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Lettres Patentes en Forme D’Edit, Portant Etablissement d’une Compagnie de Commerce sous le nom de Compagnie d’Occident. Donné à Paris au mois d’Aoust 1717.

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Title: Lettres Patentes en Forme D’Edit, Portant Etablissement d’une Compagnie de Commerce sous le nom de Compagnie d’Occident. Donné à Paris au mois d’Aoust 1717.
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: Quarto, 12 pages, a fine copy with wide untrimmed margins. This is the charter of John Law's famous Mississippi Company, the Compagnie d'Occident (also known as the Compagnie du Mississippi), was established in 1717 by the Scottish financier John Law and changed its name to the Compagnie des Indes in May 1719, had a monopoly over trade in Louisiana from 1717 to 1731, as well as a monopoly over Canadian beaver exports from 1718 to 1760. As early as 1715, John Law had put to the Regent a plan for the economic and financial recovery of France, the "Système," which was at first refused but which Law finally succeeded in putting into place progressively. After founding the Banque Générale Privée, which developed the use of paper money, in May 1716, he created the Compagnie d'Occident, which received its letters patent in August 1717 (the present item) and was granted a monopoly over trade in Louisiana. The area covered by the company included the whole of the Mississippi valley, the Illinois Country becoming part of Louisiana through a decree in September 1717. The company's obligations were vast: it was to transport 6,000 colons and 3,000 black slaves over twenty-five years; it was also responsible for expenditure related to religion and defense. Over the following years, the Compagnie d'Occident took over all the other large French trading companies, as well as all large sources of state revenue. Farms were to have brought the company the financial support necessary for the exploitation of its immense colonial domain. Nevertheless, these purchases initially forced it to issue new shares, which the general public bought with banknotes. The Banque Générale had been turned into a Banque Royale in December 1718; in August 1719, an edict was issued according to which the state's debt would be written off through the refunding of loans and offices in banknotes. Because the investment market was too rigid, the new holders of banknotes invested them by buying shares in the Compagnie des Indes. From May 1719, the share value began to increase, and this feverish period of investment, fueled by intense propaganda, continued to grow, while the bank continued to Issue bank notes that did not correspond to a metal standard. The "Système" thus found itself at the mercy of a shift in public opinion that took place in the first months of 1720. The inability to refund all investors led to bankruptcy. After July 1720, the "Système" was liquidated: the bank was closed, the original financial and fiscal organization was reintroduced, and the Compagnie des Indes was henceforth only responsible for any trade activity under the tight control of the monarchy. While its actions in Louisiana between 1717 and 1720 had helped to give the colony stability, the company then imposed destructive cuts. Eventually, after the massacre of the Natchez in 1729, the company returned Louisiana to the Crown in 1731. It retained the monopoly over exports of Canadian beaver products until the fall of New France. Wroth and Annan 603, one of several issues of this decree. See Sabin 40716, citing the issue printed by the Imprimerie Royale, "Du Pratz characterizes it as 'A very scarce pamphlet.'" Maggs, French Colonisation of America, 98, listed a variant, Wroth and Annan 601 at £ 10 10s.

Foreign Workers in Germany. A Report Based on Official German Sources [Cover title]

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Title: Foreign Workers in Germany. A Report Based on Official German Sources [Cover title]
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good +
Description: [London, England]: United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration European Regional Office, 1944. Very good +. 6 3/8" x 4". Stapled thin card wrappers. Pp. iv, 85. Very good plus: minimal wear, lightly toned, prior owner penciled name to front wrap. This is a handbook created by the Displaced Persons Division No. 3 of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) for its staff who were assisting refugees residing and/or working in Germany during World War II. It lays out, with impeccable detail, the myriad challenges faced by foreign laborers at the time. The UNRRA was established in November 1943 to aid victims of war. While the United States was the leading source of funding, support came from 44 nations in total. UNRRA is largely seen as a success, having distributed billions of dollars worth of necessities like food, clothing, shelter and medical care. Its founding agreement related that, "immediately upon the liberation of any area by the armed forces of the United Nations . . . preparation and arrangements shall be made for the return of prisoners and exiles to their homes." UNRRA ran hundreds of resettlement camps, many in occupied Germany, housing over seven million people. It was dissolved in September 1948. This handbook contains painstaking detail on what feels like every possible danger facing refugees working in Germany. It has 62 enumerated passages broken down into ten chapters: the legal status of foreign workers; how those workers were administered pre- and post-Hitler; their housing conditions; food rationing; clothes rationing; racial discrimination; wages and insurance; public assistance opportunities; healthcare; and, female and child workers. There is much detail on Nazi efforts that led to the current desperate conditions facing displaced workers as well as the dilapidated state of camp accommodations such as, "housing, behind a facade of order and cleanliness, has always been a black spot in Germany. The German worker lived in flats which were too small judged by Anglo-American standards. When the Nazis came into power there was a shortage of at least one million houses. Instead of building homes, the Nazis built barracks and showy 'Olympic' stadia . . . in consequence from 1937 onwards the German masses lived in appalling housing conditions, as the Nazis admitted themselves . . . Millions of workers are now living in huts and allotment shacks, and accommodation is strictly rationed. Lodgers and billetees are crammed into every possible house, but the Party Bureaucracy and the rich evade the regulations by every trick. The foreign workers of course have the least chance of securing lodgings." The chapter on race discrimination shared that there were "at least 115 different racial groups distinguished in Nazi labour legislation," all of them then further subdivided into categories: "Peoples are split, minority is set against minority, and the bait of reclassification is dangled before every foreign worker." It was also noted that "the worst treatment is reserved for the Jews and Gypsies." The final 23 pages of the book lay out a list of alphabetized German terms with their English counterparts and where they are explained in the book. For example, the term "Rassensiedlungs-Hauptamt," directed the UNRRA worker to "Central Office for Racial Settlement" in section 62 which further described the heartbreaking regulations related to children, including how to handle Polish children below employable age: "deserted children, orphans, children of parents serving prison sentence of more than 2 and less than 6 months are not to be repatriated if they are considered suitable for 'Germanisation.' Their names are to be submitted to the S.S. Central Offices for Racial Settlement in Lodz, Bythom and Danzig. Children under 5 years of age are considered suitable for 'Germanisation' and sent to orphanages, etc. for German children. There the means of identifying them will disappear and it will be impossible for their parents ever to find them. Children between 5 and 8 years of age who are old enough to remember their Polish origin, but too young to work, are not to be 'Germanised': they will be sent to the collecting camp . . . Children whose parents are in concentration camps or serving prison sentences exceeding 6 months are to be handed over to the Security Police . . . the fate of these children may be imagined for since 1937 even the children of German prisoners in concentration camps have been defined as of 'anti-social heredity.'" There has been a fair amount of recent scholarship and recognition of the Nazis kidnapping up to 200,000 "Aryan"-looking children from their families in Poland for the purpose of 'Germanisation,' including using the camp in Lodz even after the war ended. See, e.g., the 2020 book by Jolanta Sowi ska-Gogacz and B a ej Tora ski "Ma y O wi cim. Dzieci cy obóz w odzi" (Little O wi cim. The children's camp in Lód ) [Prószy ski Media: 2020]. A rare handbook intended for UNRRA workers assisting refugees in Germany during World War II. OCLC shows three holdings over two entries, with only one in the United States.

Dombey and Son by Dickens, Charles

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Title: Dombey and Son
Author: Dickens, Charles
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Fine. Very early issue, with all but 3 of Smith's 'internal flaws.' Finely bound by Bayntun in full red morocco with a portrait of Dickens on the front cover and his signatures on the rear in gilt. Gilt titles and decorative spine compartments on the spine, all edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Complete, with the half title and vignette title, the eight-line errata, and 40 engraved plates (including the first example of a "dark plate" facing page 547). A handsome copy in a lovely binding. Dombey and Son tackles a number of key themes that appear throughout Dickens' authorial career-concerns about family duty, class position, child welfare, and the dangers of arranged marriages in particular. As the titular Dombey builds his shipping company, he fantasizes that his son will someday take over the business and continue his legacy. But England is changing rapidly due to the effects of industrialization, and its effects ripple throughout Victorian culture. One symbol of industrialization's promise (and its perils) is the railroad. In chapter six, Dickens calls the railroad's impact a "great earthquake." Dombey and Son grapples with the effects of industrialization, and the railroad is one of the novel's symbols for this momentous era. Smith 8. Fine.

Detskoe Chtenie. Knizhechka No. 1/Knizhechka No. 2 (Children's Reading. Books No. 1 and 2) by Various

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Title: Detskoe Chtenie. Knizhechka No. 1/Knizhechka No. 2 (Children's Reading. Books No. 1 and 2)
Author: Various
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Description: Kharbin: Tipografiia Kazansko-Bogoroditskago Muzhekogo Monastyria, 1929. Softcover. First editions, issues 1 and 2 for January and February, 1929; 7 3/4 x 5 1/2; illustrated wraps; issue 1 with thin cuts at tips of spine, spotting to margins of pages, illustrated, very good condition; issue 2 lacking back wrap, front wrap detached with some loss of paper, lower corner trimmed, previous owner's signature to front wrap, illustrated, in about good condition.Quite uncommon and fragile examples of the very first two issues of a children's magazine, published as a supplements to the "Khleb Nebesnyi" (Bread of Heaven) journal for the White emigre community in Harbin, China. Spiritual, cultural, and moral, the publications were printed at the Mother of God of Kazan Monastery in Harbin, which had its own publishing house. They came out monthly from 1929 until 1935, when the Manchukuo Manchuria (formed by the Japanese military administration in the occupied territories) banned their publication. For the next year, the journals came out at interminable intervals under various one-time names. They ceased to exist in 1944. OCLC lists one incomplete run at UC Berkeley Libraries with none others in the trade.

THE BUDDHIST CONQUEST OF CHINA: THE SPREAD AND ADAPTATION OF BUDDHISM IN EARLY MEDIEVAL CHINA [TWO VOLUMES] by Zurcher, E.

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Title: THE BUDDHIST CONQUEST OF CHINA: THE SPREAD AND ADAPTATION OF BUDDHISM IN EARLY MEDIEVAL CHINA [TWO VOLUMES]
Author: Zurcher, E.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1972. Reprinted. Hardcover. Octavo, two volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in the publisher's brown cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spines. Boards show mild sunning and very minor wear to the edges. Text blocks have slight age toning to the edges. Very mild wear interiorly. Illustrated. Reprinted. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Office on the Back Shelf. CONTENTS: Vol. One "Text" xiii, 320 pages -- Vol. Two "Notes, Bibliography, Indexes" [146] pages Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates. 1381665. FP New Rockville Stock.

The Commercial Law of Malaysia by Wu, Min Aun and Betrix Vohrah

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Title: The Commercial Law of Malaysia
Author: Wu, Min Aun and Betrix Vohrah
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: Kuala Lumpur: Heinemann Educational Books (Asia), Ltd, 1979. Paperback. Near Fine. index, 264p. Softcover in original wrappers. 22cm. INSCRIBED on title-page (by "Wu Min Aun").

IMPROVISED EUROPEANS; American literary expatriates and the siege of London by ZWERDLING, Alex

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Title: IMPROVISED EUROPEANS; American literary expatriates and the siege of London
Author: ZWERDLING, Alex
Seller: Second Life Books Inc (United States)
Description: NY: Basic Books, 1998. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 383. Notes and index. Illustrated with photographs. Almost as new.

The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany by Ambrose, Stephen E

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Title: The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany
Author: Ambrose, Stephen E
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780743203395
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Description: New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 6x1x9. Third printing. Highlighting in text. 2001 Hard Cover. 299 pp. An exciting foray into the lives of the young men - pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners, chosen by the Air Force to embark on the most dangerous missions during World War II details their courage, bravery, and determination.

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