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Important treaty between France and the Dutch Republic on free trade and tariffs

[TREATY - FRANCE & THE DUTCH REPUBLIC]. Traité de commerce, navigation & marine, fait, conclu & arrêté a Versailles le 21 Decembre de lan 1739, entre sa Majesté Tres-Chretienne, & les Seigneurs Etats Generaux des Provinces Unies du Pais-Bas.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1740 4to. With the woodcut printer's device of Scheltus and a woodcut initial. 19th-century brown wrappers. 43 pp. Full description

€ 750

Economic History & Trade France Law & Politics Netherlands

Commercial treaty between Portugal and Russia

[TREATY]. Tratado de amizade, navegação, e commercio entre as muito altas, e muito poderosas senhoras Dona Maria I, Rainha de Portugal, e Catharina II. imperatriz de todas as Russias, assinado em Petersburgo pelos plenipotenciarios de huma, e outra corte em 9/20 de Dezembro de M.DCC.LXXXVII. e ratificado por ambas as magestades.
Lisbon, Regia Officina Typografica, 1789. 4to. With woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title-page. Contemporary gold brocade paper wrappers. 69, [3 blank] pp. Full description

€ 400

Eastern Europe Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Portugal Russia (incl. Siberia)

Conflict in the Caribbean: the Anglo-Spanish War resolved by the second Treaty of Madrid (1670)

[ENGLAND & SPAIN - TREATY OF MADRID]. [Gaspar de BRACAMONTE] and William GODOLPHIN. A treaty for the composing of differences, restraining of depredations, and establishing of peace in America, between the crowns of Great Britain and Spain. - Concluded at Madrid the 8/18th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1670. Translated out of Latin.
[London], in the Savoy, printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker [= Thomas Newcombe], printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1670. Small 4to. With a woodcut factotum and decorative bands built up from typographic ornaments (the crowned rose, harp, leak - depicted by a fleur-de-lis - and thistle representing England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland). Sewn. [1], [1 blank], 11, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Caribbean Islands Law & Politics Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Naval History Spain UK - United Kingdom

Exceptionally rare treaty between the British Empire and the Island of Anjouan to suppress the slave trade

[TREATY - SLAVE TRADE]. Treaty between Her Majesty the Queen of England and the Sultan of Johanna for the suppression of the slave trade.
Johanna (Anjouan), 1845. Ca. 32.5 x 20.5 cm. Original paper wrappers. 5, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Slavery Southern Africa UK - United Kingdom

Rare first edition of an early work by Trotsky

TROTSKY, Leon. Tuda i Obratno: vmesto predislovija. I. Ot Peterburga do Berezzova. Sovet rabočich deputatov po etapam. II. Moj pobeg. - 800 verst na olenjach. [There and back again] [text in Russian in Cyrillic type].
St. Petersburg, Shipovnik, 1907. With a lithographed device on the front cover. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 123, [1 blank], IV pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Eastern Europe Law & Politics Literature Russia (incl. Siberia)

Treatise on the decolonization of America

TURGOT, Anne Robert Jacques. Mémoire sur les colonies Américaines, sur leurs relations politques avec leurs métropoles, et sur la manière dont la France et L'Espagne ont dû envisager les suites de l'indépendance des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique.
Paris, Pierre-Samuel Dupont, 1791. 8vo. 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine. 75 [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 6,000

Law & Politics North America

A hard line on peace negotiations, in a popular dialogue

[TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE]. Copye van een discours tusschen een Hollander ende een Zeeuw.
[Middelburg?, 1607/08]. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). With a drop title. Disbound. [8] pp. Full description

€ 350

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Spain

A tale of betrayal, murder, the devil, accompanied by sibyls' prophesies
to predict and illustrate the Twelve Years' Truce between the Low Countries and Spain

[TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE]. [Dees wonder-maer end' prophetsije wis, door's geests gesicht, gebooren is, ...].
[Amsterdam?, 1607/1608]. Small 4to. Sprinkled paper wrappers. [16] pp. Full description

€ 375

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Netherlands Spain

A Swiss warning against Spain on the threshold of the Twelve Years' Truce

[TWELVE YEARS' TRUCE]. Generale vermaninghe aenden Switseren. Streckende tot harer behoudenisse ende besten, tegen de beroerten ende peryckelen deses jeghenwoordighen tijts.
Middelburg, for Adriaen vanden Vivre, 1608. 4to. Woodcut illustration on title: a head of a cow with a banderolle withy the coat-of-arms of the Swiss cantons braided in its horns. Disbound. [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 300

Broadsides & Pamphlets Law & Politics Spain Switzerland

A banned pamphlet on Dutch colonization and trade in America

[USSELINCX, Willem]. Naerder bedenckingen, over de zee-vaerdt, coophandel ende neeringhe, als mede de versekeringhe vanden staet deser vereenichde landen, inde teghenwoordighe vrede-handelinghe met den Coninck van Spangnien ende de aerts-hertoghen.
[Amsterdam], 1608 Small 4to (18.5 x 14 cm). With a woodcut arabesque ornament on the title-page and 1 woodcut decorated initial letter. Modern pink paper wrappers. [36] pp. Full description