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Austrian commerce under Ottoman law

[OTTOMAN EMPIRE]. [Collection of treaty articles relating to commercial transactions of subjects of the Austrian state in the Ottoman Empire]. Avusturya devleti tebaasinin Memalik-i Osmaniyede ticaretlerine ait mevadd-i ahdiyye mecmuasidir.
Vienna, Dar tiba al-imberaturiyy (k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei), 1846. Large 8vo. Printed in black with red headings, within printed gilt rules. Illuminated head-piece and unwan printed in three colours and gilt, in imitation of manuscript illumination. Gilt tail-piece. Contemporary green morocco with a fore-edge flap, gold-stamped boards with an oriental design, gilt edges. 88 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Austria Central Europe Economic History & Trade Greek & Non-Western Types Law & Politics Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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Nineteen trade treaties with the Orient

[OTTOMAN EMPIRE - TREATY ARTICLES]. [Collection of treaty articles relating to commercial transactions of subjects of the Austrian state in the Ottoman Empire]. Avusturya devleti tebaasinin Memalik-i Osmaniyede ticaretlerine ait mevadd-i ahdiyye mecmuasidir.
Vienna, Dar tiba al-imberaturiyy (k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei), 1846.
With: Raccolta dei trattati e delle principali convenzioni concernanti il commercio e la navigazione dei sudditi Austriaci negli Stati della Porta Ottomana.
Vienna, Dar tiba al-imberaturiyy (k. k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei), 1844. Large 8vo. Printed in black with red headings, within printed gilt rules. Illuminated head-piece and unwan printed in three colours and gilt, in imitation of manuscript illumination. Gilt tail-piece. Contemporary green morocco binding with fore-edge flap, covers giltstamped with an oriental design. All edges gilt. 88; [4], VIII, 224 pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Austria Central Europe Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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The VOC, fearing competition in Southeast Asia, protests against the building
of a large frigate - the St. Louis - in Amsterdam for a French trading company
(rare first and only known edition)

[VOC]. THOU, Jacques Auguste du. Continuatie van klaghte van den ambassadeur van Vranckryck, ende hoe het daer mede gelegen is, volgens de respectieve advijsen van de admiraliteyt, ende van de bewinthebbers van de Oost-Indische Compagnie.
[Copy imprint:] "Naer de Copye, 1660." [1660 or shortly after]. 4to. With Du Thous complaint/request in the original French, a Dutch reaction from the admiralty and the VOCs request to the States General to reject Du Thous request. Set in roman and textura types. Modern brown wrappers with a printed label on the front wrapper. [8] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Economic History & Trade France Law & Politics VOC
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A pamphlet attacking Nicolaes Muys van Holys attempt to tax and contain gambling
with the stocks of the East and West India Companies

[VOC & WIC - TAXATION]. Consideratien tot wederlegginge van de voorstellingen door de Heer Mr. Nicolaes Muys van Holy, opgestelt in zyne Memorie. Om de Negotie van Oost en West Indische actien te beswaren met een impost, ende in zyn nader geschrift van oplossinge van de difficulteiten, die hy segt bye enige gemaakt te zyn, tegens de selve memorie.
[1687]. 4to. With a woodcut initial. 19th-century brown paper wrappers. 12 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Economic History & Trade VOC WIC
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The prices of international goods at the Amsterdam market in February 1741

[PERIODICAL - TRADE - AMSTERDAM]. Cours van coopmanschappen tot Amsterdam den 13 February. Anno 1741.
Amsterdam, Hendrik Boussière, [1741]. A long sheet (ca. 40.5 x 14.5 cm), printed on two sides, with the woodcut coat of arms of Amsterdam at the head. Tipped into a passe-partout. [2] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Amsterdam Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Economic History & Trade Netherlands
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Trade in Venetian cloth in early 18th-century Cairo

[AUTOGRAPH]. [PETEA(?)], Michiel. [Letter, signed, to Nicolò Caragiani in Venice concerning the trading conditions in Cairo for different woolen and silk fabrics].
Cairo, 22 October 1732. Manuscript letter in Italian, opening with a duplicate of an earlier letter, in a different hand, dated 26 September 1732, written in ink on one page of a bifolium originally folded 4 more times for sending (to 8.5 x 14 cm) with the address on one side and traces of a red wax on the other. Full description
€ 3,500
Autographs & Letters Economic History & Trade Egypt Italy North Africa
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King Philip II mortgages then sells his lands of Voorburg and Voorschoten
near The Hague to help fund his wars

[MANUSCRIPT]. PHILIP (FELIPE) II, King of Spain. [Mortgage agreement, granting Jan Hanneman, Steward General of North Holland, the rights to the tithes of the King's lands of Voorburg and Voorschoten].
The Hague and Brussels, 1557 (with additions to 1565). Folio (36 x 25.5 cm). Manuscript mortgage agreement, signed by King Philip's representatives, written in brown ink on parchment in a nearly upright cursive gothic hand. With a typescript transcription of the main text and an interlinear translation in Spanish. [2 blank], 9, [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,500
Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Netherlands Spain
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Greeks and Romans compared: the first Dutch edition

PLUTARCH; Darius TIBERTUS and Marten EVERART (translators). 'tLeven ende vrome daden vande doorluchtige Griecsche ende Romeynsche mannen, met haar figuren. ende nu int corte begrepen, ende in Latijn gestelt, door Darius Tibertus. hier by is gevoecht tleven vande excellente Veltheeren, door Aemilius Probus beschreven, ende van andere mannen, die in de naestvolgende sijde gestelt zijn: met sommige nieuwe vergelijkingen, die nu eerst in tlicht zijn wtgecomen.
Leiden, Jan Claesz. van Dorp, 1601. 8vo. With a woodcut medaillion portrait of Plutarchus on the title-page, and 56 woodcut medallion portraits in the text. 19th-century gold-tooled tree-marbled boards, with an orange title label on the spine, lettered in gold, blue sprinkled edges. [16], 834, [13], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,000
Classical Antiquity Greek & Roman Classics
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Proclamation forbidding trade and shipping in enemy territories,
with a recital of Spanish crimes against the Dutch

[PROCLAMATION]. Placcaet van ... den Staten Generael ... daer by de Spaigniaerts ende alle heure goederen, voor goede prinse verclaert worden.
The Hague, Aelbrecht Hendricksz, 1599. 4to. With the woodcut arms of the States General on the title-page. 19th-century blue paper wrappers. [11], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 395
Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets Early Printing - 16th century Economic History & Trade History / 16th Century Law & Politics Military History (16th Century) Naval History Netherlands Spain
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