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Confidential diplomatic letter,
laying out the opportunities for a new Dutch-Cuban sugar trade company
Guillermo Lobé (1785-1883).
[Autograph letter signed].
Havana, June 18, 1827.
4to. 13, [3 blank] pp. Ink on laid paper, with a watercolour drawing on a larger 4to loose wove paper sheet dated 1827.
Important confidential manuscript letter by the Dutch-Spanish diplomat Guillermo Lobé, in which he lays out the commercial and geo-political situation of Cuba in detail. The letter is accompanied by a drawing that possibly depicts a valley in Cuba and is dated on verso in ink 1827.
In the densely written 12-page letter he writes to an anonymous "old family friend", who he met in Antwerp. Apparently this friend was was planning to establish a Dutch-Cuban sugar trade company or "Société du Commerce" and asked Lobé to provide him with information about the international trade in Cuba and Havana in particular. Lobé praises the commercial opportunities of the island and predicts a great future for its… Read More

Description of the world with 645 plates: a rare complete copy

Alain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706).
Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises, darinnen I. […] V.
Frankfurt, Anton Heinscheidt for Johann Adam Jung, 1719.
5 volumes in 2. 8°. (IX), (VIII), (IV), 263, (1); 276, (24); 170 (22); 519, (1 blank), (XLV), (1 blank); 418, (LXXXIV) pp. = complete with errata leaves.With 645 plates (618 numbered, 5 frontispieces, 17 portraits, 5 unnumbered or wrongly numbered plates). The main title in vol. 1 erroneously mentions 650 plates. See full index of plates below.
An exceptionally rare complete copy of Alain Manesson Mallet's "Description of the World". This remarkable work, here in the second edition of the German translation, provides the reader with a guide to countless places in the world, divided in four parts: Africa, America, Asia and Europe. This is preceded by an introduction to cosmography and geography. The illustrations show maps, cities, people and particularities of the places that are… Read More

A judicial turning point in the West IndiesJean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville (1776-1857).
Ordonnance du Roi portant établissement de l'enregistrement à la Martinique, à la Guadeloupe et dans ses dépendances, et à la Guyane française.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1829.

4°. 122 pp. With the woodcut coat of arms of France on title-page.
Contemporary coloured marbled calf with gold-tooled borders, smooth gold-tooled spine with title label in red morocco, gilt edges.
First and only edition of an ordonnance of significant governmental administration reform in the colonial French Antilles and Guyana. This copy beautifully bound and from the library of Proser de Barante (1782-1866). The rare ordinance declares that the registration of anything official will have to be centrally administered and paid for, meaning a farewell to the colonial ways of administration that was largely conducted by plantations. It was modelled after the successful administrative reform in the French East Indies in 1804.… Read More

Introducing drugs from around the world
João Curvo Semedo (1635-1719).
Polyanthea medicinal. Noticias galenicas, e chymicas, repartidas em tres tratados [...] Quarta vez impressa […].
Lisboa Occidental, Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1727.
Folio in 6s. [60], 312, 317-879, [1 blank], 32, [4], 11, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. = complete with the advertisement leaf at the end and the 3 plates: an engraved frontispiece showing the Portuguese Royal coat-of-arms by J. Gomez, 1727; a full-page engraved portrait of the Archbishop of Lisbon Luís de Sousa by Claude Duflos, 1701; and an engraved portrait of the author João Curvo Semedo also by J. Gomez, 1727.
Contemporary sheep with gold-tooled spine and raised bands.
An important pioneering Portuguese guide to medicine from around the world. This rare fourth edition is of particular interest because it includes the list of drugs from other continents: Memorial de varios simplices que da India Oriental, da America. & de outras partes do mundo vem… Read More

Amongst the greatest histories of the New World
This copy a rare complete second edition


Antonio Herrera de Tordesillas (1549-1626).

Primera parte de la historia general del Mundo, de XVII. años del tiempo del señor Rey don Felipe II. el Prudente, desde el año de M.D.LIII. hasta el de M.D.LXX.

Valladolid, Juan Godinez de Millis, 1606 (colophon: Valladolid, Juan Godinez de Millis, 1605).
4° in 8s. [8], 820, [42] pp. Collates: x4, A-2Z8, 3A-3B6, x-2x8, 3x4.

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Segunda parte de la historia general del Mundo, de XV. años del tiempo del señor Rey don Felipe II. el Prudente, desde el año de M.D.LXXI. hasta el de M.D.LXXXV.

Valladolid, [Juan Godinez de Millis], 1606 (colophon: Valladolid, Juan Godinez de Millis, 1605).
4° in 8s. [6], 630, [2 blank], [38] pp. Collates: π3, A-2Q8, 2R, π-3π3, [1 blank].

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Tercera parte de la historia general del Mundo, de XIIII. años del tiempo del señor Rey don Felipe II. el prudente, desde el año de 1585. hasta el de 1598. que passò… Read More