Half leather with marbled boards spine shellacked outer hinges cracked and filled with paste red leather spine title label 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches college bookplate we notice one oval ink name stamp on one page of text. Lined end papers recent former owner's signature on front paste-down notes in pencil drawing attention to the revival articles in the volume one leaf cut and laid in. Detailed list of numbers below. The periodical numbers in this bound volume are:Vol. II. No. XI February 1820; No. XIII May 1820; No. XIV August 1820; No. XV November 1820; No. XVI February 1821; No. XVII May 1821.Vol. III. No. II February 1822; No. III March 1822; No. IV April 1822; No. V May 1822; No. VI. June 1822; No. VIII August 1822; No. X. October 1822; No. XI November 1822.14 issues in all.Contributors in this volume include Luther Rice Robert B. Semple John Mason Peck Job Washburn Adoniram Judson Ann Hasseltine Judson William Warder of Kentucky Obadiah B. Brown Pliny Fisk Levi Parsons S. M. Noel Indian School in Kentucky Hosea Holcombe Elder Thomas Smiley of the Chemung Association William Ward India Daniel Hascall Wm. Staughton Lucius Bolles Lott Carey.This series was published in six volumes from 1818 to 1825. They are no. 3209 in Roberts Revival Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. "A periodical rich in revival material including letters of John Mason Peck."This volume contains theological articles annual reports of the Board Bible commentary missionary letters of Adoniram Judson reports of missions to Cherokee Indians home missionary reports revival news from Kentucky and elsewhere African mission reports &c. It also contains a report on the burning of widows in India. There are tables of all of the congregations within the Baptist Board's overview with their Association state number of members name of correspondent with their address times of meetings and places of meetings. Baptist Board of Foreign Missions for the United States hardcover
1892124929à Paris - à Lyon, Perisse, frères, impr. Imprimerie de Rusand, à Lyon 1892 24 volumes. In-8 20,5 x 12,5 cm. Reliures de l’époque demi-basane vert-émeraude, dos lisses ornés de filets dorés, environ 400 pp. par volume. Ensemble en bon état.
1827R97587Lyon, chez l'éditeur des Annales/ Rusand 1827-1840 Tête de série; collection complète de l'année 1 (1823) jusqu'à et inclus l'année 12 (1840), ensemble de 73 livraisons, reliés par tome en 12 volumes uniformes, belles reliures cart. (dos en cuir avec titre et décorations dorés, plats marbrés, avec texte doré sur le premier plat: "Propagation de la foi. Hommage de la commission de Liège, 1841"), toutes tranches marbrées, feuilles de garde marbrées, qqs. rousseurs, 21cm., tout complet avec les quelques gravures et cartes hors-texte (souvent en frontispice), bon état, ["Recueil périodique des lettres des évèques et des missionnaires des missions des deux mondes, et de tous les documens relatifs aux missions et à l'association de la propagation de la foi. Collection faisant suite à toutes les éditions des Lettres édifiantes"". Contenu détaillé: Volume 1 (1823-août 1825, livraisons 1 à 6): 40 + 72 + 32 + 164 + 78 + 107pp. (en 2e ou 3e édition éditée en 1827-1837) // Volume 2 (mars 1826-novembre 1827, livraisons 7 à 12)): 436pp. // Volume 3 (1828-septembre 1829, livraisons 13 à 18): 586pp. // Volume 4 (janvier 1830 - avril 1831, livraisons 19 à 24): 726pp. // Volume 5 (juillet 1831 à octobre 1832, livraisons 25 à 30): 734pp. // Volume 6 (de janvier 1833 à janvier 1834, livraisons 31 à 35): 638pp. // Volume 7 (avril 1834 à avril 1835, livraisons 36 à 40): 688pp. // Volume 8 (juillet 1835 à juillet 1836, livraisons 41 à 47): 600pp. // Volume 9 (septembre 1836 à juillet 1837, livraisons 48 à 53): 592pp. // Volume 10 (septembre 1837 à septembre 1838, livraisons 54 à 60): 560pp. // Volume 11 (novembre 1838 à novembre 1839, livraisons 61 à 67): 672pp. // Volume 12 (janvier 1840 (probablement à décembre 1840), livraisons 68 à 73): 618pp.], poids total: 8kg., rare, R97587
1875126715à Lyon - à Paris, chez M. P. Rusand, imprimeur-libraire, à la Librairie écclésiastique 1875 42 volumes. In-8 20,5 x 12,5 cm. Reliures de l’époque composites demi-basane aubergine, dos lisses ornés de filets dorés encadrés de petits fers à froid, environ 550 pp. par volume, table des matières en fin de chaque volume. Ex-libris Monteynard. Manque en pied de dos vol. 28. Intérieur frais. Ensemble en bon état.
18688202Lyon et Paris, 1868-1919, 50 années en 47 vol. in-4°, 640 pp, environ chacun, très nombreuses gravures sur bois in et hors texte, cartes dépliantes hors texte, précieux index dans chaque volume, tous les volumes sont reliés en demi-chagrin rouge époque, sauf 8 vol. reliés pleine toile
1816271<p>New York: J. Seymour American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Agents Appointed to Establish a School for Heathen Youth 1816. first edition. modern 1/4 niger morocco. Good. Inspiration for the First Mission to Hawaii. <br /><br />Rare in commerce most copies have been acquired by American institutions. Few copies have come to documented auction in the past 100 years. Of those made available about half are decommissioned library copies including a copy that sold for over $15000 at a 2006 Sotheby's auction.<br /><br />Condition: Very Good<br /><br />IMPORTANCE & BACKGROUND<br /><br />A biographical account of the lives of five Hawaiian youths who would come to form a core of initial students enrolled at the new Foreign Mission School established at Cornwall Connecticut in 1816. The vivid accounts of Captain Cook's and others explorers' voyages to the Sandwich Islands Hawaii and other Pacific islands generated interest in the U.S. to properly educative Hawaiians in both academic and Christian teachings. The school formed under the direction of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ABCFM would serve to educate foreign students in preparation for missionary work in their native lands and elsewhere. <br /><br />A Narrative of Five Youth from the Sandwich Islands was the first of many publications intended to raise funds and stir up popular support for the new school as well as for the first Christian mission sent to the Hawaiian Islands three years later. The publications were a great success leading to the significant funding and public support critical to early efforts to fold Hawaii within the cultural and commercial influence of the United States.<br /><br />BOOK INFO<br /><br />Published in 1816 in New York by J. Seymour under the direction of ".agents appointed to establish a school for heathen youth" e.g. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. First edition first printing. Bound in modern 1/4 green niger morocco with gilt spine lettering over finely woven green cloth backed boards. Refreshed endpapers. Thin Octavo 8 1/2" x 5 1/8". Collated and complete: 3 4-44 p. <br /><br />ABOUT THE WORK & HISTORICAL CONTEXT<br /><br />By the early 1800s Hawaii had become a key aspect of America's growing trade with China. It was a critical resupply port for American ships on the trade route to China and a lucrative source for sandalwood. American merchants saw commercial possibilities that could be expanded. Protestant missionaries saw heathens in need of salvation via Christian conversion.<br /><br />This is a biographical account of and strong bit of fundraising propaganda on how five Hawaiian youths were saved from their heathen ways and savage pasts through a civilized education and Christian conversion. While the backgrounds of the youth vary - one was the son of a chief and another the survivor of brutal inter-tribal warfare for example-- the stories of these five youths share a number of common elements. All had spent time as sailors on American trade ships. Three had served at sea in the War of 1812. Most had experienced periods of extreme hardship after reaching New England. All found sponsors teachers and spiritual guides who helped them on their path to converting to Protestantism.<br /><br />CONDITION INFO<br /><br />The book is Good to Very Good by early 19th century American imprint standards.<br /><br />Binding is tight. Leather is supple. Areas of dust and light soiling to cloth. Lightly toned pages overall with light foxing. Some abrasion to paper along gutter margins of first few pages. Browning to first and last page with some brittleness and chipping. The paper used by the printer was quite thin so the text block background is darkened a bit by opposing page text on the same leaf as in all copies. No writing ex libris marks or library markings. Slight loosening at the head of the first few leaves where binding cords are exposed. A few smudges marginal paper nicks and other signs of light handling.<br /><br />.</p> J. Seymour, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (Agents Appointed to Establish a School for Heathen Youth)
1816046287New York: Printed By J. Seymour 1816. Published by order of the agents appointed to establish a school for heathen youth. 44p. one-inch paper repair on the upper right margin of the t.p. some paper browning and foxing. Attractively bound in modern brown half-leather with decorative boards. Shaw & Shoemaker 36725. Printed By J. Seymour unknown books
1852List2521London 1852. Five groups of documents measuring 13 x 8 inches various paginations see full description below. Fine condition. A scarce set of primary source documents relating to the protection of British territory in the Caribbean in particular along the Mosquito Coast during the period of varied interests in the area in the period following the Anglo-Spanish agreement on the slave trade. Consisting of a series of secretarial copies of reports delivered to Peter McQuhae Commodore of H.M.S. Imauam stationed in Jamaica these dispatches offer an overview of the issues confronting the British Navy in Jamaica during the period and in the Caribbean more broadly. Most of the documents refer to issues with Cuba the most interesting perhaps being a letter warning of an impending filibustering expedition against Cuba by a pro-slavery faction in the American South. <br /> <br /> The group consists of five groups of bound documents some bound out of order and likely bound later. Contents are as follows: <br /> <br /> 1. Addington A.M. Four Page Report Concerning Placing a Ship of War at Grey Town to Discourage Invasions on the Mosquito Coast March 13 1851. <br /> <br /> Henry Addington writes McQuhae to recommend stationing a warship at Grey Town:<br /> <br /> “.it would be sufficient that a Ship of War should from time to time look in grey Town without remaining there at any time long enough to endanger the health of the crew… to provide for the case which is possiblee tho’ not at all likely that during the interval between the visits of a Ship of War some expedition of Nicaraguan or some of the North Americans returning from California might take advantage of the comparatively unprotected state of the lace to take possession of it and that the cruiser on its return to Grey Town might find the place so occupied Lord Palmerston concieves taht in such an event it would seem to be inconsistent with the Honor of this Country that a British Ship of War should acquiesce in such an aggression and it would be right that the intruder should be expelled if the Commander of the Ship of War should find as he probably would that he had the means of doing so without much difficulty and that in case he should repel the intruders and re-establish the authorities of the Mosquito Government demanding the liberation of any British or Mosquito subjects who might have been made Prisoners and holding hostages for their relief if they should have been removed up into the interior of the Country.<br /> <br /> It It is to be hoped however that all questions of dispute in regard to Grey Town will beoon be settled because Her Majesty’s government has through Her Majesty’s Minister at Washington proposed to the Government of the United States that an arrangement should be made by which the Sovereignty of Grey Town… should be transferred to the State of Costa Rica… Lord Palmerston desires me to add that there are at present at Washington a plenipotentiaries both from Nicaragua and Costa Rica for the purpose of conducting this negotiation…â€<br /> <br /> 2. Addington G.M. Single Page Letter in Secretarial Hand Warning of Incoming Ships to Cuba Carrying Enslaved Individuals January 24 1852. <br /> <br /> Addington writes to McQuhae about two incoming vessels carrying enslaved Africans passing on information received at Rio De janeiro by another British vessel:<br /> <br /> “I am directed by Earl GraH.M. Minister at Rio reporting that he had recieved information that two Slavers had sailed from Havana to… the coast of Africa… with the intention of returning with Cargoes of slaves which are to be landed at the Entrade de Cuchillo in Cuba.â€<br /> <br /> 3. Seymour G.F. et al. Four Reports Bound Together on Varied Subjects including the Case of the Creole British Fishing Rights in Spanish Waters off of Cuba and Porto Rico and the Case of a Detained British Vessel in Cuba 1852. <br /> <br /> A series of four reports addressed to McQuhae on various subject as follows:<br /> <br /> A. Report dated May 17 1852 from Seymour discussing the case of the Creole detained in 1851:<br /> <br /> “.enclosing copies of a letter from the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs approving of the course I had pursued with regard to the Creole and of a despatch from the Earl of Malmesbury to Her Majesty’s Minister at Madrid relative to the rights of British Subjects to fish on the coast of Cuba…â€<br /> <br /> B. Letter from Augustus Stafford Apriul 23 1852 discussing the Creole mostly discussing the enclosure of varied reports on the subjects but with little specific information. <br /> <br /> C. Addington A.M. April 21 1852 letter discussing the Creole case and the enclosure of documents. <br /> <br /> D. Earl of Malmesbury April 14 1852 letter discussing the Creole case in more detail:<br /> <br /> “ The Right thus claimed rests on this universally admitted precept of international Law “dominium finitur ubi finitur armorum vis†which in modern practice has been construed to mean “about one marine league from the mainland†and H.M.’s Govt are clearly justified in demanding that the Spanish authorities shall be ordered not to meddle or interfere with British fishermen outside that three mile boundary…â€<br /> <br /> 4. Earl of Malmesbury et al. Series of Three Secretarial Copies of Reports Concerning Impending Filibuster Raids on Cuba Giving Instructions for Assisting Spanish Forces. <br /> <br /> A very interesting series of reports detailing the planned response to pending “Piratical Attacks†showing the extent to which British forces were prepared for an American filibuster attack on the island and the degree to which they intended on assisting the Spanish forces. As follows:<br /> <br /> A. Seymour G.F. Secretarial Copy of Letter Written on May 5 1852 from Cumberland at Bermuda relaying the transmission of a full report of instructions to the British forces regarding an impending filibuster raid:<br /> <br /> “ I hereby enclose for your guidance… orders… relative to the assistance which is to be afforded by Her Majesty’s Ships on the application of the Captain General of Cuba in the Transport of Troops in the event of a Piratical attack being again made on that island by which you will govern your conduct…â€<br /> <br /> B. Earl of Malmesbury. Secretarial Copy of a Letter Dated April 10 1862 discussing piratical attacks:<br /> <br /> “.that in the event of a Piratical Attach being made upon that island… HM’s ships might assist in conveying troops to any poiunt of the Coast of Cuba at which the invading Party might effect a landing…â€<br /> <br /> C. Honley P. Secretarial Copy of an Undated Letter c. 1852 regarding piratical attacks:<br /> <br /> “Her Majesty’s ships might assist in coveying Troops to any point off the Coast of Cubat at which the invading Party might effect a landing… you should be instructed until further ORders that if the Captain General of Cuba should require your assistance for the transport of troops in the manner pointed out in your abovementioned dispatch you should comply with that demand…â€<br /> <br /> 5. Crampton Sir John. Copy of a Letter in Secretarial Hand Relaying the Impending Danger of a Pro-Slavery Filibuster Mission from Florida May 17 1852. <br /> <br /> A fascinating letter relaying information received from M. Calderon de la Barca concerning an impending filibuster mission against Cuba led by a Dr. Wren part of an organization called “The Lone Star Association:â€<br /> <br /> “.it would appear that the government of the United States has also received an intimation that something of the sort is on foot for the President informed M. Calderon that orders had already been sent to the U.S. Authorities at the different Ports of the Union to be prepared to take vigorous measures for the repression of any such attempts… an expedition is in fact meditated by certain parties in the South and that it is intended that it should leave some Port of Florida. The real object of this expedition however as as I am told not Cuba… but San Domingo for the purpose of acting as auxiliaries to the Dominicans against the Haytians… it is by no means impossible that its ultimate aim would be Cuba… the persons I am given to understand engaged in the expedition are a Dr. Wren who is president of a society called “The Lone Star State Association…â€<br /> <br /> The letter is worthy of further study - we find references to a Dr. Wren in newspaper articles from the period but were unable to pinpoint his identity or the history of his organization. An article from a Loudon Tennessee newspaper describes Dr. Wren as a “representative of New Orleans societies†and described a meeting in Loudon in 1852 trying to recruit for the overthrow of the Spanish colonial government of Cuba through an invasion. unknown
1860PHO-2406Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1860-65. 2 volumes de texte in-8 (235 x 148 mm) de : I/ lxiv pp., 486 pp., (1) f. d’errata ; II/ (2) ff., 480 pp., iv pp. de table ; et 1 Atlas in-folio (57x40cm). Texte : relié demi veau, dos lisse avec titre et tomaison, dos frotté, coiffes arasés, charnières faibles au tome 2, cachets aux titres. Atlas : sous portefeuille demi toile, titre et tomaison au plat, 2 chemises de livraison comportant 13 planches (16) et 2 planches en double (Fragment de carte et Ruine de l’église Saint Michel), portefeuille frotté, chemises de livraison ébarbées, rousseurs, petites mouillures marginales, une planche plus petite en marge.
1841PHO-2262Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1841-1842-1844-1848-1853-1854. 6 vol. in-8° de XXIX, 1 bl., 343 pp., [2] ff., Front., 6 pl. h.-t. et 1 carte dé pl. ; 467 pp., [2] ff. Font., 4 pl. h.-t. et 1 carte ; 548 pp., [1] f. Front. et 5 pl. h.-t. ; 464 pp., [2] ff. 4 pl. h.-t. ; III, 1 bl., 542, [2] pp. 4 pl. h.-t. ; 400 pp. Font. et 5 pl. h.-t. demi-basane fauve, dos à 5 faux-nerfs, p ; de t. en maroquin orange, p. de tomaison en maroquin brun, tranches mouchetées (Reliure du temps). Édition originale, bien complète du sixième volume consacré à la Californie qui manque souvent. 31 pl. gravées sur acier (complet) et 2 cartes dépliante, au Tome IV, la pl. du « Fort de Cornouailles » est reliée en frontispice du tome VI. Des rousseurs et quelques planches brunies.
