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1821200023AG1821. Paris Brué 1821. Original engraving. Plate Size: 50.5 cm x 36.1 cm. Sheet Size: 68 cm x 54.1 cm. Original map. Very good condition. Extra wide margins. Some minor foxing along sheet edges. Discreet author's blind stamp with 'Carte Encyprotipe' and initials 'AB' embossed in top corner of map. Centre-fold as issued. Border with longitudinal and latitudinal information. Detailed early map of the Caribbean from an early edition of Brue's Atlas Universel Pl.35. Rich detail in Florida the Gulf Coast Central America. The eye is drawn to Cuba among the islands of the 'Grandes' and 'Petites' Antilles. As demonstrated by the map's political divisions and colourings Mexico has yet cede control of what will become Texas. Nouva Espagne and Nouv Grenade show that the aged and tottering Spanish empire has still to fall in Central and South America. The division of Hispaniola into its Haitian and Dominican parts is also shown. The great port cities of the infant United States - Charlestown Savannah and New Orleans - can be seen along the seaboard. Bermuda is shown breaching the map's top border. Reference keys and explanatory annotations and four scale-bars in lower left corner of map. Decorative title in top right corner of map. Adrien-Hubert Brué 1786 - 1832 was a renowned French cartographer. Between 1810 and 1830 Brué established himself as one of the most important French cartographers and it was during this period that his two most important works were published: Grand Atlas Universel in 1815 and Atlas Universel in 1822 which ran to several editions. Atlas Universel was published as a continuation to Grand Atlas Universel. Brués maps or cards as they were referred to at the time were characterized by the high degree of accuracy with which they were produced and the meticulous attention to detail employed in their crafting. This was possible due to Brués application of copper plate intaglio to the process of mapmaking or as Nouvelles Annales des Voyages et des Sciences Géographiques had it: by applying to the making of cards this ingenious process of drawing on copper itself. Alexandre von Humboldt the President of the Société de géographie de Paris praised the accuracy of his work and clarity that is all the more pleasing to the eye. He also was quick to update his maps with the latest scientific discoveries and nautical measurements. Wikipedia unknown
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
180110389Dentu Paris An IX (1801) 1 vol. Fort in-8 broché de VIII 490 pp., couverture muette de l'époque, pièce de titre papier.
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 inkstamp Bibliothek des Reichsgerichts 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. The Reichsgerichtsbibliothek Imperial Court of Justice Library was at its peak Germany's largest and most important law library with 170000 works in its collection before the outbreak of the First World War. OCLC locates 9 copies in North America. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 7:341. unknown
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
1844PHO-1491Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1844, in-8, 2 volumes, LXXI-771-[2] pp. en numérotation continue, 20 diagrammes hors texte, demi-chagrin rouge, dos à faux nerfs, monogramme "J.M.C." doré en pied des dos, Rousseurs, quelques auréoles, l'une assez large en tête du second tome.
1890231711890. Stereoview archive of the post-emancipation Caribbean showing how the islands were marketed to western viewers through plantation labor export agriculture civic spectacle and catastrophe. As a group these photos function not only as an ethnographic travel archive but as evidence of the visual economy that followed slavery. The British West Indies moved through emancipation in 1834 to 1838 the French Caribbean in 1848 Puerto Rico in 1873 and Cuba in 1886 yet plantation production remained central to regional life well into the early twentieth century. These stereoviews preserve a colonial way of seeing in which Black and Afro-Caribbean labor rural discipline and extractive agriculture remained the background condition of "tropical" beauty and commercial modernity. Cuba's sugar economy in particular expanded through the nineteenth century and slavery was not abolished there until 1886 while Weyler's later reconcentration policy during the Cuban War of Independence violently reorganized rural life. Martinique after 1848 likewise shifted into new labor regimes including imported workers from India and China.<br /> <br /> Archive of 11 stereoview cards late 1890s to early 1900s depicting Cuba Jamaica Martinique Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Most black and white with a few colorized. Each measure 3.5" x 7". All with captions on the margins. "Reconcentrado Farming Scene Province of Havana Cuba" links agricultural production to the brutal displacements of Spain's reconcentration campaign; "Cutting sugar cane Montego Bay Jamaica W.I." records cane labor in a colony where emancipation had not ended plantation dependency; and "Harvesting Coconuts Porto Rico" likewise frames Caribbean land through export work rather than local life. Other views extend that economic framing through cacao and coffee scenes while the paired Havana cards shift into urban leisure and public display including "Beautiful Central Park Havana Cuba" and "Holiday in Havana Cuba" the latter with both Cuban and American flags visible a telling image of the new imperial order after 1898. The disaster views from Martinique and the Lesser Antilles show how stereoview publishers also turned Caribbean destruction into consumable spectacle. the Morne Rouge card is accompanied on the reverse by the grim printed text "Dead bodies which were to be seen in Morne Rouge." while the wider context is the 1902 eruptions of Mount Pelée in Martinique and La Soufrière on Saint Vincent two catastrophes that killed roughly 30000 and 1600 people respectively and devastated local communities and agriculture.<br /> <br /> Some corner wear light toning scattered surface and edge wear. Overall very good condition. This collection gives direct visual representation of Caribbean history Atlantic slavery and emancipation plantation labor and U.S. imperial expansion in the circum-Caribbean preserving the transition from slavery to post-abolition labor. unknown
1828PHO-1507London, John Murray, 1828, 4 volumes, 8vo.,xii-473,(4)-490,viii-413,vii-489, with 2 folding maps , half calf and corners, nice copy, well bound.
185313173Firmin Didot frères Paris 1853 2 vol. 2 vol. grand in-8 de VI 660 pp. et VI 613 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (errata); demi-basane de l'époque, dos lisse fileté.
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
1890208021890. Unidentified photographers two albumen photographs of Black laborers circa 1890s to early 1900s document agricultural and skilled work performed by African Americans in the decades following emancipation when systems of sharecropping and tenant farming structured rural economies across the American South and parts of the Caribbean. These images provide visual evidence of labor organization racial hierarchy and economic dependency that persisted after the formal end of slavery with large groups of Black workers shown in relation to white overseers or employers. One photograph presents approximately forty five Black men gathered around three centrally seated white men emphasizing supervisory roles and social stratification within plantation labor systems. The clothing of the workers including cotton shirts loose trousers and wide brimmed hats reflects adaptation to agricultural work in hot climates while a smaller number of individuals in jackets and pocket watches suggests internal distinctions within Black labor communities. The second image depicts six Black carpenters engaged in coordinated manual work at an outdoor shop indicating the presence of skilled trades alongside agricultural labor.<br /> <br /> Group of two albumen photographs mounted on original cardstock measuring approximately 8 x 9.5 inches and 10 x 12 inches. The larger photograph shows an outdoor woodworking scene with six men using tools including a hammer and saw working under a thatched structure suggestive of southern or Caribbean environments. The second photograph shows a large assembled group of plantation workers with three white men seated at center. Faint pencil annotations appear in the margins of one mount. Both photographs retain strong compositional clarity with figures arranged to emphasize both collective labor and hierarchical relationships.<br /> <br /> These photographs contribute to the study of post emancipation Black life by documenting how agricultural dependency and limited access to capital shaped labor conditions into the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The plantation scene illustrates the persistence of racially stratified labor organization while the carpentry image provides evidence of skilled Black tradesmen operating within local economies often without institutional support or pathways to independent enterprise. The visual contrast between collective field labor and artisanal work expands the interpretive scope of the archive situating these images within broader histories of labor race and economic transition following the end of slavery. Edge wear and minor chipping to mounts with noticeable foxing to one image primarily at the margins; images remain legible and structurally intact. Overall good condition. unknown
1817PHO-2154Paris, Bechet,1817. 3 parties en 2 vol in 8°, (23x 13cm), demi veau époque, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre rouge, xxxii, 507 pp errata, 394 pp.-1f. (errata)- 2ff.-160pp.-1f (errata), demi veau époque, dos lisse orné avec tomaison et pièce de titre, frottements et épidermures, manque de papier au tome 2 et au dos, intérieur frais.
1813PHO-844Paris, F. Schoëll, Libraire, 1813. In-8 (20,5 x 13,5 cm),XXVI-411 pp.,3ff-480pp-4ff (table et errata), illustré de 3 cartes déplantes et 5 tableaux dépliants .Reliure de l'époque demi-basane havane, dos lisse orné, manque au dos ,un plat détaché ,charnières faibles, cachets répétés, déchirure au pli à 1 carte. Édition très rare.
182614630Dufart Paris 1826 1 vol. In-8 de 332 pp., demi-chagrin de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné.
182513130Janet, Ponthieu Paris 1825 1 vol. In-8 de VII 480 pp., pleine basane racinée de l'époque, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre, tranches marbrées.
181915556Pillet ainé Paris 1819 2 vol. 2 tomes en un vol. in-8 de XV 416 pp. et 2 ff.n.ch. 350 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (errata), demi-veau de l'époque, dos lisse orné, tranches marbrées (coiffes restaurées).
18560006868New York: D. Appleton 1856. First edition. Hardcover. fine. 12mo xii 412 pages original light brown embossed cloth. <br/><br/>These observations are related in a series of 61 letters. These were originally composed in Spanish then translated into English by Joseito. "I have thereby been enabled to impart entirely new data and reliable information instead of merely copying from books already known. . I applied myself to natives who besides an intimate knowledge of affairs in general possessed a sound judgment and an investigating disposition. It has beeen indeed a very happy incident to have found them. . That part of my work which treats on judicial matters and the secrets of the management of the tribunals will especially attract the attention of my readers. - Introductory Letter." Sabin 17816; Treiles BIBLIO. CUBANA vo. 4 p.17. D. Appleton hardcover
1817PHO-1170Paris, F. Bechet ; A. Égron, février 1817; 2 volumes in-8 ,xxxii,403,[2]; [4],394,[2]pp., relié plein veau raciné époque , dos lisse orné avec pièces de titre et tomaisons rouges, dos lisses. Édition originale.
1813PHO-1916Paris, F. Schoëll, Libraire, 1813. In-8 (20,5 x 13,5 cm), XXVI-411 pp.,3ff-480pp-4ff (table et errata), illustré de 3 cartes dépliantes et 6 tableaux dépliants, demi-maroquin moderne à long grain bleu nuit, dos lisse, auteur, titre et tomaison dorés, filet et roulette dorés, fers à froid rousseurs.
180911691Chaumerot Paris 1809 1 vol. In-8 de 3 ff.n.ch. 407 pp.; demi-basane racinée de l'époque, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre.
181814917Gide fils Paris 1818 2 vol. 2 vol. in-8 de VIII 406 pp. et 2 ff.n.ch. 390 pp., plein bradel papier ancien, dos lisse, pièces de titre.
185578137New York: G.W. & C.B. Colton 1855. Hand-colored lithograph map of the Caribbean showing Florida and Central America with insets of Bermuda and the city and harbor of Havana. This example is colored according to national allegiance with British territories in red Spanish in yellow and so on.<br />  <br /> The map is printed on a 17†x 14 ¾†sheet of banknote paper and folds into brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles. Some light foxing with a few small spots. There is a bit of creasing along the right margin not affecting the image. The boards are rubbed and faded with some light soiling as well. G.W. & C.B. Colton unknown
1898List2965United States and Caribbean 1898. Approximately twenty-nine pieces: logbook of eighty-four double-sided pages measuring 13 x 20 inches; eight letters seventeen documents and forms and three pieces of miscellany. Much wear and significant damage to logbook including water damage mildew and tearing; log book overall fair to good minus. Other materials good to very good. Overall good. William Higgins 1791–1872 was a farmer sea captain and owner of and investor in ships from Bowdoinham Maine. According to the Maine Maritime Museum which holds his family papers Higgins’ ships traded mainly in lumber which they took from Wilmington North Carolina to the Caribbean.<br /> <br /> Offered here is a logbook recording the travels of several of Higgins’ ships particularly the brigs Mary Jane and Llewellyn alongside related documents and personal letters. The logbook dating between 1832 and 1836 extensively documents the course wind data and weather remarks for travels of the ships between east coast US port cities and various locations in the Caribbean including Barbados St. Thomas and Martinique. The logbook also contains a copy of astronomer and mathematician Elijah Burritt’s illustration “A Plan of the Solar System Exhibiting its Relative Magnitudes and Distances†engraved by W. G Evans and printed in 1835 by F.J. Huntington.<br /> <br /> The letters and documents date from 1830 to 1867 and are also mostly business-related including an insurance document for the brig William Parrington a roll of sailors enlisted to work on a six-month journey between the Caribbean and the US in 1845 a bill of sale for ¼ stake in the brig Mary Jane and receipts and logs for items including various liquors sugar molasses casks and so on. One letter from a young man in Wilmington requests advice on how to start his own business in the style of Higgins’; other letters concern family matters. One interesting undated document is a writ addressed to the Marshal of the District of Maine concerning a lawsuit filed against Higgins and Rufus Carr master of the William Parrington by Zachrisson Nelson Co. The suit alleged that Carr acting as an agent for the ship’s owners that is Higgins had agreed to an affreightment involving shipping from Jamaica to Spain to New York but had then “wholly neglected and refused to do soâ€.<br /> <br /> Of interest to scholars of maritime history and trade in the mid-19th century. unknown
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
181014534Arthus Bertrand Paris 1810 2 vol. 2 vol. in-8 de 2 ff.n.ch. XLVII 315 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (errata) et 2 ff.n.ch. 324 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (errata), demi veau vert empire moderne, dos lisse richement orné, pièces de titre et de tomaison, tranches jaunes.
