Click the images below for bigger versions: Ordonnance Du Roy, Qui regle des Certificats de la Traitte des Negres aux Isles Françoises de l’Amerique. Du 6. Juillet 1734.
Paris: De L’Imprimerie Royale, 1734, quarto, eight pages, untrimmed and uncut, a fine copy.
This concerns the shipping of slaves to America, and their barter against, sugar, cotton and other goods, and gives a specimen of the certificate and bill of lading required.
Wroth and Annan,
Acts of French
Royal Administration…, 1272, mentions only two copies in the Archives
Nationales and the New York Public Library. Maggs, French Colonisation of
America, 386 (£ 3 10s), not in
European
Americana, not in LCP/HSP Afro-Americana Catalog or Supplement, not in
Beinecke Lesser Antilles.