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DEPORTATION AUX COLONIES Déclaration du Roy donnée à Versailles le premier jour de juillet 1722. Concernant les vagabons & gens sans aveu DEPORTATION TO THE COLONIES Royal Declaration Issued at Versailles on the First Day of July 1722. Concerning Vagrants and Persons of No Fixed Status

1722ref. 90147Grenoble: Gaspard Giroud 1722. Fine. Louisiana: From a Land of Exile to a Land of Opportunity Gaspard Giroud Grenoble s. d. 1722 17.7 x 23.3 cm En feuillets First edition of this important royal declaration partially reversing the compulsory deportation measures established by the declarations of 8 January and 12 March 1719.Responding to repeated complaints from colonial governors the royal government henceforth resolved that only voluntary emigrants should be sent to populate the colonies.Our copy is offered disbound. Rare royal decree bringing an end to the forced deportation of the destitute to John Laws Louisiana here in the Dauphiné edition issued for registration by the Parliament of Grenoble. During the Regency of the Duke of Orléans deportation was established as an alternative sentence to the galleys for vagrants and persons of no fixed status with the explicit aim of populating the French colonies. A royal declaration of 12 March 1719 accordingly empowered judges to sentence offenders to transportation to the colonies in place of the galleys and in 1719-1720 the government extended this policy to vagrants and the unemployed in the kingdoms principal cities beginning with Paris. The principal destination was Louisiana over which John Laws Compagnie dOccident had obtained a monopoly in 1717. Some 200 women of ill repute confined at La Salpêtrière for begging vagrancy or prostitution were thus deported to the Mississippi among them one Marie-Anne Lescaut who inspired Abbé Prévosts heroine in Manon Lescaut. The collapse of Laws financial System in 1720 and the scandal surrounding these forced deportations prompted a complete reversal of policy. The present declaration of 1 July 1722 issued at Versailles in the name of the still underage King Louis XV prohibited judges from ordering transportation to the colonies and reinstated the declarations of Louis XIV dated 25 July 1700 and 27 August 1701 which relied instead upon banishment and sentences to the galleys. Wroth & Annam 966 record this text only from Moreau de Saint-Mérys legislative collection. Gaspard Giroud unknown

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Russian Chinese Frontiers and Russian Province of Fergana.

1880ref. 15229Shanghai 1880. 400 by 530mm. 15.75 by 20.75 inches. The Chinese-Russian frontiers Three lithograph maps. The growing number of expatriates servicemen and foreign workers based in China during the late-nineteenth century prompted numerous publishers to set up foreign-language periodicals to cater to the international community. Several English newspapers appeared including the 'Evening Gazette' the 'Shanghai Courier' the 'China Gazette' the 'Mercury' and 'The Celestial Empire'. These publications documented an important period in Chinese history as incursions from Japanese Russian British and Ottoman forces each took their toll. During the mid-nineteenth century the Chinese and Russian empires expanded into what is now Kazakhstan and Western Xinjiang. Upon meeting the powers both signed the Treaty of Kulka in 1851 which legalised trade between both countries in the region. During the Second Opium War however Russia took advantage of China's weakened position and annexed the north back of the Amur River and the coast down to the Korean border while also gaining control of Sakhalin Island alongside Japan. Tensions remained high throughout the 1860s and 1870s. In 1868 Russia launched its first attempt to expel the Chinese from the territory resulting in the Manza War in which they were ultimately unsuccessful. The Chinese General Zuo Zongtang called for war against Russia and in 1878 began to amass troops causing his opponents to retreat from the city of Kuldja which they were besieging and demonstrating that the Chinese had built up a modernised arsenal of weaponry since their last conflict. In fact in 1880 huge quantities of military equipment were shipped to China from Europe. It is this period of tension shown on the present maps which were included with editions of 'The Celestial Empire' and the 'Shanghai Courier' in 1880 as noted in red beneath the images. The first is a map of the Chinese-Russian frontiers with Mongolia and Manchuria clearly identified in the centre and many other important cities rivers mountains and roads represented. The second shows the Kuldja Triangle in modern-day Kazakhstan which was the centre of the conflict in which Chinese troops forced out the occupying Russians. The contemporary frontier according to Russia sources is contrasted against the frontier of ten years earlier. The final map focuses on "The Russian Province of Fergana and the Pamir Plateau showing the adjacent Chinese Territory and Indian Frontier according to Russian Surveys in 1878 and 1879". Mountains cities rivers roads and lakes are represented with elevation given in feet. unknown

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Census of England and Wales 1911

1912ref. 804R30London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1912. Cloth. Good. 13" by 9". None. A scarce complete 1911 census of the United Kingdom from Nottingham Public Reference Library. The United Kingdom Census 1911 was the twelfth census of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. For the first time the census asked questions regarding nationality marriage and children; it was also the first to record details regarding British Army personnel stationed outside of the U.K.A scarce and complete original source for Britain in the early twentieth century. Volume I is regarding administrative areas.Volume II is regarding registration areas.Volume III is regarding parliamentary areas; volume IV is bound in this volume and details ecclesiastical areas. Volume VI is on buildings of various kinds; volume VII is bound in this volume as well and details ages and condition as to marriage.Volume VIII is on tenements in administrative counties and urban and rural districts. Volume X on occupations and industries is in two volumes.The final volume is four volumes bound in one: it contains a preliminary report with tables of the population in England and Wales volume V an index to the population tables for England and Wales volume IX on birthplaces volume XI on infirmities and volume XII on language spoken in Wales and Monmouthshire. From Nottingham Public Library; with their bookplates and labels to the front pastedown and endpapers and stamps occasionally throughout. In a full cloth binding; three are contemporary with the remaining five by the library. Externally generally smart. More recent volumes have just slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities with some residue from a removed spine label to the tail. The three volumes in an older binding are worn to the joints with bumping to the extremities and the head of the spine and labels to the front boards. Library bookplates and labels to the front endpapers and pastedown with stamps on occasion throughout. Internally generally firmly bound. Front hinge is strained to volume III. Pages are occasionally torn but generally bright and clean. Good His Majesty's Stationery Office hardcover

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MANUSCRIPT. FIRST WORLD WAR TRENCHES DIARY. Diary of a British soldier of the 49th Infantry Division ending abruptly on December 19 1915 the first day Phosgene gas was used against the British

1915ref. 4227France Belgium England 1915. Good. Oblong 8vo. Small "Walker's Service Notebook" 154 x 94 mm lined 26 pages filled with neat entries in pencil and pen final page of diary loose the remaining portion of the notebook i.e. about 2/3 blank. Original limp cloth covers worn. § Extraordinary manuscript diary of an anonymous British soldier beginning April 12th 1915 and ENDING ABRUPTLY IN THE TRENCHES AFTER A GAS ATTACK. The final entry was dated December 19th 1915 which was THE FIRST DAY PHOSGENE GAS WAS USED AGAINST BRITISH SOLDIERS. The short diary is rich in detail of life at the front. The anonymous soldier belonged to the 49th West Riding Division which had a large number of gas casualties when soldiers in reserve lines did not receive a warning in time to put on their helmets. A study by British medical authorities arrived at a figure of 1069 gas casualties 120 of which were fatal. It is very possible that the present manuscript was written by one of those men. It seems probable that with access to the right regimental records the identity and fate of the soldier could be learned and his story told in full; however even as an anonymous diary the interest and poignancy of this personal record is clear. The events recorded span just nine months. On April 12th the soldier leaves Edenthorpe near Doncaster and crosses the channel to Le Havre that evening "packed like herrings" and accompanying horses and wagons. Over the next few months he records laying lines opening signal offices handling horses towns and villages visited billets and meals injuries regiments encountered names of comrades and O.C.s shelling rain and mud. He sees the Northumberland Hussars the Indian Corps and Royal Horse Artillery. On May 9th he records the Battle of Aubers Ridge: "Off duty at 7am. Attack began at 5am by Artillery. Signal thro' during day showed heavy losses in E. Lancs Lincolns. 13th London and other Batts. Had coffee in Fleurbaix and then to bed in barn. Off duty 3pm. Attack still proceeding without much impression on our line. French said to be doing well. At night we have the two windows in our Signal Office made up with corrugated iron & sandbags." For the entry dated May 12th our author notes that the name of the Division has been "altered to the 49th" thereby confirming the identity of his Division. On May 24th: "The Allamands dropped about 6 shrapnel in our vicinity." From a period of steady work and periodic pleasures "had tea & cakes at a patisserie & and then back after buying some books" "glorious day" the situation deteriorates with the weather "torrential rain dugouts leaking & 18" water on my floor". They move to Chateau de Trois Tours and on July 13th there is "rather an exciting night" with a bombardment from 7.30 to 10.30. On the 14th "The whole place is being encircled by barbed wire & trenches & the furniture is being moved out of the chateau." On the 15th "At 12.45pm about 12 shells fell round the chateau made a dive for the Signal Office Billy Edwards & Gus Harris wounded in thigh and ankle." They were shelled again on the 16th. On December 1st he travels back to Sheffield on leave returning on December 8th. The company are now holed up near Ypres at Hospital Farm the name given to a farm building used as a dressing station. The final entry reads "Dec 19th 'S.O.S.' Gas attack 5.30 am things lively until 8.30am. 146 & 148 des. 148 soon repaired from chateau". The cemetery at Hospital Farm contains 115 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. On the significance of the 19 Dec. 1915 battle at Wieltje Belgium northeast of Ypres see the long Wikipedia entry "German Phosgene Attack of 19 December 1915." The diary contains many clues that could help identify our writer in military records. It is not certain that he was one of the first British casualties to Phosgene gas but it seems tragically likely. As it stands the final entry in the diary marks an important milestone in the war: phosgene gas would eventually be responsible for about 85% of the 90000 deaths caused by chemical weapons during World War I. unknown