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186246424Concord MA 1862. First Separate Edition. Octavo 24cm.; side-stitched self-wrappers; 15pp.; text printed in double columns. Wrappers separated and rather ragged along extremities the whole dust-soiled; Good only. Originally delivered as a lecture before being published in the abolitionist newspaper "The Pine and Palm" also known as the "Weekly Anglo-African". Sanborn a member of the "Secret Six" who provided funding to John Brown in the 1850s describes the effects of the emancipation of slaves in the West Indies noting that no violence broke out nor did it lead to an economic depression as had been predicted by Confederate propaganda. See "A Guide to the Study of British Caribbean History 1763-1834" 1932 p. 548; LCP AFRO-AMERICANA 9085; SABIN 76248. unknown books
185927043Paris France: Various Publishers 1859. French text; details below on publisher and pagination. Including: Le Pape et le Congres. Paris. E. Dentu & Didot Freres 1859. 46 pages; no author noted; OCLC credits Arthur Vicomte de Dubreuil-Helion La Gueronniere. Les Jesuites en 1860 par Charles Habeneck. Paris. Imprimerie L. Tinterlin et Cie. 1860. 32 pages. La Vraie Liberte Consequence Necessaire de la Separation des Pouvoirs Temporel et Spirituel. Par Celestin de Blignieres. Paris. Chez Tous les Libraires. 1860. 47 pages. Pale spotty foxing. Pape et Empereur. Par J.-M. Cayla. Paris. E. Dentu. 1861. 32 pages. La France Sans le Pape. Par J.-M. Cayla. Paris. E. Dentu. 1861. 32 pages. Le 89 du Clerge. Par J.-M. Cayla. Paris. E. Dentu. 1861. 32 pages. Le Pretres a Marier. Par J.-M. Cayla. Paris. E. Dentu. 1861. 31 pages. Plus de Couvents! Par J.-M. Cayla. Paris. E. Dentu. 1861. 32 pages. Paper darkened some. L'Eglise et L'Instruction Primaire a la Campagne. Par M.L. Derome. Paris. E. Dentu. 1861. 32 pages. La France Rome et L'Italie. Arthur Vicomte de Dubreuil-Helion La Gueronniere. Paris. E. Dentu. 1861. 61 pages. La France et La Liberte. Pars B. Sarrans Jeune. Paris. E. Dentu. 1861. 32 pages. Retablissement du Divorce. Par Eugene Debriges. Paris. E. Dentu. 1861. 31 pages. Paper darkened spottily foxed some. L'Empereur Rome et Le Roi D'Italie. Paris. E. Dentu. 1861. 31 pages. OCLC credits authorship to Armand Levy. L'Independence D'Haiti et La France. Par Charolais. Paris. Dentu. 1861. 32 pages. OCLC with the note: "Signed: 'Charolais' which is said to be not a pseudonym but the name of a French journalist whom Mr. Delorme had asked for political reasons to sign in his place" - Bissanthe. Haitian bibliography dictionary. Les Interets Francais et Europeens a Santo-Domingo. Paris. Dentu. 1861. 31 pages. No author noted here or in OCLC. L'Espagne et Son Avenir. Par Emile Bonnaud. Paris. Chez Castel.1860. 32 pages; last several leaves spotty foxed. Le Prisonnier du Pape. Par J.-B Charles Paya. Paris. Chabot-Fontenay. 1864. 64 pages 8 advertisements for various works by this author. Paper darkened some little spotting. La Papaute Moderne Condamnee par le Pape Saint Gregoire le Grand Extraits des Ouvrages de Saint Gregoire le Grand. Traduits et commentes par l'Abbe Guettee. Paris. Dentu. 1861. 61 pages. La Question de Cuba. Paris. Dentu. 1859. 63 pages. OCLC attributes to Philippe Athanase Cucheval-Clarigny. Unless noted above in the individual entry condition of the pamphlets are in clean very good condition. Often half-titles are present. Each pamphlet has tax stamps of 5 cen. Imperial Timbre. Front endpaper with a handwritten "Contents" with short titles and dates of the above books; all present here. Title page of the first pamphlet with the small owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2"size; bound in red marbled-paper covered boards; red morocco leather spine; gilt decorations & titles patterned-paper endpapers. Some edge tips wear and rubbing to the boards; base of bottom spine compartment scarred and darkened; text block clean and in very good condition. . First Edition. Leather. Very Good. Various Publishers books
1853604771853. London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons 1853. London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons 1853. The First Compilation of the Laws of St. Lucia Saint Lucia. Laws at Present in Force in the Island of St. Lucia. London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons 1853. vi 388 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 6". Contemporary calf with early rebacking red and black lettering pieces and small paper location label to spine upper lettering piece and endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing to extremities some scuffing and edgewear to boards gilt red and black lettering pieces light toning to text internally clean. Ex-library. Old shelf label at head of spine small embossed stamps to boards inkstamps to title page. A solid copy of a scarce title. $450. With index and side-notes. Saint Lucia was discovered by Columbus in 1502. The first group of colonists from England were massacred by the Caribs but the French succeeded in colonizing the island in 1642. It passed between France and Great Britain a number of times and became a British possession in 1803. It became independent and joined the Commonwealth in 1979. As one would suspect traces of French law remain in the island's legal system. OCLC locates 9 copies in North America. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 7:341. unknown books
1893WRCAM55675Various places as described below 1893. 28pp. manuscript index followed by 499 onionskin leaves comprising 402 letters. Five leaves laid in between leaves 195-196. Quarto. Three-quarter leather and cloth boards. Backstrip missing but boards still holding firm; rubbing and wear to extremities. Some rumpling and curling to pages ink bleed heavy at times a few small tears in leaves several small tears or holes due to ink burn occasional mild spotting and foxing. Good. A comprehensive look at the operations of a major import/export company in the Caribbean for the first part of 1893. <br> <br> J. Sala & Co. was a large international firm headquartered in New York that did business of all kinds throughout the Caribbean in particular Puerto Rico the Dominican Republic and Haiti but also Cuba Jamaica St. Thomas St. Croix and Curaçao. In DELMAR'S.TRADES DIRECTORY 1889-90 they are listed in San Juan Puerto Rico as "Ship Brokers and Commission Merchants." In THE PORT OF NEW YORK. 1893-94 their entry describes them as "General Commission Merchants" and Juan Sala and Cosme Batlle are listed as agents. They also provided banking and finance services in particular in partnership with Batlle a Spanish merchant and banker one of the wealthiest men in the Dominican Republic and a chief creditor to dictator Ulises Heureaux. As this book only covers January through part of March 1893 one gets a sense of the extent of the firm's activities. <br> <br> The copy book begins with an alphabetical directory of recipients listed along with their location and the numbers of relevant letters in the copy book. 171 recipients are listed representing over forty cities in the Caribbean along with several in England France Germany and Spain. Letters are primarily in Spanish but also appear in French for letters to Haiti and France and English for letters to England Germany Jamaica and some clients in St. Thomas and St. Croix. Several leaves have a mimeographed memorandum form with the company name and address. Almost every letter is annotated in blue pencil with the numbers of related letters in the copy book providing a further index; some letters have additional annotations in black pencil. <br> <br> All letters are signed "J. Sala & Co." and deal with a wide variety of business issues including notices about payments received and credits processed along with inquiries about late payments; credit references; consignments of turtle shells; and shipments of lumber iron pipes and whisky among other things although most often the material in question is listed as "sundries." In letters to Enrique Nebot of Monte Cristi Dominican Republic a Sala agent discusses the schooner "Annie R. Kemp" which they have chartered on his behalf and introduces the letter's bearer - the ship's captain - who is not named. The letter is in English which is presumably for the Captain's benefit since other letters to Nebot are in Spanish. The letter goes on to note that Nebot's "sundries.do not appear on the vessel's manifest and we have assured him the captain in your name that he will have no trouble whatsoever with your Custom House on that or other account." The Dominican Republic had a notoriously corrupt customs system at this time and no doubt J. Sala & Co. made sure they took advantage of every available loophole. <br> <br> A densely-informative and very interesting record of an active business engaged in a variety of endeavors in the Caribbean. THE PORT OF NEW YORK: A SOUVENIR OF THE NEW YORK CUSTOM HOUSE AND INDEX OF THE IMPORTS AND SHIPPING FACILITIES OF THIS PORT New York 1893-1894. DELMAR'S NEW REVISED AND COMPLETE CLASSIFIED TRADES DIRECTORY AND MERCANTILE MANUAL OF MEXICO CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS Chicago: Belford Clarke & Co. 1889- 1890. hardcover books
1860WRCAM48522Antigua but actually Philadelphia: R.B. Eldridge & Co. 1860. Lithographic sheet map 20 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches. Backed with contemporary blue paper. Light foxing and toning. A few small tears in margins. Very good. An unusual lithographic edition of Norie's 1827 revision of this handsome chart lithographed by Wagner & McGuigan in Philadelphia. A statement in the cartouche reads: "Presented by R.B. Eldridge Antigua to Captain Andrew Tyler." The captain's name is accomplished in manuscript. R.B. Eldridge is not listed in Tooley's DICTIONARY OF MAPMAKERS and appears to be unrelated to publisher of charts George Eldridge. It seems most likely that he was rather an Antigua merchant who commissioned a reprint of the chart for complimentary distribution to sea captains. A handsome piece. R.B. Eldridge & Co. unknown books
