Sale 2533 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, March 10, 2020

369 c   (SAINT BARTÉLEMY.) Group of 5 decrees concerning Sweden’s only long- term overseas possession, plus an earlier Swedish trade document. 6 printed pamphlets, from 3 to 18 pages each, all 4to, disbound, condition generally strong. Stockholm, 1745 and 1805-21 [500/750] Sweden purchased theWest 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 relate to trade in tobacco, wine, and other goods, and are dated 15 October 1805, 22 May 1805, 6 May 1806, 25 September 1811, and 12 March 1821.All are in Swedish, except for an 1811 decree organizing the island’s government, printed in parallel Swedish and French. Also included in this lot is an earlier German-language pamphlet granting the Arfwedson family a franchise for Swedish trade in theWest Indies: “Thro Konigl. Maj:t gnadiges Privilegium zur Einrichtung einer Handlung und Schiffahrt auf America, vor die Kaufleute Abraham und Jacob Arfwedson & Compagnie.” 8 pages. Stockholm, 1745. 370 c   (TRAVEL.) Isabelle,Arsene. Voyage a Buénos-Ayres et a Porto-Alègre, par Banda- Oriental, les missions d’Uraguay et . . . Rio Grande-do-Sul. Folding map, 4 lithographed plates. [4], 618, [4] pages. 8vo, later ¼ morocco, moderate wear; hinges split, foxing; with half-title. Havre, France, 1835 [400/600] first edition . Travels in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, with commentary on trade with France. “Full of interest. . . . One of the few books of the time which describes journeys across Rio Grande do Sul. . . . He also visited the German colony of São Leopoldo on Porto Alegre, and the missions. . . . Not easy to find today”—Borba de Moraes, page I:420. Palau 121758; Sabin 35239. END OF SALE 370