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A 21-page document, written c1635, describing the Trial of Blas de Torres Altamirano, Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Lima (Peru) who had been accused of contravention of the Royal Decree keeping office holders in America from marrying themselves, their songs or daughters during the time they held their offices. This document is signed by Francisco Garcia Carillo Alderete, Attorney of the Criminal Court of Lima, which had been entrusted with this matter by Viceroy Luis Jerónimo de Cabrera, Count of Chinchon, who held this office in Peru from 1629-1639. This document bears no date but must have been written during this ten year period. It was during the time Count Chinchon was viceroy of Peru that quinine was first used by Europeans. It was first called Chinchona to honor the wife of Count Chinchon. This document is bound by means of 2 calf strings into a parchment document containing a Censo in favor of Alfonso Alvarez de Toledo for several houses in the Alcaizeria de Cuenca, which he gave to Elviro Gonzalez ("Censo" being an annual rent). This document was written in 1420. Old legal vellum documents as this one were often used in later centuries for binding purposes such as spine reinforcement-strips, inlay-papers or simply as wrappers as in the present case.

"Group of 7 documents relating to Jean-Pierre Boyer and his Presidency. Vp, 1808-25.

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 a 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." -Libreria de Antano, Buenos Ayres

"An interesting group of manuscripts all related to Haiti. Highlights include: An untitled 20-page manuscript on Haiti in English, without author, including sections on natural history, commerce, history, and politics, circa 1825; Group of 4 letters signed by Louis Dufrene as Haitian Foreign Minister to Eugène Séguy de Villevaleix, Haitian charges-des-affairs in Paris, discussing, reestablsihment of the French Empire, and politics in Europe. Port-au-Prince, January to July 1853; manuscript account book titled "Compatabilité particulière reative aux traites reçues pour le paiement de la dette nationale" (payments to France on the national debt), 30 pages, March 1862 to March 1864; certificate issued to Alonzo P. Holly (trained in New York) to practice medicine in Haiti, Port-au-Prince, 7 November 1889; group of 4 documents concerning the treatment of a distressed American vessel, the schooner John I. Snow, at Cap Haïtien. Vp, April-May 1894." -Libreria de Antaño

This scrapbook contains portraits of the presidents of the United States, legislative portraits, various cities and colleges in the U.S., various hospitals and government buildings, various events in U.S. history, clippings, political cartoons, political quotations and other miscellany of U.S. and European events.