RARE BOOK AND COLLECTOR'S SALE July 30th & 31st, 2024

66 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 (9) Passport for Richard Bermingham, aged 70, to travel from Bayonne to Bordeaux in 1849. (10) Prices Current at Amsterdam the 8th December 1800. (11)One of the earliest issues of Hope’s Philadelphia Price Current for June 10, 1805. (12) Prince’s London Price Current Friday the 6th of August 1812 (13) Prices Current at Bilbao the 20th of July 1815. (14) Prices Current at Gibraltar from the 3rd to the 9th of April 1817. (15) Havana Price Current November 21st 1817. (16) Dissolution of partnership document dated March 25, 1807 of the London co-partnership of Bainbridge, Ansley, and Co. Signed by Geo Bainbridge, John Ansley, John Bainbridge, Thos Brown. (17) Document signed and sealed by Don Juan Bautista Bernabeu, Consul General of Spain in Maryland for the ship Nimrod, captained by Daniel Fitch, certifying that the ship is carrying a cargo of cocoa from Baltimore to San Sebastian. Dated 4 September 1807. (18) A printed letter from the merchants Ventura Gomez de la Torre & Grandsons in Bilbao affirming that despite the momentary stop in the payments of their London house, Gomez de la Torre Mazarridos & Co, that they have recommenced their payments having received funds of consideration from the said Bilbao house. Dated Bilbao June 16, 1814. (19) 15 A charter party document. London, 22 February 1814. Ship the Enighert with a cargo of grain proceeding from London to Passages in Spain. Signatures of Charles Barry and Richard King. Further details on some of these documents Sequestration Orders on American Ships at St Sebastian Eight Sequestration Orders of American ships made by the Government of Guipuscoa at the port of St. Sebastian. Seven of the ships were sequestered on the 28th of December 1809 while the eighth, The Trim of Baltimore, was sequestered on the 1st of January 1809. The documents, each comprising four folio pages, are in a standard printed format claiming the vessels in the name of the Emperor and King (Napoleon) at the port of St. Sebastian. The names of the boats and their respective captains are written in by hand along with very detailed inventories of the goods that each ship contained (cocoa, cotton, indigo, pepper, rum, tobacco, etc). In some cases the cargoes had been sold prior to the introduction of the sequestration order of December 28, 1809. A number of these boats may be cross checked in Greg H. Williams’ The French Assault on American Shipping 1793-1813 (2009) The names and captains of the ships were as follows: The Hetty of Salem captained by Zebulon Woodbury (see Williams, p. 180) sequestered at St. Sebastian on December 28, 1809. Considerable details on its confiscated cargo of brown and white sugar, cocoa, pepper, coffee, etc, are provided. The Wells of Salem, a three masted ship, captained by Zacariah G. Lamson (see Williams, p. 360), sequestered at St. Sebastian on December 28, 1809. Considerable details on its confiscated cargo of cotton, white and brown sugar, tobacco,indigo, rum, etc, are provided. The Eleanor of Baltimore, captained by Samuel Gover (there appears to be a mistake on Williams, p.124, where he gives Thomas Gove as the master) sequestered at St. Sebastian on December 28, 1809. It had a cargo of 27 hogsheads of tobacco and 150 bales of cotton. Details on how the Widow Bermingham and Sons agency assisted in the opening of the ships compartments so as to air its cargo. The Exchange of Baltimore, captained by William Dyl (Dyer in Williams, p. 135) sequestered at St. Sebastian on December 28, 1809. Considerable details on its cargo including 21 hogsheads of tobacco and 119 bales of cotton.There are details of the captain ordering 17 bales of cotton to be thrown into the sea so as to help balance the ship and stop it from sinking in the highs that it had experienced across the Atlantic. Again there are details of the Widow Bermingham and Sons agency having to periodically air the ship’s hold in order to stop the cargo from rotting. The Betsey of Salem, captained by Thomas Holmes (Williams, p. 80), sequestered at St. Sebastian on December 28, 1809. Considerable detail on its cargo which included fish oil, rice, white and brown sugar, pepper, cocoa, cotton, tobacco, beans, etc. The Enterprise of Salem, captained by James Brown (Williams, p. 133), sequestered on December 28, 1809 in the port of St. Sebastian. Its hold contained 328 bales of cotton and a hogshead of tobacco. The Post Boy of Baltimore, captained by Alexander Adams (Williams, pp. 293-4), sequestered on December 28, 1809 in the port of St. Sebastian. Its hold contained thirty hogshead of tobacco, one hundred and forty six bales of cotton – six of the latter were owned by Captain Adams. The Trim of Baltimore, captained by Simmonel Bunbury (Williams, p. 344), sequestered on January 1, 1810 in the port of St. Sebastian. It contained 22 hogsheads of tobacco, 30 sacks of indigo, 511 sacks of cocoa, and 49 sacks of rocon. Laisser passer documents: No 72 – Laisser passer for Peter Trend, an American sailor taken on the American ship Portland and set at liberty on request. Aged 23 years going to Santander to embark on the American ship Hette. Issued on May 3, 1800. No 96 – Laisser Passer for Henry Davis, captain of the American brig, the Polly from Boston, now at St. Sebastien, aged 34 years, going to St Sebastien to embark on the said brig the Polly, 12 July 1800 (l’an 25eme de l’indépendance des États-Unis de l’Amérique). Countersigned on the back of this document with the seal of the Spanish government in Bayonne on July 23, 1800 No 97 - Laisser passer for John Attridge, aged 26 years, going to St. Sebastien to embark on the American brig Polly of Boston. Issued in Bordeaux on July 12, 1800 (l’an 25eme de l’indépendance des États-Unis de l’Amérique). Countersigned on the back of this document with the seal of the Spanish government in Bayonne on July 23, 1800. Countersigned on the back of this document with the seal of the Spanish government in Bayonne on July 23, 1800 No 99 – Laisser passer for Edward Thompson an American sailor from Charleston in the state of South Carolina, going to St Sebastien to embark on the American ship the Polly from Boston. Issued on July 15, 1800 (l’an 25eme de l’indépendance des États- Unis de l’Amérique). ). Countersigned on the back of this document with the seal of the Spanish government in Bayonne on July 23, 1800 No 100 – Laisser passer for George Morris, an American sailor, native of New York, aged 27 years, going to St Sebastien to embark on the American ship, the Polly. Issued 15 July 1800 (l’an 25eme de l’indépendance des États-Unis de l’Amérique). Countersigned on the back of this document with the seal of the Spanish government in Bayonne on July 23, 1800. Bills of lading for ships sailing from St. Sebastian to North American and European ports each containing the signature of the captains of the boats transporting the articles. As an archive, w.a.f. (We are grateful to Antoin Murphy for cataloging this lot.) Further detailed description available on request. €7,000 - €10,000