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1806ref. 30424Baltimore: Warner & Hanna 1806. Fraught Anglo-American Relations Prior to 1812 This petition one of many from various merchant organizations lobbies the President of the United States and Congress to defend American commerce with Europe in light of British violation of the "neutral rights" occasioned by the early years of the Napoleonic wars. Baltimore merchants were a hotbed of organization for various American subversive enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dbd. Light uniform browning old library stamp at head of titlepage. Very good. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 10854. KRESS 5070. SABIN 3045. unknown books
1789ref. 37445Paris: de l'Imprimerie Royale 1789. French Trade with the United States A very rare decree concerning the trade in wheat and grain between France and the United States. Echeverria and Wilkie records a single copy in a private library OCLC cites copies in Heidelberg the Library and Archives of Canada at NYPL and a copy at Yale Franklin Collection with a variant imprint. Quarto. Moderate tanning particularly at edges leaves slightly separated at fold. A very good copy. ECHEVERRIA & WILKIE 789/44A. OCLC 1426766518 45249572 variant. unknown books
1774ref. 51552Paris 1774. France Tracks British Trade with the American Colonies A French chart detailing export and import figures for British trade with its American island colonies from 1697 to 1773 using amounts in both pounds sterling and livres tournois gathered from parliamentary reports and calculations by Charles Whitworth financial statistician and Member of Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall and Somerset from 1747 to 1778. Extremely scarce with only one copy recorded in OCLC. Folded with three small holes along fold lines otherwise very good. unknown books
1814ref. 38942London: Printed by R.G. Clarke 1814. England Seeks a Trading Foothold in South America The final settlement between England and Spain at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. An important treaty which guarantees for England most favored nation status in the event of the commerce of Spanish America being opened to foreign trade. Includes an article of agreement regarding the injustice and inhumane nature of the traffic in slaves and a SEPARATE ARTICLE stipulating that the king of Spain not engage in any treaty with France "of the nature not known under the domination of the Family Compact." Printed in English and Spanish. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Near fine. hardcover books
1789ref. 47977Madrid. February 28 1789. Spain Regulates Trade with the Americas This royal decree liberalized the tightly controlled trade between Spain New Spain and the Captaincy of Caracas. The Crown hoped to spur navigation and commerce and lessen the incentive for smuggling. Export duties on goods travelling to the Indies were to be slashed by ten percent but penalties against contraband would still be enforced. Two worm holes very minor soiling else fine. unknown books
1849ref. 88888Boston: Published by the Family 1849. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Contemporary full gilt-tooled morocco; all edges gilt; 1462pp; engraved frontispiece portrait Edward Rawson and one portrait plate Rebecca Rawson. Binding rubbed at spine and board edges; small loss to leather at crown; scattered foxing somewhat heavier to frontispiece and portrait else a tight Good or better copy. One modern manuscript leaf with added genealogical information laid in by a previous owner. Early ownership signature "E.D. Baird" to front endpaper. Uncommon first edition in what would appear to be a presentation binding of this detailed genealogy which includes a brief 12-pp biography of Edward Rawson first Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. An enlarged second edition was issued in 1875. SABIN 68019. Published by the Family unknown books
1785ref. 57874Mexico. November 22 1785. Announcing the Compañia Real de Filipinas Regulating Trade with the Philippines A very rare Mexico City printing of the announcement of the creation of the Royal Company of the Philippines by Spanish royal decree in 1785 which regulated and effectively monopolized trade with the Philippines. This copy bears the manuscript rubric of Don Bernardo de Gálvez and signature of his secretary Joseph de Gorraes. Gálvez then Viceroy of New Spain ordered this broadside printed for the reason that "An Establishment so important and of such general interest should be understood and known by all" our translation. The creation of the Royal Company would be particularly relevant to residents of Mexico as most if not all of the trade with the Philippines would come through New Spain. Accompanying the announcement this broadside also prints Articles 1 2 14 21 and 100 of the royal decree which were considered to effectively summarize the purpose and mechanics of the new Company. The articles printed here proclaim that the Company is to enjoy the protection of the Crown for at least twenty-five years establish a fund to back its shares describe how shares and subscriptions could be purchased and organize a general meeting of shareholders. Notably absent from this broadside is the important article of the decree which closed Manila's ports to foreign vessels giving the Company an effective monopoly on all trade between Asia and the Americas. The Royal Company of the Philippines quickly gained vast wealth from this lucrative deal transporting commodities such as indigo coffee sugar spices and cotton across the Pacific. Regardless of its initial success the Company did not endure - the wave of rebellions against Spanish rule in Central and South America in the early 19th century quickly rendered it obsolete and the company was officially dissolved in 1834. A rare broadside announcing this important Royal Decree to the people of the Western Hemisphere; OCLC records only one copy at the Bancroft Library. Broadside printed on two joined sheets of sealed paper 23½ x 17 inches in total. Old folds and light creases a few small worm holes. Very good. OCLC 21747301. unknown books
1861ref. 87508Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss 1861. Later edition first published 1856. 12mo 18cm. Publisher's full morocco elaborately embossed with gilt titles and matching gilt devices to front and rear boards; all edges gilt; 300pp; frontispiece engraved extra-title and 4 inserted leaves of plates; 4pp publisher's catalog bound in at end of text. Mild overall rubbing with some softness to leather at head and heel; top edge gilt slightly oxidized; still a sound Very Good copy in a quite lovely mid-19th c. gift binding. Early pencil gift inscription to a Mary F. Sisson dated 1854. A religious and temperance miscellany mostly short moral tales with a few verse works interspersed. T.S. Arthur 1809-1885 is best-remembered for his hugely popular temperance trace Ten Nights in A Bar-Room and What I Saw There 1854 but he was an incredibly prolific writer churning out more than 100 titles between 1840 and the early 1880s. For the current work see WRIGHT II:150 recording one copy of an 1856 edition by the current publisher and another the same year from a Chicago publisher. H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss unknown books
1888ref. 88722New York: by the Company 1888. Folding sales brochure opening to approx. 8-3/8" x 17-1/2." Illustrated with line engravings on three panels with ornamental engraved title page. Faint vertical crease; mild edge-soil still a handsome Very Good or better example. Stamped in three places with the hand-stamp of a local retailer "J.S. Harah" of Uniontown PA. Quite charming illustrated brochure for this prominent 19th-century American importer and wholesaler of hats gloves and accessories. Rear panel features a portrait of HRH the Prince of Wales later Edward VII "as he appeared at Homburg August Last Wearing Tyrolean Soft Hat" - a very early reference to the Homburg or Homborg hat that would become a ubiquitous men's topper through the first decades of the 20th century. by the Company unknown books
1960ref. 84016Cambridge Mass: Macalaster Bicknell 1960. Small Folio. 27.5cm. Publisher's embossed blue cloth titled in black to spine and boards. 914pp. Minor wear to extremities and spine ends some soiling and thumbing in places; internally clean. A very good copy of a large and unwieldy but densely packed trade catalog. A frankly bewildering catalog of lab equipment medical supplies tailor made research materials alembics of any size! and arcane devices undeniably making Macalaster Bicknell "the complete one stop Supply Center for the Industrial Educational Hospital and Public Service Laboratory." A fascinating leftover from the days when mammoth tomes like this would have been frequently referred to and prioritized as the only conduit for obtaining unusual or highly specialized equipment and before the supply chains for such things were stretched somewhat precariously across the globe. Macalaster Bicknell unknown books
1990ref. 827061990. Three 3 linear feet of shelf space. Three 3 linear feet of shelf space. Tax Court Memorandum Decisions. Chicago IL: Commerce Clearing House. Volumes 43 to 46; 49 to 53; 55; 56; 58; 59 1981-1990. Original black gilt stamped cloth hardcover. Together 13 books. Three 3 linear feet of shelf space. Ex-private law library with property stamps. Light shelfwear else very good. $195. The full texts of all Tax Court Memorandum decisions entered for the periods. unknown books
1969ref. 766491969. Vols. 23 29 40 51 56 59 75. Vols. 23 29 40 51 56 59 75. Federal Trade Commission Decisions. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1915-1969. Hardcover. Volumes 23 29 40 51 56 59 75. Together 7 books. One 1 linear foot of shelf space. Ex-library with stamps else very good. $150. unknown books
1789ref. 187101789. Committee of the Whole House of the British Parliament investigation into the Atlantic slave trade recorded in Abridgment of the Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before a Committee of the Whole House to Whom It Was Referred to Consider of the Slave Trade published 1789 to 1791 presenting one of the earliest parliamentary documentary compilations addressing the operation and human consequences of the transatlantic slave trade. The volumes preserve testimony gathered during parliamentary inquiries that examined the practices of British slave traders and the treatment of enslaved Africans transported across the Atlantic. These proceedings formed part of the political campaign in Britain that eventually culminated in the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807. The collected evidence includes statements from ship surgeons naval officers merchants and other witnesses whose accounts describe the conditions experienced by enslaved Africans during capture transport and plantation labor. Abridgment of the Minutes of the Evidence Taken Before a Committee of the Whole House To Whom It Was Referred to Consider of the Slave Trade. London: 1789-1791. First edition first printing. Four volumes bound in two books. The compilation reproduces testimony presented before Parliament concerning the organization and operation of the slave trade and includes firsthand statements describing the physical suffering and resistance of enslaved Africans during transport. Surgeon Alexander Falcon-Bridge who had firsthand experience aboard slave ships described acts of despair among captives: he "Has known several enslaved persons to refuse sustenance with a design to starve themselves. refusing to take medicines when sick because they wished to die. Many other slaves expressed the same." Another witness Royal Navy surgeon Thomas Trotter recorded the emotional trauma experienced by captives during embarkation noting that "Slaves on being brought on board showed signs of extreme distress and despair from a feeling of their situation and regret at being torn from friends and connections." The volumes therefore preserve testimony that exposed the violence and human suffering embedded within the Atlantic slave trading system. During the eighteenth century European and American traders transported millions of Africans across the Atlantic through a commercial system that relied on maritime networks linking West Africa the Caribbean and the Americas. Parliamentary investigations of the slave trade in the late eighteenth century were fueled in part by abolitionist activism and public campaigns demanding government inquiry into the practice. Publications of witness testimony such as this abridged parliamentary record circulated evidence used by reformers advocating the end of the trade. Four volumes bound in two books with folding table in the fourth volume. Octavo format. Contemporary marbled quarter calf bindings with modern bookplates on the front past down. Wear present with most spine titles lacking and foxing primarily affecting the title pages; text remains clear. Overall condition very good. unknown books
1866ref. 150031866. TRADE CATALOGUE. The Improved American Hot Air Gas Burning Cooking Stove Patented May 5 1863 . Manufactured by Shear Packard & Co. Albany N. Y. Albany ca. 1866. Cover title 34 2 p. 3 plates 2 folding. Pictorial wrappers. Some soiling and edge chipping dampstain along fore-edge of last several leaves. Details of the stoves followed by many pages of testimonials. The plates depict in considerable detail four large cooking stoves. unknown books
1729ref. 658131729. London: printed and sold by J. Roberts 1729. London: printed and sold by J. Roberts 1729. English Trade in the West Indies Trade. Great Britain. Amhurst Nicholas 1697-1742 Attributed. Observations on the Conduct of Great-Britain With Regard to the Negociations and Other Transactions Abroad. London: Printed: And Sold by J. Roberts 1729. 61 1 pp. Octavo 7-3/4" x 4-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet in later plain wrappers. Light rubbing minor wear to spine ends and corners light soiling to title page and verso of final leaf. Light toning to text light foxing to a few leaves. A nice copy. $100. First edition. Attributed in some sources to Nicholas Amhurst this pamphlet defends Sir Robert Walpole then chancellor of the exchequer against accusations of neglecting England's West Indian commerce to the advantage of Spain. It describes English expeditions to counter Spanish influence and in the interest of fairness lists English ships taken by Spain since the Treaty of Hanover 1725. English Short-Title Catalogue T41776. unknown books
1917ref. 514911917. Interstate Commerce Commission.Interstate Commerce Commission: Unreported Opinions. Volume 1 Index Digest. Division of Indices. Washington: Government Printing Office 1917. 349 pp. Ex-library with stamps and markings. Tan cloth worn and soiled. Hinges cracked but holding. $25. unknown books
1917ref. 514931917. Interstate Commerce Commission. Unreported Opinions of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Volume 2 Table of Cases; Table of Cases Cited; Table of Commodities; Table of Localities. Division of Indices. Washington: Government Printing Office 1917. iii 370 pp. Ex-library with stamps and markings. Tan cloth worn and soiled. Good. $25. unknown books
1917ref. 514871917. Interstate Commerce Commission. Unreported Opinions of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Volume 2 Table of Cases; Table of Cases Cited; Table of Commodities; Table of Localities. Division of Indices. Washington: Government Printing Office 1917. iii 370 pp. Ex-library with stamps and markings. Tan cloth worn and soiled. Hinges cracked but holding. $25. unknown books
1917ref. 514921917. Interstate Commerce Commission. Interstate Commerce Commission: Unreported Opinions. Volume 1 Index Digest. Division of Indices. Washington: Government Printing Office 1917. 349 pp. Ex-library with stamps and markings. Tan cloth worn and soiled. Interior bright and tight. $25. unknown books
1917ref. 514861917. Interstate Commerce Commission: Unreported Opinions. Volume 1 Index Digest. Division of Indices. Washington: Government Printing Office 1917. 349 pp. Ex-library with stamps and markings. Tan cloth worn and soiled. Hinges cracked but holding. $25. unknown books
1994ref. 564101994. United States Court of International Trade Reports. Volume 18. Washington D.C.; U.S. Government Printing Office. 1994. xi 1307 pp. Original publisher's blue cloth. As new excellent condition. $20. Supersedes U.S. Customs Court Reports. Name changed by Public Law 96-417 which clarified and expanded the status jurisdiction and powers of the former United States Customs Court and changed the name of the Court to the United States Court of International Trade. unknown books
1992ref. 564051992. United States Court of International Trade Reports. Volume 16. Washington D.C.; U.S. Government Printing Office. 1992. xi 1215 pp. Reprint Buffalo: W.S. Hein. Hardcover. Very good condition. $20. Supersedes U.S. Customs Court Reports. Name changed by Public Law 96-417 which clarified and expanded the status jurisdiction and powers of the former United States Customs Court and changed the name of the Court to the United States Court of International Trade. unknown books
2000ref. 564112000. United States Court of International Trade Reports. Volume 24. Washington D.C.; U.S. Government Printing Office. 2000. xi 1515 pp. Original publisher's blue cloth. As new excellent condition. $75. Supersedes U.S. Customs Court Reports. Name changed by Public Law 96-417 which clarified and expanded the status jurisdiction and powers of the former United States Customs Court and changed the name of the Court to the United States Court of International Trade. unknown books
1999ref. 564071999. United States Court of International Trade Reports. Volume 23. Washington D.C.; U.S. Government Printing Office. 1999. ix 1151 pp. Reprint Buffalo: W.S. Hein. Hardcover. Very good condition. $20. Supersedes U.S. Customs Court Reports. Name changed by Public Law 96-417 which clarified and expanded the status jurisdiction and powers of the former United States Customs Court and changed the name of the Court to the United States Court of International Trade. unknown books
1993ref. 564061993. United States Court of International Trade Reports. Volume 17. Washington D.C.; U.S. Government Printing Office. 1993. Xiii 1514 pp. Reprint Buffalo: W.S. Hein. Hardcover. Very good condition. $20. Supersedes U.S. Customs Court Reports. Name changed by Public Law 96-417 which clarified and expanded the status jurisdiction and powers of the former United States Customs Court and changed the name of the Court to the United States Court of International Trade. unknown books
