Lot 43
Trade.- Merchants-Petitioners and Trustees for the Factory at Leghorn. The Answer...to the Account of Damages laid to the Charge of the Great Duke of Toscany..., 1704.
Hammer Price: £450
Description
Trade.- Merchants-Petitioners and Trustees for the Factory at Leghorn. The Answer...to the Account of Damages laid to the Charge of the Great Duke of Toscany by Sir Alexander Rigby, Mr. Will. Shepard, and Mr. Will. Plowman: together with their reply, and the Merchants-Petitioners second answer thereto..., first edition, with the additional title-page 'An humble apology to the Queen', light marginal soiling to main title, a good crisp copy in attractive contemporary pink patterned-paper boards with a design of foliage and flowers with animals, birds and hunters, rubbed and faded, corners worn, lacking most of backstrip, [Goldsmiths' 4052; Hanson 390; Kress 2408], folio, 1704.
⁂ Scarce. A complex case of malpractice and commercial double-dealing in the important English business community at Leghorn (now Livorno) in Tuscany. The case involved John Pollexfen (1636-1715), the rich English merchant and political economist who was an original member of the Board of Trade (from 1696-1707), and the lawyer Sir John Cooke (1666-1710), the Advocate-General. The other players were Sir Alexander Rigby, whose trading company, Sir Alexander Rigby & Co., had been established at Leghorn in 1690, but who by 1716 was declared a bankrupt having been imprisoned for debt. The Grand Duke of Tuscany was Cosimo III de Medici (1642-1723).
Scarce, with only 5 copies in UK, 5 in America and one in France.
Description
Trade.- Merchants-Petitioners and Trustees for the Factory at Leghorn. The Answer...to the Account of Damages laid to the Charge of the Great Duke of Toscany by Sir Alexander Rigby, Mr. Will. Shepard, and Mr. Will. Plowman: together with their reply, and the Merchants-Petitioners second answer thereto..., first edition, with the additional title-page 'An humble apology to the Queen', light marginal soiling to main title, a good crisp copy in attractive contemporary pink patterned-paper boards with a design of foliage and flowers with animals, birds and hunters, rubbed and faded, corners worn, lacking most of backstrip, [Goldsmiths' 4052; Hanson 390; Kress 2408], folio, 1704.
⁂ Scarce. A complex case of malpractice and commercial double-dealing in the important English business community at Leghorn (now Livorno) in Tuscany. The case involved John Pollexfen (1636-1715), the rich English merchant and political economist who was an original member of the Board of Trade (from 1696-1707), and the lawyer Sir John Cooke (1666-1710), the Advocate-General. The other players were Sir Alexander Rigby, whose trading company, Sir Alexander Rigby & Co., had been established at Leghorn in 1690, but who by 1716 was declared a bankrupt having been imprisoned for debt. The Grand Duke of Tuscany was Cosimo III de Medici (1642-1723).
Scarce, with only 5 copies in UK, 5 in America and one in France.
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