Nov 25, 2014 - Sale 2368

Sale 2368 - Lot 346

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(HAITI.) Group of 17 documents relating to Haitian history. Various sizes and conditions, all intact and legible, but a few with moderate edge wear; modern bookplates affixed to the last leaf of most documents. Vp, circa 1825-94

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Highlights include: An untitled 20-page manuscript on Haiti in English, without author, including sections on natural history, commerce, history, and politics, circa 1825 Group of 4 Letters Signed by Louis Dufrene as Haitian Foreign Minister to Eugène Séguy de Villevaleix, Haitian charge-des-affairs in Paris, discussing reestablishment of the French Empire, and politics in Europe. Port-au-Prince, January to July 1853 Manuscript account book titled "Comptabilité particulière relative aux traites reçues pour le paiement de la dette nationale" (payments to France on the national debt), 30 pages, March 1862 to March 1864 Certificate issued to Alonzo P. Holly (trained in New York) to practice medicine in Haiti, Port-au-Prince, 7 November[?] 1889 Group of 4 documents concerning the treatment of a distressed American vessel, the schooner John I. Snow, at Cap Haïtien. Vp, April-May 1894. Complete list available upon request. Provenance: Sold by the estate of bookseller John Jenkins to the consignor circa 1990. with--an early facsimile printing of a French manuscript, a protest against the expulsion of Mr. Manuel from the Chamber of Deputies, titled "Déclaration déposée le 5 mars 1823, sur le Bureau de la Chambre des Députés." 4 pages.