Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 377

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(SAINT BARTÉLEMY.) Group of 9 royal decrees concerning Sweden's only long-term overseas possession. 9 printed pamphlets, from 4 to 18 pages each, all 4to, disbound, with no general condition issues. Stockholm, 1785-1828
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Sweden purchased the West Indies island of St. Barthélemy from France in 1784, and sold it back to France in 1878. It was the only overseas possession ever held by Sweden for more than twenty years. The decrees are dated 7 September 1785, 31 October 1786, 7 September 1791, 22 May 1805, 15 October 1805, 6 May 1806, 25 September 1811, 17 February 1814, and 10 April 1828. All are in Swedish, except for an 1811 decree organizing the island's government, printed in parallel Swedish and French.