{"title":"Natural History","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"crushing-by-elephant-and-other-executions-on-sri-lanka","title":"Van der Schley, Exécution par un elephant, 1750.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCrushing by elephant and other executions on Sri Lanka\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJakob van der Schley (1715-1779).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1. Exécution par un elephant; 2. Autres supllices.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[The Hague, 1750].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGraphite and ink drawing on slightly blue paper. Mounted on paper support with gilt border. 17,5 x 12,5 cm. (drawing); 24 x 18,5 cm. (mounting).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePreparatory drawing by Jakob van der Schley for his famous print depicting execution methods that were supposedly used on Sri Lanka: crushing by a mounted elephant, impalement and hanging. The print was made by Van der Schley for Antoine Francois Prevost d’Exile’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHistoire Generale des Voyages, \u003c\/em\u003epublished by Pierre de Hondt in The Hague 1746-1789. It is included in volume VIII, where it accompanies the part on Sri Lanka (Ceylon). The part on Sri Lanka was largely derived from Robert Knox’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon\u003c\/em\u003e (1681), which was also illustrated with a plate showing the execution by elephant. Van der Schley modelled his composition after that example, but made drastic artistic improvements. His drawing is of a much higher artistic quality compared to the rudimentary manner in which the execution by elephant was made in Knox’s work. Another difference is the other execution methods that are depicted. In Knox’s illustration the other victim was tied to a pole, but in the present design by Van der Schley one man is impaled and another hung from a tree. He also included dogs about to eat the corpses, for extra gruesome effect. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The image had a strong influence on how the West perceived Sri Lankan and Indian culture. The \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHistoire Generale des Voyages\u003c\/em\u003e was the great standard work on non-Western cultures of the Enlightenment, consisting of no less than fifteen folio volumes, all thoroughly illustrated. It was translated into various languages and multiple subsequent editions appeared. The present depiction of cruel executions contributed to the image of a dangerous and savage place. Van der Schley seemed to feel the need to scare his audience even more than his example in Knox’s book did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCf. Antoine Francois Prevost d’Exile’s Histoire Generale des Voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre. The Hague, De Hondt, 1746-1789, volume VIII, plate 3; Robert Knox, An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, London, 1681.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41122338832559,"sku":"","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/products\/20211006_131859_2_1.jpg?v=1640682775"},{"product_id":"rengger-naturgeschichte-der-saeugethiere-von-paraguay-1830","title":"Rengger, Naturgeschichte der Saeugethiere von Paraguay, 1830.","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRare study on monkeys and other mammals of Paraguay: \u003cbr\u003eimportant influence on Darwin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJohann Rudolf Rengger (1795-1832).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNaturgeschichte der Saeugethiere von Paraguay.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBasel, Schweighauser, 1830.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eXVI, 394 pp. 19,5 x 12 cm. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eContemporary half calf with gold-tooled spine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFirst and only edition of Johann Rudolf Rengger’s study on mammals of Paraguay, in which he first describes the giant otter and makes important behavioural observations on monkeys that would influence Darwin’s philosophy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eIn 1818 Rengger, a Swiss doctor, embarked on a scientific journey to the understudied region of Paraguay with the aim to research the natural history of the region and to collect specimens. Though he amassed a large collection of flora and fauna much of it was later confiscated by the Paraguayan government. He made extensive trips during which he observed the physical-geographical as well as the social and ethnographic situation. In 1825 he returned to Europe. His findings were posthumously published in the well-known \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReise nach Paraguay in den Jahren 1818 bis 1826\u003c\/em\u003e (Aarau, 1835). However, the present study on the mammals of Paraguay was published five years earlier while he was still alive but is little known due to its rarity. It is in fact his first printed scientific work about Paraguay and his principal contribution to the zoological literature. The research that he shares in this work is scientifically much more important than that in the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReise nach Paraguay, \u003c\/em\u003eas can be discerned from Darwin’s extensively annotated copy (Cambridge). Darwin was especially interested in Rengger’s study of monkeys, one of the annotations reads: “mny species of S. America show the species small range — Now this agrees with Rengger”. Besides monkeys, Rengger describes jaguars that use their tail for fishing, giant otters, which he coined \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLutra paranensis Rengger\u003c\/em\u003e and he described several taxa: an echimyid rodent, the long-tailed spiny rat: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProechimys longicaudatus\u003c\/em\u003e; a chinchillid rodent, the plains viscacha: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eViscacia\u003c\/em\u003e; a cricetid rodent, the large vesper mouse: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCalomys callosus\u003c\/em\u003e (Rengger, 1830); a primate, the Azaras's capuchin: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCebus azarae\u003c\/em\u003e, which is a species synonym for Sapajus cay; an orb web weaving spider: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParawixia bistriata\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eowner’s stamp on title page: Raul Vaz-Ferreira, Uruguayan zoologist and ichthyologist. Contents foxed. Binding slightly worn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReference:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHenze IV, 579; Sabin 69614; WorldCat: 1 copy (Cambridge: Darwin’s copy).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGudger, E. W. “Does the Jaguar Use His Tail as a Lure in Fishing”. In: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJournal of Mammalogy\u003c\/em\u003e, 27 (1), pp. 37-49.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSmith, P. “What is Lutra paranensis Rengger, 1830?”. In: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIUCN Otter Spec. Group Bull\u003c\/em\u003e, 37 (1), pp. 53-65.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41703087014063,"sku":"","price":1400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/products\/3902-10.jpg?v=1654604710"},{"product_id":"semedo-polyanthea-medicinal-1727","title":"Semedo, Polyanthea medicinal, 1727.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIntroducing drugs from around the world\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoão Curvo Semedo (1635-1719).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePolyanthea medicinal. Noticias galenicas, e chymicas, repartidas em tres tratados [...] Quarta vez impressa […].\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLisboa Occidental, Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1727.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFolio 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eContemporary sheep with gold-tooled spine and raised bands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn important pioneering Portuguese medical guide showcasing practices from around the world, this rare fourth edition stands out for its inclusion of the list of drugs sourced from other continents: \"Memorial de varios simplices que da India Oriental, da America, \u0026amp; de outras partes do mundo vem ao nosso Reyno.\" In this list, the author delineates 52 medicinal drugs originating outside Europe, primarily from tropical regions such as Brazil, Amazonia, Angola, Mozambique, and Goa, as well as from Virginia and China. Initially featured in the third edition of 1716, this edition marks the second appearance of the list. It was often excised from copies, as evidenced by the British Library's 1716 copy, and likely circulated separately without attribution or date, as observed in the Wellcome copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted shortly after the author's death, this fourth edition of the \"Polyanthea Medicinal\" (not recorded in auction records or in the Wellcome Collection) was overseen by his son, Ignacio. While the text is newly set and largely akin to earlier editions, two of the three plates have been substituted with new ones by J. Gomez: the frontispiece and the portrait of Semedo. Though artistically of somewhat inferior quality, the portrait of Semedo intriguingly features additional books, portraying him not only as a physician but also as a prolific author. Subsequent editions reverted to the original text and portraits, rendering this fourth edition a unique anomaly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author, Semedo, served as a physician to the Royal family while also running a successful apothecary business. This dual role facilitated a robust network of traders who supplied him with diverse and previously unknown medical resources from distant locales. In his principal work, Semedo adeptly incorporated influences from non-Western regions while adhering to European conventions, seamlessly integrating citations from African and South Asian healers into the nearly 1000-page compendium. For instance, Semedo cataloged entries for Virginian snake root as a treatment for rattlesnake bites, as well as \"Tambuape\" and \"Jamvarandim\" roots used by indigenous Bahian peoples as antidotes (see: Berry, p. 41).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e binding worn, preserving the original endpapers. Slight worming to the pastedowns and free endpapers. Slight stain in bottom corner of last couple pages. Contemporary annotation in ink on last free endpaper. Otherwise in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiterature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Inocêncio, III, p. 357; not in Sabin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBenjamin Breen, ‘Semedo’s sixteen secrets: tracing pharmaceutical networks in the Portuguese tropics’. In: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmpires of knowledge, \u003c\/em\u003eBrill, 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChelsea L. Berry, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoisoned Relations: Medicine, Sorcery, and Poison Trials in the Contested Atlantic, 1680-1850\u003c\/em\u003e. Diss. Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHugh Cagle, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAssembling the Tropics: Science and medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450-1700\u003c\/em\u003e. Cambridge University Press, 2018.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cimg data-mce-fragment=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/Afbeelding1_480x480.png?v=1700749796\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/Afbeelding1_480x480.png?v=1700749796\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMap of the sources of drugs in Semedo’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMemorial.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSource: Hugh Cagle, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAssembling the Tropics: Science and medicine in Portugal’s Empire, 1450-1700\u003c\/em\u003e. Cambridge University Press, 2018, fig. 13.3.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47373532528983,"sku":"","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/20231123_142655.png?v=1713953861"},{"product_id":"mallet-beschreibung-des-gantzen-welt-kreises-1719","title":"Mallet, Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises, 1719.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eDescription of the world with 645 plates\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises, darinnen I. […] V.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrankfurt, Anton Heinscheidt for Johann Adam Jung, 1719.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5 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. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn 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 into 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 described. Some interesting examples of illustrations are a portrait of Inca Emperor Atabalipa, three plates showing West Indies plantations, the Native American Powhatan chief and village of Pomejok, two Samogitians, a map of the Davis Strait, the Dalai Lama, several maps of India and Arabia, the Nile with crocodiles, and much, much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first edition appeared in Paris in 1683 as \"Description de l'univers,\" and soon after, the hundreds of copper plates for the illustrations were transferred to Jan David Zunner in Frankfurt, who published the first edition of the German translation in 1684, with German text engraved in the plates. He then published the second French edition in 1685, with the German text still in the plates. The second German edition that we offer here was also printed in Frankfurt, but 34 years later by Anton Heinscheidt for Johann Adam Jung. They used the same plates again and added portraits of the rulers of that time. By then the plates had become quite worn, so they were re-engraved by at least three German artists: Vogel, W.C. Drucker, and Eggelhoff. Still, the plates have visible wear and the printing was not done very well in some cases due to unclear strikes and plates that were not cleaned properly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition has many more plates than the first German and second French editions printed at Frankfurt (see VD17 39:129237P; 3:306499P). We traced no definitive reference for the total number of plates this edition should have, but we count 645 apparently without any missing. Copies with the same number of plates as the one we offer here are very rarely found. Of the multiple copies that are recorded at auction, all have fewer than 645 plates. The nearest being a copy sold in 1991 by Sotheby’s with 613 plates (for GBP 4,290).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIndex of plates in this copy:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVol. 1: 112 numbered plates + 1 frontispiece + 1 portrait + 1 (87B) = 115\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVol. 2: 133 numbered plates + 1 frontispiece + 3 portraits = 137\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVol. 3: 101 numbered plates + 1 frontispiece + 3 unnumbered plates = 105\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVol. 4: 130 numbered plates + 1 frontispiece + 8 portraits = 139\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVol. 5: 142 numbered plates + 1 frontispiece + 5 portraits + 1 unnumbered plate = 149\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003eVolume 2: minor worming in blank corners of first few pages. Faded stain in the plate leaves only, probably occurred before binding, predominantly visible on verso. Otherwise the whole in remarkably fresh and clean condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiterature:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e German: VD17 39:129237P\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e French: VD17 3:306499P\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003end \u003c\/sup\u003eGerman : VD18 11031883\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlden-Landis 719\/104 (Vol. V); Phillips 4280; cf. Borba de Moraes II, 511 and Sabin 44130 (first French edition).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMireille Pastoureau, \u003cem\u003eLes atlas Français XVIe-XVIIe siècles,\u003c\/em\u003e Manneson Mallet IA, p. 309-322.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47421143023959,"sku":"","price":14500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/77f48a45-ace0-427f-ba70-bb954aff2a48.png?v=1774516285"},{"product_id":"indigenous-family-drawn-from-life-in-surinam","title":"Indigenous family “drawn from life” in Suriname","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eVolhard, Martinus Christiaan (1742–1795).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eAls ook hier, het spannen van hare hangmatten \/ het vuren onder de bekers \u0026amp;c. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e[Also here, the stretching of their hammocks \/ the firing under the cups etc.].\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eSuriname, 1768.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eWatercolour on laid paper, 21 x 34 cm (sheet), signed in ink: \"M:C: Volhard ad viv: delt: 1768,\" captioned in ink (see title), numbered in ink \"53\" (twice) in the top and bottom right corners. Pasted to a cardboard mount.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eA very rare drawing of the Indigenous inhabitants of Suriname, finely depicting specific cultural features, most likely observed firsthand by the artist in Suriname.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe Suriname Carib people include the Kalina, Lokono, Trio, and Wayana. They are known for their expertise in archery, hammock weaving, and pottery, as depicted in this drawing. Their daily lives revolve around sustainable practices such as fishing, hunting, and farming. The individuals in this scene are depicted separately, each representing distinct characteristics of Carib culture and the central role of women in their society. From left to right: a woman gazing kindly at the viewer, a man shooting a bow and arrow at a bird, a man gesturing behind a large earthenware pot, a mother with a suckling child tending a fire under a pot, and a man resting in a hammock.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe artist paid particular attention to specific details he observed as typical or unique. The man in the hammock, for instance, has fine facial tattoo lines, and a delicate chain is visible hanging from the side of his hammock. The method of tying the hammock to the tree is also drawn with great care.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eMartinus Christiaan Volhard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eMartinus Christiaan Volhard is primarily known as a heraldic painter from Rhenen, The Netherlands. However, he also created exceptional works on paper. Most notably, two extensive series of Surinamese flora and fauna drawings were auctioned in 1808. \u003c\/span\u003eThey were described as follows:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eLot 54:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e A very fine collection of 50 original drawings of Surinamese birds, insects, and plants, all drawn and coloured from life in Surinam by M. C. Volhard, presented in an art book with a half binding.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eLot 55:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e A similarly fine collection of a large number of Surinamese butterflies and insects, also drawn and coloured from life in Surinam by M. C. Volhard, on 41 sheets, presented in an art book with a half binding.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe albums reappeared in 1841 at an auction in Leiden, where they were described as “Two books with coloured depictions of Surinamese birds, insects, and plants, mostly drawn by M.C. Volhard.” After that sale, the albums disappeared from public record.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e“Drawn from Life”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eTogether, the albums comprised an impressive 91 drawings. This drawing appears to have been part of that collection, as it is signed “M.C. Volhard,” numbered “53,” and features Surinamese subject matter. The caption \u003ci\u003e“Als ook hier”\u003c\/i\u003e (Also here) suggests it was part of a series, potentially following another depiction of Indigenous people. Interestingly, auction records do not mention any depictions of people. This omission could indicate that the present drawing was removed from the album by a previous owner who felt it did not fit with the rest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eStylistically and compositionally, the work aligns with contemporary Western depictions of Indigenous peoples in plantation colonies, such as those by Agostino Brunias and Robert Jacob Gordon. The large bow, facial tattoos, pottery, and hammock are all accurately depicted, further affirming its authenticity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eAdditional Work by Volhard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eIn 2005, Skinner auctioned an optical transformation game titled \u003ci\u003eL’Habit fait l’Homme,\u003c\/i\u003e signed “M.C. Volhard fecit.” This work included unclothed male and female watercolour portrait cards on black grounds and 114 cut-paper overlays. Skinner noted it as “exceptional in many respects,” not least for its extensive overlays and being the only known signed transformation game by an artist. This, along with the Surinamese series, demonstrates that Volhard was far more than a provincial heraldic artist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eSlightly soiled and minor spotting, otherwise in good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterature:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eCatalogus eener allerkostbaarste verzameling van boeken […] J. van Buren […] ten Huize van B. Scheurleer […]. [The Hague, s.n., 1808], p. 6, no. 54 and 55.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eCatalogus van eene uitgebreide verzameling schilderijen, door beroemde oude en hedendaagsche meesters : mitsgaders van teekeningen, prenten en prentwerken [...] : [...] nagelaten door J. Kleinenbergh, te Leiden : dewelke verkocht zullen worden onder directie van de kunstschilders A. Lamme, F. Breuhaus de Groot en A.J. Lamme ... op den 19 Julij 1841 […]. Leiden, H.W. Hazenberg Junior, 1841, p. 56.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: NL; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eH.P. Deys, J.M. Doorman \u0026amp; A.J. de Jong, ‘Oude huizen in de Rhenense binnenstad en hun bewoners. De woning van de familie Volhardt in de Kruisstraat’ in: \u003ci\u003eOud Rhenen\u003c\/i\u003e 34 (2016), nr. 1, pp. 12-24.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49636791288151,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/laatste.jpg?v=1735819515"},{"product_id":"with-23-botanical-drawings-and-anecdotal-notes-by-camerarius-himself","title":"With 23 botanical drawings and anecdotal notes by Camerarius himself","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eJoachim Camerarius II (1534-1598) [drawings, notes, editor].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ePietro Andrea Mattioli (1501-1577) [author]; Georg Handsch von Limus (1529-1578) [transl.]; Gieorgio Liberale (1542 – 1579) [designs]; Wolfgang Meyerpeck (1505-after 1568) [woodcuts]; Jost Amman (1539-591) [woodcuts].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eKreutterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitberühmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli, jetzt widerumb mit viel schönen neuwen Figuren, auch nützlichen Artzeneyen, und andern guten Stücken, zum anderen Mal auss sonderm Fleiss gemehrt, und verfertigt durch Ioachimum Camerarium [...].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eFrankfurt am Main, [Gegruckt bey Johan Feyrabendt in Verlegung Peter Fuchers und Heinrich Dacken Erben], 1590.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eFolio in 6s (36 x 25 cm.). [10], 460, [2] ll. Collates: (:)-(:)6, x-x4, A-4G6, 4H-4H4, 4I-4I2 [lacks index leaves 4I3-4R4].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eIllustrated with ca. 1000 hand-coloured woodcuts and a hand-coloured woodcut title page by Jost Amman.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eLater quarter calf with smooth spine, marbled sides, and red edges.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eWith 23 watercolour drawings and numerous annotations in ink throughout:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e17 watercolour drawings of plants on A1v, B4v, 2Br, 2Ir, 2K4r, 2N6v, 2S5v, 3B2r, 3B3v, 3Gr, 3I6r, 3I6v, 3Qr, 3Rr (heavily annotated).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e5 pasted-in watercolour drawings of plants on leaves A1r, V6r, 2A2v, 4E4v.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eA tipped-in sheet at V3–V4 with manuscript notes on recto and a large watercolour drawing of a plant on verso, dated 1593.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eAn engraved portrait of Mattioli pasted in on the blank verso of x4v and a contemporary manuscript caption below it praising the author.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eJoachim Camerarius the Younger’s own copy of his edition of Mattioli’s herbal, with 23 additional drawings and extensive anecdotal annotations made by him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe Edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eCamerarius edited Dioscorides’ celebrated first-century pharmacological treatise, published for the first time by the Sienese botanist Pietro Andrea Matthioli (1501–1577), who identified the plants and added 562 woodcut illustrations. Camerarius enriched Matthioli’s work by replacing the original illustrations with more accurate woodcuts based on drawings by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner (1516–1565). These woodcuts depicted entire plants along with enlarged details of leaves, seeds, or fruits, ensuring greater botanical accuracy. This edition, published in Frankfurt, is the second edition of Camerarius’ work. He proudly highlighted his enhancements on the striking title page, designed by Jost Amman, which notes the inclusion of \u003ci\u003e“viel schönen neuwen Figuren”\u003c\/i\u003e (\"many beautiful new illustrations\").\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eJoachim Camerarius II (1534–1598) studied medicine in Wittenberg, Leipzig, Padua, and Bologna, receiving his doctorate in 1562. In 1564, he settled in his hometown of Nuremberg as a doctor. In 1592, the Nuremberg city council established the Collegium Medicum and appointed Camerarius as dean, a position he held until his death. His reputation as a doctor and botanist spread far beyond Nuremberg.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe Drawings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThis exceptional copy of Camerarius’ \u003ci\u003eKreutterbuch\u003c\/i\u003e contains 23 watercolour drawings by Camerarius himself, along with two long handwritten anecdotes and numerous marginal annotations. Photographs of the drawings are available on artemrarebooks.com, and transcriptions of the anecdotes are provided below.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eCamerarius Florilegium\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe drawings and handwriting are identical to those in the famous \u003ci\u003eCamerarius Florilegium\u003c\/i\u003e, housed at the Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg (see additional images for comparison). This botanical manuscript contains 469 plant images on 193 pages and surprisingly includes no reference to its owner. While the attribution to Joachim Camerarius the Younger remains debated, the anecdotal notes in the book we offer here strengthen the connection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eSeveral handwritten accounts in this volume describe medical cases attended by Camerarius in Munich and a “control” near Munich with the attendance of Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria. These anecdotes, dated 1586, 1591, 1593, and 1595, align with the period when Camerarius was active as a physician in Nuremberg. The focus on Munich suggests this might have been his Munich copy. In any case, it is clear that the creator of the \u003ci\u003eCamerarius Florilegium\u003c\/i\u003e and the artist of these drawings are the same.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe Annotations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eIn addition to the two longer anecdotes, marginal annotations throughout the book provide practical applications for the described plants, such as a remedy for stubborn bowels using sorrel (a type of herb).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eControl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe first longer handwritten passage appears on a tipped-in sheet with a large drawing on the verso and explanatory text on the recto. It describes a “control” (test) conducted in a garden at Niederheching in 1593 for Duke Wilhelm V and his court (\u003ci\u003e“Hertzog Wilhelm selbst, Und der selig gemahl, damalen Landsfürst, als Von vielen Andern ahnselich Personen”\u003c\/i\u003e). The botanical study concerned the populus nigra (black poplar), illustrated on the reverse of the sheet. The caption under the drawing reads: \u003ci\u003e“See above the black poplar, for which this tree is here held, because of its leaves, wood, and bark.”\u003c\/i\u003e The text is signed by the scientific witness, \"Abbate\" Bani de Montis from Heidelberg.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eDuke Wilhelm V of Bavaria (1548–1626) was a notable patron of the arts and sciences during his reign.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eTobacco Treatments\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe second handwritten passage describes two medical anecdotes involving the innovative use of tobacco leaves, a newly introduced treatment from the New World. These stories highlight Camerarius’ pioneering spirit and experimentation with novel remedies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e“The [wound] never wanted to heal firmly, and extremely sharp pains continually afflicted [him]. He was convinced that a piece of iron still remained lodged in his spine. He approached a certain assistant of the Societies (?) to urgently request advice and a remedy. This person had no other suggestion but the use of tobacco, which he prescribed for the patient. Therefore, for three days, the juice of tobacco leaves was dripped onto the wound. At last, the piece of iron was detected by chance, to such an extent that it could be firmly grasped with forceps. What was done? The patient was tied firmly to a bench by his wife, and she extracted the piece of iron, of remarkable size, with the forceps. This was seen before his very eyes on the 4th of November, 1586. This man, healthy and strong, later presented it to his doctor in my presence, [...].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThis I wished to add in commendation of the plant [tobacco]: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eBartholomaeus Sel, a citizen and brewer of Munich, in the year 1591, miserably burned his right hand and foot by slipping into boiling beer, and could not heal himself properly. Finally, in November of the year 1594, the humours began to flow again. He applied juice pressed from tobacco leaves, and by soaking a piece of tobacco in the juice and applying it to the affected area, within a few days the tobacco dried out and completely cleansed the humours from the wound.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eFull transcription available upon request.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThis extraordinary copy of Camerarius' Kreutterbuch is both a botanical masterpiece and a personal testament to Renaissance science. Enriched with Camerarius’ own drawings, annotations, and groundbreaking medical anecdotes, it offers a rare glimpse into his innovative mind. A unique blend of art, science, and history, this volume stands as a monumental artifact of early modern knowledge and discovery.\u003cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ecovers rubbed.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eSeveral old marginal repairs throughout. Inconsistently browned. Slightly trimmed with minor loss of annotations. 3G4, 4E6 damaged. Lacks most of the index at the end. The illustrations generally in very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"background: white;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eReference: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eFor samples of Joachim Camerarius II’s handwriting see the Carolus Clusius correspondence, for example CAM_J012 (1591-11-25) in: Esther van Gelder (ed.), \u003ci\u003eClusius correspondence. A digital edition-in-progress\u003c\/i\u003e. 1st release: December 2015. The Hague: Huygens ING. http:\/\/clusiuscorrespondence.huygens.knaw.nl (accessed: 27 November 2024).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eAsia in the Making of Europe: A century of wonder\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e. University of Chicago Press, 1977.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eBain, \u003ci\u003eThe Mattioli Woodblocks\u003c\/i\u003e (1989).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eBridson-Wendel, \u003ci\u003ePrintmaking in the Service of Botany\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-language: NL;\"\u003ePritzel (2nd ed.), 5990\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-language: NL;\"\u003eBNHCat M 329\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-language: NL;\"\u003eVD16 M 1615\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-language: NL;\"\u003eNissen BBI, 1311\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-language: NL;\"\u003ePlesch 514\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eDurling 3019.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eHunt I, 160.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eProvenance: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eFrom the collection of the former Lindau city archivist.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49641480585559,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/2f359091-d336-441a-a94c-c12cfc49f626.png?v=1733315145"},{"product_id":"allegory-on-the-contested-ownership-of-suriname-between-britain-and-the-dutch","title":"Allegory on the contested ownership of Suriname between Britain and the Dutch.","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eA quato monkey from Surinam. Tiger dog from Demerary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eSuriname?, 1803?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eWatercolour on paper pasted on paper support with handwritten caption in ink. Image 36.8 x 21 cm., sheet 37,5 x 25,5 cm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eTitled by hand in ink at the top and captioned at the foot:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e“Cupid, alias Jacko, alias Black Jack, long a successful Chief of the Pilgrim Pantry gang of thieves, - died in chains 1803…\u003cbr\u003eTom Tiger, a great enemy to monkies, mackaws, and all quaw quaws.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThis allegorical drawing references the political tensions between British-controlled Demerara and Dutch Suriname in 1803, a period of colonial upheaval in the Guianas. The depiction of a red-faced spider monkey (labeled a \"quato\" or kwatta monkey) from Suriname and a tayra (mislabeled a \"tiger dog\") from Demerara reflects the contested control over these territories. The work was created from a British perspective, likely to emphasize British dominance and critique Dutch governance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe Dutch Guianas, comprising Suriname, Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice, were valuable plantation colonies fiercely contested by European powers. After the British temporarily seized Demerara in 1796, it was returned to the Dutch in 1802 under the Peace of Amiens, only to be recaptured by Britain in 1803. This image allegorizes this struggle: the monkey represents Dutch Suriname attempting to steal a captured bird from the tayra, which symbolizes British Demerara.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe monkey, reaching for the tayra's bird, likely signifies Dutch attempts to reclaim resources or influence. The tayra, depicted as aggressive and protective, embodies British control and resistance. The drawing’s annotations may also critique the Dutch use of non-white military personnel, notably the Black Rangers (Zwarte Jagers), who were employed to suppress enslaved uprisings. The reference to “Cupid, alias Jacko” aligns with colonial-era stereotypes of enslaved individuals or maroon leaders, further complicating the political allegory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e image in very good condition, with paper support slightly browned at the blank margins. Loss at the top-right blank corner and two minor marginal repairs. \u003c\/span\u003eSlight creases. Pencil notes in the lower-right corner.\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eLiterature: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBuddingh', Hans. \u003ci\u003eDe Geschiedenis van Suriname\u003c\/i\u003e. Uitgeverij Rainbow BV, 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ede Groot, Silvia. \"Rebellie der Zwarte Jagers. De nasleep van de Bonni-oorlogen 1788-1809.\" \u003ci\u003eDe Gids\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. 133, no. 9, 1970.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eEinaar, J.F.E. \u003ci\u003eBijdrage tot de Kennis van het Engelsch Tusschenbestuur van Suriname 1804-1816\u003c\/i\u003e. Dubbeldeman, 1934.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49857671201111,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/4e76db0f-5237-4de2-a1f9-85b116f32484_8f623b37-0355-4aeb-86b9-440061987961.png?v=1737558110"},{"product_id":"how-to-create-and-manage-a-tobacco-plantation","title":"How to create and manage a tobacco plantation","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e[Louis, comte de Villeneuve (1768-1851)].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTraité complet de la culture, fabrication et vente du tabac, d'après les procédés pratiqués dans la Pannonie, la Virginie, le Danemarck, l'Ukraine, la Valteline, la Guyane françoise, et ci-devant dans la Guyenne. Auquel on a joint d'autres objets d'economie rurale, qui, réunis ou substitués au tabac, en rendent la culture encore plus utile aux propriétaires, et tres intéressante pour l'etat. Ouvrage orné de six planches en taille-douce.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eParis, Chez Buisson, libraire-imprimeur, rue Hautefeuille, no. 20, 1791.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eviii, xvi, 256, 257, [1], 257-456 pages, [2] pp., With 6 folding plates.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eContemporary mottled calf with gold-tooled spine and red edges.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePublished in response to the abolition of France’s state tobacco monopoly in 1791, this work provides an exhaustive study of tobacco cultivation across Europe and the Americas. It details every stage of production—from soil preparation and harvesting to processing and sale—offering landowners practical guidance in a newly deregulated market. The six large folding plates illustrate key aspects of plantation work, including drying houses, machinery, and field labor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBeyond its technical and economic focus, this work inevitably intersects with the history of slavery, as tobacco plantations in the Americas—especially in Virginia and French Guiana—were deeply reliant on enslaved labor. Its descriptions of large-scale plantations in colonial territories indirectly document the forced labor conditions under which much of the world’s tobacco was cultivated. The author's pragmatic approach to labor management and cost calculations, without acknowledging the human suffering involved, reflects the mercantile mindset of the time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eminor wear to binding, half title inscribed: “Bigotte notaire public à Punerot”, stain in quire C, spotting in quire P, Z4-Z5 loose. Otherwise in very good condition.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eReference: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eArents, G. Tobacco, IV:1107; Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 14672.16; Pritzel 11704.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50202580812119,"sku":"","price":950.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/af94b664-c883-43fc-bc96-6135aee5789f.png?v=1742288707"},{"product_id":"coming-into-her-own-as-an-independent-artist","title":"Coming into her own as an independent artist","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMaria Margaretha van Os (1779-1862).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eStill Life with Flowers and Fruit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe Hague, c. 1820–1840.\u003cbr style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--\u003e\u003cbr style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\"\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOil on panel, 38 x 29 cm. In a contemporary, elaborate gilded gesso frame with an ornate pierced design, with a small plaque engraved “Maria van Os” on the lower centre.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThis wonderful still life by Maria Margaretha van Os is a key transitional work in her career, marking her shift from student to independent artist.\u003cbr\u003eMaria was a Dutch still-life painter from the distinguished artistic Van Os family in The Hague. She was trained by her parents, the pastellist Susanna de la Croix and the celebrated still-life painter Jan van Os, alongside her brothers Pieter Gerardus van Os and Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os. Her work gained national recognition, and in 1826 she was named an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam—an exceptional honour for a woman at the time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe execution of this painting bears a closer resemblance to the work of her father than to her later still lifes, underscoring its early place in her oeuvre. Notably, it is the only known example in which she signed on the left, following Jan van Os’s customary placement. All other known works are signed M.M. van Os or a variant thereof, consistently on the right. The placement of the signature in this instance suggests that she was still closely aligned with her father’s practice at the time of its creation. The style of the lettering, particularly the formation of the capital 'M', is consistent with her authenticated right-side signatures, supporting its attribution. Her later decision to sign on the right appears to have been a deliberate effort to distinguish her work from that of her father and assert her own artistic identity. In this light, the present work likely constitutes a breakthrough piece—one that captures the moment she emerged from her father’s influence and established herself as an artist in her own right. It is, therefore, a rare and historically significant painting, offering a unique glimpse into a formative period in Maria van Os’s career.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThis painting is a beautiful and refined example of Maria Margaretha van Os’s mastery of still-life painting. It showcases her exceptional attention to detail, delicate rendering of textures, and skilful use of light to create depth and realism. The composition is both harmonious and elegant, reflecting her deep understanding of natural forms and their arrangement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eWith Knoedler London, 1928, £25; Unknown private collection; \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHannam’s Auctioneers, UK, 2025.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eSources: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/rkd.nl\/imageslite\/3910387\"\u003ehttps:\/\/rkd.nl\/imageslite\/3910387\u003c\/a\u003e (this painting)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eImmerzeel 2, 285\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eKramm 1857-1864\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eCatalogi van tentoonstellingen van Levende Meesters, gehouden in Den Haag, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Rotterdam, Utrecht in de jaren 1814-1844 [ex. aanwezig op Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Den Haag].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDe Vrouw 1813-1913 Tentoonstellingscatalogus Meerhuizen Amsteldijk (Amsterdam 1913) 112.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA. Hoogenboom, De stand des kunstenaars. De positie van kunstschilders in Nederland in de eerste helft van de negentiende eeuw (Leiden 1993) 91.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eS. van Loo, ‘The forgotten accomplishments of the painter duet Maria Margaretha van Os (1779-1862) and Petronella van Woensel (1785-1839), or how two Dutch women artists in the first half of the nineteenth century befriended one another and decided to dedicate their lives to still-life painting’, Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Antwerpen 2000) 231-263.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHanna Klarenbeek, \u003ci\u003eOs, Maria Margaretha van\u003c\/i\u003e, in: \u003ci\u003eDigitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eArt Prices Current\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, 1928, no. 1539.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50227519848791,"sku":"","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/b114a3d9-2efe-4347-b43c-e9800535bf7d.png?v=1742551160"},{"product_id":"pair-of-outfitting-manuscripts-for-voyages-to-cayenne-1768-1770","title":"Pair of outfitting manuscripts for voyages to Cayenne (1768 \u0026 1770)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCaptain Jean François Castellan.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e[Pair of manuscript outfitting accounts for the corvette \u003ci\u003eLa Cipris\u003c\/i\u003e, bound for Cayenne].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eVoyage of 1768: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCompte Général du Corps agens, Apparaux, armement \u0026amp; avitaillement de La Corvette La Cipris au premier voyage qu'elle va Dieu aidant faire à Cayenne sous le commandement du Cap\u003csup\u003ene\u003c\/sup\u003e Jean François Castellan en 1768.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMarseille, May 14\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e 1768.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eSmall folio (20 x 30 cm), [19, 3 blank] pp. Manuscript in ink and ruled in pencil on paper.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eStitched. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eVoyage of 1770: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCompte General des aggres, apparaux, Armemens \u0026amp; Avituaillements [sic] de la Corvette La Cipris, commandée par le Cap\u003csup\u003ene\u003c\/sup\u003e Jean François Castellan au 2e voyage qu’elle va Dieu aidant faire à Cayenne en 1770.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMarseille, April 9 1770.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eFolio (22 x 35 cm), [13, 7 blank] pp. Manuscript in ink and ruled in pencil on paper. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eStitched.\u003cbr style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--\u003e\u003cbr style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\"\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTwo official French manuscripts documenting the full outfitting and provisioning of the corvette \u003ci\u003eLa Cipris\u003c\/i\u003e in preparation for two voyages from Marseille to Cayenne (French Guiana) in 1768 and 1770, both under the command of Captain Jean-François Castellan. These records provide a detailed look at the financial, material, and human infrastructure that underpinned French colonial navigation and the Atlantic Triangular Trade.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe 1768 manuscript, titled \u003ci\u003eCompte Général du Corps agencé, Apparaux, Armement et Avitaillement\u003c\/i\u003e, itemizes every aspect of the ship’s readiness for departure, including rigging, munitions, food supplies, maintenance, port fees, and labor—particularly the wages of sailors and artisans. It concludes with a formal affirmation of accuracy, signed in Marseille on May 14, 1768 by Captain Castellan and other parties. The structure and timing indicate this was a pre-departure financial account, retained by the armateur or port authorities rather than brought aboard.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe 1770 manuscript is a parallel document for \u003ci\u003eLa Cipris\u003c\/i\u003e’s second voyage to Cayenne. Titled \u003ci\u003eCompte Général des Aggres, Apparaux, Armement et Avitaillement\u003c\/i\u003e, it details the full costs of labor (including carpenters, caulkers, and sailmakers), provisioning, tools, armament, and ship maintenance. It concludes with a meticulous “recapitulation” totaling 38,841 livres, 17 sols, 8 deniers, and is signed in Marseille on April 9, 1770 by Captain Castellan, Lieutenant Arbaud, and the Marseille shipowner Aillaud de Montmartin. Like the earlier volume, this manuscript was completed prior to the ship’s departure and likely stayed ashore as part of the official accounting records.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe manuscript documents provide extraordinary insight into the logistics, economics, and bureaucratic formalities of colonial-era maritime expeditions. Their precise organization and formal sign-off also reflect the professionalization of naval commerce during a period of France’s renewed colonial activity following the Seven Years’ War.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e Both manuscripts derive from the archives of the Ailhaud (or Aillaud) de Montmartin family, a prominent Provençal lineage of merchants, shipowners, and administrators active in Marseille and Aix-en-Provence. The family conducted extensive trade with Saint-Domingue, Martinique, Cap-Français, Cyprus, and Cayenne, and is particularly noted for its role in the international distribution of the Ailhaud purgative, a widely marketed 18th-century medicinal product.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e1768: minor foxing on front cover, 1770: covers slightly stained and discoloured. Otherwise both in very fine condition.\u003cspan style=\"color: red;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50733297762647,"sku":"","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/82e6870d-1b58-45ee-a648-2066e4ac8247.png?v=1747920145"},{"product_id":"natural-history-of-suriname-in-negre-anglois","title":"Natural history of Suriname in \"Nègre-Anglois\"","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePhilippe Fermin (1720-after 1765).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eHistoire Naturelle de la Hollande Equinoxiale: ou description des animaux, plantes, fruits, et autres curiosite’s naturelles, qui se trouvent dans la colonie de Surinam; avec leurs noms différents, tant François, que Latins, Hollandois, Indiens \u0026amp; Nègre-Anglois.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAmsterdam, M. Macérus, 1756.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarge 8°. [2], XII, [2], 240 pp. With an engraved frontispiece and a title vignette, both by O. de Vries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eContemporary vellum.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eFirst edition of a detailed work on the flora and fauna of Suriname. Interestingly, the descriptions are given in “Nègre-Anglois” (Black English), along with French, Latin, and Dutch. The term “Nègre-Anglois” refers to what is now known as \u003ci\u003eSranan Tongo\u003c\/i\u003e, an English-based creole language that developed in Suriname during the 17th and 18th centuries. This language emerged as a means of communication among enslaved Africans from diverse linguistic backgrounds, and between them and European colonists. \u003ci\u003eSranan Tongo\u003c\/i\u003e incorporates elements from English, Dutch, Portuguese, and various West African languages, reflecting the complex colonial and cultural interactions of the time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePhilippe Fermin was a physician born in Maastricht. He spent approximately a decade in Suriname, where he dedicated most of his time to studying the local flora and fauna. His effort to catalogue natural specimens across linguistic and cultural boundaries was relatively advanced for the time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe frontispiece was designed and engraved by O. de Vries and shows all kinds of “exotic” animals, many of which are completely irrelevant to the book because they are not Surinamese (zebras, ostrich). The plate on the title-page is of more interest, as it depicts hunting practices of local Black people, and O. de Vries only signed it with “sculp”, suggesting he based the composition on someone else’s drawing—perhaps Fermin's?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVellum on front cover somewhat crumpled. Book block wholly untrimmed. Ex-libris of Eugène Martin on front paste-down. First few leaves slightly browned and faintly stained; corner tip stained in the last part; otherwise clean except for an occasional spot.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReference: \u003c\/b\u003eVan Doorne\/Van Kempen 1944; Sabin 24114.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50907425210711,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/e89922d4-9837-4c68-9fc0-1a5d44c65400.png?v=1749638002"},{"product_id":"a-dictionary-of-the-miami-language-an-improved-map-of-the-guianas-and-more","title":"A dictionary of the Miami language, an improved map of the Guianas – and more","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA dictionary of the Miami language, an improved map of the Guianas – and more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eConstantin François Volney (1757-1820); Theophil Friedrich Ehrmann (1762-1811) [editor].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSchilderung der vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika, vorzüglich in Hinsicht ihrer Lage, Naturbeschaffenheit und ihrer Ureinwohner. Aus dem Französischen auszugsweise übersetzt. Herausgegeben von Th. F. Ehrmann. Mit einer Charte.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWeimar, Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, 1804–1805.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e8°. [2](: series title), VIII, 283, [1 blank] pp. With a folding map at the end (35,5 x 26 cm). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAnd:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePierre-Victor, baron Malouet (1740-1814); “Netto” [translator]; Theophil Friedrich Ehrmann (1762-1811) [editor].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eReisen nach dem Französischen Guiana und nach Surinam. Auszugsweise aus dem Französischen übersetzt. Mit einer neuen Charte von Guiana.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eWeimar, Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, 1805.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e8°. [2], X, 208 pp. With a folding map at the end (44 x 35 cm). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eLater half calf with marbled sides, gold-tooled spine, red edges.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTwo first German editions of descriptions of the Americas, with folding maps.\u003cbr\u003eThe first in this volume, \u003ci\u003eSchilderung der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika\u003c\/i\u003e, was translated anonymously from \u003ci\u003eTableau du climat et du sol des États-Unis d'Amérique\u003c\/i\u003e (Paris, 1803) and includes at the end a \u003ci\u003e\"Wörterbuch über die Sprache der Miamis\"\u003c\/i\u003e (Dictionary of the Miami language), which does not appear in the French original!\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReisen nach dem Französischen Guiana und nach Surinam\u003c\/i\u003e was translated by the unidentified “Netto” from \u003ci\u003eCollection de mémoires, correspondances officielles sur l'administration des colonies, et notamment sur la Guyane française et hollandaise\u003c\/i\u003e (Paris, 1802) by . This edition includes a large folding map of the Guianas, which is a greatly improved version of the original, titled \u003ci\u003e“Charte von dem Hollaendischen und Französischen Guiana nach einer handschriftlichen Charte von dem Capt. Simon Mentelle und nach der Charte von Buache, gezeichnet von J.B. Poirson”\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eMap of Dutch and French Guiana, based on a manuscript chart by Capt. Simon Mentelle and the map by Buache, drawn by J.B. Poirson\u003c\/i\u003e). This description of the Guianas is substantially based on the reports and correspondence of Pierre-Victor, baron Malouet, who served as Intendant of French Guiana in the late 18th century. The work offers a detailed account of colonial administration, settlement efforts, and the challenges of plantation and slave economies in the region.\u003cspan style=\"color: #ee0000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThese titles were issued as the first and second parts of \u003ci\u003eBibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen zur Erweiterung der Erdkunde\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. 15 (Weimar, 1805). Each work is preceded by an editor’s introduction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e– Gumbinnen library stamp on series title page (present Goesev, Kaliningrad, Russia). Some faint browning in the first few leaves, minor marginal spotting and a repaired tear in the Guianas map, otherwise in very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eReference:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e for \u003ci\u003eSchilderung: \u003c\/i\u003eEngelmann 101; Howes V, 141 (with variant title); Sabin 100690. For \u003ci\u003eReisen\u003c\/i\u003e: Sabin 44151.\u003c!-- [if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eNot in JCB.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50964007878999,"sku":"","price":3200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/7f1b5246-9c2d-4ec4-ba8b-61b5c3ba55bf.png?v=1750251128"},{"product_id":"het-loo-by-de-hooghe","title":"Het Loo by De Hooghe","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eRomeyn de Hooghe 1645-1708 [artist].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eKorte beschryving benevens eene naauwkeurige afbeelding en verdere gezichten, van 't Koninglyke Lusthuis 't Loo, op de Veluwe in Gelderland.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAmsteldam, G.W. van Egmond, 1786.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e8°. 16 pp., with 14 etched and engraved plates on [28] leaves, of which 1 folded.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOriginal publisher printed boards with title on front cover. It shows the palace in its entirety including the side wings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eComplete copy in original binding of Romeyn de Hooghe’s wonderful print series showing the greatest Dutch palace and – especially – its gardens, which were then brand new. The palace was built for William (Willem) III (1650-1702) and signifies the summum of Dutch wealth and glory. The career of the wonderful etcher De Hooghe was intricately connected to that of William III, who rose to vast power, ultimately resulting in the crown of England. De Hooghe supported William III by etching an array of political prints. William III purchased the medieval castle Het Oude Loo in 1684. On its grounds, he ordered the creation of one of the most prestigious houses of the time, with vast surrounding gardens. The prints give a good impression of the rich settings of this royal country house. Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708), apart from making this print series, was also commissioned to design several statues for the gardens of Het Loo. Thus, the creation of the new Loo and the subsequent commission for this print series was a high point for both William III and De Hooghe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe first print in this series is a stunning folding view of the palace, measuring a staggering 19 x 128 cm and consisting of three etchings put together. In front of the building, King-Stadholder Willem III and his party are shown returning from a grand hunt. All the way on the left, the old castle is visible in the background, as a reminder of Het Loo’s heritage. The other 13 pla\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003etes\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eare double-page\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ea\u003c\/span\u003end show, in De Hooghe’s virtuous etching style, the various parts of the very innovatively and modernly designed garden.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThis edition was published some 80 years after the death of De Hooghe, reflecting a renewed interest in Het Loo during this period. The accompanying text notes with some frustration that Stadholder Willem V had been residing at Het Loo due to the inability to return to his usual residence in The Hague because of political developments. The series was first published without text around 1695 by the Amsterdam-based publisher Pieter Persoy. The latter’s name was replaced by Egmond’s for the present edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis rare print series has been extensively described and reproduced in 2007 by the then palace director John R. ter Molen in \u003ci\u003e't Konings Loo: een serie prenten met gezichten van paleis Het Loo en zijn tuinen, vervaardigd door Romeyn de Hooghe en omstreeks 1695 voor het eerst uitgegeven.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003espine worn, covers slightly rubbed, remains of glue on corner of front cover. Cancelled library stamp of Gemeentemuseum Arnhem on foot of title-page and blank verso. Otherwise in very good condition.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBibliography:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eSTCN ID17370848X (just 2 copies: KB \u0026amp; Rijksmuseum).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eNot in BL.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOnly twice recorded at auction: 2010 (Adams Amsterdam Auctions); 2012 (Burgersdijk and Niermans's Auction). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e-\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eHollstein IX nos. 308-321.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eLandwehr (1970) no. 109.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eTer Molen, 't Konings Loo : een serie prenten met gezichten van paleis Het Loo en zijn tuinen, vervaardigd door Romeyn de Hooghe en omstreeks 1695 voor het eerst uitgegeven. Alphen aan den Rijn, 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eVan Nierop et al. Romeyn de Hooghe : De verbeelding van de Gouden Eeuw (2008), 1786.01.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51519563432279,"sku":null,"price":9500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/merged_het_loo_25pct_2ddea41a-fdd3-4ef7-b973-a63d34cca7a6.png?v=1757323528"},{"product_id":"a-complete-cotton-plantation-inventory-with-175-enslaved-individuals-likely-from-the-seychelles","title":"A complete cotton plantation inventory, with 175 enslaved individuals, likely from the Seychelles","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eInventory of a cotton plantation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e[Réunion, Mauritius, or the Seychelles, ca. 1780-1820].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e4° (24.3 × 18.4 cm), 6 pp. Manuscript in ink in French.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eUnbound.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eA detailed manuscript inventory of a large cotton estate in the French Indian Ocean world, remarkable for recording more than 175 enslaved individuals by name, origin, occupation, and often by family relationship. Compiled at the turn of the nineteenth century and divided into three lots, it provides an unusually complete portrait of the human and material structure of a plantation in this region.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe enslaved population, totaled in the manuscript as 60, 61, and 58 persons across the three lots, contains a wide range of origins: Malabar, Mozambique, Malagasy, Bengali, “Cafre” and Créole. They had a wide range of occupations: commandeurs, carpenters, sawyers, flayers, mill workers, gardeners, seamstresses, a baker, and many field hands (\u003ci\u003epioche\u003c\/i\u003e). Women, children, and newborns appear throughout, alongside several individuals identified as marron, and numerous family units, indicating a community with established family structures and multiple generations present, rather than a workforce composed solely of recent arrivals.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe text further describes extensive acreages under cotton, maize, and sweet potatoes, together with houses, thatched or boarded storehouses, presses, and a full range of industrial and agricultural installations. Each division includes eight cotton mills with iron cylinders, maize mills, henhouses, pigeon houses, a considerable quantity of tools (hoes, axes, billhooks, cotton knives, marmites, iron fittings), and numerous pirogues, nets, harpoons, and fishing lines—clear evidence of a coastal or island setting. Livestock consists mainly of poultry, ducks, and sows.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe combination of cotton as the principal crop, the reliance on pirogues and fishing gear, and the ethnic composition of the enslaved population point clearly toward the Mascarene and Seychelles plantation sphere, most plausibly Île Bourbon (Réunion), Île de France (Mauritius), or the Seychelles. The paper bears a “B. Dumas” watermark, characteristic of late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century French handmade paper widely exported to the Mascarene Islands and other French Indian Ocean colonies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe attribution remains speculative, but the characteristics of the estate strongly resemble those of late-eighteenth-century cotton plantations in the Seychelles, particularly on Mahé. Possibly Anse Royale, Anse aux Pins, and Pointe au Sel. As one of the few surviving records to document more than 175 enslaved individuals in such detail, it also constitutes a crucial source for genealogical and heritage research in the Indian Ocean.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eink lightly faded but fully legible, a few small stains. Otherwise in very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52174443970903,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/72f2aab0-49da-4fde-8371-d210a3e17d39.png?v=1763382404"},{"product_id":"the-discovery-of-the-geology-of-britain","title":"The discovery of the geology of Britain","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe scientific drawings of Jean André Deluc the younger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eJean André Deluc the younger (1763–1847); after observations by Jean André Deluc the elder (1727–1817).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eCollection of natural history drawings and manuscript notes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eSwitzerland (?), ca. 1796–1833.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e71 sheets of which 61 with drawings (pen and ink, many washed or watercoloured) and 10 with printed plates, all with handwritten captions and annotations in French, a few also in English. Some sheets signed “Deluc”. Various sizes, from c. 20.5 × 26.5 cm to 37 × 52 cm. Various types of paper, various watermarks. Some British watermarks(!).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe collection falls into three main groups:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eGeology:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e 27 sheets of geological sections and landscape profiles, almost all of British subjects, with long autograph notes.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ePalaeontology and zoology:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e 5 sheets of planetological drawings, with notes, together with 10 lithographed or engraved plates of fossil vertebrates and other specimens, with Deluc’s manuscript commentary.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eMolluscs and marine zoology:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e 25 sheets of carefully finished coloured drawings of shells and other molluscs, with detailed bibliographical and taxonomic notes (some as late as 1822).\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e– 2 sheets of fortifications (Vauban system), one signed and dated “dessiné à Woolwich en 1799”;\u003cbr\u003e– 1 sheet showing Herschel’s forty-foot telescope;\u003cbr\u003e– 1 sheet with two technical drawings of a ship’s structure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eAn important scientific collection by the Swiss natural historian Jean André Deluc the younger, focusing on British geology, fossils, and molluscs. The geological drawings are of exceptional interest. They are unpublished manuscript reconstructions executed by the younger Deluc on the basis of geological observations made by his cousin, Jean André Deluc the elder, during his final English fieldwork of 1796–1798.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe sheets record specific outcrops at Blackheath, Charlton and other sites around London, a long traverse from Sheffield to Castleton, parts of the Sussex coast between Cuckmere Haven and Beachy Head, and other British localities. Many bear explicit notes such as “observé en 1798” or “observations faites en 1796”, and combine landscape views with stratigraphic cross-sections and measured thicknesses. These localities do not correspond to any known published geological plates of the period, and the drawings display original analytical features—multiple views of the same ravine, corrections where earlier attempts are crossed out as “ce dessin n’est pas correct”, detailed French commentary and careful field-based dating—that show they are not copies from print but independent geological work. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eInterestingly, some of these sheets bear British watermarks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eA small subset of more schematic sheets (for example the idealised section of the Dudley coalfield entitled \u003ci\u003eSurface of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, and several didactic diagrams of folded or faulted strata) are clearly adapted from contemporary printed sources used by Deluc as teaching or reference material; one section explicitly cites Robert Bakewell’s \u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Geology\u003c\/i\u003e (1815), others are derived from plates in \u003ci\u003eTransactions of the Geological Society\u003c\/i\u003e and comparable works. These theoretical sheets sit alongside the field-based drawings and show how Deluc the younger read, digested, and re-expressed the emerging geological literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eTaken together, the geological sheets form a coherent corpus of studies that complement, and in some cases uniquely extend, the British field notes preserved in the Deluc Papers at Yale (MS 179). The Yale finding aid stresses the elder Deluc’s extensive geological travels in Switzerland, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and the British Isles (Devonshire, Wales, Birmingham, Ireland, etc.), but notes that “it is regrettable that the collection does not include more original material of this nature”. No material is recorded there for the English observations of 1796–1798 that are explicitly dated in the present collection. These sheets therefore represent a missing visual component in the documentation of the Delucs’ British geology, created when the younger Deluc re-worked his cousin’s field notes into finished diagrams.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eDeluc and early British geology\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eJean André Deluc the elder, a Genevan geologist and physicist, settled in England in 1773, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society and reader to Queen Charlotte. From the 1770s through the 1790s he travelled widely across Britain, making some of the earliest systematic geological observations in the country, at a time when geology was only beginning to separate itself from natural history and antiquarian curiosity. His notebooks—partly preserved in Yale MS 179—record journeys through Birmingham, Shrewsbury and Llangollen (1788), Devonshire (two voyages, one in 1806), Belgium, Holland, Westphalia and along the Rhine, as well as extensive work in the Alps and the Jura.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThese travels took place before the formal institutionalisation of geology: Hutton’s classic work at Glen Tilt dates from the mid-1780s and the Geological Society of London was founded only in 1807. Deluc’s British observations therefore belong to the very earliest phase of scientific geology in Britain. The younger Deluc, who inherited his uncle’s collections and manuscripts, continued and elaborated this research; as Henry LaFarge noted in his overview of the Yale manuscripts, the younger’s scientific papers “deal primarily with geological and palaeontological subjects” and consist largely of working manuscripts enriched by extensive bibliographical notes. The present drawings are a visual counterpart to that activity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eOther components in this collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe mollusc drawings are meticulous studies of shells, cephalopods and other marine organisms, often larger than life and delicately coloured. Many are explicitly copied from standard works by Rumphius, Adanson and others, with the sources carefully cited (plate and figure numbers, page references) and supplemented with Deluc’s comments on classification and comparative anatomy. Two manuscript text leaves (“Mollusques divisés en dix classes” and notes from a séance of 30 March 1822 on cephalopod classification) show him engaging with early-nineteenth-century systematic zoology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe small group of palaeontological sheets includes lithographed plates from the \u003ci\u003eTransactions of the Geological Society\u003c\/i\u003e with Deluc’s marginal notes, as well as large pen-and-ink drawings of the skeleton of a Megatherium unearthed near Buenos Aires and of bones of the giant birds Dinornis ingens and Dinornis giganteus, all with neat French descriptions. These demonstrate his interest in the new fossil vertebrates that were reshaping ideas about Earth history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe remaining drawings document instruments and fortifications: a detailed elevation of Herschel’s forty-foot telescope, a five-bank galley “d’après le Général Melville”, and two sheets on Vauban’s first system of fortification, one annotated “dessiné à Woolwich en 1799” and inscribed “Wm Bowyer”. Together they testify to the breadth of Deluc’s technical and scientific interests.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eProvenance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eSwiss Deluc family; Prof. Dr Michael Jakob, Geneva (c. 2005); Erasmushaus Rare Books \u0026amp; Autographs, Basel (c. 2007); Aguttes, France, 2025.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eSome of the larger and folding sheets show minor splits and small defects at the folds and edges; a few are lightly soiled or browned at the margins, with occasional foxing. Several leaves have been trimmed slightly short. Overall the collection is generally in very good condition, with the drawings, washes and manuscript annotations clean and legible throughout.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eLiterature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eHenry LaFarge, “The DeLUC Manuscripts”, \u003ci\u003eYale University Library Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e 15:2 (Oct. 1940), pp. 44–46.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuide to the Jean André DeLuc Papers (MS 179).\u003c\/i\u003e Compiled by the staff of Manuscripts and Archives, Sept. 1984.\u003cbr\u003eM. J. S. Rudwick, “Jean-André de Luc and nature’s chronology”, in \u003ci\u003eGeological Society Special Publications\u003c\/i\u003e 190 (2001).\u003cbr\u003eJohn L. Heilbron \u0026amp; René Sigrist (eds.), \u003ci\u003eJean-André Deluc. Historian of Earth and Man\u003c\/i\u003e (Geneva: Slatkine, 2011).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52219550597463,"sku":null,"price":45000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/99cfa30c-eac8-4a48-8144-9ef0b2420dc4_a1c46bf0-3799-483d-9371-f2ec0ed7eb01.png?v=1764072402"},{"product_id":"catastrophic-flood-and-colonial-coercion-manuscript-letter-on-the-destruction-of-a-haitian-sugar-plantation","title":"Catastrophic flood and colonial coercion: manuscript letter on the destruction of a Haitian sugar plantation.","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e“Procureur fondé du quartier Morin”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCopie d’une lettre écrite à Monsieur le Chevalier Davane par son procureur fondé du quartier Morin, île de Saint-Domingue, le 30 octobre 1780.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMorin district, Saint-Domingue, 30 October 1780.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e4°, 4 pp, manuscript in ink on laid paper.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eImportant plantation manuscript from colonial Saint-Domingue, being a contemporary copy of a long letter written by the attorney of a sugar estate to the Chevalier Davane. The writer gives a remarkably detailed account of a disastrous flood which, beginning in August 1780, altered the course of the main river, buried extensive cane fields in sand, ruined roads and levees, collapsed furnaces and boiling works, damaged the great house and outbuildings, and destroyed large quantities of sugar. He records the loss of enslaved people, livestock, and equipment, and describes the estate as rendered incapable of production for many months. Few surviving manuscripts convey with such technical precision the physical vulnerability of plantation infrastructure in late-eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOf exceptional interest is the second part of the letter, which denounces the conduct of the colonial authorities. Instead of relief, the most heavily damaged plantations are subjected to forced public works, compelled to open a new road across their lands. The writer speaks of new corvées imposed “by the law of the strongest, supported by the bayonet,” and of threats of imprisonment, deportation to France, and confiscation of enslaved labourers for any refusal to obey. This striking testimony to the coercive machinery of colonial government, written more than a decade before the Haitian Revolution, offers rare insight into the tensions, abuses, and fragilities of the plantation system on the eve of its collapse.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eIn good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52519953400151,"sku":null,"price":1200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/img005_e6e95c7d-b731-4b48-aad6-642a05e4c32d.jpg?v=1768213992"},{"product_id":"the-rallier-papers","title":"The Rallier Papers","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e32 manuscripts, drawings and maps \u003cbr\u003eof the engineer-geographers of Saint-Domingue (Haiti).\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eA major late 18th century collection of primary colonial source material on colonial Haiti, Dominica and pro-slavery discourse, assembled by royal colonial engineer Louis Rallier.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eThis collection brings together thirty-two manuscript parts that formed part of the working world of the French colonial engineers in Saint-Domingue. Until the late eighteenth century, much of the colony remained poorly mapped, and these papers form part of the first serious efforts to survey Saint-Domingue systematically. Military treatises, reconnaissance memoranda, engineering reports, and manuscript maps document how the colony was measured, mapped, defended, and managed in the decades before the Haitian Revolution. They also include detailed reconnaissance of the neighbouring British island of Dominica and plans for its projected invasion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eThe core of the papers is associated with Louis-Anne-Esprit Rallier, royal colonial engineer in the southern district from 1787, and includes earlier materials transmitted from senior figures such as Mathias Henri de Moulceau, directeur général des fortifications de Saint-Domingue, and the engineer Moreau. Rallier was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ea member of the Council of Ancients of Saint-Domingue, one of the two legislative bodies of the French Directory, alongside the Council of Five Hundred. The latter proposed laws, while the Council of Ancients approved or rejected them. After his return to France i\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003en the 1790s Rallier became politically engaged, as reflected in a group of manuscripts in this collection that address slavery, colonial governance, and the revolutionary crisis. He published two tracts on the rights of formerly enslaved people after the Haitian Revolution, of which the first is included in this lot.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eAt the centre of the collection are several substantial, unpublished defence manuscripts that treat Saint-Domingue as a connected military and geographical system, analysing coasts, ports, mountains, and interior routes and proposing coordinated strategies of fortification and movement. Around these are operational notes on landing sites and campaigns, administrative files from the engineering office at Les Cayes, urban and hydraulic projects, and reflective memoranda touching on resources, climate, and reform. Taken together, the papers show the colonial engineer at work as surveyor, strategist, and administrator, and preserve the internal language through which Saint-Domingue was conceptualised and governed on the eve of Revolution.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eNames: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eLouis-Anne-Esprit Rallier (1749–1829); Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Charles-François de Pontleroy (1728–1807); Mathias Henri de Moulceau (active 1760s–1770s); Moreau (active c. 1760s–1787).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ethe collection is generally in very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eLiterature: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eGlénisson, Jean-Louis. \u003ci\u003eLa cartographie de Saint-Domingue dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle (de 1763 à la Révolution).\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e1986. École nationale de Chartes, thesis.\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003chr align=\"center\" width=\"100%\" size=\"2\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eScope and content\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• Detailed military memoranda setting out a comprehensive system for the defence of Saint-Domingue, including a report of a coastal cartographic survey. We have located manuscript maps that are based on these surveys.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• Reports, drawings, and administrative records from the southern engineering office, including plans of Les Cayes and the 1787 inventory of the cartographic papers held by the office.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• Detailed military cartographic surveys of Dominica prepared for a projected French attack on the British-held island.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• Medical memoranda on health, climate, and disease in Saint-Domingue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• Politically engaged texts addressing slavery and colonial policy during the early French Revolution, including a draft address to the National Assembly on the question of slavery in Saint-Domingue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eFull list of contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eI. GRAND STRATEGIC DEFENCE MANUSCRIPTS (CORE TEXTS)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThese are the intellectual anchors of the collection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eSuite du Mémoire sur divers objets concernant la Colonie de Saint-Domingue. Défense de la Colonie de Saint-Domingue.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBound with: \u003ci\u003eDéfense de la Partie du Nord de Saint-Domingue.\u003c\/i\u003e Saint-Domingue, c. late 17th\/early 18th century and c. 1779–1782.\u003cbr\u003eTwo major manuscript treatises analysing the strategic geography and military system of the colony, proposing an integrated coastal and interior “système de défense.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eJean-Baptiste-Marie-Charles-François de Pontleroy. Observations on the Defence of Port-au-Prince.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaint-Domingue, 1774.\u003cbr\u003eOfficial inspection memoir analysing anchorages, winds, naval warfare, and coastal batteries, followed by reconnaissance of the western and southern coasts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eJean-Baptiste-Marie-Charles-François de Pontleroy (attrib.). Strategic coastal reconnaissance and security memorandum for Saint-Domingue.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaint-Domingue, c. 1767–1774.\u003cbr\u003eSubstantial survey of coasts, anchorages, maroon activity, and internal communications, conceived as a systematic military-cartographic commentary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eMathias Henri de Moulceau. Seconde partie d’un Mémoire sur la défense de Saint-Domingue.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eSaint-Domingue, 6 April 1775.\u003cbr\u003eSigned strategic defence manuscript proposing an integrated colonial defence system, with a hydrographic inventory of anchorages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eUnpublished working draft on colonial fortification, roads, and military approaches.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Caribbean], late 18th century.\u003cbr\u003eHeavily revised analytical manuscript preserving military-engineering reasoning in process.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003chr align=\"center\" width=\"100%\" size=\"2\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eII. DOMINICA: RECONNAISSANCE, INTELLIGENCE \u0026amp; INVASION PLANNING\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eA coherent operational sub-archive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eNotes sur les moyens d’exécuter un débarquement en force… Isle Dominique.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDominica, c. 1780.\u003cbr\u003eDetailed amphibious-warfare memorandum describing beaches, ravines, batteries, water sources, and inland routes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eManuscript coastal and military reconnaissance of Dominica.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDominica, late 18th century.\u003cbr\u003eFirst-hand survey of anchorages, landing places, roads, plantations, and British defences.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eAnonymous. Military memorandum on the defence of Dominica.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDominica, c. 1780–1790.\u003cbr\u003eInterior reconnaissance centred on heights, ravines, and lines of movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eAnonymous. Note pour servir à la connoissance des moyens d’attaques du Morne Cabrits.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDominica, late 18th century.\u003cbr\u003eReconnaissance and attack memorandum analysing batteries, ravines, anchorages, and landing beaches.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eMémoire qu’il pourroit estre avantageux de consulter quand il sera question d’attaquer l’Isle Dominique.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDominica, late 18th century.\u003cbr\u003eLarge folio invasion dossier combining coastal intelligence, inland topography, and contingency planning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eLouis-Anne-Esprit Rallier. Observations on the different species of timber found in Dominica.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDominica, late 18th century.\u003cbr\u003eTechnical memorandum on colonial timber resources and their naval and construction uses.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003chr align=\"center\" width=\"100%\" size=\"2\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eIII. ENGINEERING OFFICE, PUBLIC WORKS \u0026amp; ADMINISTRATION (LES CAYES \u0026amp; SOUTHERN DISTRICT)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe working archive of colonial infrastructure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eRallier \u0026amp; Moreau. Inventaire des papiers des Cayes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLes Cayes, 1787.\u003cbr\u003eTwelve-leaf inventory recording 169 numbered entries documenting the complete engineering archive of the southern district.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eCharles-Victor de Mansuy. Direction de St Domingue. Demande.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCap-Français, 20 September 1787.\u003cbr\u003eOfficial requisition for surveying and cartographic equipment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eToisé des ouvrages exécutés pour les fortifications et l’hôpital militaire des Cayes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLes Cayes, 3 November 1787.\u003cbr\u003eEngineering measurement and accounting report for hospital and fortification works.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003e[Pontleroy]. Report on the covering of the Saint-Louis water-supply canal.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLes Cayes, 12 November 1781.\u003cbr\u003eHydraulic engineering memorandum on enclosing an urban aqueduct.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eIngénieur en chef de la partie du sud. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eMemorandum on a hydrological dispute at Jérémie.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJérémie, 1787.\u003cbr\u003eEngineering opinion on drainage, watercourses, and colonial property conflict.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eCasiou [?] \u0026amp; Louis-Anne-Esprit Rallier. État des sommes dues… Ville et Citadelle du Port-Louis.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePort-Louis, 28 September 1788.\u003cbr\u003eSigned financial and engineering account for urban and citadel works.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eToisé des entretiens couvrants pour l’année 1789.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePort-Louis, 1789 (with earlier sheets).\u003cbr\u003eConstruction and maintenance ledger for citadel works.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003ePiedepère fils. Report on the drainage, street layout, and coastal works of Les Cayes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLes Cayes, 23 January 1788.\u003cbr\u003eSigned urban-engineering memorandum with faint survey sketch.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eConstruction contract for royal barracks and powder magazine at Morne des Olives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eMartinique, 27 September 1779.\u003cbr\u003eFormal contract detailing military construction works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003chr align=\"center\" width=\"100%\" size=\"2\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eIV. MAPS, PLANS \u0026amp; ENGINEERING DRAWINGS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eWorking visual documents.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eLouis-Anne-Esprit Rallier (signed). Croquis des environs de la ville des Cayes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLes Cayes, 21 October 1786.\u003cbr\u003eUrban-planning map showing projected expansion, river diversion, and defensive elements.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eAnonymous. Plan for a proposed new road with projected bridge crossing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaint-Domingue, c. 1785.\u003cbr\u003eLarge planning map with new alignment and projected bridge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eBridge design for a multi-span river crossing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaint-Domingue, c. 1790.\u003cbr\u003eEngineering drawing with plan, elevation, and structural sections.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eArchitectural drawing: elevation and section of an unidentified building.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ec. 1790.\u003cbr\u003eProfessional architectural design drawing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eDrawing of fortification exercises and geometrical models.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ec. 1770–1790.\u003cbr\u003eInstructional sheet of bastioned plans and profiles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eTactical field plan with artillery and troop-position diagrams.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003elate 18th century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eSchematic military drawing with technical artillery note.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003chr align=\"center\" width=\"100%\" size=\"2\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eV. MEDICINE, ENVIRONMENT \u0026amp; LOGISTICS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eColonial survival and infrastructure of war.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eDe la disenterie.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaint-Domingue, c. 1785–1788.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eUnpublished medical manuscript on disease, climate, hygiene, and colonial health.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eVivres à placer au Réduit du Morne des Olives pour 1200 hommes pendant quatre mois.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003elate 18th century.\u003cbr\u003eDetailed provisioning memorandum listing food, drink, livestock, and storage requirements.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; text-align: center; line-height: 115%;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003chr align=\"center\" width=\"100%\" size=\"2\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eVI. REVOLUTIONARY \u0026amp; PRO-SLAVERY POLITICAL MANUSCRIPTS \u0026amp; A PUBLICATION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eLate-colonial crisis and ideological transition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eProjet d’Adresse à l’Assemblée Nationale.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFougères, c. 1791.\u003cbr\u003eDraft political address reacting to the first slave uprisings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eAnonymous. Réflexions sur la série d’articles… sur les observations du représentant Rallier.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ec. 1796–1798.\u003cbr\u003eLong critique of post-abolition colonial administration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eAnonymous. Notes sur les observations du représentant Rallier sur St-Domingue.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ec. 1796–1798.\u003cbr\u003ePolitical memorandum on labour, finance, and governance after abolition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003cb\u003eC. Bernard. Political memorandum on colonial constitutional exceptionalism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParis, 2 July 1797.\u003cbr\u003eSigned Directory-period argument for exceptional colonial governance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e.-A.-E. Rallier. Suite des observations sur Saint-Domingue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eParis, Baudouin, [1797].\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eRallier’s own publication on post-emancipation labour policy in Saint-Domingue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eFull descriptions and scans\/photos of the individual items are available on request.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52520053506391,"sku":null,"price":64000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/img001.jpg?v=1768214490"},{"product_id":"inventory-of-the-governor-s-plantation-estate-and-slaves","title":"Inventory of the Governor’s plantation estate","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eImportant set of two manuscripts recording the plantation, urban properties, enslaved labor force, buildings, livestock, and industrial installations of Pierre Claude, Baron de Bonvoust, Governor of Grenada.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eGrenada, circa 1763.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eFolio [4; 2] pp.\u003cspan style=\"color: #ee0000;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFrench manuscript in ink on laid paper.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePierre Claude, Baron de Bonvoust \u003cspan\u003e(1691-1785)\u003c\/span\u003e, served as Governor of Grenada from 1757 to 1762, until the cession of the island by France to Great Britain. Compiled shortly after this period, these administrative and economic documents offer a rare and remarkably complete record of the baron’s exceptional wealth on the island, encompassing not only land, buildings, and industrial installations, but also the enslaved people whose labour underpinned the plantation economy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe first manuscript opens with an \u003cb\u003e“État général des domaines appartenans à Monsieur le Baron de Bonvoust, circonstances et dépendances”\u003c\/b\u003e, enumerating:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\" start=\"1\" type=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eHis principal plantation (“habitation”) situated in the district of Basse-Terre, Island of Grenada, at a short distance from the principal port and town;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe enslaved people and livestock employed on the plantation;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTwo houses and several parcels of land located within the town.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA long and precise description follows of the habitation, comprising approximately 120 carrés of land of very good quality, including extensive cane fields, savannas, and provision grounds. Portions of the land are planted in sugar cane already in production, with further areas suitable for expansion. The valuation of the land alone is carefully calculated, parcel by parcel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe manuscripts provide an exceptionally detailed account of the plantation infrastructure, including:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\" type=\"disc\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA complete sugar works (sucrerie) with water-powered mill, boiling house, curing house, furnaces, cauldrons, purging room, canals, reservoirs, and ancillary buildings;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eStorehouses, magazines, workshops, kitchens, hospital, and housing for enslaved workers;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eConstruction materials, dimensions of buildings (often given in feet), and their state of repair;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAn extensive canal system supplying water to the mill, with masonry basins and dikes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe urban properties are described at length: two substantial houses in town, with galleries, halls, chambers, offices, kitchens, courtyards, gardens, outbuildings, cellars, and additional land suitable for warehouses. Their proximity to the port and commercial utility are emphasized, and each element is individually valued.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA separate manuscript titled \u003cb\u003e“Nègres servant à l’exploitation de l’habitation”\u003c\/b\u003e provides a functional description of the enslaved labor force. It records a total of approximately 110–120 enslaved people, described as “seasoned,” including:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\" type=\"disc\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eSkilled sugar workers (notably refiners capable of operating a sugar works);\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA mason, a master cooper, carpenters;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCooks, carters, laundresses, and domestic servants.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe collective valuation of the enslaved workforce is set at 176,000 livres, forming a major component of the estate’s overall value.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOne manuscript contains a complete nominal list of the enslaved people of the Baulieu plantation, titled \u003cb\u003e“Liste des Nègres de l’habitation de Baulieu située en l’isle de la Grenade.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis list records men, women, and children individually by name, with:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\" type=\"disc\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAge (ranging from 58 years to infants of one year);\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAssigned monetary value (ranging from 2,500 livres to 150 livres).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe manuscripts also include a final recapitulation summarizing the value of each component of the estate: land, plantations, savannas, buildings, sugar works, enslaved people, livestock, canals, iron fittings, hospital, and town houses. The total valuation amounts to 663,080 livres, underscoring the exceptional scale and wealth of the Baron de Bonvoust’s Grenadian holdings.\u003cbr\u003eTogether, these documents expose the full economic and human architecture of a governor’s plantation estate at a pivotal moment in Grenada’s colonial history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003esome minor folds and fraying, otherwise in very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e*this comes with an export licence.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52676893081943,"sku":null,"price":9500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/73c1afdf-9581-4877-b18a-e4c16f0dc567.png?v=1769779965"},{"product_id":"from-the-peruvian-andes-to-european-medicine","title":"From the Peruvian Andes to European medicine","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCarl Christian Klein (ed.); Christian Gottlob Gmelin; Hipólito Ruiz López; et. al.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbhandlungen und Versuche über die Ratanhia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eStuttgart, F.C. Löfflund; Wien, C. Gerold, 1819.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e8°. \u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e[6], XXXVII, [1], 170 pp. With 1 large folding engraved and hand-coloured plate of \u003ci\u003eKrameria triandra\u003c\/i\u003e (32 x 22 cm). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eContemporary marbled paper boards.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eRare early monograph on the medicinal properties and therapeutic application of the South American ratanhia, the root of \u003ci\u003eKrameria triandra\u003c\/i\u003e, a shrub native to the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes. The reddish-brown root, valued for its strongly astringent qualities, was widely employed in early nineteenth-century medicine for inflammations of the gums and oral mucosa, especially stomatitis and pharyngitis, and was commonly administered as a gargle or topical preparation. Ratanhia later also gained prominence in homeopathic practice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe volume was edited by the Stuttgart physician Carl Christian Klein and incorporates an abridged German translation of Hipólito Ruiz López’s account of the plant’s discovery in Peru, together with chemical analyses by the noted chemist Christian Gottlob Gmelin. Additional contributions by Renard, Juch, Flacho, Karpe, Vogel, and others document contemporary clinical observations and pharmaceutical experiments relating to the plant’s efficacy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA fine botanical plate illustrates the species in detail, including root structure and floral characteristics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eContition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBinding somewhat worn, lower spine with partially removed paper label. First part of contents foxed. Folding plate partially slightly toned. Otherwise in good condition.\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ee0000;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53688866406743,"sku":null,"price":1900.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/76c9c9a2-1126-47f5-b96d-34756bbc597b.png?v=1780390181"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/collections\/67aded96-4881-4ee2-a69e-b6d80e76c7b0.png?v=1772004802","url":"https:\/\/artemrarebooks.com\/collections\/natural-history.oembed","provider":"Artem Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}