FRENCH GUYANA - GUADELOUPE - MARTINIQUE. BILLET :
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FRENCH GUYANA - GUADELOUPE - MARTINIQUE. BILLET : "Institut d' émission des Départements d' Outre Mer". "CONTRE VALEUR DE 1 NOUVEAU FRANC" on CENT FRANCS type 1946 "LA BOURDONNAIS", the overprint on the woman's head watermark. Portrait of the Navigator Governor of Ile de France, on the right two natives in traditional dress, the woman's nudity hidden by exotic fruits. On reverse: landscape of Martinique with a woman's head in profile on the right - in the three margins, GUADELOUPE - GUYANE - MARTINIQUE - RARE BILLET NEUF Maurice Kolsky 701

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[Hyde de Neuville] Ministère de la Marine et des Colonies, Compte rendu au Roi, par le ministre de la Marine et des Colonies, des recettes et des dépenses faites pour le service intérieur des Colonies, sur l'exercice 1826. Paris, imprimerie royale, January 1829. In-4, VIII-116p, [1]f. Precious account addressed to the King by Baron Hyde de Neuville, then Minister of the Navy, on the economic activity of the French colonies during 1826. Income and expenditure are calculated for Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyana and Mana, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Senegal and its dependencies, Bourbon (Reunion Island), Sainte-Marie-de-Madagascar, French settlements in India and Indian rent. Full shagreened basane, gilt roulette on the edges, gilt faux-nerve spine, gilt fleurons, red morocco title page, roulette on the edges. Corners dulled, beginning of split at bottom of upper spine, small black spot at top of upper spine.

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Louis Philippe I, King of the French. Bullettin des Lois. 1318N. 12888. Ordonnance du Roi qui declare libres cent vingt-six Noirs du Domaine, a la Martinique, a la Guadeloupe, a la Guyane francaise et a Bourbon. Au palais de Neuilly, le 21 Juillet 1846. Other 6 Ordonnance du Roi. Imprimerie Royale, 1er Aout 1846. 8vo. 206x130 mm. Pages 453-468. At end round seal with Crown and Table of Laws. The ordinance can be found on pages 455-458. The plate contains 6 other Ordinances. Good copy. Very important document concerning the liberation of slaves in the French Colonies. 126 slaves are declared free, listed with indication of the specific Colonies. Of each one are published: name, age and work. The ordinance is signed by Vice-Admiral the Baron de Mackau, architect of the July 1845 slave liberation laws named after him. Cf. - L'attribution progressive d'une personnalité juridique à l'esclave par la loi, in Frédéric Charlin. La condition juridique de l'esclave sous la Monarchie de Juillet. Droits : Revue française de théorie juridique, 2010, 52, pp. 45-74. 8vo. 206x130 mm. Pp. 453-468. At the end round seal with Crown and Law plate. The Ordinanceis on pages 455-58. Other 6 Ordinances follows. Good specimen. Very important document concerning the liberation of slaves in the French colonies. 126 slaves are declared free, listed with specific Colonies indicated. Of each of them are published: name, age and job. The ordinance is signed by Vice-Admiral the Baron de Mackau, author of the laws of July 1845 on the liberation of slaves named after him.

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