SOCIÉTÉ HISTORIQUE DES ANTILLESLivre Rare Book
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ref. 353Paris : Au siège de la société (imp F. Paillart, Abbeville), octobre 1928 - avril-octobre 1930. UNE TRÈS RARE PUBLICATION SUR LES ANTILLES
1789ref. LBW-68831789. In-8 de 7 pp. sur papier bleuté, non rogné ; cartonnage de papier marbré marron à la Bradel, pièce de titre marron (reliure moderne).
1857ref. 022510Philadelphia: T.K. and P.G. Collins Printers 1857. Pamphlet. Fair. Pamphlet perhaps disbound from a larger volume. Lacking any wrappers that may have issued. 31 28 pp. Fold out map of the railroad lines present at the front of the 1857. Not sure if the 1858 report is complete but no map present at the front of that report. Reports from the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad Company detailing upgrades and expenses along with other subjects related to the operation of the railroad. Financial tables also present. The Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad Company began operation in 1831 to help transport coal from the mines of Pennsylvania. It became part of the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad in 1862. FAIR condition. Some uneven toning and offsetting to the paper. Minor chipping tearing and creasing along the extremities. Map TORN in two and very fragile. In order to preserve it we have not handled it further to avoid risk of further deterioration thus no photo is available nor can we answer more questions about its condition. Minor pencil notation at the front of each report. T.K. and P.G. Collins, Printers unknown
1849ref. 012856Boston: Eastburn's Press 1849. Wraps. Poor. Printed wraps MISSING rear wrapper. 79 pp. With a large fold out map of the Boston and Maine Railroad. A report offering business and financial accounts of the Boston and Maine Railroad discussing land owned business transactions and finances capital etc. Issued due to coincide with the issue of more stock in the company. POOR condition MISSING rear wrapper. Heavy soiling and staining to the front wrapper and several rear pages including black spotting and staining. Moderate to heavy dampstaining throughout with scattered soiling. Front wrapper heavily creased torn and folded along the spine. Map somewhat misfolded with a tear and some soiling/staining. Overall POOR condition sold primarily for map with the rest of the piece perhaps best considered a working copy. Eastburn's Press unknown
1870ref. 005733Washington: Government Printing Office 1870. Full Leather. Good/No Jacket. Full calf leather. 650 pp. With a title page preceding the above title stating: 'Executive Documents Printed by Order of the House of Representatives During the Second Session of the Forty-First Congress. 1869-70. Dated 1870. With a 51 page index to the 13 volumes of these documents at the front. This volume is devoted to the report from the Chief of Engineers which includes a discussion of a perfect levee system along the Mississippi River various improvements to harbors rivers and waterways etc. GOOD condition. Uneven fading and minor staining to the leather with some scuffing heaviest along the extremities and spine. A 2 inch split present at the upper rear hinge with a small split at the upper front. Light pulling and fraying to the head of the spine. A few small spots of staining to the rear cover. Interior clean and solid with minor browning. Some offsetting to the endpapers. Government Printing Office unknown
1698ref. PHO-2187Paris, dans l'Isle du Palais, G. Saugrain, 1698.Grand in-12, 6ff.-219pp., veau époque, dos à nerfs orné, manque au dos et aux plats, coins usés, frottements, ex-libris sur la page de garde et manuscrit au titre. Exemplaire sans les planches.
1972ref. 1217351972 Editions Basse-Terre, Société d'Histoire de la Guadeloupe, Collection "Bibliothèque d'histoire antillaise" - 1972 - In-12, broché - 248 pages
19941 vol. in-8 carré br., 1994, 54 pp. Bon état Français
1999ref. ANTILLES656121114Bordeaux, Musée d'Aquitaine / Paris, Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1999, 22 x 28, 248 pages coususes sous couverture souple illustrée. Textes de Laurence Verrand, Jean-Yves Boscher, Jacques de Cauna, etc. Riche iconographie en noir & blanc et en couleurs. Ouvrage publié à l'occasion de la présentation de la collection Marcel Chatillon du 23 septembre 1999 au 16 janvier 2000.
1994ref. 331141 vol. in-8 carré br., 1994, 54 pp.
1956ref. 021525No Place: No publisher 1956. Unbound. Good. Various places and dates. Dates range from April 25 1956 to June 27 1956. 14 leaves printed on single sides only. It appears most are copies of originals but a few may be original as well. All these letters stem from a proposal letter written by Ambassador Whiting Willauer to his friend and insurance executive from whose estate these came. Willauer mentions his troubles with some Chinese refugees he sponsored which made him ponder the possibility for some sort of insurance for sponsors of refugees to cover financial losses in case the refugees are not able to fulfill their obligations stipulated in the Refugee Act of 1953. The letters are between other US insurance executives pondering options and feasibility with the eventual conclusion that the proposal was not practical. The act itself was meant to accommodate 200000 refugees affected by communism. The earliest letter is from US Ambassador Whiting Willauer on "The Foreign Service of the United States of America" letterhead and apparently written from Honduras where Willauer was serving at the time. Notably Willauer along with Claire Chennault established the Civilian Air Transport Company in China in 1946 selling it to the CIA in 1950 although not resigning from the company until 1954. At this time he became ambassador to Honduras and worked directly with the CIA in Guatemala in support of their operation to overthrow its government led by Jacobo Arbenz Guzman see Wikipedia for previous information-or misinformation. Willauer's letter does bear a signature but we have not authenticated it in any way. These are from an executive of a very large international insurance firm name of owner and firm withheld for privacy. The owner was a highly placed executive in an insurance company and travelled throughout the world extensively. They were active in politics through donations and fundraising and it appears their family was friendly with the Roosevelts especially Eleanor Roosevelt. The previous owner's work for the insurance company led them to meet with various heads of state worldwide including US government officials. Some of the people associated with this firm were also involved in World War II activities including financing the Flying Tigers in China as well as work for the OSS using knowledge gained from insurance work. While we have not found any direct connection to intelligence work by this owner their ties to those who did are strong. GOOD condition. Letters mounted by metal clip in a manila folder. Some wrinkling to the letters with a few handwritten notes to some of them. No publisher unknown
1782ref. CA0094lii315 pages. Octavo 8" x 5 3/4" bound in full leather with gilt lettering to spine. Translated with notes by Pedro Varela y Ulloa. Palau 196692. First Spanish edition. A text that engaged the well-studied debates about the natural history of the Americas and Spain's colonial history. In 1780 in Venice Juan Nuix published Riflessioni imparziali supra l'umanita degli spagnuoli nell' Indie contro i pretersi filosofi e politici. Nuix a Catalan living in Italy since the expulsion of the Jesuits wrote the book to defend Spanish colonialism and historiography against the attacks of Robertson and Raynal. It sailed by the censors in the Council of the Indies and two separate translations appeared in succession one in 1782 edited by a member of the Royal Council Pedro Varela y Ulloa and another in 1783 by Joseph Nuix Juan's brother. The Spanish edition sponsored by the crown opened with an essay by Varela y Ulloa in which he first offered a searing Critique of traditional forms of colonialism not unlike that put forth by Raynal. After describing military campaigns in foreign lands from Alexander the Great to Genghis Kahn as butcheries Varela y Ulloa went on to claim that the Spanish colonialism was unique. The crimes attributed to Spain in the Indies had been committed by private individuals who did not represent the nation as a whole and who had acted as they did while surrounded by hungry cannibals. Moreover compared with the atrocities committed by other European colonial powers the actions of the Spaniards looked like misdemeanors. Varela y Ulloa's effort to portray Spanish colonialism as unique benign captured the essence of Nuix's thesis well. Nuix's defense of the record of Spanish colonialism opened with passages that sought to bolster his credibility by stressing that he was a Catalan and that Catalans had not really participated in the Spanish colonization of the Indies so that he could not be accused of being partisan. He then articulated a five-pronged defense of Castilian colonial behavior in America seeking to demonstrate the unreliability of the sources used by Robertson and Raynal and of their interpretations. Nuix First set out to prove that charges of Spanish cruelty to Amerindians were exaggerations originally put into circulation by writers such as Las Casas whose reports on the destruction of the Indies were at the root of most foreign criticisms of Spain. According to Nuix Las Casas was of Flemish origin which explained why he had sought to undermine Spain. Las Casas also often contradicted himself Nuix argued no impartial jury could trust such "an inept" witness. Foreign historians who had echoed Las Casas's allegations were not credible either not Robertson whose moderation had prompted him to dismiss Las Casas. Robertson had selected and reinterpreted the testimony of Spanish witnesses when recounting various colonial massacres. Instead of quoting them moreover Robertson had manipulated the testimony of witnesses to depict the Amerindians as passive victims of Spanish cruelty. History was not a matter of interpretation however but of faithfully presenting the testimony of witnesses and in that respect Robertson lacked credibility. In order to prove that Spaniards in America had not behaved like greedy barbarians Nuix argued that the alleged depopulation caused by the Conquest was the product of factors outside human control. The infantile susceptibility of the natives to disease for example was why epidemics had wiped them out. The barrenness of the Americas and the idleness of the originally small number of natives had moved the conquerors to create economies based on mining and large estates. Such economies along with the foreign monopoly on colonial trade not Spanish cruelty and greed Nuix contended were responsible for having slowed both markets and population growth. Condition: Provenance: Book plate of Alberto Parreño formerly president of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce in New York to front paste down. Spine head chipped rubbing to edges and corners very crisp internally else about a very good copy. Joachin Ibarra hardcover books
1782ref. CA0094lii315 pages. Octavo 8" x 5 3/4" bound in full leather with gilt lettering to spine. Translated with notes by Pedro Varela y Ulloa. Palau 196692. First Spanish edition. A text that engaged the well-studied debates about the natural history of the Americas and Spain's colonial history. In 1780 in Venice Juan Nuix published Riflessioni imparziali supra l'umanita degli spagnuoli nell' Indie contro i pretersi filosofi e politici. Nuix a Catalan living in Italy since the expulsion of the Jesuits wrote the book to defend Spanish colonialism and historiography against the attacks of Robertson and Raynal. It sailed by the censors in the Council of the Indies and two separate translations appeared in succession one in 1782 edited by a member of the Royal Council Pedro Varela y Ulloa and another in 1783 by Joseph Nuix Juan's brother. The Spanish edition sponsored by the crown opened with an essay by Varela y Ulloa in which he first offered a searing Critique of traditional forms of colonialism not unlike that put forth by Raynal. After describing military campaigns in foreign lands from Alexander the Great to Genghis Kahn as butcheries Varela y Ulloa went on to claim that the Spanish colonialism was unique. The crimes attributed to Spain in the Indies had been committed by private individuals who did not represent the nation as a whole and who had acted as they did while surrounded by hungry cannibals. Moreover compared with the atrocities committed by other European colonial powers the actions of the Spaniards looked like misdemeanors. Varela y Ulloa's effort to portray Spanish colonialism as unique benign captured the essence of Nuix's thesis well. Nuix's defense of the record of Spanish colonialism opened with passages that sought to bolster his credibility by stressing that he was a Catalan and that Catalans had not really participated in the Spanish colonization of the Indies so that he could not be accused of being partisan. He then articulated a five-pronged defense of Castilian colonial behavior in America seeking to demonstrate the unreliability of the sources used by Robertson and Raynal and of their interpretations. Nuix First set out to prove that charges of Spanish cruelty to Amerindians were exaggerations originally put into circulation by writers such as Las Casas whose reports on the destruction of the Indies were at the root of most foreign criticisms of Spain. According to Nuix Las Casas was of Flemish origin which explained why he had sought to undermine Spain. Las Casas also often contradicted himself Nuix argued no impartial jury could trust such "an inept" witness. Foreign historians who had echoed Las Casas's allegations were not credible either not Robertson whose moderation had prompted him to dismiss Las Casas. Robertson had selected and reinterpreted the testimony of Spanish witnesses when recounting various colonial massacres. Instead of quoting them moreover Robertson had manipulated the testimony of witnesses to depict the Amerindians as passive victims of Spanish cruelty. History was not a matter of interpretation however but of faithfully presenting the testimony of witnesses and in that respect Robertson lacked credibility. In order to prove that Spaniards in America had not behaved like greedy barbarians Nuix argued that the alleged depopulation caused by the Conquest was the product of factors outside human control. The infantile susceptibility of the natives to disease for example was why epidemics had wiped them out. The barrenness of the Americas and the idleness of the originally small number of natives had moved the conquerors to create economies based on mining and large estates. Such economies along with the foreign monopoly on colonial trade not Spanish cruelty and greed Nuix contended were responsible for having slowed both markets and population growth. Condition: Provenance: Book plate of Alberto Parreño formerly president of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce in New York to front paste down. Spine head chipped rubbing to edges and corners very crisp internally else about a very good copy. Joachin Ibarra hardcover
1879ref. 021476Chicago: Invitation Committee of the Reception to Gen. U.S. Grant presumed Publisher 1879. Unbound. Good. no date presumed 1879. Single sheet folded into four pages roughly 8 by 5 ½ inches when folded. Printed on the front of the first leaf and bottom half of the second leaf. Ornately decorated title present. An invitation to the Reception to General Ulysses S. Grant given to him in Chicago on the return from his post-presidency world tour. This invitation was addressed to L.L. Mills States Attorney inviting him to take part in the procession on November 12th in honor of General Grant's visit to Chicago. Upon accepting the invitation his position in line would be allotted. Printed signatures of Elliot Anthony and Woodbury M. Taylor present with a list of committee members printed in the interior. The procession presumably preceded the reception at the Palmer House where the Invitation Committee was located. This reception included many speeches honoring President Grant including the finale which was given by Mark Twain. According to accounts a good time was had by all. GOOD condition. Horizontal fold crease present with a 2 ½ inch tear at the fore edge along the fold. Some curling wrinkling and creasing to the piece. General toning minor soiling and staining. Invitation Committee of the Reception to Gen. U.S. Grant, presumed Publisher unknown
ref. 237962in-8, demi-basane brune, dos lisse orné de filets dorés et de fleurons à froid, tranches marbrées (reliure de l'époque).
1674ref. PHO-2032Paris, Louis Billaine, 1674. in-4 (228x164) , relié plein veau , filets sur les plats , dos à nerfs orné avec titre , auteur et date (reliure pastiche),tranches rouge. L'ouvrage est illustré de 12 planches hors texte, une carte de l'Éthiopie dans le texte, trois cartes dépliantes (Barbades, Jamaïque et Virginie, Maryland et la Nouvelle-Angleterre) manque la carte du Nil, mouillures, déchirure et réparation au pli (carte des Barbardes)
1674ref. PHO-2243Paris, Louis Billaine, 1674, in-4 (228x164), basane postérieure (19eme), dos à nerfs avec titre, lieu et date, tranches marbrées, réparations au dos et aux coins, petite réparation au pli de la carte des Barbades, intérieur frais, illustré de 12 planches (13) et trois cartes dépliantes (Barbades, Jamaïque et Virginie, Maryland et la Nouvelle-Angleterre) manque la carte du Nil comme souvent et un faux titre
ref. 005460Paris, Louis Billaine, 1674. Cinq parties reliées en un volume in-quarto (180 X 250 mm) basane fauve marbrée, dos brun à nerfs orné de fers dorés, titre doré, tranches mouchetées en rouge (Reliure de l’époque) ; (8) ff. de titre, avis au lecteur, extrait du privilège, 262 pages, 14 planches h.-t. (dont 7 dépliantes) - 23 pages - 49 pages, 3 planches h.-t. - 83 pages [et non 81 pages, il y a en effet deux pages 54/55], 1 planche dépliante h.-t. - 35 pages, 1 planche dépliante h.-t. Discrètes et habiles restaurations à la reliure, épidermures sur les plats, infime travail de ver en fond de cahier sans atteinte au texte du premier tiers de l'ouvrage. SANS le faux titre "Colonies Anglaises" ni la CARTE de la "Description Topographique et mesure de l'Isle des Barbades aux Indes Occidentales" qui manque souvent.
1791ref. 44994Paris, Moreau de Saint-Méry, Ponce, Phelipeau, 1791. Grand in-folio (48 x 34 cm), titre et 30 planches gravées, cartonnage bleu de l'époque.
In-8, broché, couverture papier moderne, tranches rouges, 24 p. Edition originale de ce rapport historique dans lequel Barnave résume les fondements de la politique coloniale de la Constituante: accorder une large marge d'initiative aux Assemblées coloniales, en particulier sur la question du maintien ou de l'abolition de l'esclavage, tout en affirmant que les colonies sont partie intégrante de "l'Empire français". Contient, en fin, le projet de décret de Barnave qui fut adopté sans changement. (Cf. analyse in Pluchon, 'Histoire de la colonisation française', p. 816 sq.). (Martin & Walter, 1750). Très bon exemplaire, très frais, entièrement non coupé.
In-8, broché, couverture papier fort (rel. moderne), 11 p. (qqs rouss.). Edition originale. Le rapport qui relança le débat sur la citoyenneté des hommes de couleurs et des "Nègres libres". "Le député de la Somme propose qu'aucun règlement sur l'état des personnes ne puisse être pris par le Conseil législatif sans la demande précise et formelle des assemblées coloniales. A la suite des interventions de Pétion, Destutt et de Grégoire cette initiative avorte" (Pluchon, 'Histoire de la colonisation', p. 880). Le rapport est suivi du projet de décret en 16 articles. Bon exemplaire.
ref. 9515Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, an II (1794) in-8, 3 pp., broché.
ref. 236541Basse-Terre, Imprimerie du gouvernement, s.d. (1871) in-8, 6 pp., en feuilles.
ref. 13233In-8, broché, couverture papier moderne, 24 p. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1790.
ref. 198298Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1790 in-8, 16 pp., en feuilles.
