Search Results: Titles starting with C from Foldvaribooks

In original wrappers. In very good condition.. In original wrappers. 12 p. Ça Ira! was one of the most important avantgarde publication. This issue issue illustrated with a lino by Josef Cantre.

[Rohnstock?], 1774. Original manuscript index and hand painted watercolor maps. Many signed by E. G. Mütz and Gottfried Riedel. Sizes vary, the single sheets are ca. 400 × 250 mm, the folded maps are ca. 400 × 530; 640 × 260; 360 × 460 mm. Maps are titled in German in ink, the index is written in brown and red ink. Some leaves with light brown stains, more significant at foldings. Sheets are loose, housed in a folder. Restored artistically. Overall in very good condition.. Original manuscript index and hand painted watercolor maps. Many signed by E. G. Mütz and Gottfried Riedel. Sizes vary, the single sheets are ca. 400 × 250 mm, the folded maps are ca. 400 × 530; 640 × 260; 360 × 460 mm. Maps are titled in German in ink, the index is written in brown and red ink. (4) pages of index, and 16 watercolor maps (14 folded). A unique collection of sixteen watercolor, late 18th century, Lower Silesian cadastral maps. The Lower Silesian Duchy of Pless with its capital Pless (present-day… Read More

Vilnius: Ludwika Chomińskiego, 1923. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. Pencil marks on back cover. Shelfmark on half-title, old ownership stamp on title page. Pages tanned, due to aging. Unopened. In very good condition.. First edition. In publisher's illustrated wrappers. 80 [4] p. The first collection of poems of the Polish writer, Jerzy Wyszomirski, with cover design by Kazimiera Adamska-Rouba, the Polish painter and graphic artist. .

(Paris?): (S.n.), 1826. First edition. Published unbound. Untrimmed. In fine condition.. First edition. Published unbound. 11, (5) p. Comte de Noé's (1777-1858) speech concerning the "Haiti Indemnity" at the Chamber of Peers on April 19, 1826. After the successful slave rebellion of Saint-Domingue which culminated in the elimination of slavery and the founding of the Republic of Haiti it took more than twenty years until the French ruler, King Charles X of France recognised the independence of the island in return of 150 million gold franc indemnity in April 1825. The sum was later reduced to 90 million in 1838. The issue of the indemnity appeared again in 2003 when the President of Haiti demanded France to pay back over 21 billion U.S. dollars, the equivalent in today's money of the 90 million gold francs, however in 2004 the prime minister rescinded the reparations demand. Not in Sabin. .

London: Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (Harrison and Sons Ltd.), 1926. First separate edition. Association copy, inscribed by the author to Bernát Heller. In publisher's printed wrappers. Folded. Small damage to the tail of the spine. Front cover bumped at lower right corner. A small tear to the front panel at lower right edge. Panels slightly sunned. Overall in very good condition.. With two photographic plates.. With two photographic plates. First separate edition. Association copy, inscribed by the author to Bernát Heller. In publisher's printed wrappers. pp. 361-384, and 2 plates. An association copy of Géza Róheim paper on the Hungarian folk custom, inscribed to Bernát Heller (1871-1942) the Hungarian folklorist and orientalist. Géza Róheim (1891-1953) was a Hungarian psychoanalyst and anthropologist, founder of the field of psychoanalytic anthropology, best known for his anthropological writings about Arrernte and Pitjantjatjara people he published after his… Read More

Paris: Chez Clousier, Imprimeur du Roi, 1790. First edition. In later half leather, spine gilt. Bound by Claude Honnelaitre. Some pages misbound, but complete. In fine condition.. First edition. In later half leather, spine gilt. Bound by Claude Honnelaitre. Some pages misbound, but complete. 16 p. Cocherel's paper concerning the importation of American grain to Saint-Domingue to alleviate famine. In his pamphlet Nicolas-Robert Cocherel (1741-1826) an early supporter of liberalized trade with Saint Domingue, urges the Comité des Six, a commercial and agricultural committee, to evaluate the request of the Deputies of Saint Domingue in regards to potential famine, to open all of Saint-Domingue's ports to foreign trade of grain and flour. He claims that the famine turned into a political question and attacks François Barbé-Marbois, the intendant of Saint-Domingue, for putting his personal interests ahead of public good. "Citing his experience during the American War for Independence, in which no… Read More

(Paris?): (S.n.), 1826. First edition. Published unbound. Attached with string. Untrimmed. In fine condition.. First edition. Published unbound. Attached with string. 46, (2) p. Comte de Kergorlay's (1769-1856) speech concerning the "Haiti Indemnity" at the Chamber of Peers on April 19, 1826. After the successful slave rebellion of Saint-Domingue which culminated in the elimination of slavery and the founding of the Republic of Haiti it took more than twenty years until the French ruler, King Charles X of France recognised the independence of the island in return of 150 million gold franc indemnity in April 1825. The sum was later reduced to 90 million in 1838. The issue of the indemnity appeared again in 2003 when the President of Haiti demanded France to pay back over 21 billion U.S. dollars, the equivalent in today's money of the 90 million gold francs, however in 2004 the prime minister rescinded the reparations demand. Not in Sabin. Not in the Haiti Collection of John Carter Brown Library. .

Evreux: J. J. L. Ancelle, 1793. First edition. Published unbound. In good condition.. First edition. Published unbound. 4 p. Decree of the National Convention about slave-trade; the declaration of William Pitt as enemy of mankind; and a decree on sylviculture. 1º. Qui autorise le Ministre de la Marine à faire marquer & exploiter les Bois propres à la construction des Vaisseaux. Du 27 Juillet 1793. No. 1279. Authorising extraordinary cuts in the forests for the Navy for shipbuilding. 2º. Qui supprime les Primes pour le Traite des Esclavage. No. 1287. [Décret de la Convention Nationale, du 27 juillet 1793, l'an second de la République Française, qui supprime les Primes pour la Traite des Esclaves.] A milestone toward the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of slaves. Decree of the National Convention on June 27, 1793 that removes the premiums for slave-trading. A copy of the decree (Paris imprint) is at Princeton University in the "Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the… Read More

Madrid: Juan Delgado, 1624. First edition. Bifolio. Chipped at outer margins, not affecting the text. Contemporary numerical inscriptions in upper margin of the first page. Tears, with tiny losses at the gutter, and slight loss to text at folds. Faint damp staining. Artistically restored, losses repaired in Japanese paper. Overall in good condition.. First edition. Bifolio. (4) p. First edition of this scarce, Spanish, first-hand account about the first phase of the Siege of Breda, a significant battle of the Thirty (and Eighty) Years' War, whose end was immortalized by Velázquez's famous painting The Surrender of Breda (Las lanzas). The letter gives eyewitness information about the first months of the Spanish efforts in the Siege of Breda, led by Ambrogio Spinola, and about the successful driving off of the Dutch relief army under the leadership of Maurice of Nassau. Not much is known about Rodrigo de Lara, the author of the report, who must have been accompanying the troops as a secretary or… Read More

A Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1790. First edition. Imprint from colophon. With a woodcut headpiece above title. Published unbound. Number "113" in ink on title page. In fine condition.. First edition. Imprint from colophon. With a woodcut headpiece above title. Published unbound. 4 p. The law about the French Tricolor, the birth of the French flag. The royal, Paris edition. The Revolution of 1789 led to the need for a new national flag, that expresses the radical changes and reforms that were introduced. The first Tricolor was established by this decree of the National Assembly, that specified all the details of the flag, the material and the placement of it. It was originally a naval jack a maritime flag with an outer border blue at the hoist and red at the fly surrounded a white border that was around the tricolor, with the colors the reverse of what they are today, red at the hoist and blue to the fly. The order was reversed later, in 1794 and has remained in use ever since. Red and… Read More

Paris: P. G. Simon, Imprimeur du Parlement, 1777. First edition. With woodcut head piece. In fine condition.. First edition. With woodcut head piece. 4 p. Royal act regarding the property of the minors in French India (Établissements français dans l'Inde).

A Bordeaux: Chez Michel Racle, Imprimeur de l'intendance, & de l'Hôtel-de-Ville, rue Saint-James, 1771. First edition. Unbound as published. First and last leaves chipped, and tanned. Corners bumped. All over in very good condition.. First edition. Unbound as published. 137 [3] p. Unrecorded publication of a legal case of inheritance of a planter family in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue. This unrecorded legal brief contains the summary of an interesting and seemingly forgotten inheritance case that offers a glimpse into the life of the planter aristocracy of the pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue. The case concerns the estate of the Casaux family in Léogâne. After the death of Joseph Casaux, a French planter from Agen, who arrived in Saint-Domingue around 1697, his son (Simon-)Louis (1703-1728) and a minor daughter from a different mother (Charlotte-)Julienne (1719-?) inherited his estate in 1726, which included two properties Varreux and Petit Paradis, and the related assets of personalties,… Read More

(Paris?): (S.n.), 1826. First edition. Published unbound. Attached with string. Untrimmed. In fine condition.. First edition. Published unbound. Attached with string. 32 p. Report of the special commission for inspecting the distribution of the indemnity payed by Haiti for the former French settlers after gaining her independence. The members of commission were Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis (1764-1830), marquis de Lally-Tollendal (1751-1830), Emmanuel de Pastoret (1755-1840), Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac (1775-1848) and the author of this report Édouard Mounier (1783-1843). After the successful slave rebellion of Saint-Domingue which culminated in the elimination of slavery and the founding of the Republic of Haiti it took more than twenty years until the French ruler, King Charles X of France recognised the independence of the island in return of 150 million gold franc indemnity in April 1825. The sum was later reduced to 90 million in 1838. Scarce, we could trace only one copy in institutional… Read More

Aix: Imprimerie de la Vauve d'André Adibert, Imprimeur du Roi & du Départment, vis-à-vis le College, 1791. First edition. With a woodcut head piece. Published unbound. Numbered in ink on each recto. In fine condition.. First edition. With a woodcut head piece. Published unbound. 3, (1) p. Law by the National Assembly concerning the legislation at Saint-Domingue and the rights of the colonial assembly and the governor of the island. Scarce document. .

[Tübingen]: [J. C. B. Mohr], 1905. First edition. In later black buckram, with gilt title on spine. From the "Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik" (1905, vol. 20 and 21). Annotated and underlined in pencil. Otherwise in very good condition.. First edition. In later black buckram, with gilt title on spine. From the "Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik" (1905, vol. 20 and 21). 1-54; 1-110 p. First edition of Max Weber's Protestant Ethic, the founding text of economic sociology and one of the most important texts of general sociology. Max Weber (1864-1920) was a German sociologist and political economist, considered as one of the founders of sociology besides Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx. He studied law in Heidelberg and Berlin and after earning his law doctorate he started to teach commercial law in Berlin, and economics in Freiburg and Heidelberg, until 1903. Later he became the associate editor of the academic journal of social sciences, the Archiv für… Read More

[Spain]: [s.n], 1821. First edition. Unbound as published. Signed at the end (undecipherable). With date (1821 29. de Enero) and summary note on the first page by a contemporary hand in ink. Folded once. Small closed tears at the gutter. Sporadic foxing. In fine condition.. First edition. Unbound as published. [4] p. A scarce royal decree on the creation and definition of the office of the General Superintendency in the Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas. During the dusk of the Spanish Empire, a bulk of administrative reforms were introduced trying to avoid the disintegration of the overseas territories, especially in the Americas. By the present royal instruction, Fernando VII introduced the office of the Superintendencies in the Viceroyalties of New Spain, Peru, New Granada, and Buenos Aires (the Río de la Plata) and detailed the duties of the position in fifteen articles. "Y ellí también el de 29 de enero de 1811[sic!], impreso, que contiene una Instrucción en 15 Artículos para los… Read More

A Paris: Chez Delamarche, Géographe, rue Jardinet, no. 13, vis-à-vis celle de l'Éperon, 1806. First edition. Published unbound, papered spine. Stains on first and last leaves. Corners bumped. Overall in very good condition.. First edition. Published unbound, papered spine. [3] 4-59 [1] p. carce catalogue and price list of the Delamache map publishing firm. An early 19th-century price catalogue of the Delamache map publishing firm, producer of globes, armillary spheres atlases and maps. Besides many others, the catalogue lists a large 18-inch terrestrial globe showing the discoveries of Cook, Lapérouse, Vancouver, and Mackenzie, an interesting tellurion called Géocyclique, and a Copernican heliocentric Armillary Sphere including the movement of Uranus which was discovered recently by William Herschel. Charles-François Delamarche (1740-1817) was one of the most important French geographers and mapmakers of his time, the successor to Nicolas Sanson, Robert de Vaugondy, Rigobert Bonne, and Jean… Read More

Paris: Baudouin, Imprimeur de l'Assemblée Nationale, 1790. First edition. Published unbound. In fine condition.. First edition. Published unbound. 2, (2) p. Official order to commemorate the decree of March 8, 1790 with festivities. The decree of the National Assembly on March 8, 1790 granted full legislative powers to the Colonial Assembly, gave Saint-Domingue and all French colonies almost complete autonomy. The decree reached Saint-Domingue only in May, and the Colonial Assembly began to issue radical decrees and reforms, pushing the colony further toward autonomy from France, thus the decree had a crucial role in the history of the Haiti Revolution. Sabin 75115.

[S.l.]: [s.n.], [N.d.; Second half of the 18th century]. Scarce edition. Woodcut headpiece. Paper with watermark of fleur-de-lis. Trace of folding and crease. Stains on the front page. Overall in very good condition.. Scarce edition. Woodcut headpiece. Paper with watermark of fleur-de-lis. (4) p. A previously unknown version of a "Gebrauchszettel", the only advertisement material used by Johann Marian Farina, the creator of Eau de Cologne or Kölnisch Wasser. The four-page pamphlet informs about the possible uses of the essence as a beauty product and adverts its health benefits and invigorating effects. Such labels were only sent with larger delivery or by the request of the costumer (Leschke, 2006), however, later it was used also as a trademark. Farina provided the buyers the right to return the perfume, thus the address of the supplier was always indicated on the pamphlets. (Leschke, 2006.) The present "Gebrauchszettel" provides the address of "Gebrüderen Rossi" in Cologne. Although the… Read More

[Paris]: [De l'Imprimerie National], 1791. First edition. Text of Washington's letter printed in English and French in parallel columns. With the letter of the President of the Assemblée Nationale, dated 20 June 1790. .Papered spine. The final leaf discolored at the edges, otherwise in fine condition.. First edition. Text of Washington's letter printed in English and French in parallel columns. With the letter of the President of the Assemblée Nationale, dated 20 June 1790. .Papered spine. 7 [1] p. The extremely scarce first edition of Washington's letter to the French National Assembly, dated on January 27th, 1791. Washington's reply (dated and signed: "United States, Jan. y. 27th 1791. G. Washington") to the National Assembly's tribute to Benjamin Franklin upon his death. Followed by the letter in French on pp. 5-7, to which it is an answer, addressed "A M. Washington, Président des États-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale", signed and dated: "Em. Sieyes, Président. Paris, 20 Juin 1790".… Read More