{"title":"Women","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"paula-de-benavides-oracion-evangelica-con-que-la-doctissima-real-universidad-de-mexico-1655","title":"Paula de Benavides, Oracion evangelica con que la doctissima real universidad de Mexico, 1655.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Mexican female printer Paula de Benavides, a very rare copy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJuan de la Torre y Castro.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOracion evangelica con que la doctissima Real Universidad de Mexico, en 20 de enero de 1655 celebro en su capilla assistieronla señores duques de Alburqueque.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMexico City, por Paula de Benavides, viuda de Bernardo Calderón, 1655.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4°. [5], 15 ll.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a woodcut coat-of-arms and very attractive woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary vellum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA very rare copy of a religious work regarding the Royal University of Mexico, by renowned female printer Paula de Benavides, no copies recorded outside Mexico (see Iberian Books). Paula de Benavides and her husband Bernardo Calderón began printing books and pamphlets in Mexico City in 1631; widowed with six children, she took over the business in 1641. Between 1640 and 1684, she ran one of the most successful printing workshops and bookshops in Ciudad de México. Books with her impressum are rarely seen on the market today. She created a printing and bookselling dynasty that persisted for three generations after her death. Daughters, daughters-in-law, granddaughters, and great-granddaughters continued printing using the Benavides name. Recent study of her biography and her performance as a printer and bookseller reframes the idea of her widowhood and exposes her as an active, enterprising and successful woman (see Montiel Ontiveros).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003ebinding worn and slightly stained. Lacking free endpapers. Paper frayed, no loss of text. Faded staining throughout. Contents in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReference: \u003c\/strong\u003eIB, no. 129390; Medina, Mexico 823; Palau 335549. One in OCLC and none traced at auction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterature: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAna Cecilia Montiel Ontiveros, Beltrán Cabrera, Luz del Carmen. “Paula de Benavides: Impresora del siglo XVII. El inicio de un linaje”. In: \u003cem\u003eContribuciones desde Coatepec\u003c\/em\u003e 2010 (10), pp. 103-115.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46708367622487,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/IMG_20230602_191509_485.webp?v=1685800815"},{"product_id":"estevan-garcia-el-maximo-limosnero-mayor-padre-de-pobres-1657","title":"Estevan García, El maximo limosnero, mayor padre de pobres, 1657.","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRare Paula de Benavides imprint, from library of José Maria Andrade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstevan García.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEl maximo limosnero, mayor padre de pobres, grande arçobispo de Valencia, provincial de la Andaluzia, Castilla, y Nueva-España, de la orden de San Augustin, s. Thomas de Villanueva [...] Ofrecela al excell.mo señor don Francisco Fernandez de la Cueva, duqve de Alburquerque […].\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMexico: viuda de Bernardo Calderon [= Paula de Benavides], 1657.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4°. [8], 85 [i.e. 95], [1] ll. ℗3, A3-C3, D2-I2, K2-N2, O2-T2, V2, X2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a woodcut coat-of-arms and very attractive woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLater quarter calf with marbled sides, gold-tooled spine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMexican biography of St. Thomas of Villanova (1488-1555), Augustinian ascetic, Archbishop of Valencia, after who Villanova University (Pennsylvania) was named. He seems never to have visited America but sent friars of his order to evangelise in Mexico in 1533. He is stated as a saint on the title page, a year in advance of his actual canonization. Author Estevan García was an Augustinian friar from Puebla de Los Angeles. \u003cbr\u003e               This work was printed by Paula de Benavides. She and her husband Bernardo Calderón began printing books and pamphlets in Mexico City in 1631; widowed with six children, she took over the business in 1641. Between 1640 and 1684, she ran one of the most successful printing workshops and bookshops in Ciudad de México. Books with her impressum are rarely seen on the market today. She created a printing and bookselling dynasty that persisted for three generations after her death. Daughters, daughters-in-law, granddaughters, and great-granddaughters continued printing using the Benavides name.\u003cbr\u003e               This copy from the library of José Maria Andrade (1807-1883), important collector and bibliographer of Mexican printing, though it is not listed in his auction catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003ebookplate of Andrade on first free endpaper. Small remains of label on title. Minor inconsistent staining, foot corner of A5 removed very slightly affecting text. Worming in the lower gutter, affecting text more extensively in the middle 15 pages. Otherwise in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReference: \u003c\/strong\u003eIB, no. 107916; Medina, Mexico 842; Palau 97857; Simón Díaz. vol. 10, no. 4143.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterature: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAna Cecilia Montiel Ontiveros, Beltrán Cabrera, Luz del Carmen. “Paula de Benavides: Impresora del siglo XVII. El inicio de un linaje”. In: \u003cem\u003eContribuciones desde Coatepec\u003c\/em\u003e 2010 (10), pp. 103-115.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBarry Taylor, “New acquisitions: 2 early Mexican imprints”. In: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmericas and Oceania Collections blog\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e, British Library, 12 March 2013.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJosé Maria Andrade, P. Deschamps. \u003cem\u003eCatalogue de la riche bibliothèque de D. José Maria Andrade. Livres manuscrits et imprimés. Littérature française et espagnole. Histoire de l'Afrique, de l'Asie et de l'Amerique. 7000 pièces et volumes ayant rapport au Mexique ou imprimés dans ce pays, dont la vente se fera lundi 18 janvier 1869 et jours suivant à Leipzig, dans la salle de ventes de MM. List \u0026amp; Francke\u003c\/em\u003e. Paris, List \u0026amp; Francke, 1869.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46708410974551,"sku":"","price":950.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/20230516_121929.png?v=1709196105"},{"product_id":"joseph-felon-unrecorded-uncle-tom-lithograph-paris-1853","title":"Joseph Félon, unrecorded Uncle Tom lithograph, Paris, 1853.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnknown French coloured litho of Uncle Tom\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoseph Félon (1818-1896).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eL’oncle Tom et Eva.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParis, Auguste Bry, n.d. [1853].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHandcoloured lithograph, with letterpress text. 40 x 28 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA very rare and attractive large depiction of Uncle Tom, specifically showing the moment when Tom tries to write to his family but fails due to his illiteracy and Little Eva tries to help him. This lithograph was an original design by Joseph Félon, drawn on the stone by him and printed with a caption in French and English by Auguste Bry in Paris. The copies were sold by three dealers: in Paris at Lebrasseur and Victor Delarue and in London at Francis Fraie. However, only one of these copies can be traced at the moment: the one we offer here. We were unable to find another copy in any major collection, on the market or in auction records. We did retrieve a reference to this print in the 1853 edition of the annual \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBibliographie de la France\u003c\/em\u003e (no. 915), which provides us with a date of creation of the lithograph.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                 Joseph Félon was a highly regarded Parisian artist who made paintings, sculptures and lithographs, which he consistently exhibited at the Salon from 1840 to 1896. In this Uncle Tom lithograph he has depicted Tom as a deeply emotional and religious person, though the scene is a clear and obvious example of racial stereotyping. Félon made this print to take advantage of the phenomenon that broke out when Harriet Beecher Stowe’s story reached France in 1852. Many artists did the same, but Félon’s version is certainly artistically one of the best contemporary depictions of Uncle Tom.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                 The most popular depictions of Uncle Tom were those in which he was accompanied by the young white girl, Eva St. Clare. Representations of their companionship conveyed a message of racial bonding and celebrated the characters’ shared Christian faith. Though what undoubtedly grabbed the attention of audiences viewing was a very young white girl alone in the company of a mature black man.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e                The 3 lines caption underneath, in both French and English, read:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eO! Père Tom! quelles drôles de choses vous faites la! J’essaie d’ecrire à ma pauvre vieille femme, Miss Eva, et à mes petits enfants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“O Uncle Tom! What funning things you are making there!” I’m trying to write to my poor old woman, Miss Eva, and my little chil’en.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003eminor overall brown spotting and thumbing, otherwise in excellent condition with vibrant colouring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReference:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBibliographie de la France, ou journal general de l’imprimerie et de la librairie […]\u003c\/em\u003e, XLII, Paris, Pillet, 1853, p. 383, no. 915.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46859531288919,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/20230623_154754.jpg?v=1687856776"},{"product_id":"avantures-merveilleuses-et-galantes-1761","title":"Avantures merveilleuses et galantes, 1761.","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003eCharlie Hebdo avant la lettre\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Lancelin de Laval (= Philippe Lefebvre (1705-1784))].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvantures merveilleuses et galantes de Mahomet prophete des musulmans. Histoire secrette traduite du Persan.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLa Mecque [=Paris], no name [= Prault], 1761.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12°. 274 pp. With an etched title-page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary marbled calf with smooth gold-tooled spine, red morocco title label, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers. Monogram \"GL\" gold-tooled on the covers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighly controversial French lyrical poem mocking the prophet Muhammad in word and image. This is the extremely rare second edition of four and the only one with an illustrated title-page. This second edition is not found in the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BNF). The illustrated title depicts the prophet surrounded by naked women, which of course goes willingly against the Muslim law that prohibits any depiction of him. It is unclear who the responsible artist was.\u003cbr\u003e                In 1754 the first edition appeared with the title \u003cem\u003eHistoire secrette du prophete des turcs traduite de l'arabe\u003c\/em\u003e, printed in “Constantinople” = Paris, Laurent-Charles d'Houry, 274 pp. In the declaration of the printer to the union chamber of booksellers and printers of Paris it is specified that he was working \"on behalf of Mr Lefevre\" (see no. FRBNF33069995). This is a different work than \"Les amours de Mahomet\" (1750) by the same author. In 1761 the second edition appeared (offered here). Compared to the first edition the title is completely changed and an “avis du traducteur” is added, which states that changes had to be made from the “original manuscript in Mecca” because it was “too free to be read with decency and without hurting the chastity of our morals”. The rest of the text is identical to the first edition. According to the title the book was printed in Mecca, which is obviously fake. We were able to trace a record in Grolier’s bibliography that claims it was printed in Paris by Prault. The third and fourth editions appeared in 1775 and 1781 respectively, again with different titles but without an illustration and with the same text as the first edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003ehinges slightly worn, tiny ink mark on margin of title, minor thumbing, otherwise in excellent condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReference:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eJ. Gay, Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'amour, vol. 1, p. 180.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrolier, \u003cem\u003eLe guide du bibliophile et du libraire\u003c\/em\u003e, 1952, volume VI, p. 50.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePierre M. Conlon, \u003cem\u003eLe Siècle des Lumières: bibliographie chronologique. 1737-1742\u003c\/em\u003e, Geneve, Librairie Droz, 1986, vol. VII, no. 54: 779.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot included in the general catalog of the BnF; not in Barbier, Brunet; Martin, Mylne \u0026amp; Frautschi; Weller.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46879637143895,"sku":"","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/20230629_155359-Bewerkt.png?v=1717488076"},{"product_id":"mallet-beschreibung-des-gantzen-welt-kreises-1719","title":"Mallet, Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises, 1719.","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\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\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreises, darinnen I. […] V.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrankfurt, Anton Heinscheidt for Johann Adam Jung, 1719.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\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\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndex of plates in this copy:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVol. 1: 112 numbered plates + 1 frontispiece + 1 portrait + 1 (87B) = 115\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVol. 2: 133 numbered plates + 1 frontispiece + 3 portraits = 137\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVol. 3: 101 numbered plates + 1 frontispiece + 3 unnumbered plates = 105\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVol. 4: 130 numbered plates + 1 frontispiece + 8 portraits = 139\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVol. 5: 142 numbered plates + 1 frontispiece + 5 portraits + 1 unnumbered plate = 149\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003eVol. 1: minor worming to the first 4 leaves; vol. 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\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterature:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e German: VD17 39:129237P\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e French: VD17 3:306499P\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2\u003csup\u003end \u003c\/sup\u003eGerman : VD18 11031883\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003eMireille Pastoureau, \u003cem\u003eLes atlas Français XVIe-XVIIe siècles,\u003c\/em\u003e Manneson Mallet IA, p. 309-322.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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":"claudine-bouzonnet-stella-life-and-passion-of-christ-1700","title":"Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella, Life and Passion of Christ, 1700.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe complete set of her final and most ambitious print series\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClaudine Bouzonnet-Stella (1636-1697); Michel de Masso; Jacques Stella (1596-1657); Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLife and Passion of Christ.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[Lyon], [Michel de Masso], [1700].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e13 engravings with etching on thick fibrous paper without watermark. All ca. 45,5 x 35 cm. (sheet). Signed on the plate \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eN. Poussin in et pinx.\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClaudia Stella sculp.\u003c\/em\u003e Only on the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLast Supper\u003c\/em\u003e plate: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCum Privil. Regis.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBound together in late 19th century black cloth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eComplete set of 13 very good impressions of one of the few print series by female 17th-century printmaker Claudine Stella. Claudine’s last name was Bouzonnet, but as her artist’s name, she took the last name of her famous uncle Jacques, who had trained her. Following Jacques Stella’s death in 1657, she became the head of the workshop and was granted exclusive rights by the king to publish prints after Stella’s designs. The impressive large plates of the series we offer here were her last project and arguably her most ambitious and esteemed works. Moreover, the story of their publication is an interesting family affair ending in fraud: \u003cbr\u003eAs stated in her will, Claudine had owned a series of thirty paintings by Jacques depicting the Life and Passion of Christ. She had made plates after these paintings: the ones we offer here. Upon her death, these were inherited by her cousin Michel de Masso, along with the explicit task to engrave or to commission the engraving of the remaining plates. Eventually, a series of 13 prints was published by De Masso in the year 1700 in Lyon, so he added 3 to Claudine’s 10 plates. The controversial part of the story starts when De Masso took the liberty to change the name of the painter of the originals from Jacques Stella to Nicolas Poussin, obviously to make them sell better resulting in a well-documented case of fraud (see Blunt).\u003c\/span\u003e\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\"\u003eProvenance: \u003c\/strong\u003eall plates with circular stamp on verso reading: \"Seine colportage\" (not in Lugt).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003etrimmed at the plate line, some slightly short at the foot. Paper slightly browned (as all copies we have seen). Bound between 2 stubs, occasionally covering approx. 1-2 mm. of image.\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\"\u003eAnthony Blunt, 'Jacques Stella, the De Masso family and falsifications of Poussin', The Burlington Magazine, CXVI (December 1974): 744-749\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eR.A. Weigert, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes\u003c\/em\u003e, vol. II, Paris 1951, p. 82 (as published by Michel de Masso of Lyon).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47663083127127,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/Stella593-min.png?v=1709890936"},{"product_id":"suzanne-caron-portrait-of-a-man-1765","title":"Suzanne Caron, Portrait of a man, 1765.","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\u003eOne of her few remaining paintings\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSuzanne Caron (1734-1777).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePortrait of a man.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParis, 1765.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePastel on paper mounted to canvas, signed and dated on the left “Suzanne Caron \/ fecit 1765”. 55 x 46 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis fine pastel portrait is one of the very few known paintings by Suzanne (or Susanne) Caron, a French female artist from a family of Protestant intellectuals with strong ties to the Netherlands. Her father, Pierre Caron, was a goldsmith and jeweler in Paris. In the early 1760s, she became known there as a talented pastelist, and in 1768, she moved to the Protestant Netherlands for religious reasons and to escape the tough competition between portrait painters in Paris. She lived in The Hague and in Amsterdam, where she married, auctioned all her artworks, and migrated to Surinam on the promise of her husband’s business plan, which became a failure. Ultimately, she took up a plantation with 23 slaves in the neighboring colony of Rio Demerary, where she died shortly after the death of her husband in 1777.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecently, various publications have appeared about Suzanne Caron, detailing her life and art, particularly focusing on her most famous but now lost work: a portrait of Corsican patriot Pascal Paoli (1725-1807). 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The elongated eyebrows, slightly oval eyes, and slight smile seem to be characteristic of her style, as can also be seen in her excellent portrait of André-Daniel Laffon de Ladebat from the same year, now in the Musées de Bordeaux.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe left a very small recorded oeuvre: 7 paintings are registered in Jeffares’s \u003cem\u003eDictionary of Pastellists before 1800\u003c\/em\u003e, of which only 3 are known to survive today (including our portrait), and 4 were recorded from 18th-century sources. The RKD lists another pastel portrait (see link below).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\"\u003eNeil Jeffares, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDictionary of Pastellists before 1800\u003c\/em\u003e, Unicorn Publishing Group, 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnne Lafont (ed.), \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePlumes et pinceaux : Discours de femmes sur l’art en Europe (1750-1850)\u003c\/em\u003e, Publications de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKees van Strien, ‘De pastelliste Susanne Caron : Wereldberoemd en snel vergeten’ in: De Achttiende Eeuw, Volume 53, Issue 1, jan. 2021, pp. 19 - 38 .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKees van Strien \u0026amp; Lieke van Deinsen, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe true likeness of a true patriot : Susanne Caron's portrait of Pascal Paoli\u003c\/em\u003e, The Rijksmuseum bulletin ; 69 1 P. 4-25.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRKD \u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/rkd.nl\/imageslite\/994635\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/rkd.nl\/imageslite\/994635\"\u003ehttps:\/\/rkd.nl\/imageslite\/994635\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47672380064087,"sku":"","price":9500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/l21t.jpg?v=1707406030"},{"product_id":"manuscript-rules-for-entry-into-the-order-1588","title":"Manuscript rules for entry into the Order, 1588.","description":"\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“One should not be black, mixed race, nor any other dishonorable or subversive individual”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFranciscan Order of Friars Minor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[Rules for entry into the Order].\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpain, 1588.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSingle sheet of vellum, 18,5 x 26,5 cm. 2 pp. manuscript in Spanish with illuminated margins and initials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eManuscript rules for entry into the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor in Spain, explicitly stating the exclusion of people based on race and gender. This manuscript was made following the canonization of Didacus of Alcalá in 1588, when a chapter was held to elect new provosts and stewards into the Order. The text clearly stipulates that to enter this holy Order, one could be a man (\"hombre\") or a woman (\"muger\") but that one should not be black (\"negro\"), mixed race (\"mulato\"), Christian of Muslim origin (\"morisco\"), nor any other \"dishonorable or subversive individual.\" Any member of the Brotherhood who admits one of these dishonorable people had to pay a fine of two pounds of wax and would be banished for a year. 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[2] pp. With an elaborate woodcut headpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis Royal edict, issued during the late 18th century, prohibited individuals of color in France from marrying white persons, imposing penalties such as fines or banishment to the colonies for violations. The decree, closely linked to an August 1777 edict that restricted the entry of blacks, mulattos, and people of color into the kingdom, made no distinction between blacks and people of color—a policy that would later evolve. Following the reinstatement of slavery under Napoleon in 1802, mulattoes were granted additional rights, marking a significant shift in policy regarding racial distinctions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProhibitiong \"whites of either sex to marry with blacks, mulattos or other people of colour”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003efrayed and slightly foxed along the edges. Otherwise in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiterature: \u003c\/strong\u003eSue Peabody. 'Erosion of the Police des Noirs', ‘There Are No Slaves in France’: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime. 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This measure, part of the \"Police de Noirs\" campaign, aimed to tightly regulate and control the lives of non-white populations in France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDespite the initial decree, enforcement was lax, leading to a renewed proclamation in 1783. This subsequent decree, issued by the King's Council on March 23, acknowledged the previous law's lack of adherence. To rectify this, all Black, mulatto, and other people of color in Paris were mandated to obtain a certificate from the registrar's office within a fortnight. The template for this certificate was provided in the decree, with a fixed fee of 10 sous payable to the Admiralty registrar. Failure to comply carried the same penalties outlined in the original decree of January 11, 1778.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese identification cards served as tools for tracking and controlling the movements of Black individuals, particularly those who were enslaved, within the French capital. They were utilized for various administrative purposes, including taxation, labor management, and surveillance, perpetuating the systemic oppression and marginalization of non-white populations in France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003eminor browning, otherwise in excellent 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\"\u003eSabin 75056.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSue Peabody. 'Erosion of the Police des Noirs', ‘There Are No Slaves in France’: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime. 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Voorafgegaan door eene korte levensschets der schrijfster, volgens hare eigene aanteekeningen. Naar het Hoogduitsch. Met portret.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUtrecht, J.G. Broese, 1862.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8°. XL, 235 pp. With a lithographed portrait of the author by J.D. Steuerwald before the title, made for this edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRare first Dutch edition of the last travel book of the first full-time woman traveller of all (see Robinson), who travelled around the world multiple times by herself. Ida Pfeiffer, born in 1797 in Vienna, defied societal norms by pursuing her dreams of adventure. She was raised with Spartan training meant for boys and after initially resisting femininity, she embraced her gender role when marrying an older lawyer. She eventually left her husband and at forty-five, she embarked on solo journeys around the world, gaining fame through detailed travelogues. Despite upholding traditional roles, Pfeiffer challenged social injustices and imperialism, subtly advancing female emancipation. Recent studies recognize her contributions to female empowerment and literature.\u003cbr\u003eThe present book describes her journey to Madagascar in 1857. She was accompanied by the French adventurer Joseph-François Lambert, who without Ida’s knowledge was planning a coup against the Malagasy Queen Ranavalona I. On June 20, this coup failed, and Queen Ranavalona had all involved Malagasy people executed. The European individuals who took part, including Pfeiffer, were imprisoned. In July, they were released and expelled from Madagascar. During the journey from the capital Antananarivo to the coast, Pfeiffer contracted an illness from which she would not recover, likely cancer or malaria. On October 27, 1858, she died in Vienna, and her account of this final journey was published posthumously in the book we offer here. Ida's son, Oskar Pfeiffer, provided her biography for the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003eportrait slightly stained, hinge split at first quire, number in ink on corner of title-page, last 5 pages foxed. Otherwise in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterature: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobinson, Jane. \u003cem\u003eWayward Women: a Guide to Women Travellers. \u003c\/em\u003eOxford University Press, 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWatt, Helga Schutte. “Ida Pfeiffer: A Nineteenth-Century Woman Travel Writer.” The German Quarterly, vol. 64, no. 3, 1991, pp. 339–52.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47801220694359,"sku":"","price":650.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/IdaPfeiffer3.png?v=1709886485"},{"product_id":"elisabeth-jansen-nieuwjaars-wensch-1810","title":"Elisabeth Jansen, Nieuwjaars-wensch, 1810.","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Year’s wish from Elisabeth Jansen, postwoman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElisabeth Jansen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNieuwjaars-wensch, opgedragen aan alle heeren kooplieden, burgers en inwooners der stad Amsterdam. Door de ombrengster der couranten en domineesbriefjes. Op den eersten Louwmaand 1810.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmsterdam, Jan Ruysendaal, Boekdrukker, in de Gravenstraat, bij Nieuwendijk, no. 4. 1810.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlano, 52 x 44,5 cm. Printed on one side. Illustrated with 3 woodcuts by “J.R.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElisabeth Jansen was the bringer of newspapers and pastor's notes in Amsterdam at the turn of the years 1809 to 1810. This charming broadside was dedicated by her to all the “gentlemen merchants, citizens, and inhabitants” of the city of Amsterdam. One can imagine that she would pass these along on new years day for a little tip. The wish is elegantly crafted as a lengthy poem, intricately weaving references to significant domestic and international events from the past year, with detailed notes below the poem that offer further explanations for these references. Three oval woodcuts at the top illustrate these themes. In the first oval is a farmer driving his cart loaded with a hay stack; in the background a mill. At center is a view of Amsterdam (?) with a man handing a letter to a woman standing on the doorstep. This woodcut is signed on the bottom left: ‘J.R.’ [Jan Ruysendaal]. To the right a seascape with sailing boats in the background and two men shaking hands in the foreground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDue to their ephemeral nature, copies of such New Year's broadsides have always been elusive. An 1880 auction catalogue records some from other years as \"very rare\" (see reference). Only a handful are at present recorded in the main bibliographic databases and the one we offer here is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003efour folds, repair in blank corner, slightly frayed, tiny hole at the centre fold in the bottom of image. Otherwise in very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReference: \u003c\/strong\u003enot in UBA; KB; WorldCat; KVK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCatalogus eener belangrijke verzameling boeken en plaatwerken, teekeningen, gravures, historie- en spotprenten, uitmakende de bibliotheken nagelaten door de Heeren W.J.E. Smissaert [...], G. Kuyper Hz. [...] en anderen, waarvan de verkooping zal plaats hebben op Zaterdag 17 April 1880 [...] door [...]. \u003c\/em\u003e’s Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1880, p. 102, no. 2759 (1794-1799 and 1814).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47819635130711,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/ElisabethJansen1.png?v=1710155230"},{"product_id":"johanna-sibilla-kusel-nouveau-testament-1677","title":"Johanna Sibilla Küsel, Nouveau Testament, 1677.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA demonstration of etching mastery, for private devotion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJohanna Sibilla Küsel (1646-1717); Jacques Callot; Bosse (?)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNouveau Testament faict par Iacques Callot qui na sceu finir le reste prevenu de la mort, l'annee 1635.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAugsburg, [Melchior Küsel (I)], 1677.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e12 etched plates, each ca. 6,5 x 8,5 cm. at plate line, sheets various sizes. 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Küsel’s plates are mirrored compared to those by Callot, meaning that she made 12 completely new etchings while closely following the original designs. Upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that she was quite free in the details instead of trying to make exact copies: she took this opportunity to showcase her mastery of the etching technique in such a challenging small format. Thieme-Becker agrees on this: \"Her virtuoso technique is particularly evident in the meticulous copies after Callot.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe set was published by Johanna Sibylla’s father, Melchior Küsel (I), son-in-law of Matthaeus Merian. He was also a printmaker and prolific publisher in Augsburg, and Johanna Sibylla was one of his five daughters. She is perceived as the \"most talented\" and indeed produced most artworks under her own name. Following her father's passing in 1684, she assumed leadership of the family publishing enterprise for a brief period of two years until she married artist Johann Ulrich Krauss, after which she signed her works with Kraussin, Kräusin, or with Krausen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere seems to be some confusion about the number of plates made by Callot. The BM states that the series published in 1635 by Israël Henriet consists of \"eleven plates representing scenes from the New Testament; Callot etched 10 scenes before death prevented him from finishing the series. Henriet commissioned a title to another engraver, traditionally identified as Abraham Bosse (although this plate is not mentioned either by Duplessis or Blum).\" But their photo at X,4.32 shows a sheet with 12 numbered plates and the Curator's comment “from a series of ten, see 1861,0713.67”. Plate 12 on this sheet is not signed by Callot, but is mirrored in Küsel’s series. 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[VIII], 196 pp. With an engraved frontispiece by “Kenckel”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eModern wrappers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFirst and only edition of a biography of Catherine of Bologna (1413-1463), written by abbess Maria Eleonora Rinẞmaulin for Holy Roman Empress and German Queen Eleonore Magdalene Therese of Neuburg (1655-1720). Rinẞmaulin was the leader of the Queen’s monastery in Vienna, the city where the Queen lived and where this book was printed. The book was published on the occasion of the canonization of Catherine of Bologna in 1712 by Pope Clement XI. Saint Catherine was also an abbess (the female superior or leader of a convent or monastery), like Rinẞmaulin, but she was especially renowned as an artistic creator. She painted, taught and wrote prolifically.  The frontispiece in this book seems to be freely derived from the altar of the uncorrupted body of Saint Catherine, seated on a throne, as it appears to the faithful in the chapel housed inside the Church of Corpus Domini in Bologna.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003estamp on title of the Ursulines Library in Klagenfurt. Slightly browned, occasional spotting. 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Manuscript in ink in multiple colours on wove paper, with 65 fabric samples, 8 folding coloured schematics and numerous drawings. With a loosely inserted sheet containing former owner’s notes on the provenance of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn incredibly neat and detailed silk weaving manual from the height of the Lyon silk production era. Divided into two parts, it first presents the theory and mathematics behind the technique, after which instructions are given for over 60 different silk weaving techniques such as velours, puche, satin, bourette, and many more, all very neatly illustrated in color with weaving schematics and fabric samples that are absolutely radiating with color and in mint condition.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe manuscript was made for the Gindre silk weaving factory in Lyon, which was one of the larger production facilities in the area. Lyon had historically been the European capital of silk fabric production, and during the latter half of the nineteenth century, the industry experienced unprecedented growth and innovation. Lyon solidified its status as the silk capital of the world, driving urbanization, population growth, and economic prosperity in the region. Women were integral to Lyon's silk industry, working in various roles from weaving to design. They contributed significantly to production, both in factories and at home, supporting the city's economic growth and its reputation as a silk center. This period also saw a flourishing of artistic creativity, with skilled designers and artisans producing exquisite fabrics renowned for their quality and craftsmanship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003ein excellent 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\"\u003eBernadette Angleraud et. al., \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFemmes de Lyon\u003c\/em\u003e, Lyon, ELAH, éditions lyonnaises d'art et d'histoire, 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48105965453655,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/8coursdetissage.png?v=1713863022"},{"product_id":"choiseul-meuse-julie-ou-jai-sauve-ma-rose-1807","title":"Choiseul-Meuse, Julie, ou j'ai sauvé ma rose, 1807.","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff8000;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe first openly lesbian romance novel - and banned for it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eFélicité de Choiseul-Meuse (1787-1838).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eJulie, ou j'ai sauvé ma rose. Par Madame de C***. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\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;\"\u003eHamburg, et se trouve à Paris, chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1807.\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;\"\u003e2 volumes. 8°. [4], 252; [4], 287 pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eContemporary Empire style gold-tooled half green and red morocco with marbled sides.\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;\"\u003eSecond edition of the first Western book to feature explicit lesbian erotic scenes, originally banned and largely destroyed. Printed very shortly after the first edition, this second edition appears to be the earliest to include the controversial second volume, where the explicit lesbian content appears. Although the title calls for it, volume 2 of the first edition is not listed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF), nor in Glessner's bibliography. The book was blacklisted in 1825, and its destruction was ordered in 1827 due to its obscenities, 20 years after the publication of both editions. It seems that only volume 2 of the first edition was thoroughly eradicated, while the second edition, which we offer here, has escaped persecution.\u003cbr\u003eSame-sex lovemaking in Choiseul-Meuse's work was considered intolerably obscene by nineteenth-century standards, leading to harsher censorship compared to heterosexual content her other two later banned works \"Entre chien et loup\" and \"Amélie de Saint-Far.\" \"Julie ou j'ai sauvé ma rose\" has attracted significant attention due to its severe censorship and rich portrayal of both heterosexual and lesbian eroticism. Although not particularly shocking by today’s standards, her writing reveals the challenges faced by female authors of eroticism during the late Enlightenment. \"Julie,\" remains significant for understanding the evolution of erotic literature and the societal challenges faced by female authors.\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;\"\u003ebinding very slightly scuffed. Inscription in ink on both titles. Marginal stain on pp. 107-110 and 225-228 of vol. 1. Otherwise in very good, attractive 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: J.J. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eGay II, pp. 747-748; Pia, “Les Livres de l'Enfer” pp. 713-714.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBeth A. Glessner, “The Censored Erotic Works of Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse”. In \u003ci\u003eTulsa Studies in Women's Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, 16(1) (1997), pp. 131–143.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eValérie Van Crugten-André, “Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse: libertinage in the bourgeois order”, in Roland Mortier and Hasquin, ed, “Portraits of women”, in \u003ci\u003eStudies on the 18th century\u003c\/i\u003e, XXVIII, Editions de l' University of Brussels, 2000.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48535011164503,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/4e0d3c36-8151-40bc-9615-6bd39a4564ff.png?v=1717353355"},{"product_id":"decreto-1773","title":"Decreto, 1773.","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: #e97132; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePensions for widows in New Spain and Peru\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h3\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;\"\u003eCharles III of Spain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eDecreto.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAranjuez, April 18, 1773.\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\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBifolium, 3 pp. Manuscript in ink on watermarked laid paper.\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\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eManuscript decree that outlines the distribution of pensions for the widows and dependents of Ministers, both within and outside the Court, particularly focusing on the Spanish colonies. It acknowledges that these pensions will eventually surpass the funds previously allocated for the Monte Pío, a charitable fund. To ensure the sustainability of these pensions and honor the Royal Clemency, the decree assigns an annual rent of one hundred and fifty thousand and eight units from the revenues of the Archbishops and Bishops of the Kingdoms, proportionally distributed as life pensions become vacant. Additionally, five thousand pesos are allocated to major and minor vacancies in the Kingdoms of the Indies, with three thousand pesos specifically for New Spain and two thousand for Peru.\u003cbr\u003eFurthermore, it mandates that heirs residing in customs areas gather in Cádiz exempt from rights, benefiting the heir of the House of Constran. The Junta del Monte is responsible for handling the corresponding orders and dispatches, ensuring proper documentation and collection. The benefits of the Royal piety are also extended to officials of the six Secretariats of the Universal Dispatch, organizing the Ministry Monte under the same regulations as other ministries to provide relief to widows and orphans in the Spanish colonies.\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\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eslight foxing, small top right corner missing without lack of text, otherwise in very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48723018678615,"sku":"","price":850.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/100_0289-Bewerkt.png?v=1719829179"},{"product_id":"important-collection-of-colonial-trinidad-documents-compiled-by-the-man-behind-its-colonization-including-a-manuscript-census","title":"Important collection of colonial Trinidad documents, compiled by the man behind its colonization; including a manuscript census.","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePhillipe Rose Roume de Saint Laurent (1743-1804).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eIsla de la Trinidad de Barlovento \/ Roume de St Laurent [Collection of 8 Colonial Trinidad Documents].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTrinidad, 1786-1801.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e6 manuscript and 2 printed documents (see detailed list below).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAn important collection of colonial Trinidad documents, compiled by the pivotal figure behind the island’s colonization, Phillipe Rose Roume de Saint Laurent. This ambitious French Creole planter from Grenada was instrumental in transforming Trinidad from a sparsely inhabited territory into a thriving plantation economy. He saw the potential of the island and lobbied Spanish colonial authorities to encourage settlement. His efforts culminated in the Cedula of Population of 1783, which attracted a significant influx of French settlers and their enslaved African people, boosting the island's population from under 1,400 in 1777 to over 18,000 by 1797. This immigration wave not only bolstered Trinidad’s agricultural output, particularly in sugar production, but also established a unique social structure influenced by French culture, free persons of color, and enslaved Africans.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eHis collection of documents that we offer here highlights the population and economic changes caused by his plans, particularly focusing on the transition of ownership from Spain to Britain. Possibly the most significant item is a manuscript census of Spanish colonial Trinidad for the year 1784, meticulously detailing the island's population by districts and demographics, including distinctions between old and new colonists, and the status of indigenous inhabitants. Other notable items include official documents relating to maritime activities, capitulation agreements outlining the terms of Trinidad's cession from Spain to Britain in 1797, and a printed copy of the Treaty of Amiens. These documents collectively offer a comprehensive overview of the administrative, social, and economic transformations that Trinidad underwent during this pivotal period in its history, reflecting the strategic and cultural shifts that shaped the island’s colonial legacy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe University of the West Indies holds photocopies of three eighteenth-century manuscripts relating to the island of Tobago, 1787-1793, also compiled by Roume de Saint Laurent (not seen by us).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe individual items are:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\" class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" data-mce-style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\" data-mce-style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e·\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\" data-mce-style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e       \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eManuscript census, titled “Estado que manifiesta el en que se halla la población de la Isla Trinidad de Barlovento al 31 de Diciembre de 1784”. Folio, 25 x 39 cm. Manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked “J Whatman”. Verso blank. The chart is divided into fourteen districts to facilitate better understanding and easier governance. The colonial population is categorized into old and new colonists, with further distinctions based on sex, age (adults and children), and the number of enslaved people owned by each group. The indigenous population is detailed by town, with a distinction between tributary and non-tributary inhabitants. It includes specific numbers on the population, their status, and age groups. The towns listed in the chart are: Arauca, Tacarigua, Cuara, Savana Grande, Monserrate, Savaneta, Guairia, Siparia, Cumana, Toco, and Salibia. The census sheet is attached to another sheet with the inscription: “Cédula o Reglamento de Poblacion y Comercio de la Isla de la Trinidad de Barlovento Reflexiones sobre algunos de sus articulos = Memorias de Mr. de San Laurent”. This sheet serves as the wrapper for the collection and is titled on the fold: “Isla de la Trinidad de Barlovento \/ Roume de St Laurent”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\" class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" data-mce-style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\" data-mce-style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e·\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\" data-mce-style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e       \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA stamped and signed official document relating to maritime activities in Trinidad, dated 1787, names unidentified. 2 pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\" class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" data-mce-style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\" data-mce-style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e·\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\" data-mce-style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e       \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA manuscript copy in Spanish of the capitulation agreement for the surrender of the Island of Trinidad between Spain and Britain on March 12, 1797. It outlines the conditions for the withdrawal and treatment of Spanish troops and officials, the handling of prisoners, and the rights and properties of the inhabitants of Trinidad under British rule. Including the preservation of property, religious freedoms, and the rights of free people of color. 4 pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\" class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" data-mce-style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\" data-mce-style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e·\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\" data-mce-style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e       \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA manuscript set of warnings or advisories, dated July 18, 1795, based on observations of the coast of Trinidad and recommendations about the strength and deployment of various vessels to ensure security and aid in commerce. Signed, unidentified.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\" class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" data-mce-style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\" data-mce-style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e·\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\" data-mce-style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e       \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA printed copy of the Gazeta de Madrid of March 24, 1801. This contains news about Trinidad and the repercussions for Chacon’s surrender.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\" class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" data-mce-style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\" data-mce-style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e·\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\" data-mce-style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e       \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA printed Spanish copy of the Treaty of Amiens, in which is declared that Britain retained Trinidad: Real Cedula de S.M. y Señores del Consejo, en que se manda observer, guardar y cumplir el Tratado definitivo de Paz concluido entre el Rey nuestro Señor, la República Francesa y la República Bátava de una parte, y el Rey del Reyno Unido de la Gran Bretaña y de Irlanda de la otra. Madrid, en la Imprenta Real, 1795. [15] pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\" class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle\" data-mce-style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\" data-mce-style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e·\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\" data-mce-style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e       \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eManuscript Artículo de Capitulación, dated February 18, 1797, outlining the terms for the surrender of the Island of Trinidad from Spanish control to British forces. The agreement includes detailed conditions for the withdrawal and treatment of Spanish troops and officials, the rights of the inhabitants, and the handling of property and legal matters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\" class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpLast\" data-mce-style=\"margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -18.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLists]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\" data-mce-style=\"mso-list: Ignore;\"\u003e·\u003cspan style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\" data-mce-style=\"font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e       \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA manuscript preliminary peace treaty between the Republics of Colombia, Peru, Buenos Aires, and the Provisional Government of Chile, and Britain. It outlines 15 articles that establish perpetual peace, mutual recognition of sovereignty, fair treatment of commerce and property, the non-interference in internal conflicts, and specific provisions for the return of prisoners, the evacuation of occupied ports, the repayment of debts, and the arbitration of disputes. The treaty was signed in London on October 1, 1801.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e Wrapper damaged and repaired on the fold. Some minor staining and foxing but overall in very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: 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\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eGérard Besson, Roume de Saint Laurent: a memoir. Paria Publishing Co. Ltd., [St. Anns, Trinidad and Tobago], 2015.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" data-mce-style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBarbara Ifill, “The Richest Trade Centre of the Indies: A Vision of Trinidad’s Future.” In: Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 4, 1964, pp. 33–45.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48807546388823,"sku":"","price":17500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/4795936e-4e09-ef11-9f8a-6045bdd1255e.png?v=1721202103"},{"product_id":"a-magnificent-display-of-black-sovereign-power-made-in-new-york","title":"A magnificent display of Black sovereign power, made in New York","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eA. H. Hartmann [daguerreotypes, publisher]; Charles G. Crehen, Francis D'Avignon, Charles Severyn [lithographs]; Faustin I of the Empire of Haiti [= Faustin-Élie Soulouque] (1782-1867).\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\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\"\u003eLiberté. Indépendance. Empire D'Haïti. [on cover:] Album Impérial d'Haïti.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\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\"\u003eNew York, published by A. Hartmann; printed by Th. Lacombe \u0026amp; C. G. Crehen, 341 Broadway and F. d’Avignon, 323 Broadway, 1852.\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 oblong (31 x 42). With 12 lithographs printed chine-collé, captions printed separately, on thick wove paper. Daguerreotypes by A. Hartmann, lithographs drawn in New York by L. Crozelier, N. Corradi, C. Severyn, C.G. Crehen (also printer), and J. d’Avignon (also printer).\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eOriginal blind-stamped black percaline cloth with gold-tooled title on front cover.\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 majestic album of extremely rare early images of Black people in sovereign power. Consisting of 12 staggering lithographed plates made in New York after daguerreotype pictures taken in Haiti of the coronation of the first Emperor of Haiti, Faustin I. A very rare complete copy in its original binding.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eHaiti became the first nation of formerly enslaved people to gain independence after a prolonged struggle against French colonial rule. The ensuing complex power struggles led to various self-declared sovereignties, including the reign of Faustin I, who seized power through bloodshed and cruelty.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe pictures for this album were taken by traveling daguerreotypist A. Hartmann in 1852, and these must be some of the earliest pictures ever taken in Haiti. After capturing the daguerreotypes, Hartmann promptly transported them to New York, where he commissioned several lithographers on Broadway to transform the photos into prints. \u003ci\u003e“Their efforts produced a final product that is nothing short of magnificent.”\u003c\/i\u003e (Salt).\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe album seems to be a project of Hartmann himself, rather than a commission of the Emperor, because in a letter kept at Wellesley College he writes that \u003ci\u003e“The Album of Hayti has been published by myself upon my own Daguerreotype originals. It is even now, although Modern, a rare book, as the stones have been destroyed, and only 500 copies have been taken from them.”\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe importance of these images can hardly be overstated, as extensively analyzed in Karen N. Salt’s *Migrating Images of the Black Body Politic and the Sovereign State* (2017):\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\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 album] does much more than offer illustrative proof that the ceremony happened. […] The construction of the album, its circulation of national identity, and symbols of power are just as important as the actual composition of the images contained within it. Coming at an important time in the evolution of daguerreotypes, the album represents both the use of new technological inventions in the recording of Black power and the important contribution of blackness as a part of the image content and its capital investiture. […] Albums would be the grand example of the documentary power of photography to render the black world through the eyes of those who lived it as opposed to the way some racist person had imagined. […] In all, the album makes up an unparalleled resource for those interested in understanding the migration of images of Black statehood and power.”\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eMigratory photographer A.H. Hartmann traveled extensively in the Caribbean region offering his services as a photographer. He worked in Suriname, British Guiana, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and of course Haiti where Faustin I photographed the coronation in 1852. H.A. was the son of Hippolyte Hartmann (1818-1902), a photographer who settled in Martinique, where he ran a photo studio in St. Pierre and portrayed several Black people. He also took the scenic photographs for the spectacular lithographed Album Martiniquais (Paris: Lemercier, c.1860).\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\"\u003eList of plates:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e1. Coat of arms of the Empire of Haiti.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e2. Coronation Ceremony of LLMM April 18, 1852.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e3. Coronation Ceremony April 18, 1852.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e4. Faustin I, Emperor of Haiti.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e5. Empress Adelina.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e6. Princess Madame Olive, daughter of LLMM.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e7. H. Ex. J. Paul, Duke of Morin, Grand Chamberlain \u0026amp; aide-de-camp of honor to HM the Emperor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e8. SEL Dufrene, Duke of Tiburon, Minister of War, Navy and External Relations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e9. H. Ex. Marshal-de-Camp Louis-Etienne Félicité de Salomon Jeune, Duke of Saint-Louis-du-Sud, Minister of Finance and Trade.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e10. D. Delva, Count of Dame Marie, Grand Chancellor of the Empire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e11. SAI Prince Mainville Joseph, Field Marshal, son of Prince Jean Joseph [and] SAI Prince Jean Joseph, Duke of Port de Paix, brother of HM the Emperor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e12. Vil-de-Lubin, Count of Pétionville, Governor of the capital of the Empire (Port-au-Prince).\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\"\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\"\u003eKaren N. Salt, “Migrating Images of the Black Body Politic and the Sovereign State: Haiti in the 1850s” in: Leigh Raiford, Heike Raphael-Hernandez, *Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture*, University of Washington Press, 2017, pp. 52-70.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eElbert Collection (Wellesley College Library). [Wellesley College Library](https:\/\/repository.wellesley.edu\/object\/wellesley35738). Accompanied by a letter from A. Hartmann to Mr. Paxton, dated June 12, 1857, stating that \"The Album of Hayti has been published by myself upon my own Daguerreotype originals. It is even now, although Modern, a rare book, as the stones have been destroyed, and only 500 copies have been taken from them. I do then certify the genuineness of the publications, and am ready to show the original Daguerreotypes from which it has been published.\"\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 Some scattered tiny stains. A couple of marginal repairs. Slight thumbing on corners and edges. Otherwise in very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48819078299991,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/3a14e71d-9178-4030-81ab-6b3666ad61b3.png?v=1721395692"},{"product_id":"rare-and-important-source-for-southern-creole-culture-and-language-printed-in-new-orleans","title":"Rare and important source for Southern Creole culture and language, printed in New Orleans.","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAlfred Mercier (1816-1894).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eL'Habitation Saint-Ybars ou maîtres et esclaves en Louisiane, Récit Social. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eNew Orleans, Imprimerie Franco-Américaine, Eugène Antoine, 1881.\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;\"\u003e8°. 234 pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eContemporary red half morocco.\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;\"\u003eOne of only 300 self-published first edition copies of “undoubtedly one of the best productions of 19th-century Louisiana literature” (Hamel). This Franco-American novel is a crucial record of Southern Creole culture, identity and especially language, following the Louisiana Purchase. During this period of \"anglophone influx,\" the French-speaking Creole population faced significant cultural upheaval. Unable to fully identify as either French or American, Creoles occupied an uncertain space (Cashell).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\"L'Habitation Saint-Ybars\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis the most important novel by Alfred Mercier, one of the main French-speaking authors of 19th-century Louisiana. The novel spans over twenty years, tracing the history of a prominent Creole aristocratic family and describing life on a large sugar plantation on the Mississippi River in Louisiana. Framed as a typical popular novel with simplified characters, it encapsulates the interests, passions, customs, and prejudices of a specific place and time. The novel also serves as a \"social narrative,\" providing a detailed portrayal of antebellum and postbellum Louisiana in the latter half of the 19th century.\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;\"\u003ebinding rubbed. Small tear with slight loss in the blank margin of the title page, occasional minor foxing, 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;\"\u003eLiterature:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e not in Sabin.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAlain Nabarra, “Review of L’Habitation Saint-Ybars ou maîtres et esclaves en Louisiane (Récit social)”, by A. Mercier \u0026amp; R. Hamel. In: \u003ci\u003eThe French Review\u003c\/i\u003e, 57(4), 1984, pp. 595–596.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBenjamin Hoffmann. “Posthumous Louisiana: Louisiana’s Literary Reinvention in Alfred Mercier’s The Saint-Ybars Plantation (1881).” In: \u003ci\u003eThe Southern quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e 53.2 (2016), pp. 164–181.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eGeorge Reinecke, “Alfred Mercier, French Novelist of New Orleans.” In: \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e 20-2 (Winter 1982), pp. 145-76.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMary Florence Cashell, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Expressions of Creole Identity in Alfred Mercier’s L’Habitation Saint-Ybars and Johnelle.\u003c\/i\u003e ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2012.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48835964404055,"sku":"","price":4700.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/023a8461-2dc6-4075-928e-a924b390bbec.png?v=1721720783"},{"product_id":"arrest-and-imprison-men-and-women-who-according-to-the-divan-of-cairo-falsely-claim-to-be-saints-wander-the-streets-either-fully-or-partially-naked","title":"“Arrest and imprison men and women who, according to the Divan of Cairo, falsely claim to be saints, wander the streets either fully or partially naked”","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAbdullah (Jacques-François de Boussay de) Menou (1750-1810). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAu quartier-général du Kaire, le 9 nivose an 9 de la République Française, une et indivisible. Ordre du jour, du 9 nivôse an 9.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAu Kaire [Gizah], de l’Imprimerie nationale, [December 30, 1800].\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, 2 pp. With woodcut device on title and woodcut signature at the end.\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 unrecorded \u003ci\u003eOrdre du jour\u003c\/i\u003e (daily orders), printed in Cairo, serves as a vivid example of the cultural clash during the French occupation of Egypt. The document outlines the orders and regulations issued by General Menou in response to a complaint from the Divan of Cairo concerning the public behavior of French individuals, emphasizing the need for respect toward local customs and religious practices. Notably, it sheds rare light on the role of women in this brief colonial society. Reflecting the tensions and cultural conflicts of the time, these orders highlight Menou's efforts to maintain order and adhere to Islamic laws within the occupied territory. This extremely rare document, of which no other copies have been found, underscores a significant shift in the final phase of French rule toward greater respect and accommodation of local customs and traditions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe document mentions two articles and one specific case:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\" type=\"disc\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eArticle I\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e decrees that generals, commanders, military chiefs, and any officials responsible for law enforcement must arrest and imprison men and women who, according to the Divan of Cairo, falsely claim to be saints, wander the streets either fully or partially naked, and engage in public actions that are explicitly condemned by the law. These individuals will be judged according to the standards of any society that upholds public morals.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eArticle II\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e states that both men and women, whether in Cairo or elsewhere in Egypt, who perform acts—often for money—that depict immoral, scandalous, or unnatural behavior will also be arrested.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAdditionally, the document orders the release of Denis Cicéron, a sapper in the 2nd battalion of the 13th light infantry demi-brigade, who was accused of attempting to violate and abduct a Turkish girl.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe document is signed by Divan President Abd-Allah Cherqaoui and Secretary Mohammed el-Mohdy, dated 7 Cha’ban, 1215, in the Hijri calendar, and also bears the woodcut signature of Adjutant General René.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAfter the assassination of Kléber in June 1800, Jacques-François \"Abdallah\" Menou assumed command of the French forces in Egypt, adopting a distinct approach to the Egyptian people. He was intent to integrate with Egyptian culture, by converting to Islam, adopting the name Abdullah and marrying an Egyptian woman, Sitti Zobeida, who was said to be a descendant of Mohammed. Unlike his predecessor, who treated Egypt as an occupied territory, Menou had colonial ambitions, even considering granting French citizenship to Egyptians. His leadership was contentious, particularly after the Battle of Canope, where his decisions were criticized, leading to internal strife among his officers. Despite his efforts to maintain control, Menou ultimately surrendered to the British in 1801, marking the end of the French campaign in Egypt and his return to France.\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;\"\u003eCopies: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eno recorded copies found.\u003cspan class=\"MsoHyperlink\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\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\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e untrimmed, old fold with minor browning, 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49116311421271,"sku":"","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/9_fb596123-270a-4d2b-9f38-807a03240bda.png?v=1730900063"},{"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":"thousands-of-black-individuals-named-an-invaluable-source-for-black-ancestry","title":"Thousands of Black individuals named: an invaluable source for Black ancestry","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBritish Parliament: Colonial Office; Robert Wilmot Horton (1784-1841); William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester (1771-1843); Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (1762-1834).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eSlave Population. Further Papers and Returns, presented pursuant to address, relating to the Slave Population of Jamaica, St. Christopher's, and The Bahamas.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eLondon, Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be printed, 14 May 1823. \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. 158 pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eDisbound.\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;\"\u003eA highly important document providing the names and personal details of thousands of Black individuals —men, women and children— \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewho were manumissioned (made “free”), married, born and died in three former British plantation colonies in the Caribbean, between 1808 (the end of the slave trade) and 1823. Furthermore, it documents the plight of individuals committed to jails or workhouses as runaways who claimed to be free. An invaluable source for Black ancestry. At the end it includes a “Copy of a letter […] enclosing returns of slaves imported into and exported from the port of Port Maria, since the 1\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e January 1808.”\u003cbr\u003eThe work also contextualizes the legislative struggles between the abolitionist movement and colonial powers in the early 19th century. Following the inadequacy of the 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, the 1819 Slave Registration Act marked an effort to regulate and monitor slavery, mandating the central recording of slave transactions. These documents reflect the resistance from colonial planters and the advocacy of figures like William Wilberforce, who sought to expose inhumane practices. Published by the House of Commons in 1823, this volume was part of a series that shed light on parliamentary debates, colonial slave legislation, and growing calls for reform, including the influential critique by the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery. These records not only trace the systemic oppression but also underscore the mounting pressure for justice and systemic reform within the British Empire.\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\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e paginated by hand in ink, one or two faint spots, last quire loose. 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 Sabin 26257.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49861949620567,"sku":"","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/2a5a62cf-9620-4a23-947b-dda99fe90e61.png?v=1737540445"},{"product_id":"searing-pro-slavery-pamphlet-by-a-reverend-who-had-severely-beaten-his-slave","title":"Searing pro-slavery pamphlet by a reverend who had “severely beaten his slave”","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eGeorge Wilson Bridges (1788-1863).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eA voice from Jamaica; in reply to William Wilberforce, […] To be applied in aid of the funds of the Jamaica District Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Third edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eLondon, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row, 1823. Verso of title page and colophon: J.G. Barnard, Skinner-Street, London.\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\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e8°. 50 pp. \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;\"\u003eDisbound.\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;\"\u003eSearing response by proslavery Jamaican churchman George Wilson Bridges to Wilberforce’s 1823 call for gradual abolition in \u003ci\u003eAn Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire in Behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West Indies\u003c\/i\u003e. In this pamphlet Bridges presents British antislavery as a misinformed, seditious, and dangerous threat to the lives and livelihoods of Jamaican colonists.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eSome years later, the abolitionists exacted their retribution against George Wilson Bridges. In October 1829, Thomas Pringle, secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, reported to the Colonial Secretary allegations of \"conduct of great cruelty and indecency towards a female slave\" by Bridges. The accusation detailed that he had severely beaten a slave, Kitty Hylton, as punishment for an alleged minor infraction. Although local authorities sought to suppress the incident, political pressure ensured the case was brought before a grand jury. However, the jury declined to proceed, citing insufficient evidence to substantiate the charges against him. However, by some he would be remembered as the “incarnation of all the “evils inherent in human slavery” (Henry Bleby in \u003ci\u003eDeath Struggles of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e, London, 1853).\u003cbr\u003e“The episode raised a storm of protest in Jamaica. Slaveholders rushed to condemn what they saw as undue metropolitan meddling both with local legal matters and with the private affairs of one of their most prominent public defenders. Magistrates in St Ann saw the actions of the Colonial Office as unconstitutional interference in their affairs. In May 1830, a ‘full meeting of the magistrates and vestrymen’ in the parish courthouse passed a series of resolutions complaining that the colonial secretary’s efforts to bring the case to a trial was an ‘interference’ and ‘a gross violation of our just rights and an attempt to destroy that constitutional authority with which we have been solemnly invested.’ They laid the blame for the incident at the door of the Anti-Slavery Society, noting their opposition to ‘the influence’ that the abolitionists seemed to have ‘gained over the several departments of Government,’ accusing the Society of ‘avowed and implacable hostility to the Colonies’ and ‘general treachery to the interests of the Empire.’ The planter Hamilton Brown, an outspoken opponent of abolitionism, pointed out that, ever since Bridges had published \u003ci\u003eA Voice from Jamaica,\u003c\/i\u003e he had ‘been “marked out” as a fit subject for persecution by the Saints.’” (see Petley,\u003ci\u003e Slaveholders in Jamaica).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eEdition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCopies of this pamphlet are extremely rare, and none of the major library digital catalogues we consulted provide details on the edition in their entries for the 1823 copy—or they do not possess a copy at all. Most references are to digital versions. The title of our copy indicates it is the \"third edition,\" published in the same year as the first and second editions. Our third edition copy is identical to a copy of the second edition which we have seen. There is also a fourth edition from 1824. Sabin only references the year 1823, without specifying any editions.\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\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e First and last pages toned and frayed. Owner's ink signature on top corner of title: Musley(?). Binding gone and block detached once.\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;\"\u003eGoldsmiths' Lib. cat. 23949.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePetley, Christer. \u003ci\u003eSlaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture During the Era of Abolition\u003c\/i\u003e. UK, Taylor \u0026amp; Francis, 2015.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eRagatz, L.J. Brit. Caribbean history, p. 482.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eSabin 7823 (no edition mentioned).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eNot in Hogg, The African Slave Trade(!).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49866851287383,"sku":"","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/2f495454-f081-4627-9f8b-47c116ec960e.png?v=1737645010"},{"product_id":"on-the-enslaved-people-and-indigenous-people-in-the-danish-west-indies","title":"On the enslaved people and indigenous people in the Danish West Indies","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eChristian George Andreas Oldendorp (1721-1787); Samuel Ödmann [transl.]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTillförlåtlig underrättelse om Negrerne på Gvinea Kusten, : sam t de derifrån -hämtade slafvars närvarande belågenhet, medfart, seder och sinnelag. Under deras träldom på de Christnas nybyggen i Vestindien. Jämte Bihang om Caraibiske nationen, sockerberedningen, m.m.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro',sans-serif; color: #434343; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eUrdragen ur Herr Oldendorps Missions Historia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eUpsala, tryckt hos Direct. Johan Edman, på egen bekostnad, 1784.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e16°. 187, [5] pp. With woodcut head- and tailpieces.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e[With:]\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSamuel Engel [ed.].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamling af reseäfwentyr utgifwen af Engel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eStrengnäs, Carl Erik Ekmarck, 1823.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e8°. [4], 251, [1] pp. With 1 engraved plate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e[And with:]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eJ. E. Palmgren\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eUnderrättelser om Constantinopel med dess förstäder och kringliggande nejder, de däruti befintlige märkvärdigheter, invånarnes seder och lefnadssätt, allmänna bruk och inrättningar, regeringssätt, lagar, arméens organisation m.m. Från franskan af J. E. Palmgren.\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\"\u003eStockholm, tryckte hos Olof Grahn, 1821.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e8°. VI, 222 pp.\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\"\u003eContemporary green boards with gilt title label on spine, green sprinkled edges (ca. 13,5 x 8,5 cm.).\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 collection of three travel narratives, including C.G.A. Oldendorp’s important report on slavery in the Danish colonies of the West Indies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eChristian Georg Andreas Oldendorp was a German Moravian missionary who travelled between 1767 and 1769 to the Danish colonies in the Caribbean – St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John – where he documented the lives of African enslaved people, their origins on the Gold Coast, and their conditions under forced labour on sugar plantations. He returned to Europe and later served as a pastor in Marienborn, Neuwied, and Ebersdorf before passing away in 1787.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eHis most significant work, \u003ci\u003eGeschichte der Mission der evangelischen Brüder auf den Caraibischen Inseln S. Thomas, S. Croix, u. S. Jan\u003c\/i\u003e (Barby, 1777), is considered one of the most comprehensive accounts of Moravian missionary activities in the Danish West Indies and the socio-economic and ethnographic conditions of the islands. The present rare Swedish edition (1784), translated by the prolific Samuel Ödmann, provides a detailed account of the lives of enslaved people and includes an appendix on the Caribs (pp. 155-187), the indigenous people of the Caribbean from whom the region takes its name.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eOldendorp was critical of the brutal treatment of enslaved people, although he did not oppose slavery as an institution. His accounts offer an early ethnographic insight into the African peoples transported to the Caribbean and how their culture and traditions were transformed through contact with European colonial powers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThis work is bound together with two other intriguing travel narratives: Engel’s collection of adventure travels and Palmgren’s rare description of Constantinople.\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\"\u003eBinding rubbed at the edges and slightly stained.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eExlibris C. Gustaf Strokirk to front paste-down. Pages trimmed without loss of text. Olderndorp’s work in very good condition. The other two works have some ink stains to a couple pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50202718273879,"sku":"","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/6e642041-8e9e-49b1-ba2b-99f0055f7795.png?v=1742290048"},{"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":"a-womans-fight-for-freedom-in-slavery","title":"A woman's fight for freedom in slavery","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe sale of an enslaved woman and the emancipation of her daughter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\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\"\u003eLuce; Vausselin \u0026amp; Barrault de Narçay [notaties].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e[Signed manuscript legal document].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ePort-au-Prince (Haiti), 12 September 1787.\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\"\u003eManuscript, small folio (31 x 20 cm), (5), [3 blank] pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eStitched.\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\"\u003eManuscript in French documenting the case of Luce, a free woman of colour, who appeared before notaries in Port-au-Prince in 1787 to formally register two private agreements dating from 1766, relating to the sale of her enslaved mother and her own emancipation.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1766, a man named Letellier sold an enslaved woman named Ursule, then around 22 years old, to Maître Oger des Bignons, a notary in Port-au-Prince, for the sum of 2,400 livres. Ursule had a young daughter, Luce, aged approximately seven, who should have been included in the transaction, as colonial law prohibited the separation of small children from their mothers. However, Letellier chose to retain Luce in order to grant her freedom, and drew up two private documents: one co-signed by Oger des Bignons, and the other signed by Letellier alone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eIn 1787, now an adult and a free woman, Luce approached notaries Vausselin and Barrault de Narçay in Port-au-Prince to have both documents formally recorded. \u003cb\u003eThis very manuscript is offered here.\u003c\/b\u003e It preserves the official act of the registration, and opens:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e“Before the King’s notaries in Port-au-Prince […] appeared Luce, a free woman of colour residing in this city, parish of Notre-Dame de l’Assomption, who hereby submits to Maître Barrault de Narçay, one of the undersigned notaries […] two private agreements. The first […] confirms that Sieur Letellier sold and delivered to Maître Oger des Bignons a Black woman named Ursule, aged about twenty-two years, for the sum of 2,400 livres […]. The second […] confirms that Sieur Letellier grants freedom to Luce, a mulatto girl, daughter of the said Ursule…”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e (pp. 1–2).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThe manuscript includes a full transcription of the original 1766 documents, offering a rare insight into the legal structures of slavery, the regulation of family ties, and the processes of manumission in colonial Saint-Domingue. It reveals the limited legal pathways by which individuals — particularly women — could seek recognition and freedom.\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\"\u003ein very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50571062083927,"sku":"","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/KODAKDigitalStillCamera-Bewerkttt.png?v=1746012816"},{"product_id":"a-celebration-of-her-paper-art","title":"A celebration of her paper art","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eJohanna Koerten (1650-1715).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHet stamboek op de papiere snykunst van mejuffrouw Joanna Koerten, huisvrouw van den heere Adriaan Blok. Bestaande in Latynsche en Nederduitsche gedichten der voornaamste dichters.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAmsterdam, Voor Rekening van de Compagnie, 1735.\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\"\u003e8°. [8], 231 pp. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Johanna Koerten and title-vignette, both by Jan Punt (1711-1779) and dated 1734. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eContemporary calf with gold-tooled spine and marbled sides.\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\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eScarce pirated edition of the printed \u003ci\u003ealbum amicorum\u003c\/i\u003e of celebrated Amsterdam paper-cutting artist Joanna Koerten, containing 117 laudatory contributions by prominent figures—including several notable women such as poet and publisher Katharina Lescailje, naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian, poet Gesina Brit, and fellow paper-cutter Elizabeth Crama. This edition was published one year prior to the (also very rare) authorized version, titled \u003ci\u003eGedichten op de overheerlyke papiere snykunst van wyle mejuffrouwe Joanna Koerten\u003c\/i\u003e (Amsterdam, S. van Esveldt, 1736). Koerten’s original \u003ci\u003ealbum amicorum\u003c\/i\u003e was dispersed as single sheets in 1765, and many are now lost.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eHer reputation in the Dutch Republic and beyond was extraordinary. Koerten’s technically virtuosic paper-cuttings—often depicting allegorical, historical, or royal subjects—attracted admirers ranging from local dignitaries to Tsar Peter the Great. Compiled posthumously by her husband, Adriaan Blok, the volume preserves decades of autographs, poetry, and critical responses gathered from visitors to the couple’s home, known as a cultural salon where Koerten’s cuttings were displayed. The inclusion of works by leading poets and scholars, along with high-quality engravings by Jan Punt, situates the \u003ci\u003eStamboek\u003c\/i\u003e at the intersection of literary culture, visual art, and private memorial. It not only testifies to Koerten’s critical reception but also highlights her role in advancing recognition for women in the arts. The presence of the above-mentioned women contributors underscores both Koerten’s cultural stature and the \u003ci\u003eStamboek\u003c\/i\u003e’s value as a rare early printed forum for women’s intellectual and artistic expression in the eighteenth century.\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\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e Binding a little worn at the joint and corners, lacks first free endpaper, otherwise in very good, original condition.\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\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ePeacock, Martha Moffitt. “Paper as Power: Carving a Niche for the Female Artist in the Work of Joanna Koerten.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ) \/ Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. 62, 2012, pp. 238–65.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51028079870295,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/5f76e721-1800-49d6-8404-3c966aee7bfb.png?v=1750948022"},{"product_id":"368-plates-the-largest-print-series-by-an-early-modern-woman","title":"368 plates: the largest print series by an early modern woman?","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;\"\u003eCatharina Sperling (1699–1741).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBiblicae V. T. representationes […] \u003c\/span\u003eBiblische Vorstellungen Alten Testaments […] Répresentations tirées du V.T.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e[With:]\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistoriae Novi Testamenti […] Neu-Testamentische Geschichten […] \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eHistoires du Nouveau Testament.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAugsburg: Johann Simon Negges, [ca. 1730].\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;\"\u003eOblong 8° (19 × 24.5 cm). With 2 engraved title pages and 368 copper engravings (283 Old Testament + 85 New Testament), on wide-margined paper. Complete, as in BnF (FRBNF45935344). Contemporary marbled calf.\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 suite of biblical prints designed and likely engraved by the Augsburg miniature painter and graphic artist Catharina Sperling (née Heckel). This may be the largest print series created by a woman in early modern Europe. However, in an act of blatant \u003cb\u003ecensorial femicide\u003c\/b\u003e, this copy shows deliberate removal of the artist’s forename (“Catharina”) from all three instances on the title pages—effacing the gendered marker of her identity and rendering the authorship ambiguously male or neutral.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCatharina Sperling (also recorded as Sperling-Heckel, Sperlingin, and other variants) was trained in drawing by her father, the goldsmith Michael Heckel, and in engraving by Johann Ulrich Kraus. She became known for her refined miniature portraits. In 1725 she married the engraver Hieronymus Sperling; she died tragically in 1741 from complications following the birth of her first child.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe title-page proudly states that the plates were “invented and drawn by Catharina Sperling, celebrated miniature painter,” although the plates themselves are unsigned. It is therefore uncertain whether she engraved them herself, or whether they were executed by another hand—possibly her husband. Nevertheless, contemporary sources do describe her as both designer and engraver, making her authorship of the plates highly plausible.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThis copy includes the complete sequence of 283 Old Testament plates and 85 New Testament plates, each captioned with a biblical citation in Latin, German, and French. Both parts are introduced by engraved, trilingual title pages. Complete sets of this series are extremely rare; we have traced only copies in the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAlthough this work is referenced via VD18 number 12330248-001 by the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, it is absent from the VD18 proper—perhaps due to its classification as a suite of prints rather than a printed book.\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\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e: Binding worn along edges and hinges. New stiff paper endpapers; the final two plates mounted on them. Plates in strong impressions on broad-margined paper, some plates bound out of sequence. Date in ink on first title-page. Generally slightly foxed with occasional thumbing. Most plates show staining to the outer margins, occasionally encroaching slightly into the image area. Seven plates with marginal tears, two of which slightly affect the image.\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;\"\u003eLiterature\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\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;\"\u003eOn Catharina Sperling: Thieme\/Becker XVI, p. 209 (under M. Heckel); CERL cnp01067155; DNB: 129113395.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOn Augsburg picture Bibles: Gier\/Janota, pp. 823–830.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOn Johann Simon Negges (c. 1726–1792): Gier\/Janota, p. 1284.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040551797079,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/39187cba-946f-4ff1-87d0-97d53b54b7c3.jpg?v=1750946930"},{"product_id":"making-the-nation-an-exceptional-album-of-drawings-of-dutch-women-in-regional-costume","title":"Making the nation: an exceptional album of drawings of Dutch women in regional costume","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ee0000;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eRossina Murray (?-?) [owner and possible author\/artist].\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;\"\u003eAlbum comprising 28 watercolour costume designs of various figures from the Netherlands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eNetherlands [Amsterdam?], [ca. 1801].\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;\"\u003eTall folio (48,5 x 30 cm). With 25 watercolour drawings on thick paper watermarked 'J. Ruse\/ 1801', mostly interleaved with protective tissue paper, depicting Dutch people, with manuscript captions in English, French, and Dutch; with 3 more loose watercolours in the same hand but on different paper (watermarked 1797) inserted, comprising two Dutch figures similar to the other drawings and one larger Dutch winter landscape with ice sailing ships and skaters (26,5 x 38 cm).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eLuxuriously bound in contemporary heavy Empire style calf mottled in colour, with geometric ornamental frieze in black and gold decorating the border of the covers. Gilt 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;\"\u003eA tall, beautifully bound album containing 28 watercolour drawings of Dutch people in traditional dress - primarily women from Amsterdam but also figures from other provinces, many linked to the city’s maritime economy. Though unsigned and undated, the drawings are on paper watermarked 1801, corresponding with similar printed images found in Dutch costume books.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAn important testament to the role of visual culture in shaping national identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOn the last free endpaper before the first drawing appears the name \u003ci\u003eRossina Murray\u003c\/i\u003e, written in the same hand as the captions beneath the drawings. These captions, in English, French, and Dutch, place the English text at the top and give it the most detail, often specifying occupations, districts, or local customs. So, while we can’t be certain she painted the images, the handwriting evidence makes it highly probable she wrote the captions herself. Beyond this, however, we know nothing more about Rossina Murray.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAround 1800, images of people in local costume were a popular subject in print products, and many publishers in Europe issued single images or images in sets. Costume books played a crucial role in shaping emerging ideas of national identity by visually assembling the people, regions, and traditions of a country into a single, unified narrative. Through vivid images of local costumes and customs, they transformed regional diversity into a symbol of collective belonging, allowing readers to imagine a shared national culture even without traveling beyond their own towns. For English readers, such albums also offered a souvenir of travel and a window onto Dutch life, satisfying the era’s growing fascination with foreign customs while combining artistic appeal with Enlightenment ideals of documenting national character.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe drawings in our album are closely related to the printed images of Netherlandish costumes that appeared in Dutch publications around 1800, though the drawings are considerably larger. In style, they are closest to those in the fashion periodical \u003ci\u003eKabinet van mode en smaak\u003c\/i\u003e, published in eight volumes between 1791 and 1794. Some of the drawings are derived either directly or in variant form from Maaskamp’s \u003ci\u003eAfbeeldingen van kleeding, zeden en gewoonten in de Bataafsche Republiek\u003c\/i\u003e (Amsterdam, 1803–07), the first Dutch costume book covering multiple provinces, which was also published in London. The English edition suggests there was international interest in Dutch costume imagery at the time and may explain why our album includes English captions and could have been intended for an English owner. The source of information for part of the drawings and their captions seems to have come from these publications, but for many others we could not trace a source, indicating that these were firsthand designs. This leaves us with the question of who made these drawings. It must have been someone with first-hand knowledge of Dutch costume, so it seems unlikely that the album was made in England. Perhaps it was made for Rossina Murray when she visited The Netherlands? In any case, we have yet to find a more stunning example of an early Dutch costume book.\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;\"\u003eThe drawings in this album include, with their English caption:\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‘An Amsterdam milk woman’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A farmer, in the market, with a sample of hay’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A Friesland peasant’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A Friesland peasant, in the costume worn after the French came into the country’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘The captain of a small turf boat’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A peasant of Saardam. North Holland. – Where Peter the Great learnt ship building’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A Burgomaster of Amsterdam’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘Ship carpenter’s wife of Amsterdam, inhabiting one particular district’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A burgher’s daughter’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A fisherman’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘The fishermans' wife’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A servant, coming from market’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘From the village of Hinlopen, in North Holland – a married woman’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A young person, from the same villages of Hinlopen, when \u003cu\u003eunmarried\u003c\/u\u003e she is not entitled to a crown to her cap’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘Sledge for transporting goods’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e[A young boy and girl]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘Shrimps to sell’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A fisherman, returning from The Hague, with vegetables in his basket, after having dispersed of his fish.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A seller of herrings, seated at the corner of a street.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A Roman Catholic servant. Indicated, by her black scarf’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A woman skinning eels.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A peasant of Gelderland with samples of butter for a ships cargo’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A peasant of Gelderland.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘Husband of the foregoing peasant, returning from milking’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e‘A scene from the ice; a woman selling \u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehot milk to the skaiters.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e[Dutch winter landscape with ice sailing ships and skaters]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e[Amsterdamse aanspreker(?)]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e[Copy after etching by Cornelis Bega - \u003c\/span\u003eZittende man steekt pijp aan (RP-P-BI-763)]\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 \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;\"\u003eNew spine and corners, covers slightly cracked or scratched in places. Minor thumbing on the foot edge of the page, very slight foxing. Otherwise in excellent condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eLiterature: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\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;\"\u003eArntz, W. J. A. \"Maaskamp's Book of Costume-Prints.\" \u003ci\u003eQuaerendo\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. 1, no. 1, 1971, pp. 9–12.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eDellmann, Sarah. “Authentically Dutch: Images in Anthropological Discourse.” \u003ci\u003eImages of Dutchness: Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché\u003c\/i\u003e, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, pp. 129–87.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e---. “Spectacularly Dutch: Popular Visual Media from Print to Early Cinema.” \u003ci\u003eImages of Dutchness: Popular Visual Culture, Early Cinema and the Emergence of a National Cliché\u003c\/i\u003e, Amsterdam University Press, 2018, pp. 53–93.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eKoolhaas-Grosfeld, E. A. \u003ci\u003eDe ontdekking van de Nederlander in boeken en prenten rond 1800\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eZutphen: Walburg Pers, 2010.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eLandwehr. \u003ci\u003eDutch Books with Coloured Plates\u003c\/i\u003e. No. 358.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51608292622679,"sku":null,"price":34000.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/DSC_1088-Edit-Edit-2.png?v=1758204654"},{"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":"first-illustrated-edition-of-aphra-behn-s-oroonoko-expanded-with-a-new-tale-of-the-african-heroine-imoinda","title":"First illustrated edition of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, expanded with a new tale of the African heroine Imoinda","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eAphra Behn (1640-1689); Pierre-Antoine de La Place (1707-1793) [transl.].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eOronoko, ou le Prince nègre. Imitation de l’anglois, nouvelle édition, revue \u0026amp; corrigée. […] Avec figures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eA Londres, et se trouve à Paris, chez Vente, 1769.\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\"\u003e12° (17 × 10 cm.), [4], xii, 212 pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eWith 5 engraved plates by Baron after Marillier.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eContemporary mottled calf, covers with the gilt supralibros of \u003ci\u003eMd. d’Humières\u003c\/i\u003e on upper cover, smooth spine with gold-tooled floral decorations, red morocco label, red edges.\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\"\u003e            First illustrated edition of the French adaptation by Pierre-Antoine de La Place (1707–1793) of Aphra Behn’s \u003ci\u003eOroonoko; or, the Royal slave\u003c\/i\u003e (1688). This pioneering novel is widely recognised as the first Western fiction to portray a Black hero with dignity and moral depth, condemning the barbarity of slavery through the tragic story of an African prince betrayed and sold into servitude in Surinam. Aphra Behn was one of the earliest professional women writers in English literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eBased on our research, the present issue with 5 plates is the earliest illustrated edition of Oroonoko in any language (prose or dramatic). We found no illustrated English, French, German, Dutch, or Italian editions prior to 1769. The first illustrated English edition of Aphra Behn’s \u003ci\u003eOroonoko\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1777, published in London by John Bell as part of \u003ci\u003eBell’s British Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e series. No illustrated English edition of Behn’s prose \u003ci\u003eOroonoko\u003c\/i\u003e is known before the nineteenth century; the earliest illustrated versions date from around 1820–1830, when \u003ci\u003eOroonoko\u003c\/i\u003e was reprinted in anthologies and moral storybooks. See bibliography below for more information.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThis edition is not only the first illustrated edition, but also the first to include the separately titled\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eHistoire d’Imoinda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e an expanded and separately titled narrative that reimagines the final section of the novel from the perspective of Imoinda, the African heroine and beloved of Oroonoko. \u003cbr\u003eLa Place, a prolific translator of English literature (notably Shakespeare), first rendered \u003ci\u003eOroonoko\u003c\/i\u003e in 1745 (\u003ci\u003eOronoko, ou le Prince nègre\u003c\/i\u003e), revising it twice more: in 1755–56 (\u003ci\u003eLes avantures curieuses et intéressantes d’Oronoko, prince africain\u003c\/i\u003e) and in this 1769 version, his final and most freely adapted text. As noted by Paul Lacroix, he “softened certain shocking details for the sensibilities of the French reader”. La Place’s translation played a key role in disseminating Behn’s pioneering narrative to French readers and in shaping Enlightenment discussions of colonialism and race. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eA very desirable copy of this rare first illustrated edition, handsomely bound for \u003cb\u003eMadame d’Humières\u003c\/b\u003e, a female member of the Humières family, an old French noble house with branches in Picardy and Paris. The title was associated with the Duché d’Humières, whose members served prominently at court in the 17th and 18th centuries.\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\"\u003ejoints and corners lightly rubbed, one corner worn, very light foxing, otherwise a very attractive clean, fresh copy.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eBbiliography:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e cf. Sabin 4373 (1745 ed.); \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003ePaul Lacroix, \u003ci\u003eBibliothèque de la reine Marie-Antoinette au Petit Trianon\u003c\/i\u003e, 1863, p. 69, no. 407.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eEdward D. Seeber, “\u003ci\u003eOroonoko in France in the XVIIIth Century\u003c\/i\u003e,” \u003ci\u003ePMLA\u003c\/i\u003e 51.4 (1936), pp. 953–959.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eMary Ann O’Donnell, \u003ci\u003eAphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e, 2004, A31.1b 1759.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eMarie-France Guénette, \u003ci\u003eOroonoko d’Aphra Behn en traduction française (1745–2009).\u003c\/i\u003e Mémoire de maîtrise, Université de Montréal, 2014.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52174615871831,"sku":null,"price":6500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/bb.png?v=1763385592"},{"product_id":"paper-lace-and-printed-silk-collection-of-fine-and-charming-luxury-cards","title":"Paper lace and printed silk: collection of fine and charming luxury cards","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;\"\u003eSix early wishing and friendship billets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAustria \/ Germany, ca. 1800–1820.\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;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eA charming collection of early 19th-century \u003ci\u003eGlückwunsch\u003c\/i\u003e- and \u003ci\u003eFreundschaftsbillets\u003c\/i\u003e, distinguished by the refined techniques that characterised the Viennese and South German luxury card industry: hand-coloured printing, blind-embossing, pierced paper lace, and printed silk insets. In the Biedermeier period these billets were widely used in domestic exchange, especially by women, who selected and circulated them within family and friendship circles. As acceptable forms of personal communication at a time of limited public expression for women, they provide clear material evidence of everyday sociability and emotional ties in the early 19th century. The present group represents an unusually fresh and well-kept survival of this fragile ephemera.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e1) Two printed wishing billets with printed silk inlays.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eHand-coloured etchings on laid paper, each adorned with pierced and blind-embossed paper lace in heart- or ellipse-form. Under the hinged lace panels lie printed poems on rose and green silk. One card names the engraver Johannes (Janos) Blaschke (1770–1833), active in Vienna and known for his fine decorative work. Contemporary manuscript dedications and signatures either along the lower margins or on the versos.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eEach 11.6 × 8.6 cm.\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;\"\u003eminimal spotting, one lace element slightly compressed; overall very good.\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\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e2) Two silk-covered friendship billets.\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;\"\u003ea)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e Embossed paper card covered in olive-green silk, decorated with an applied wreath of roses and yellow-green corner spandrels. Beneath the liftable central oval is rose silk printed with a friendship verse. Verso inscribed: „An meine theuersten Eltern“.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e7.3 × 10.6 cm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eb)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e Folding paper card covered in violet silk; interior with two pages framed by fine pierced borders.\u003cbr\u003e– \u003ci\u003ePage 1:\u003c\/i\u003e pierced and watercoloured rustic scene with the verse: \u003ci\u003e„Wie der Weinstock an den Reben, so pflegt mein Herz an Gott zu kleben.“\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e– \u003ci\u003ePage 2:\u003c\/i\u003e watercolour floral garland above a printed poem on rose silk.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e11.8 × 7.5 cm.\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;\"\u003ein very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52187639382359,"sku":null,"price":2400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/bf645123-29d9-4b85-a7a8-5f817db4d477.png?v=1763545113"},{"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":"teaching-women-the-art-of-painting-in-miniature-and-pastel","title":"Teaching women the art of painting in miniature and pastel","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e[Claude Boutet (active ca. 1673–1690s)]. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTraité de la peinture en mignature. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePour apprendre aisement a peindre sans maitre. \u003c\/span\u003e[...] Un petit traité de la peinture au pastel, avec la méthode de composer les pastels. [...] Le secret de faire les plus belles couleurs, l'or bruny, l'or en coquille, \u0026amp; le vernis de la Chine […].\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe Hague, Louis \u0026amp; Henry van Dole, 1708.\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;\"\u003e12°. [14], 269, [19] pp. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece of women painting by David Coster (active 1696-1752), a double-page engraved hand coloured plate with two colour wheels and an allegory of a painting woman and a woodcut illustration in the text. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eContemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. \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;\"\u003eA very rare illustrated manual of miniature and pastel painting, addressed in large part to a female readership and conceived for autodidactic use. The volume is illustrated with two colour wheels, which provide an early visualisation of chromatic relationships. Its orientation toward female practitioners is underscored by the allegorical frontispiece and the double-page plate, both of which depict women actively engaged in artistic practice, reflecting the broader expansion of women’s participation in the visual arts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eClaude Boutet, a Parisian miniature painter, first published his \u003ci\u003eTraité de la peinture en miniature\u003c\/i\u003e in Paris in 1673. This work became one of the most influential practical manuals on miniature painting in the later seventeenth century. The present Dutch edition of 1708, printed in French, is distinguished by the inclusion of a substantial and independent treatise on pastel painting. This addition addresses the preparation of pastels, colour recipes, and surface treatments, and positions the book among the earliest printed manuals to treat pastel as an autonomous artistic medium rather than a subsidiary technique. Particularly noteworthy is the double-page hand-coloured plate, conceived as a true “cyclopaedia of colours,” which illustrates chromatic relationships and pigment mixtures. Such colour plates are exceptionally scarce in art-theoretical and instructional books of this date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eThis edition appears to be unrecorded in the principal bibliographic reference works, including \u003ci\u003eKunst op Schrift\u003c\/i\u003e, Arntzen\/Rainwater, and the \u003ci\u003eKatalog der Ornamentstichsammlung Berlin\u003c\/i\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\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e Frontispiece and title leaf loosening; otherwise a very good to fine copy, clean and well preserved, with the colour plate fresh and attractively hand-coloured.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eLiterature:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eR. G. Kuehni \u0026amp; A. Schwarz, \u003ci\u003eColor Ordered: A Survey of Color Systems from Antiquity to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e, p. 57.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52837948064087,"sku":null,"price":3400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/dcd77ff6-c0e0-4eb0-b840-9b315e801b84.png?v=1771590404"},{"product_id":"the-complexity-of-compassion-and-racial-hierarchy-captured-in-an-image","title":"An act of compassion?","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eJames Ward (1769-1859); Charles Hénard (1756-1814).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMdme. Chevalier in the character of Virginia giving water to the negro. Opera of Paul \u0026amp; Virgina.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eLondon, published \u0026amp; sold by the author, 1799.\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;\"\u003eMezzotint on paper. 50,7 x 40,4 cm. (sheet), 49,3 x 39 cm. (plate). Trimmed near plate line.\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;\"\u003eA scene of compassion and a display of inequality, this mezzotint shows the actress and singer Louise Chevalier (c. 1770–after 1801) in the role of Virginie, in a scene from the opera \u003ci\u003ePaul et Virginie\u003c\/i\u003e. The story, written by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and first published in 1788, tells of two children raised together in colonial Mauritius. Its portrayal of innocence, nature, and colonial life, including encounters with enslaved or Black characters, fascinated European audiences and made the work enormously popular, inspiring numerous theatrical adaptations. The particular scene depicted here was most likely taken from the opera composed by Jean-François Le Sueur and first performed in 1794.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eThe image captures a key emotional moment: Virginie offering water to an exhausted Black man. At first glance, the scene presents a simple act of kindness. The graceful pose, soft lighting, and careful composition all reinforce this message. However, the scene is built on a clear racial hierarchy and white superiority. The Black figure is shown kneeling, dependent, and anonymous, while Virginie stands above him, calm and composed, embodying control and virtue. His role is passive; hers is active and morally elevated. This imbalance reflects the way European art of the period often portrayed Black figures as recipients of white benevolence rather than as individuals in their own right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eActress Louise Chevalier, a French performer active on international stages in the 1790s, belonged to a generation of actors whose fame circulated across Europe, and prints such as this helped fix their stage roles in a more permanent, collectible form. Mezzotint, with its soft tonal transitions and painterly effects, was particularly well suited to emotional and theatrical subjects like this one, and was widely used in Britain to reproduce scenes from popular plays and to promote performers to a growing audience.\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;\"\u003egenerally restored with several mostly marginal closed tears and flattened creases. Slight general toning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\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;\"\u003eSmith, British mezzotint portraits (London, 1884), James Ward, no. 9, p. 1443.\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\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; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eFrankau, Eighteenth Century Artists and Engravers: William Ward A.R.A. and James Ward R.A., 1904.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52926219387223,"sku":null,"price":1800.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/6eff2116-621e-4f67-bba6-4de19ec77319.png?v=1772625891"},{"product_id":"margaret-of-parma-secures-her-finances-before-leaving-the-netherlands","title":"Margaret of Parma secures her finances before leaving the Netherlands","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eMargaret of Parma (1522–1586); Giovanni Aliprandi (fl. 1560s–1570s).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e[verso:]\u003cb\u003e Ordini per l’administratione de i denari di S. Altezza da osservarsi per Gio. Aliprandi.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eBrussels, 1 November 1567.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFolio (ca. 31 x 21 cm). 1, [2 blank], 1 pp. Italian cursive manuscript in ink. \u003c\/span\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\"\u003e          Ordinance signed by Margaret of Parma, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, in which she secures control over her finances just before she leaves the Low Countries following her resignation.\u003cbr\u003eThe document establishes a centralized system of financial control, requiring that all monies belonging to her be remitted directly into her possession. Funds assigned to her maestro di camera (Giovanni Aliprandi) are to be transmitted exclusively by written mandates signed by Count Prospero Tedesco (majordomo), Huccio Sirigatti (master of accounts), and Mutio Davanzati (controller), “et non per altra via.” The chamberlain is further prohibited from making payments without proper authorization, and is required to issue receipts and retain supporting mandates.\u003cbr\u003eAdditional provisions prescribe regular accounting procedures, including monthly reports (quinternetti) of all sums received and disbursed, and the registration of transactions in account books. The document reflects a structured system of fiscal oversight within the ducal household.\u003cbr\u003eDated shortly before Margaret’s departure in December 1567, following the arrival of the Duke of Alba and the collapse of her conciliatory policy toward the unrest. As such, the ordinance belongs to the final phase of Margaret’s governorship, when authority in the Netherlands was shifting from civil administration to military control. Without explicitly referring to political events, the document reflects a moment of transition, in which financial procedures were formalized and consolidated. Such measures may be understood in connection with the impending reorganization of government and the practical requirements of concluding her administration.\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\"\u003ePaper slightly toned and spotted, edges darkened. Traces of a lacking red wax seal to lower margin. Three old horizontal folds. Edges somewhat frayed with small marginal losses without loss of text. Otherwise in good, legible condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53222274564439,"sku":null,"price":2200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/e4926e26-4eb6-4c9b-9d9e-2faf483de407.png?v=1775206936"},{"product_id":"a-17th-century-woman-heraldist","title":"A 17th-century woman heraldist!?","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;\"\u003e“Anna Neytsen” [= Anna-Felicia Neyts (d. 1704)(?)].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e[Heraldic working manuscript].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eNetherlands (Bruges?), in or shortly after 1669.\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #196b24; mso-themecolor: accent3;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\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\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eFolio (32 x 21 cm.), 128 leaves, manuscript on paper, executed in ink and pencil. Comprising over 2.500\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ee0000;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ecoats of arms, systematically arranged and captioned, with numerous annotations, corrections, excluding several pages of blank shields. Also some pasted paper flaps, revealing revised versions of individual arms while preserving earlier states beneath—clear evidence of an active and evolving working process. Several blank leaves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eModern calf, covers decorated with blind-tooled fillets and corner ornaments, spine with five raised bands.\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;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003e“Memorandum of the crest devices that I still lack to draw, and some others that are still missing.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\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;\"\u003eWith this sentence, Anna Neytsen opens her heraldic working manuscript, which encompasses a vast collection of arms from the Northern and Southern Netherlands, northern France and the German lands, with a particular focus on completing the crests and other elements above the shield.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe manuscript was very possibly compiled by Anna-Felicia Neyts (d. 1704), of the prominent Bruges Neyts family of Bruges and the Brugse Vrije, a milieu in which heraldic knowledge formed an important component of aristocratic and patrician identity. The only internal date is 1669, recorded in a note concerning the recent death of an individual. Together with the characteristically 17th-century hand, this provides a secure terminus for the manuscript, which was likely compiled in or shortly after that year.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe association with a named female hand is of considerable interest. Female participation in heraldic practice is extremely rare, and while the precise extent of Neyts’s authorship cannot be established with absolute certainty, the manuscript offers valuable evidence for women’s involvement in the compilation and transmission of heraldic knowledge in the 17th century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe manuscript is further distinguished by its focus on crest devices (\u003ci\u003etimbres\u003c\/i\u003e). Early modern heraldic collections often privilege the shield alone, whereas the present volume is explicitly concerned with the completion and documentation of the elements above it. With approximately 2,700 drawn arms, it represents a notably extensive working corpus.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eRather than a presentation volume, this is a freely worked reference manuscript, rich in corrections, additions, and layered revisions, offering an unusually direct insight into working practices.\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;\"\u003ebinding slightly rubbed at edges, parts of a couple pages removed, some writing in pencil faded, otherwise in very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReference: \u003c\/b\u003efor Anna-Felicia Neyts see: Van den Abeele, A., (2001) “Jacob en Frans Neyts en hun familieleden: enkele biografische aanvullingen”, \u003ci\u003eHandelingen van het Genootschap voor Geschiedenis\u003c\/i\u003e 138(1-2), 56-100.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53523760382295,"sku":null,"price":12500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/f83c1a8c-3eed-4108-808c-f9f53e7c0fe0.png?v=1778581713"},{"product_id":"her-magnum-opus","title":"Her magnum opus","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eJohanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus (ca. 1650–1717); Johann Ulrich Kraus (1655–1719).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eTapisseries du Roy, ou sont representez les quatre elemens et les quatre saisons. \u003c\/span\u003eAvec les devices qui les accompagnent et leur explication. Königliche Französische Tapezereijen, oder überaus schöne Sinn-Bilder in welchen die vier Element samt den vier Jahr-Zeiten […] vorgestellet werden.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eAugsburg, Jacob Koppmayer for Johann Ulrich Krauss, 1687.\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 \u003c\/span\u003e(36 x 23 cm)\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e. [8], 70 pp. With 8 large etched plates showing tapestries (7 folding, 1 double-page), 32 emblematic illustrations within the text and 3 frontispieces.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eModern calf with two gold-tooled spine labels, sprinkled edges.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eWhen Johanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus and Johann Ulrich Kraus took over the Küsel workshop in the mid-1680s, the first major publication they issued was this magnificent reproduction of Louis XIV’s Gobelins tapestries after Charles Le Brun. The first four large plates, depicting the Elements tapestries, are signed exclusively with Johanna Sibylla’s name — “Johanna Sübijlla Krausen, eine gebohrne Küslen fecit” — while Johann Ulrich’s name does not appear beneath any of the prints in the book. In the preface he nevertheless referred to the “subtile Hand” of his wife, a fitting description in the context of these etchings, whose rendering of woven fabrics and textile surfaces was crucial. The work is justly regarded as Johanna Sibylla’s principal achievement as an etcher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eBased on the official Paris edition of 1670 containing André Félibien’s descriptions and verses by Charles Perrault and others, this Augsburg publication is the first bilingual French-German edition. The etchings are based on Sébastien Le Clerc’s models after Le Brun, though the compositions are here restored to the correct orientation of the original tapestries and reworked within elaborate Baroque ornamental frameworks characteristic of Augsburg print culture. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eBorn into the Küsel-Merian-de Bry family of engravers and publishers, Johanna Sibylla played a central role within the Küsel-Kraus workshop, which became an important vehicle for the transmission of French decorative models into the German-speaking world. \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\u003cbr\u003eSuperb impressions throughout. Minor spotting to title-page; very minor worming to blank lower margin of pp. 105–111; small closed tear to blank lower margin of final leaf; one folding plate with tiny marginal waterstaining. \u003c\/span\u003eOverall a fresh, clean, and well-preserved copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFurther reading: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eUlrike Seeger, “Die ‘Tapisseries du roy’ des Verlags Johann Ulrich Kraus von 1687 – Ein Beitrag zum französischen Nachstichwesen in Augsburg vor 1700,” Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, 61 (2010), pp. 69–90.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHollstein German XIX, nos. 314-346 (erroneously as 33 prints instead of 40).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53590867247447,"sku":null,"price":6500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/8172683b-7b9b-4d8e-8060-fae79a0156c0.png?v=1779116069"},{"product_id":"a-demonstration-of-her-virtuosity","title":"A demonstration of her virtuosity","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eJohanna Sibylla Küsel (ca. 1650-1717); after Jacques Callot (1592-1635)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e[The little Passion].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAugsburg, before 1685 (marriage).\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\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e12 numbered plates on 12 sheets,\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eeach ca. 8 x 7 cm. (sheet), 7 x 6 cm. (plate). Signed on the first sheet: \"Johanna Sübylla Küslin fec. Aug. Vind.\"\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eEngraving (and etching?) on laid paper. Verso collector's stamp, Lugt no.: 982b. F. Bernstein, Germany, 20th century.\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 remarkable early demonstration of Johanna Sibylla Küsel’s virtuosity as a printmaker, produced before her marriage to Johann Ulrich Kraus and the establishment of the Küsel-Kraus press. The series is based on Jacques Callot’s celebrated \u003ci\u003ePetite Passion\u003c\/i\u003e, whose densely populated miniature compositions represented one of the great technical challenges of seventeenth-century printmaking. Executed through a sophisticated combination of etching and engraving, Küsel’s handling already reveals the extraordinary precision, control, and delicacy for which she later became known. Despite the diminutive format, the scenes possess considerable dramatic force. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eJohanna Sibylla Küsel emerged from one of the most distinguished dynasties of engravers and publishers in early modern Europe. She was the daughter of the Augsburg engraver and publisher Melchior Küsel, granddaughter of Matthäus Merian the Elder, and niece of Maria Sibylla Merian. Trained within her father’s workshop, she copied works after Callot, Stefano della Bella, Simon Vouet, and others with exceptional technical control. Her copies after Callot’s \u003ci\u003eNouveau Testament\u003c\/i\u003e first established her reputation, and the present undated \u003ci\u003eLittle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePassion \u003c\/i\u003ebelongs to this formative phase of her career. Recent scholarship has increasingly recognised Johanna Sibylla not merely as an assistant within the later Kraus workshop, but as one of its central artistic forces. The present series already reveals the qualities that would culminate in her \u003ci\u003eTapisseries du Roy\u003c\/i\u003e of 1687: precision of line, complex spatial orchestration, and a highly sophisticated command of reproductive printmaking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: \u003c\/strong\u003eslightly toned with occasional spotting, otherwise in very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eReference:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e Hollstein German XIX, nos. 3-14.\u003c\/span\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":53597113418071,"sku":null,"price":5500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/84c54ed5-0b01-49da-ab1e-efb1f04103dc.png?v=1779179942"},{"product_id":"the-parisian-lgbtq-equality-riot-of-1815","title":"The Parisian LHBTQ equality riot of 1815","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eFrançoise Marie Antoinette Saucerotte, called Mademoiselle Raucourt (1756–1815) [subject]; Aaron Martinet (1762–1841) [artist].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e[The crowd demands that the funeral of Mademoiselle Raucourt, a lesbian actress, be held at Saint-Roch Church in Paris, 17 January 1815].\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, ca. 1815-1841.\u003cimg\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\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eDrawing in pen and brown wash, with white gouache on paper, 8 × 12 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;\"\u003eThe immensely popular Parisian actress Mademoiselle Raucourt was widely known during her lifetime for her relationships with women. Contemporary pamphlets associated her with the supposed \u003ci\u003eSecte des Anandrynes\u003c\/i\u003e, a reputed circle of Parisian lesbians, and her name became closely linked with female same-sex desire in public discourse.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eWhen she died in January 1815, an great crowd accompanied her coffin to the Church of Saint-Roch in Paris. The parish priest initially refused to admit the body, judging her life immoral and unworthy of a religious funeral. Outraged, the crowd compelled the authorities to allow the funeral ceremony to proceed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eIn this drawing, Aaron Martinet depicts the confrontation outside Saint-Roch. It is the preparatory study for an illustration published posthumously in Jacques-Antoine Dulaure's \u003ci\u003eHistoire des cent-jours de la Restauration et de la Révolution de 1830\u003c\/i\u003e (Paris: Poirée, 1845).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe episode has subsequently been interpreted as an early and remarkable public defense of a woman whose relationships with other women were widely known.\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\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eslight foxing, one spot in the top right corner. An oval cut on verso that does not penetrate the sheet. 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;\"\u003eFurther reading: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eHaggerty, Sarah. “Mademoiselle Raucourt, Priestess of Lesbos.” \u003ci\u003eHistorical Homos\u003c\/i\u003e, 20 Sept. 2020, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.historicalhomos.com\/queeriosities\/2020-mademoiselle-raucourt?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eHistorical Homos article\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e. Accessed 2 June 2026.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53690920468823,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/imgonline-com-ua-compressed-jDoAY8t5YhOmHxzw.jpg?v=1780411639"},{"product_id":"signed-by-her","title":"Signed by her.","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;\"\u003e“Mademoiselle Chevalière d’Éon” [= Charles-Geneviève d'Éon de Beaumont (1728–1810)].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAutograph letter signed \"La Chre D'Éon\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTonnerre, 25 January 1780.\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, 1 p. \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;\"\u003eAn autograph letter signed in the feminine form by the celebrated transgender pioneer, diplomat, soldier and spy Charles-Geneviève d'Éon de Beaumont, better known as the Chevalier(e) d'Éon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe letter concerns the shipment of a cask of wine, but what gives the document its particular significance is not its commercial content but the form in which it was written. Following the royal decree of 1777 recognizing d'Éon as female and requiring the adoption of female dress, d'Éon increasingly signed correspondence as \"La Chevalièr\u003cb\u003ee \u003c\/b\u003ed'Éon\", employing the feminine form of the title \u003ci\u003echevalier\u003c\/i\u003e. In the present letter the writer concludes with the feminine formula \"Votre très humble et très obéissante servante\" before signing \"La Chre D'Éon\", providing a striking example of the female identity publicly assumed during the final three decades of d'Éon's life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe letter concerns the shipment of a cask of 1779 white Tonnerre Burgundy wine to a Paris lawyer named Guillaume. D'Éon details the preparation of the cask for transport and requests a receipt from the recipient. A contemporary acknowledgment of receipt confirms the successful delivery five days later.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOne of the most remarkable figures of eighteenth-century Europe, d'Éon served Louis XV as diplomat, military officer, and secret agent. During diplomatic missions in Russia and England, d'Éon became a central figure in the secret intelligence network known as the \u003ci\u003eSecret du Roi\u003c\/i\u003e. Speculation concerning d'Éon's sex became an international sensation during the 1760s and 1770s, culminating in official recognition as a woman by the French Crown. The resulting public identity has made d'Éon one of the earliest and best-documented transgender figures in European history.\u003c\/span\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;\"\u003epartially browned, otherwise good.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53733147312471,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/8231cf7d-ef0f-44a2-8f6a-4eacb16aa6de.png?v=1780908845"},{"product_id":"the-chevalier-deon-before-1777","title":"The Chevalier d'Éon before 1777","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;\"\u003e“Mademoiselle Chevalière d’Éon” [= Charles-Geneviève d'Éon de Beaumont (1728–1810)]; Pierre-Adrien Le Beau [engraving]; Claude-Louis Desrais [design]. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCharles Geneviève Louis Auguste César André Timothée, Déon de Beaumont, née à Tonnerre en 1728.\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, Esnauts \u0026amp; Rapilly, [ca. 1770–before 1777].\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;\"\u003eEngraving on laid paper (ca. 19,5 x 14 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\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePortrait of d’Eon, nearly half-length, in profile to the left; wearing the full military garb of a Captain of the Dragoons, including epaulets and medals; in an oval.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\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;\"\u003eA scarce contemporary portrait of the Chevalier d'Éon, perhaps the most famous gender-nonconforming figure of the Enlightenment. Produced before the French crown officially recognized d'Éon as a woman in 1777, the portrait presents him as a decorated military officer and man of letters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe profile likeness depicts d'Éon in the uniform of a Captain of Dragoons, wearing epaulettes and the cross of the Order of Saint Louis. The portrait is enclosed within an ornamental oval frame surrounded by attributes of learning and accomplishment, including books, musical scores, writing implements, and laurel branches. The engraved caption summarizes d'Éon's remarkable career as lawyer, royal censor, dragoon captain, Chevalier of Saint Louis, and French minister plenipotentiary to the Court of England.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eSoldier, diplomat, spy, author, and celebrity, d'Éon became one of the most recognizable public figures of eighteenth-century Europe. Public speculation concerning d'Éon's sex generated an international sensation, making him a fixture of newspapers, pamphlets, caricatures, and wagers on both sides of the Channel. Today he remains one of the most studied figures in the history of gender identity and expression.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eRare in the market.\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;\"\u003erepairs to the blank edges, otherwise in good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53733551669591,"sku":null,"price":1600.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/imgonline-com-ua-compressed-nwuusBgjeYGwY.jpg?v=1780913151"},{"product_id":"fables-illustrated-by-johanna-and-her-sisters","title":"Fables illustrated by the three sisters","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eJohanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus (ca. 1650–1717); Maria Philippina Küsel (1676–c. 1705?); Maria Magdalena Küsel (active c. 1688–1702).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eAesop. Favole scelte \/ Außerlesene Fabeln \/ Fables choisies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eAugsburg, Johannes Jacob Lotter for Johann Ulrich Kraus, 1709.\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\"\u003e4°. [IV], 106 pp. With 50 numbered plate leaves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eModern blind tooled calf.\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\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003eA trilingual edition of Aesop's fables, with 92 etched illustrations on 48 plates. The full-page frontispiece is signed “Johaña Sib: Krausin eine gebohrne Küslin. Fecit.” (= Johanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus). Although only this plate bears her signature, Johann Ulrich Kraus states in the foreword that the illustrations were executed by his wife, Johanna Sibylla. This explicit contemporary acknowledgement is particularly noteworthy, as female engravers rarely received such prominent recognition in early modern illustrated books.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eHowever, many of the illustrations actually bear a monogram M, occasionally incorporating a P. This is unusual, as we have not encountered monograms on other prints securely attributable to Johanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus. The marks therefore raise the possibility that some of these plates were executed by another member of the Küsel family workshop, perhaps her sisters Maria Philippina (MP) or Maria Magdalena (MM). If so, these monograms may offer a rare glimpse into the internal organisation of the Küsel-Kraus workshop and the division of labour among the women of the family. Johanna Sibylla's prominent acknowledgement in the foreword, contrasted with the appearance of these otherwise unexplained monograms, may hint at differing positions within the workshop hierarchy and at varying degrees of artistic responsibility, visibility, and recognition. Perhaps the matter will be resolved in the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eNew Hollstein\u003c\/i\u003e volume, as this series is absent from the published old Hollstein volume on the Küsel family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThis 1709 edition is very rare, as it is not recorded in the German Short Title Catalogue (VD18). Compared with the first edition of 1707, the present volume contains altered numbering engraved into the plates, incorporating the first two plates into the numbering sequence and thus creating a second state of the series.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThis book is a typical and substantial illustrated production from the mature period of the Küsel-Kraus workshop, documenting Johanna Sibylla Kraus’s central role within one of the most prolific engraving and publishing enterprises of Baroque Augsburg. Such commercially ambitious didactic publications formed the backbone of the business. The illustrations unite emblematic imagery with scenes of everyday life and contemporary occupational types, including farmers, hunters, vintners, bird-catchers, fishermen, cooks, physicians, and fortune-tellers.\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\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eSpine slightly discoloured. Contents browned, thumbed and spotted in places, with in the margins some wear and losses (partly repaired). Marginal loss to plate leaf 5, small tear in foot of plate 28.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eReference: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003efor the 1707 edition see \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eVD 18 10854568; Praz p. 331; Brüggemann I, 6 (under Aesop). Fabula docet 66 (French edition). Not in Hollstein; Timm-Bodemann.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53786658603351,"sku":null,"price":2300.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/6fba5cd1-0239-43ea-98fc-fb2298c5198f.png?v=1781512647"},{"product_id":"a-sister-act","title":"A Sister Act","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eJohanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus (ca. 1650–1717); Maria Philippina Küsel (1676–c. 1705?).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistorische Bilder Bibel vorstellend die […] Altes Testaments wie auch was in dem Neuen Testament […].\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAugsburg, Johann Ulrich Kraus, 1702.\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\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e8° (20 x 14 cm).\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eWholly intaglio printed in 188 numbered etched and engraved plates including titles and frontispiece. 5 parts in 1 volume.\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;\"\u003eContemporary calf. \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\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 completely intaglio printed picture Bible consisting of 188 etched and engraved plates executed by Johanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus and Maria Philippina Küsel. The plates illustrate scenes from both the Old and New Testaments and are generally divided into two pictorial compartments. The upper half presents a biblical event, while the lower half offers an allegorical counterpart, accompanied by an explanatory verse placed between the two scenes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eParticularly noteworthy is the explicit acknowledgement of both Johanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus and Maria Philippina Küsel on the title-page. None of the plates are individually signed. Only at the foot of the title-page, in very small lettering, appears the inscription: “Copiert von Johanna Sibijlla Kraussen eine gebohrne Küsslen, mit Maria Phillippina Küsslen”. Such direct recognition of female printmakers remains uncommon in German illustrated books of the period and provides valuable evidence for the prominent role played by women within the Küsel-Kraus workshop.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe inscription indicates that the plates were copied in reduced format from the earlier folio edition of the Kraus Bible, one of the most ambitious illustrated Bible projects produced in Augsburg around 1700 and among the workshop's greatest publishing successes. On the title-page of the folio edition the plates are described as having been “gezeichnet und in Kupffer gestochen” by Johann Ulrich Kraus, yet neither Johanna Sibylla nor Maria Philippina are mentioned there and the plates themselves are unsigned. The present octavo edition therefore provides unusually direct evidence for the involvement of female family members in the production of the workshop's illustrated books.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eUnlike the folio edition, the present octavo version is partly reversed in orientation and expanded with the \u003ci\u003eOpus Angelorum\u003c\/i\u003e. Whereas the folio Bible comprises 136 plates, the present edition contains 188. Complete copies with all 188 plates are rare.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe plates appear to have been executed using a combination of etching and engraving. The elaborate Augsburg Baroque cartouches are rendered in broader, more freely worked lines, while the central scenes are executed with remarkable delicacy and precision. Together they demonstrate the high technical standard of the Küsel-Kraus workshop at the height of its activity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eJohanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus (ca. 1650–1717) and her younger sister Maria Philippina Küsel (1676–c. 1705?) belonged to one of Augsburg's most important printmaking families. They were daughters of the engraver and publisher Melchior Küsel and granddaughters of Matthäus Merian the Elder through his daughter Maria Magdalena Merian. Although women played a significant role in many early modern printmaking workshops, their contributions often remained anonymous or were subsumed under the names of fathers, husbands, or publishers. The present Bible is therefore remarkable in explicitly naming both women on the title-page. The inscription not only documents their participation in one of the largest illustrated publishing projects of the Küsel-Kraus workshop, but also offers a rare glimpse into the collaborative role played by female engravers within a major Augsburg family enterprise. While Johanna Sibylla is today the better-known of the two sisters, this edition demonstrates that Maria Philippina was likewise entrusted with a substantial and technically demanding commission.\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;\"\u003ebinding rubbed and worn, with defects at the top of the spine. Slight foxing and thumbing throughout, thin worming line in corner of plates 72-76. Title print slightly rubbed and a corner repaired. Faded stain in corner of last third of contents. Last few leaves toned. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReference:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eVD18 11407824.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHollstein German XIX, no. 313.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eReichl, \u003ci\u003eKrauss\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eStudien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte\u003c\/i\u003e, no. 294), pp. 7 ff.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53789602808151,"sku":null,"price":3500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/2af58a91-d5a3-4bf3-8a05-696c16114870.png?v=1781534411"},{"product_id":"a-curious-case","title":"A curious case","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;\"\u003eJohanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus (ca. 1650–1717).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSacrum Oculorum Et Animorum Oblectamentum oder Heilige Augen und Gemüths Lust.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e[Augsburg, Johann Ulrich Kraus, ca. 1710].\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;\"\u003e8°\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ee0000;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(15,5 x 9 cm). 2 parts in 1 volume. [II], 234 pp. [lacks pp. 229-232 and two plates]. With 91 (of 93) etched and engraved plates.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eContemporary calf with two brass clasps. \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\u003eAn extremely rare devotional emblem book illustrated by Johanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus, of which we have traced only a single institutional copy of this edition, a very damaged two-volume example in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe work is divided into two parts and contains 93 etched and engraved plates arranged according to the liturgical year, of which the second plate of each part bears the inscription \u003ci\u003e“Johanna Sibijlla Krausen eine gebohrne Kuslen fecit.”\u003c\/i\u003e The present copy lacks the antepenultimate and penultimate plates. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eIntended to accompany the Gospel readings, Epistles, and Lessons for Sundays and feast days, the illustrations combine biblical narrative with allegorical interpretation and moral reflection. Most plates are divided into two scenes: a historical episode from Scripture in the upper compartment and an emblematic or theological counterpart below. Together with the accompanying Latin and German text, they form a carefully structured programme of meditation and devotion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe publication appears to be related to a seemingly larger plate-only edition that is recorded in a couple German libraries. They share the same calligraphic title-page, but the present edition incorporates extensive accompanying text and was conceived as a complete devotional book rather than as an independent print series. The copy in Bayern lacks the title-page and was recorded with the title of the second part that spells Sacrorum instead of Sacrum.\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;\"\u003eBayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB-ID 991099042399707356.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePlate-only edition: VD18 12461644.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eNot in Hollstein.\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;\"\u003eTop and bottom of spine damaged. First ca. 30 pages somewhat musty. Slightly foxed throughout. Trimmed at the plate line or just slightly short in places.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53817509347671,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/c2c4c245-5116-4243-8408-a104e4482a66.png?v=1781770887"},{"product_id":"her-magnum-opus-1","title":"Her magnum opus","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eJohanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus (ca. 1650–1717); Johann Ulrich Kraus (1655–1719).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eTapisseries du Roy, ou sont representez les quatre elemens et les quatre saisons. \u003c\/span\u003eAvec les devices qui les accompagnent et leur explication. Königliche Französische Tapezereijen, oder überaus schöne Sinn-Bilder in welchen die vier Element samt den vier Jahr-Zeiten […] vorgestellet werden.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAugsburg, \u003c\/span\u003eJohann Jacob Lotter\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e, 1709.\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 (36 x 23 cm). [8], 129 pp. With 8 large etched double-page plates showing tapestries, 32 emblematic etched illustrations within the text and 3 etched frontispieces.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eModern half calf with decorated paper sides.\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          When Johanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus and Johann Ulrich Kraus took over the Küsel workshop in the mid-1680s, the first major publication they issued was this magnificent reproduction of Louis XIV’s Gobelins tapestries after Charles Le Brun. The first four large plates, depicting the Elements tapestries, are signed exclusively with Johanna Sibylla’s name — “Johanna Sübijlla Krausen, eine gebohrne Küslen fecit” — while Johann Ulrich’s name does not appear beneath any of the prints in the book. In the preface he nevertheless referred to the “subtile Hand” of his wife, a fitting description in the context of these etchings, whose rendering of woven fabrics and textile surfaces was crucial. The work is justly regarded as Johanna Sibylla’s principal achievement as an etcher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBased on the official Paris edition of 1670 containing André Félibien’s descriptions and verses by Charles Perrault and others, this Augsburg publication is the first bilingual French-German edition. The copy offered here is the third edition and final edition. All three German editions were published by Johann Ulrich Kraus. The first two editions were printed in 1687 and 1690 in Augsburg by Jacob Koppmayer and the present third edition was printed in Augsburg for Kraus by Johann Jacob Lotter in 1709. \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;\"\u003eIn this third edition, the emblem plates are clearly in a second state, with German text added. They also appear to have been reworked, resulting in notably deep impressions. The large tapestry plates, by contrast, seem to remain unchanged. On the first frontispiece, the inscription “Johan Ulrich Kraus fecit” appears at lower left; this area is blank in the corresponding frontispiece of the first edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe etchings are based on Sébastien Le Clerc’s models after Le Brun, though the compositions are here restored to the correct orientation of the original tapestries and reworked within elaborate Baroque ornamental frameworks characteristic of Augsburg print culture. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBorn into the Küsel-Merian-de Bry family of engravers and publishers, Johanna Sibylla played a central role within the Küsel-Kraus workshop, which became an important vehicle for the transmission of French decorative models into the German-speaking world. \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\u003cbr\u003eMinor rubbing to front board. Paper generally slightly toned. Fine impressions throughout. In very good condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFurther reading: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eUlrike Seeger, “Die ‘Tapisseries du roy’ des Verlags Johann Ulrich Kraus von 1687 – Ein Beitrag zum französischen Nachstichwesen in Augsburg vor 1700,” Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, 61 (2010), pp. 69–90.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54242979709271,"sku":null,"price":3700.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/7310d637-c4a4-4448-9a54-c24f053f7c6a.png?v=1785925982"},{"product_id":"a-sister-act-1","title":"A sister act","description":"\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\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eJohanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus (ca. 1650–1717); Maria Philippina Küsel (1676–c. \u003c\/span\u003e1705?).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistorische Bilder Bibel vorstellend die […] Altes Testaments wie auch was in dem Neuen Testament […].\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAugsburg, Johann Ulrich Kraus, 1702.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e8° (20 x 14 cm).\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eWholly intaglio printed in 188 numbered etched and engraved plates including titles and frontispiece, interleaved with blanks throughout. 5 parts in 1 volume.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eLater lavishly gold-tooled red morocco with gilt edges and marbled endpapers.\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\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 picture Bible consisting of 188 etched and engraved plates executed by Johanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus and Maria Philippina Küsel. The plates illustrate scenes from both the Old and New Testaments and are generally divided into two pictorial compartments. The upper half presents a biblical event, while the lower half offers an allegorical counterpart, accompanied by an explanatory verse placed between the two scenes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eParticularly noteworthy is the explicit acknowledgement of both Johanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus and Maria Philippina Küsel on the title-page. None of the plates are individually signed. Only at the foot of the title-page, in very small lettering, appears the inscription: “Copiert von Johanna Sibijlla Kraussen eine gebohrne Küsslen, mit Maria Phillippina Küsslen”. Such direct recognition of female printmakers remains uncommon in German illustrated books of the period and provides valuable evidence for the prominent role played by women within the Küsel-Kraus workshop.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe inscription indicates that the plates were copied in reduced format from the earlier folio edition of the Kraus Bible, one of the most ambitious illustrated Bible projects produced in Augsburg around 1700 and among the workshop's greatest publishing successes. On the title-page of the folio edition the plates are described as having been “gezeichnet und in Kupffer gestochen” by Johann Ulrich Kraus, yet neither Johanna Sibylla nor Maria Philippina are mentioned there and the plates themselves are unsigned. The present octavo edition therefore provides unusually direct evidence for the involvement of female family members in the production of the workshop's illustrated books.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eUnlike the folio edition, the present octavo version is partly reversed in orientation and expanded with the \u003ci\u003eOpus Angelorum\u003c\/i\u003e. Whereas the folio Bible comprises 136 plates, the present edition contains 188. Complete copies with all 188 plates are rare.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe plates appear to have been executed using a combination of etching and engraving. The elaborate Augsburg Baroque cartouches are rendered in broader, more freely worked lines, while the central scenes are executed with remarkable delicacy and precision. Together they demonstrate the high technical standard of the Küsel-Kraus workshop at the height of its activity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eJohanna Sibylla Küsel-Kraus (ca. 1650–1717) and her younger sister Maria Philippina Küsel (1676–c. 1705?) belonged to one of Augsburg's most important printmaking families. They were daughters of the engraver and publisher Melchior Küsel and granddaughters of Matthäus Merian the Elder through his daughter Maria Magdalena Merian. Although women played a significant role in many early modern printmaking workshops, their contributions often remained anonymous or were subsumed under the names of fathers, husbands, or publishers. The present Bible is therefore remarkable in explicitly naming both women on the title-page. The inscription not only documents their participation in one of the largest illustrated publishing projects of the Küsel-Kraus workshop, but also offers a rare glimpse into the collaborative role played by female engravers within a major Augsburg family enterprise. While Johanna Sibylla is today the better-known of the two sisters, this edition demonstrates that Maria Philippina was likewise entrusted with a substantial and technically demanding commission.\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;\"\u003eslight rubbing to extremities of the binding. Minor occasional foxing, more on the edge of the final page. A small repair in blank foot margin of leaf 14. 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eVD18 11407824.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eHollstein German XIX, no. 313.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eReichl, \u003ci\u003eKrauss\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eStudien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte\u003c\/i\u003e, no. 294), pp. 7 ff.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54324605845847,"sku":null,"price":3900.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/c7168ce2-70be-4163-8696-143b01f10afa.png?v=1786538564"},{"product_id":"the-visual-splendour-of-an-unequal-encounter-author-prince-roland-bonaparte-s-copy","title":"The visual splendour of an unequal encounter; author Prince Roland Bonaparte’s copy?","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePrince Roland Bonaparte (1858–1924); Friedrich Carel Hisgen (1846-1912) [photographs].\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eLes Habitants de Suriname. Notes recueillies a l’exposition coloniale d’Amsterdam en 1883.\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, A. Quantin, 1884.\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eLarge folio (44 x 30,8 cm). (VI), VIII, 226 pp. With a lithographed frontispiece, 2 double-page colour lithographed maps, 62 collotype portraits and some views, and 13 colour lithographic plates. The chromolithographs, based on drawings by Lewenstein, Prévost, and Libonis, depict hairstyles, ornaments, utensils, and instruments.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOriginal publisher’s green cloth with large gilt title on front cover and spine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eWith two printed visiting cards of Prince Roland Bonaparte pasted to the front pastedown. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThey suggest that this copy was either retained by Bonaparte or personally presented by him. No other copy bearing two such cards has been traced, except a copy sold at Christie’s Paris in 2009 that contained a single card. Also loosely inserted is a French receipt dated 1938 for a dress worn by Princess Marie Bonaparte at a wedding. Marie was Roland Bonaparte’s only daughter.\u003cbr style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\"\u003e\u003c!-- [if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--\u003e\u003cbr style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\"\u003e\u003c!--[endif]--\u003e\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\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e              \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eA monumental work of colonial display and scientific racism, in which twenty-eight Surinamese men, women and children are presented in book of Imperial splendour.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePrince Roland Bonaparte’s first major anthropological publication records the group exhibited at the International Colonial and Export Exhibition in Amsterdam in 1883. Printed in a small number of copies for private distribution, it was described by Chadenat as “the most important work published in French on the anthropology and ethnography of Dutch Guiana.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eFor six months the organisers displayed the group in the Surinamese Rotunda. Paying visitors observed them from behind a railing. Huts and painted panoramas created the illusion of a Surinamese settlement, although the participants were housed at night in a wooden building nearby. The display presented a carefully staged image of the colony intended to promote Dutch commercial interest in Suriname.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe group included Kali’na and Lokono people, members of the Saamaka and Ndyuka Maroon communities, and Afro-Surinamese residents of Paramaribo. Their recruitment took place within profoundly unequal colonial circumstances. Surviving evidence does not establish the degree of consent involved. Accounts of persuasion and promises, together with the presence of several children, nevertheless complicate any suggestion of wholly voluntary participation. Individual motives also differed. Kwamina Baja chose to travel despite his family’s opposition. During the exhibition Colhee, an Indigenous participant, died from a pulmonary illness and was buried in Amsterdam.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe Amsterdam photographer Friedrich Carel Hisgen photographed the participants in paired frontal and profile views. He also made group portraits and views of the staged settlement. Roche reproduced the images as finely executed collotypes. Bonaparte arranged the volume according to contemporary racial classifications and subjected the sitters to anthropometric examination based on Paul Broca’s methods. Their bodies were measured and converted into comparative racial “types”. The photographs are therefore inseparable from the history of colonial anthropology and scientific racism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThe book nevertheless records names, ages, places of origin, occupations, languages, education and family relationships. These details allow many of the sitters to be recognized as individuals, although their histories remain mediated through Bonaparte and his informants. The tension between individual biography and racial categorization lies at the centre of the volume.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eIts monumental format, rich colour printing and accomplished photography gave visual splendour and scholarly authority to knowledge produced through a profoundly unequal encounter. The volume is at once a magnificent example of nineteenth-century book production, an important source for Surinamese history and a material expression of colonial power.\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 binding very slightly rubbed. One plate with a small marginal tear. One text leaf detached without loss. Otherwise a fine copy.\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 Bibliothèque S.M.E., Quebec, with repeated cancelled ink stamps.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReference:\u003c\/b\u003e Chadenat, I, no. 765.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFurther reading:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHelen Wijngaarde, “Curiositeit of Cultuurdrager. Surinamers op de Internationale Koloniale en Uitvoerhandel Tentoonstelling te Amsterdam in 1883,” OSO, volume 19, no. 2, 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eCarl Haarnack, “Les Habitants de Suriname,” Bibliotheca Surinamica.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54335549604183,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/6ab583c4-642f-41cb-b8ba-5e89d61304bb.png?v=1786643028"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/collections\/20230516_124622.png?v=1684238874","url":"https:\/\/artemrarebooks.com\/collections\/women.oembed?page=7","provider":"Artem Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}