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2010rif. 2-1934506893Boom! Studios 2010. Paperback. New. 128 pages. 8.90x5.90x0.40 inches. Boom! Studios paperback
1703rif. 3645Bourg du Cul-de-Sac Saint-Domingue 1703. Four-page manuscript notarial act bifolio approx. 35 × 23 cm written in brown ink on laid paper signed by the notary Perigny and the royal counselor Vernoy. With contemporary marginal notes including a concise summary of the transaction. Light toning at edges; upper and outer margins with tears and a few small losses affecting portions of text on pp. 1 and 3 though still fully legible. Old horizontal fold from storage. Text entirely legible signatures clear and intact. Overall very good condition. Four-page manuscript notarial act bifolio approx. 35 × 23 cm written in brown ink on laid paper signed by the notary Perigny and the royal counselor Vernoy. With contemporary marginal notes including a concise summary of the transaction. A rare 1703 notarial act from the earliest years of Saint-Domingue when the colony was just beginning its rise to become France’s most powerful Caribbean possession. This rare document was created at a time when Saint-Domingue was still in its earliest stage of development. Only six years earlier the Treaty of Ryswick 1697 had formally recognized France’s claim to the western third of Hispaniola ending decades of informal settlement by buccaneers displaced islanders and early planters. In 1703 French royal authority was just beginning to replace these loose and often lawless communities. The Superior Council of Léogane had recently been established to impose order and to lay the legal and administrative foundations of what would soon become France’s richest and most important colony. The act records the transfer of a debt totaling 800 livres. François De Sable a planter and landholder in the Petite Plaine district ceded to Louis Dalineau a merchant based in Petit Gonave his legal right to collect this sum from Paul Lefebvre d’Albon a naval commissioner stationed at Rochefort. The debt had originated in a 1702 contract recorded by Maitre Chaumet royal notary at Leogane. The document was witnessed by Nicolas Berthelot a merchant and storekeeper and Michel Richard a ship captain. It was drawn up and signed by Perigny royal notary at the Bourg du Cul-de-Sac and certified by Vernoy likely an abbreviated form of Duvernoy or Duvernay a royal counselor at the Superior Council of Léogane whose signature conferred full legal authority on the act throughout the colony. The three principal figures in the act represent the different forces shaping the colony at this time. François De Sable belonged to the first generation of settlers who established the Cul-de-Sac plain as a center of plantation agriculture. His wife Marie Jollin was born on Saint Christopher St. Kitts and came from the French community expelled by the English in 1690. Many of these displaced families were resettled by France in Saint-Domingue to strengthen its claim to the territory. A 1671 census of St. Kitts lists Marie’s parents among the island’s French inhabitants. Later parish records show Marie’s burial at Notre Dame du Cul-de-Sac on November 3 1728 recorded as the widow of François De Sable GHC 2006. While François’s own origins are not documented the evidence strongly suggests that he was part of this same wave of resettlement. By 1703 he was established enough to engage in formal legal and financial matters reflecting the transition from scattered informal settlements to a society regulated by royal law. Louis Dalineau was active as a merchant in Petit Gonâve when this document was created linking nearby settlements such as Cul-de-Sac and Léogane to wider trade networks. This act captures him at an early stage of his career before he rose to become one of the leading merchants of La Rochelle a major Atlantic port. By the 1730s his warehouses were filled with goods arriving from the Caribbean forming part of the city’s rapidly expanding colonial commerce Martinetti 2019. His activities extended beyond private trade to royal provisioning contracts including large-scale shipments for French troops in the Americas FranceArchives n.d. He was also involved in financial transactions with the Banque Royale such as petitions for certificates of deposit linked to colonial trade and Canadian companies Nouvelle-France.org n.d. Dalineau thus represents the merchant class that tied Saint-Domingue to global trade and turned local production into wealth on a worldwide scale. The debtor Paul Lefebvre d’Albon 1666–1746 was then a naval commissioner at Rochefort one of France’s principal naval and colonial centers. Only three years later in 1706 he was sent to Cayenne French Guiana where he spent forty years as the colony’s chief administrator. Over time he rose from commissaire de la Marine to commissaire ordonnateur and finally to commissaire général de la Marine ordonnateur overseeing royal revenues naval supplies and civil administration and at times serving as acting governor. His long tenure marked the consolidation of royal power in South America during the first half of the eighteenth century. His final years and inheritance are documented in the 1746 testament of his widow Marie Anne Mathé recently discovered and transcribed GHC 2025. This 1703 act brings together three key forces at a pivotal moment in the colony’s history: the first generation of settlers who established the foundations of plantation society in Saint-Domingue the merchants who linked these remote communities to the wider Atlantic world and the agents of royal and naval administration who extended the reach of the French crown overseas. It also preserves the names of other participants reflecting the network of officials and witnesses whose roles were central to the colony’s early legal system. As one of the earliest surviving legal documents from the colony it is a tangible testament to how these forces and individuals came together to shape what would soon become France’s most valuable colony. References: FranceArchives. n.d. Fonds du notaire Jacques Bréard Rochefort 3 E 33/22 fol. 122–123v.;GHC Généalogie et Histoire de la Caraïbe. 2006. Bulletin 206 p. 5288.; GHC Généalogie et Histoire de la Caraïbe. 2025. Document 515.; Martinetti C. 2019. Négoce atlantique et évolution des constructions urbaines à La Rochelle au XVIIIe siècle. In G. Saupin Ed. Les villes atlantiques européennes pp. 291–309. Presses universitaires de Rennes.; Nouvelle-France.org. n.d. Sommation par Louis Dalineau… Minutes des notaires René Rivière Pierre Soullard et François Soullard liasse 1711–1731 1721 3 E art. 1803 . unknown
2021rif. __022675748XUniv of Chicago Pr 2021. Hardcover. New. 376 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Univ of Chicago Pr hardcover
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1999rif. 286675New York: St. Martin’s Press 1999. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Signed. First Edition First Printing Presentation copy of Wiley Sword’s Southern Invincibility: A History of the Confederate Heart. Signed with a personal inscription by the author on the half title. Bookplate of the recipient who also appears in the acknowledgments page on the front pastedown. Else no marks of any kind. Hardcover. Near Fine with a Near Fine dustjacket. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket. St. Martin’s Press unknown
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1987rif. 251115004Knauff Graphics 1987. unknown_binding. Very Good. 0x0x0. Please Read No marks on text - My shelf location 36-E-15 Knauff Graphics unknown
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2021rif. G1474615244I3N00White Rabbit 2021. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. White Rabbit paperback
1965rif. 0022800Portsmouth Ohio: Compton Engraving and Printing 1965. First Edition. . Soft cover. Very Good. VG/stated First Edition. This was written in 1965 by local school teacher Elmer Bernard Sword B.G.E. for the town's Sesquicentennial Celebration. There were 2 versions of this book printed: a hard back and this version which is a series of 6 small paperbacks. Both versions are scarce---I've found none for sale at this time and there are only 27 copies owned by various libraries. All six booklets are in terrific shape: clean and the staples are tightly secure. The back covers have a table of contents for each booklet or part. The first booklet has notes on the back inside cover; there is no writing or soiling in any of the other books. There are in the six books 128 pages total. with some old photos and a few illustrations and maps. The first booklet states that this a first printing. The history starts with information about the author and then moves to the earliest Ohio Indian inhabitants the "Mound Builders" around 1799. The history continues until 1952 the Atomic Boom Period. Sure to delight any Ohio history buff. I'll send them along in an acid free document bag for storage and I can have them in the mail to you tomorrow. BASJ Compton Engraving and Printing paperback
1985rif. E33500Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. First printing. Hardcover. 400 pp. with bibliography index. Illustrations and maps. The first comprehensive history of the United States-Indian war of 1790-1795. It was a bitter struggle for control of the Old Northwest Territory modern day Ohio Illinois Indiana Wisconsin and Michigan between tribes such as the Miamis Shawnees and Ottowas struggling in last-ditch efforts to stop settlers moving into the mid-west wilderness and new United States federal and territorial governments. University of Oklahoma Press hardcover
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rif. 143642Northvale: Jason Aronson 0-7657-0284-3 2000. Hardcover 420pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Bibliography index. The top front corner is lightly bumped. Psychology Psychology Psychotherapy Therapy. Jason Aronson Hardcover
1990rif. 10300London: Orbis Books 1990. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Scarce paperback 224pp 16 pages of glossy b&w plates b&w maps and facsimiles of documents in text NOT ex-library. Short creases to the upper spine else great shape. Book is clean bright untanned tight; unmarked text free of inscriptions and stamps. -- This illustrated volume presents a set of papers from a symposium held in London in September 1983. Contents: Sikorski's Life and Career 1881-1943: An Outline; Foreword Sir Frank Roberts; Sikorski's Military and Political Career 1908-1918 Roman Wapinsky; Relations between Sikorski and Pilsudski 1907-1928 Andrzej Garlicki; Sikorski as Opposition Politician 1928-1935 Antony Polonsky; Sikorski as a Strategist and Military Writer P.A. Szudek; Sikorki's Role as a Statesman and Commander-in-Chief during World War 2 Jan Ciechanowski; Sikorski's 30-day Crisis 19 June-19 July 1940 John Coutouvidis; Sikorski and Poland's Western Borders Sarah Meiklejohn Terry; The Last Days of General Sikorski: An Eyewitness Account Ludwik Lubienski; Appendices: 1. Sikorski's Journey to England June 1940 Sir Peter Wilkinson; 2. Sikorski Accident Report reproduced from the files of the Public Record Office; 3. Biographical note Walentyna Korpalska -- A compilation of scholarly essays that explore the life legacy and impact of Wladyslaw Sikorski 1881-1943 one of Poland's most significant military and political leaders during the 20th century. This volume brings together a diverse range of perspectives on Sikorski's role as both a soldier and a statesman particularly focusing on his contributions during World War II as the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile and Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces. This collection is part of the SSEES School of Slavonic and East European Studies Occasional Papers series known for its in-depth analysis of Eastern European history and politics. Orbis Books paperback
