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1971réf. 85213Manila: Bureau of Printing 1971. Hardcover. Good. 3 vols. frontises each section separately numbered. Contemporary blue boards with original wrappers for the various parts bound in. 29 cm. Corners bumped. Advance Report No. 48 is not present -- we don't know which Province is missing in this set. We assume that these volumes were compiled from separately issued Advance Reports. Bureau of Printing hardcover books
1951réf. 85206Manila: Bureau of Printing 1951. Paperback. Good. frontis 2 folding maps 258p. Softcover in original blue wrapper. 25 cm. Ends of backstrip chipped. Bureau of Printing paperback books
1930réf. 789341930. Hardcover. Very Good. First item: illustrations some color photos 332p. Second item: illustrations some color photos 324p. Original matching red cloth bindings. 25cm. Former owner's name a Presbyterian missionary in Thailand in both volumes. Calling card of Rear Admiral Mom Chao Thavara Mongolwongse first President of the Medical Association of Siam mounted on front pastedown of the second volume. Moderate scuffing and wear. No Jackets. Both volumes were issued for the Medical congress. hardcover books
1874réf. 69531San Francisco 1874. Paperback. Very Good. 30p. Blue wrapper. 22cm. Small label on corner of front cover. Laid in is a similarly-sized broadsheet titled "Communication from Leland Stanford to the Committee on Corporations of the Senate" which is dated in type Jan. 22 1874. paperback books
1943réf. 75648Washington 1943. Paperback. Good. iv 5p. Stapled Wrapper. 27cm. Cover soiled. paperback books
1978réf. 72761Washington: GPO 1978. Paperback. Very Good. iv 160p. Wrapper. 27cm. GPO paperback books
1960réf. 72915Washington 1960. Paperback. Very Good. v 56p. plus individually-numbered appendices. Wrapper. Stapled. 27cm. Statement No. 606 File No. 51-D-6. paperback books
1917réf. 72735Washington 1917. Paperback. Very Good. 110p. Wrapper. 24cm. Cover browning around edges. 64th Congress 2d Session House Document No. 2112. paperback books
1912réf. 72562Washington: GPO 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. folding map index 898p. 23cm. Former owner's name stamp on endpaper. No jacket. GPO hardcover books
1920réf. 69512Washington 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. The first two items bound together in contemporary green cloth and the remaining items bound together in a smaller second volume bound in lighter green cloth. 23cm. No Jacket. Laid in are five additional pamphlets relating to Bills of Lading or the Commerce Court. Obviously compiled by someone interested in Bills of Lading. hardcover books
1941réf. 72709Washington: GPO 1941. Paperback. Very Good. folding maps charts and tables 755p. Wrapper. 24cm. 77th Congress 1st Session. House Document No. 354. GPO paperback books
1949réf. 72932Washington: GPO 1949. Paperback. Very Good. viii 49p. Wrapper. 24cm. GPO paperback books
1956réf. 72776Washington: GPO 1956. Paperback. Good. 3 vols. folding maps & tables v 594 vi 595-1270 v 1271-1860p. Wrapper. 24cm. Later title labels removed from backstrips which are browned. Some creasing and wear. Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. GPO paperback books
1960réf. 72924Washington: GPO 1960. Paperback. Very Good. viii 32p. Wrapper. 24cm. Also included Williams Ernest W. Federal transportation Policy. Washington: 1959. 46p. Wrapper. Stapled. 27cm. Numerous ink and typed revisions. At head of title: Working Draft. Stamped or printed on cover: 1 Administratively restricted; 2 not for publication; 3 research material prepared for use by the Dept. of Commerce; and 4 report prepared in connection with the Transportation study of the Dept. of Commerce. Dr. Williams was Director of the Staff Study for this project; the second item appears to have been his marked copy of the working draft of the first item. GPO paperback books
1958réf. 72778Washington: GPO 1958. Paperback. Good. Vols. or Parts 2-4 ONLY of 4. iv 745-1337 iv 1339-1984 v 1985-2355p. Green wrappers. 23cm. Mark from an old strip or tape around top of backstrip and all three volumes. Institutional stamp on title-pages. Age-toned. Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. GPO paperback books
1922réf. 28893Mexico: Talleres Graficos de la Nacion 1922. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio. VI 108 VI unumbered pages of plates. Full spotted calf with gold lettering and borders on spine. Original wrappers bound in. Printer's device on front wrap and title page. Title-page inscribed and signed by one of the authors Vicente Galvez. Fascinating report presenting results from an expedition launched by the Geological Institute of Mexico in Baja California. This work contains numerous b/w photographic plates folding maps plans and charts some being outlined in color. Wraps and title page slightly age-toned. Very minor and sporadic foxing throughout. Text in Spanish. Binding in overall very good interior in good to very good condition. Talleres Graficos de la Nacion hardcover books
1806réf. 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
1789réf. 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
1778réf. 39128London. 1778. The rare Parliamentary printing of a bill relating to American trade under consideration by the House of Commons. In 1660 during the reign of Charles II Parliament passed a bill "for the encouraging and encreasing of Shipping and Navigation" which granted bonding for ships and vessels transporting goods from British plantations in Africa Asia and America directly to another British plantation or to a port in England Ireland or Wales. Three years later Ireland was struck from the list. The present law passed during the American Revolution restores Ireland's bonds privileges allowing her ports to accept goods directly from the colonies in the Americas now mostly limited to Canada and the West Indies Asia and Africa. Not in Kress Goldsmiths' or TPL. OCLC locates three copies at the University of Arizona the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Regina Saskatchewan. A rare example of a law reflecting the changes of British mercantilism at the close of the First Empire. 3pp. plus printed docket title on verso of second leaf. Bifolium. Three early horizontal folds. Very minor foxing and soiling. Near fine untrimmed. unknown books
1801réf. 44263Dieppe France. July 1801. Rebuilding Trade After the Quasi War An interesting and rare artifact of the attempt to rebuild French-American trading relations in the wake of the so-called "Quasi-War" between the two nations. The Quasi-War was an undeclared conflict between the United States and France during John Adams' administration in the late 1790s manifested mostly in naval engagements between the two nations. The war wreaked havoc on American commerce with France which only began to be rebuilt with the Convention of 1800. The present printed circular was created by "Le Baron fils" the former American consular agent in Dieppe and was apparently sent to a variety of American merchants encouraging them to once again send shipments of American goods to that French port. Not much is known of Le Baron fils though he did correspond with Benjamin Franklin and he served as the American consular agent at Dieppe for several years. This copy of Le Baron fils' circular was sent to prominent New York merchant and politician Nicholas Low and is dated in manuscript July "24." It is addressed to Low in manuscript on the fourth page and his name is also written in the upper left corner of the circular. In the printed text Le Baron fils states: "you may see by the inclosed Price Current of our Colonial & American goods not present here that our prices are more advantageous than in Bordeaux as we are more in the center of the Republick nearer to Paris Rouen Amiens and all the Chiefest manufacturing towns of France." Low is encouraged to "consign me some goods the sale of which shall be attended to with the greatest care and the proceeds of which will be sent to you either in goods from this country or in Bills on Paris London or Hamburgh at your choice." The printed text concludes by giving the names of the American consuls at Paris and Hamburg as well as two English trading houses as references to Le Baron fils' character. Le Baron fils adds in manuscript: "Mr. J. Clason & Mr. C. Codwise of yr place can give you an account upon my house in case you want quick information." Old folds some edge wear small tears at edges of fold fourth page torn from wax seal. Very good overall. unknown books
1822réf. 38089Washington. 1822. This Senate documents prints the memorial from America's foremost learned society asserting that that any tax on imported books is "detrimental to the progress of knowledge" and asking that those duties be suspended. The memorials written by Peter Duponceau and R.M. Patterson review the policies of other governments toward duties on imported books providing a useful survey of the tax policies of the major European powers. OCLC and American imprints together locate only five copies at Yale the University of Virginia the New York Law Institute the Library of Congress and Princeton. Scarce. Dbd. most leaves loose. Old stain in upper half throughout. Good. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 11000. OCLC 23248452. unknown books
1790réf. 51521Rouen: L. Oursel 1790. With a Partially-Printed Letter Transmitting the French Revolutionary Proclamation Proclamation by the Revolutionary government of France abolishing the monopoly of the French East India Company on trade beyond the Cape of Good Hope and declaring it open to all Frenchmen. The Compagnie des Indes Orientales was established in 1664 to compete with the British and Dutch East India companies. It had considerable difficulty maintaining itself financially through its long history and it was finally liquidated in 1769. In 1785 it was reconstituted and granted a seven-year monopoly on trade beyond the Cape of Good Hope but the French Revolution and the democratic zeal that accompanied it put an end to that with the present decree. The brief proclamation is accompanied by a transmittal form from the Bureau Intermediane du Departement de Montivilliers indicating that one copy of the proclamation was sent to the recipient. Quarto on a folded folio sheet. Light wear and soiling. Very good. unknown books
1675réf. 45901London: Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker 1675. Enforcing the Triangular Trade: The Basis for the British Colonial System A rare broadside reiterating and reinforcing the decree of the English government that all foreign goods destined for British colonies must first pass through England a policy of mercantilism later termed the "triangle trade." "This program permitted the profits from colonial trade and commerce to center in England promoted British shipping and enabled the British government to support itself by taxing this trade as it flowed through England" - DAH. The English government began its mercantilist policies under the Commonwealth government in a series of "navigation acts" which regulated English trade. The first Navigation Act passed in 1651 targeted Dutch commerce. It stipulated that only English ships could carry freight into English territories and that if a ship was not English it could only carry goods from the country from whence it hailed i.e. Dutch ships could only import Dutch goods etc. Acts passed in 1660 and 1663 under the Restoration government of Charles II isolated trade even further mandating that British colonial goods only be imported to England and forbidding English trade on anything other than English vessels. This policy of trade which was continued for the next two hundred years marked the ascent of British colonial mercantilism and planted the seeds of discontent which resulted in the American Revolution one hundred years later. The present proclamation is an enforcement of the Navigation Act of 1663 An Act for the Encouragement of Trade under which "no commodities of the growth production or manufacture of Europe shall be imported into any land island plantation colony territory or place to his Majesty belonging." In other words all European trade to the American and East Indian colonies of the English had to pass through English ports en route. As the law is being disobeyed to the detriment of trade and tax revenue the proclamation extends power for enforcement to the officials of the realm. It states: ".whereas his Majesty is well informed that notwithstanding the said Act of Parliament great quantities of other commodities.have been and are daily imported into several of his colonies plantations and territories in Asia Africa and America.and that his Majesties subjects of some of his colonies and plantations have not onely sic supplied themselves with such commodities not shipped in England.but have conveyed them by land and water to other of his Majesties colonies and plantations to the great prejudice of his Majesties customs and of the trade and navigation of this kingdom." An important proclamation which illustrates the difficulty in maintaining and enforcing the laws central to the first British Empire. Old fold lines. Repaired with tissue on verso along vertical fold. A few other small tears or tissue repairs. Very good. ESTC R25339. WING C3378. GOLDSMITHS' 2112. STEELE I:3619. KRESS S1421. DAH III p.374. unknown books
1774réf. 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
1731réf. 46721London. 1731. Limiting Sugar Trade with the French and Dutch A protest against a Bill to restrain the northern colonies from trading with the French and Dutch sugar islands. One of five editions published all rather scarce. Only four copies of this edition noted by ESTC - at the National Archives New-York Historical Society University of Michigan and the University of Minnesota. European Americana also notes Yale and JCB. Folded folio sheet. Vertical fold reinforced with tissue. Minor soiling. Very good. ESTC N15514. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 731/37. unknown books
