Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

305 c   (HAITI.) Group of 5 books and printed documents relating to Haiti. Various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1818-28 [400/600] Chambre des Représentans des Communes. Letterpress broadside with seated liberty device, 12 x 8 inches.The chamber approves general accounts of the republic for 1826. Port-au-Prince, 9 May 1827 * Loi Sur les Patentes. 30 pages. 4to, disbound; worn, foxed, stamps erased. Schedule of fees for occupa- tional licenses to be levied commencing January 1829. Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie du Gouvernement, [1828] * Pradt. Pieces Relatives a Saint-Domingue et a L’Amérique. 206, [1], 3 pages. 8vo, 1 / 2 calf, worn; foxing. Survey of revolutionary movements in Haiti, Argentina and Venezuela. Paris: Bechet, 1818 * Vanufel. Code des Colons de Saint-Domingue. x, [1], 1-348 pages. 8vo, contemporary 1 / 4 calf, front board detached; foxing. Documents relative to the indemnity demanded by France for the loss of property in slaves. Paris: Vergene, 1826 * [Les six Codes d’Haïti; suivis d’une table raisonnee des matières.] 38, 59-276, 349-736 pages. 12mo, early 1 / 2 calf, stamped “Code Boyer” on backstrip; lacking title page and final leaf, and otherwise incomplete. [Port-au-Prince, 1828]. 306 c   (HAITI.) Group of 7 documents relating to Jean-Pierre Boyer and his presidency. Various sizes and conditions, some with dampstaining, wear, and repairs. Vp, 1808-25 [400/600] Jean-Pierre Boyer was the longest-tenured Haitian leader of his era, serving as president from 1818 to 1843. Under his rule, the competing northern and southern parts of Haiti were united, and Spanish Haiti (now the Dominican Republic) was annexed.This lot includes: Receipt for the sale of a horse to General Bazelais, possibly signed by Boyer as lieutenant colonel, 4 July 1808, and then signed over on verso by Bazelais to General Delva, 1809 * Receipt signed by General Boyer to Madame Daran for a horse, 24 October 1811 * Pair of documents regarding a requisition submitted by C. Babeuf, one endorsed with General Boyer’s signature and the other by President Petion, 15 April 1815 * Pair of documents signed by Joseph Latortue in the northern part of Haiti, the first as a baron while the north was still an independent kingdom, the second as administrator under Boyer’s united Haiti, 26 April 1817 and 11 February 1823 * Receipt on official letterhead signed by President Boyer, issued to General Benjamin Noel for a house purchased from the state, 16 July 1825. 306