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An outstanding description of various aspects of living in Bahia
during the Second Empire (1840-1889) by a British vice-consul

WETHERELL, James (William HADFIELD, ed.). Brazil. Stray notes from Bahia, being extracts from letters, &c., during a residence of fifteen years.
Liverpool, Webb and Hunt (back of the title-page: Birkenhead, printed at the "Birkenhead Advertiser" Office), 1860. 8vo. With a wood-engraved frontispiece and a lithographed plate of music.Original blind-tooled blue publisher's cloth. VIII, 153 pp. Full description
€ 1,850
Brazil Latin America South America
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Whale hunting in the first half of the 18th century

[WHALING]. Seylen in 't ys, en soeken na de walvis. | La navigation dans la glace, et chercher du baleine.| Il veleggiare nel ghiaccio, & cercare del baleno. | Das Seeglen ins Eiß, und suchen des Wallfisches.
Augsburg, Georg Balthasar Probst, [ca. 1745]. Etched print (plate size: 31 x 42 cm) on watermarked laid paper (32 x 45 cm). Full description
€ 700
Arctic & Antarctic Canada & Greenland Fishery & Whaling Prints & Print Series
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Remarkable work on whaling in the Netherlands and Greenland, with plates by Jan Luyken

[WHALING]. S., P.P. van. De seldsaame en noit gehoorde wal-vis-vangst, voorgevallen by St. Anna-Land in 't jaar 1682. den 7. October. Midsgaders, een pertinente beschrijvinge, van de geheele Groen-landse-vaart.
Leiden, 1684. 4to. With 7 engraved plates (2 full-page and 5 folding), a woodcut vignette on the title-page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece at the end of the work. Modern black quarter morocco, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, green marbled paper sides, marbled end papers. [2], 78 pp. Full description
€ 8,500
Arctic & Antarctic Canada & Greenland Fishery & Whaling Netherlands Travel & Voyages North America
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Regarding the death of the Dutch stadtholder as fortunate and suggesting the former governor of Dutch Brazil as his successor

[WIC - BRAZIL - WILLIAM II PRINCE OF ORANGE - POLITICS]. I. [= Eerste] conferentie van eenige Nederlandtsche heeren. Op den tegenwoordigen staet deser landen.
Middelburg, Jan de Laet, 1650. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). 20th-century half vellum. [34] pp. Full description
€ 950
Brazil Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Netherlands WIC
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1674 Charter of the Dutch West India Company, completely different from those in earlier years

[WIC - CHARTER]. Octroy, by de ... Staten Generael, verleent aen de West-Indische Compagnie, in date den twintighsten September sesthien hondert vier en tseventigh.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, printer to the States General, 1674. 4to. With a woodcut on the title-page. Sewn through 4 holes. 36 pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Brazil Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Surinam USA - United States of America WIC
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1621 charter granted to the Dutch West India Company (WIC) by the States General second edition with important additions of 1622 and 1623

[WIC - CHARTER - STATES GENERAL]. Octroy, by de Hooghe Mogende Heeren Staten Generael, verleent aende West-Indische Compagnie in date den derden Junii 1621. Mette ampliatien van dien, ende het accoort tusschen de bewint-hebberen ende hooft-participanten ...
The Hague, widow (Machteld Aelbrechtsdr. van Leuningen) and heirs of Hillebrant Jacobsz. van Wouw, printers to the States General, 1623. 4to. With a woodcut on the title-pagel. Half parchment (late 19th-century?). [32] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
Brazil Broadsides & Pamphlets USA - United States of America VOC WIC
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The Dutch West India Company’s thoughts on a truce with Spain

[WIC - CONSIDERATIEN - SPAIN]. Consideratien ende redenen der e. heeren bewind-hebberen vande geoctrojeerde West-Indische Compagnie ... nopende de teghenwoordighe deliberatie over den treves met den koning van Hispanjen. Mitsgaders conscientieuse bedenckinghen op dese vraghe, of men in goeder consientie magh treves maecken met den coningh van Spangjen. ... Noch de remonstrantie van zijne koninglijke majest. van Bohemen, ...
Haarlem, Adriaen Roman, 1629. 4to. Modern red half leather. 32 pp. Full description
€ 950
Law & Politics WIC
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Extremely rare pamphlet designed to reassure potential investors in the Dutch West India Company

[WIC - COPYE]. Copye. van seker articulen beraemt inde vergaderinghe vande bewindthebberen, ende gecommitteerde der hooft-participanten vande West-Indische Compagnie, binnen Amsterdam.
[Amsterdam?], 1623. Small 4to. Sewn through 2 holes in a modern (ca. 1900?) reddish-brown paper wrapper. [8] pp. Full description
€ 750
Amsterdam Brazil Broadsides & Pamphlets VOC WIC West Indies
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The financial profits of the West India Company

[WIC - DISCOURS]. Kort discours, ofte naardere verklaringe van de onderstaende V. poincten, 1 aengaende de verlichtinghe die desen staat heeft ghenooten door de oprechtinghe en oorloghen van de West-Indische Compagnie. ...
[The Netherlands], 1644. Small 4to (18.5 x 14 cm). Modern wrappers. [18] ll. Full description
€ 1,250
Economic History & Trade Latin America North America South America VOC WIC
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