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Some of the founding documents of the Dutch Republic and memorabilia of the Eighty Years War

[NETHERLANDS - STATES GENERAL - TREATIES]. Recueil van de tractaaten, gemaackt en geslooten tusschen de Hoogh Mog. Heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenighde Nederlanden ter eenre ende verscheyde koningen, princen en potentaaten ter andere zyde. Eerste deel.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, [between 1742 and 1759]. 4to. With a general title page, followed by an index and 73 treaties, nearly all with their own title page containing the original imprint and a woodcut of the Dutch lion (the arms of the States General) and a few with Van Wouw's printer's device of a snail with the motto "Avec le temps paulatim". Contemporary vellum, straight-sewn on 3 vellum tapes laced through the joints, with a hollow back, with manuscript title on spine. Full description
€ 2,950
Belgium France Law & Politics Military History (18th Century) Netherlands Portugal Scandinavia UK - United Kingdom VOC WIC
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Important treaty between France and the Dutch Republic on free trade and tariffs

[TREATY - FRANCE & THE DUTCH REPUBLIC]. Traité de commerce, navigation & marine, fait, conclu & arrêté a Versailles le 21 Decembre de lan 1739, entre sa Majesté Tres-Chretienne, & les Seigneurs Etats Generaux des Provinces Unies du Pais-Bas.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1740 4to. With the woodcut printer's device of Scheltus and a woodcut initial. 19th-century brown wrappers. 43 pp. Full description
€ 750
Economic History & Trade France Law & Politics Netherlands
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Important treaty between France and the Dutch Republic on free trade and tariffs

[FRANCE & THE DUTCH REPUBLIC - TREATY]. Tractaat van commercie, navigatie en marine gemaakt, geslooten en vastgestelt to Versailles den 21 December 1739. Tusschen Syne Majesteit van Vrankryk, en de Heeren Staaten Generaal der Vereenigde Nederlanden.
The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1740. 4to. With the woodcut printer's device of Scheltus and a woodcut initial.19th-century brown wrappers. 43 pp. Full description
€ 225
Economic History & Trade France Law & Politics Netherlands
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Commercial treaty between Portugal and Russia

[TREATY]. Tratado de amizade, navegação, e commercio entre as muito altas, e muito poderosas senhoras Dona Maria I, Rainha de Portugal, e Catharina II. imperatriz de todas as Russias, assinado em Petersburgo pelos plenipotenciarios de huma, e outra corte em 9/20 de Dezembro de M.DCC.LXXXVII. e ratificado por ambas as magestades.
Lisbon, Regia Officina Typografica, 1789. 4to. With woodcut Portuguese royal arms on title-page. Contemporary gold brocade paper wrappers. 69, [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 400
Eastern Europe Economic History & Trade Law & Politics Portugal Russia (incl. Siberia)
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Conflict in the Caribbean: the Anglo-Spanish War resolved by the second Treaty of Madrid (1670)

[ENGLAND & SPAIN - TREATY OF MADRID]. [Gaspar de BRACAMONTE] and William GODOLPHIN. A treaty for the composing of differences, restraining of depredations, and establishing of peace in America, between the crowns of Great Britain and Spain. - Concluded at Madrid the 8/18th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1670. Translated out of Latin.
[London], in the Savoy, printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker [= Thomas Newcombe], printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1670. Small 4to. With a woodcut factotum and decorative bands built up from typographic ornaments (the crowned rose, harp, leak - depicted by a fleur-de-lis - and thistle representing England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland). Sewn. [1], [1 blank], 11, [1] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Caribbean Islands Law & Politics Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Naval History Spain UK - United Kingdom
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Rare first edition of an early work by Trotsky

TROTSKY, Leon. Tuda i Obratno: vmesto predislovija. I. Ot Peterburga do Berezzova. Sovet rabočich deputatov po etapam. II. Moj pobeg. - 800 verst na olenjach. [There and back again] [text in Russian in Cyrillic type].
St. Petersburg, Shipovnik, 1907. With a lithographed device on the front cover. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 123, [1 blank], IV pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Eastern Europe Law & Politics Literature Russia (incl. Siberia)
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Treatise on the decolonization of America

TURGOT, Anne Robert Jacques. Mémoire sur les colonies Américaines, sur leurs relations politques avec leurs métropoles, et sur la manière dont la France et L'Espagne ont dû envisager les suites de l'indépendance des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique.
Paris, Pierre-Samuel Dupont, 1791. 8vo. 19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine. 75 [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 6,000
Law & Politics North America
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