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151 Privateers in the Caribbean & Bristol merchants.- An outstanding archive of printed and manuscript material of the 18th and early 19th centuries relating to Privateers, Bristol merchants and shipping, and shipping insurance, including 10 unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues for the sale of cargoes captured by British privateers, most with ms. prices or notes and some with buyer's names, Bristol, 1756-1768; 7 printed insurance documents with ms. insertions insuring the ships of Samuel Munckley (1720-1802, Bristol slave trader, merchant and ship owner) for voyages to Jamaica, Madeira, Hamburg and Riga, c.1746-1749; a group of 6 promissory notes with ms. insertions on behalf of Samuel Munckley, 1759; a small group of trading and personal correspondence relating to Thomas and James Tierney and Elton & Noble, c.1750; a small group of contemporary newspaper clippings announcing the cargo auctions and selling places for passengers and cargo to locations including Philadelphia and Baltimore, c.1759-1763; sections of insurance documents with ms. insertions for various merchants including a William Burch and Alexander Smith; a good group of printed (with ms. insertions) bills of lading for numerous vessels, c.1769-1782; a broadside account of the life and injustices facing 'Francis Oliver, the son of a Spaniard, went at 17 years of age, to settle in the colony of St. Domingo', referring to the slave uprising there and his subsequent flight to Baltimore, ?Bristol, c.1803; ms. copies of Custom House entries for ships bound for Jamaica and Africa, date of voyages c.1712-1717; along with various other receipts, indentures, and related documents, together c.115 pieces, some tears and holes with occasional loss, some staining and soiling, all mounted in a 19th century half morocco album, spine gilt, worn at extremities, rubbed, folio, c.1750-1830 [the majority 18th century]   A fascinating and extensive documentary history of one of Britain's major trading ports in the mid- to late-eighteenth century, and of the operations of the privateers who used it. With much detail of individual vessels, their owners, cargos and trade routes (including the Caribbean and America); along with an insight into the sale of goods once landed and the merchants involved in this process, as seen through 10 superb unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues.   Provenance: 'Weare's Bristol Collection Vol. IV' (gilt title to spine of album).    
151 Privateers in the Caribbean & Bristol merchants.- An outstanding archive of printed and manuscript material of the 18th and early 19th centuries relating to Privateers, Bristol merchants and shipping, and shipping insurance, including 10 unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues for the sale of cargoes captured by British privateers, most with ms. prices or notes and some with buyer's names, Bristol, 1756-1768; 7 printed insurance documents with ms. insertions insuring the ships of Samuel Munckley (1720-1802, Bristol slave trader, merchant and ship owner) for voyages to Jamaica, Madeira, Hamburg and Riga, c.1746-1749; a group of 6 promissory notes with ms. insertions on behalf of Samuel Munckley, 1759; a small group of trading and personal correspondence relating to Thomas and James Tierney and Elton & Noble, c.1750; a small group of contemporary newspaper clippings announcing the cargo auctions and selling places for passengers and cargo to locations including Philadelphia and Baltimore, c.1759-1763; sections of insurance documents with ms. insertions for various merchants including a William Burch and Alexander Smith; a good group of printed (with ms. insertions) bills of lading for numerous vessels, c.1769-1782; a broadside account of the life and injustices facing 'Francis Oliver, the son of a Spaniard, went at 17 years of age, to settle in the colony of St. Domingo', referring to the slave uprising there and his subsequent flight to Baltimore, ?Bristol, c.1803; ms. copies of Custom House entries for ships bound for Jamaica and Africa, date of voyages c.1712-1717; along with various other receipts, indentures, and related documents, together c.115 pieces, some tears and holes with occasional loss, some staining and soiling, all mounted in a 19th century half morocco album, spine gilt, worn at extremities, rubbed, folio, c.1750-1830 [the majority 18th century]   A fascinating and extensive documentary history of one of Britain's major trading ports in the mid- to late-eighteenth century, and of the operations of the privateers who used it. With much detail of individual vessels, their owners, cargos and trade routes (including the Caribbean and America); along with an insight into the sale of goods once landed and the merchants involved in this process, as seen through 10 superb unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues.   Provenance: 'Weare's Bristol Collection Vol. IV' (gilt title to spine of album).    
151 Privateers in the Caribbean & Bristol merchants.- An outstanding archive of printed and manuscript material of the 18th and early 19th centuries relating to Privateers, Bristol merchants and shipping, and shipping insurance, including 10 unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues for the sale of cargoes captured by British privateers, most with ms. prices or notes and some with buyer's names, Bristol, 1756-1768; 7 printed insurance documents with ms. insertions insuring the ships of Samuel Munckley (1720-1802, Bristol slave trader, merchant and ship owner) for voyages to Jamaica, Madeira, Hamburg and Riga, c.1746-1749; a group of 6 promissory notes with ms. insertions on behalf of Samuel Munckley, 1759; a small group of trading and personal correspondence relating to Thomas and James Tierney and Elton & Noble, c.1750; a small group of contemporary newspaper clippings announcing the cargo auctions and selling places for passengers and cargo to locations including Philadelphia and Baltimore, c.1759-1763; sections of insurance documents with ms. insertions for various merchants including a William Burch and Alexander Smith; a good group of printed (with ms. insertions) bills of lading for numerous vessels, c.1769-1782; a broadside account of the life and injustices facing 'Francis Oliver, the son of a Spaniard, went at 17 years of age, to settle in the colony of St. Domingo', referring to the slave uprising there and his subsequent flight to Baltimore, ?Bristol, c.1803; ms. copies of Custom House entries for ships bound for Jamaica and Africa, date of voyages c.1712-1717; along with various other receipts, indentures, and related documents, together c.115 pieces, some tears and holes with occasional loss, some staining and soiling, all mounted in a 19th century half morocco album, spine gilt, worn at extremities, rubbed, folio, c.1750-1830 [the majority 18th century]   A fascinating and extensive documentary history of one of Britain's major trading ports in the mid- to late-eighteenth century, and of the operations of the privateers who used it. With much detail of individual vessels, their owners, cargos and trade routes (including the Caribbean and America); along with an insight into the sale of goods once landed and the merchants involved in this process, as seen through 10 superb unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues.   Provenance: 'Weare's Bristol Collection Vol. IV' (gilt title to spine of album).    
151 Privateers in the Caribbean & Bristol merchants.- An outstanding archive of printed and manuscript material of the 18th and early 19th centuries relating to Privateers, Bristol merchants and shipping, and shipping insurance, including 10 unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues for the sale of cargoes captured by British privateers, most with ms. prices or notes and some with buyer's names, Bristol, 1756-1768; 7 printed insurance documents with ms. insertions insuring the ships of Samuel Munckley (1720-1802, Bristol slave trader, merchant and ship owner) for voyages to Jamaica, Madeira, Hamburg and Riga, c.1746-1749; a group of 6 promissory notes with ms. insertions on behalf of Samuel Munckley, 1759; a small group of trading and personal correspondence relating to Thomas and James Tierney and Elton & Noble, c.1750; a small group of contemporary newspaper clippings announcing the cargo auctions and selling places for passengers and cargo to locations including Philadelphia and Baltimore, c.1759-1763; sections of insurance documents with ms. insertions for various merchants including a William Burch and Alexander Smith; a good group of printed (with ms. insertions) bills of lading for numerous vessels, c.1769-1782; a broadside account of the life and injustices facing 'Francis Oliver, the son of a Spaniard, went at 17 years of age, to settle in the colony of St. Domingo', referring to the slave uprising there and his subsequent flight to Baltimore, ?Bristol, c.1803; ms. copies of Custom House entries for ships bound for Jamaica and Africa, date of voyages c.1712-1717; along with various other receipts, indentures, and related documents, together c.115 pieces, some tears and holes with occasional loss, some staining and soiling, all mounted in a 19th century half morocco album, spine gilt, worn at extremities, rubbed, folio, c.1750-1830 [the majority 18th century]   A fascinating and extensive documentary history of one of Britain's major trading ports in the mid- to late-eighteenth century, and of the operations of the privateers who used it. With much detail of individual vessels, their owners, cargos and trade routes (including the Caribbean and America); along with an insight into the sale of goods once landed and the merchants involved in this process, as seen through 10 superb unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues.   Provenance: 'Weare's Bristol Collection Vol. IV' (gilt title to spine of album).    
151 Privateers in the Caribbean & Bristol merchants.- An outstanding archive of printed and manuscript material of the 18th and early 19th centuries relating to Privateers, Bristol merchants and shipping, and shipping insurance, including 10 unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues for the sale of cargoes captured by British privateers, most with ms. prices or notes and some with buyer's names, Bristol, 1756-1768; 7 printed insurance documents with ms. insertions insuring the ships of Samuel Munckley (1720-1802, Bristol slave trader, merchant and ship owner) for voyages to Jamaica, Madeira, Hamburg and Riga, c.1746-1749; a group of 6 promissory notes with ms. insertions on behalf of Samuel Munckley, 1759; a small group of trading and personal correspondence relating to Thomas and James Tierney and Elton & Noble, c.1750; a small group of contemporary newspaper clippings announcing the cargo auctions and selling places for passengers and cargo to locations including Philadelphia and Baltimore, c.1759-1763; sections of insurance documents with ms. insertions for various merchants including a William Burch and Alexander Smith; a good group of printed (with ms. insertions) bills of lading for numerous vessels, c.1769-1782; a broadside account of the life and injustices facing 'Francis Oliver, the son of a Spaniard, went at 17 years of age, to settle in the colony of St. Domingo', referring to the slave uprising there and his subsequent flight to Baltimore, ?Bristol, c.1803; ms. copies of Custom House entries for ships bound for Jamaica and Africa, date of voyages c.1712-1717; along with various other receipts, indentures, and related documents, together c.115 pieces, some tears and holes with occasional loss, some staining and soiling, all mounted in a 19th century half morocco album, spine gilt, worn at extremities, rubbed, folio, c.1750-1830 [the majority 18th century]   A fascinating and extensive documentary history of one of Britain's major trading ports in the mid- to late-eighteenth century, and of the operations of the privateers who used it. With much detail of individual vessels, their owners, cargos and trade routes (including the Caribbean and America); along with an insight into the sale of goods once landed and the merchants involved in this process, as seen through 10 superb unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues.   Provenance: 'Weare's Bristol Collection Vol. IV' (gilt title to spine of album).    
151 Privateers in the Caribbean & Bristol merchants.- An outstanding archive of printed and manuscript material of the 18th and early 19th centuries relating to Privateers, Bristol merchants and shipping, and shipping insurance, including 10 unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues for the sale of cargoes captured by British privateers, most with ms. prices or notes and some with buyer's names, Bristol, 1756-1768; 7 printed insurance documents with ms. insertions insuring the ships of Samuel Munckley (1720-1802, Bristol slave trader, merchant and ship owner) for voyages to Jamaica, Madeira, Hamburg and Riga, c.1746-1749; a group of 6 promissory notes with ms. insertions on behalf of Samuel Munckley, 1759; a small group of trading and personal correspondence relating to Thomas and James Tierney and Elton & Noble, c.1750; a small group of contemporary newspaper clippings announcing the cargo auctions and selling places for passengers and cargo to locations including Philadelphia and Baltimore, c.1759-1763; sections of insurance documents with ms. insertions for various merchants including a William Burch and Alexander Smith; a good group of printed (with ms. insertions) bills of lading for numerous vessels, c.1769-1782; a broadside account of the life and injustices facing 'Francis Oliver, the son of a Spaniard, went at 17 years of age, to settle in the colony of St. Domingo', referring to the slave uprising there and his subsequent flight to Baltimore, ?Bristol, c.1803; ms. copies of Custom House entries for ships bound for Jamaica and Africa, date of voyages c.1712-1717; along with various other receipts, indentures, and related documents, together c.115 pieces, some tears and holes with occasional loss, some staining and soiling, all mounted in a 19th century half morocco album, spine gilt, worn at extremities, rubbed, folio, c.1750-1830 [the majority 18th century]   A fascinating and extensive documentary history of one of Britain's major trading ports in the mid- to late-eighteenth century, and of the operations of the privateers who used it. With much detail of individual vessels, their owners, cargos and trade routes (including the Caribbean and America); along with an insight into the sale of goods once landed and the merchants involved in this process, as seen through 10 superb unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues.   Provenance: 'Weare's Bristol Collection Vol. IV' (gilt title to spine of album).    
151 Privateers in the Caribbean & Bristol merchants.- An outstanding archive of printed and manuscript material of the 18th and early 19th centuries relating to Privateers, Bristol merchants and shipping, and shipping insurance, including 10 unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues for the sale of cargoes captured by British privateers, most with ms. prices or notes and some with buyer's names, Bristol, 1756-1768; 7 printed insurance documents with ms. insertions insuring the ships of Samuel Munckley (1720-1802, Bristol slave trader, merchant and ship owner) for voyages to Jamaica, Madeira, Hamburg and Riga, c.1746-1749; a group of 6 promissory notes with ms. insertions on behalf of Samuel Munckley, 1759; a small group of trading and personal correspondence relating to Thomas and James Tierney and Elton & Noble, c.1750; a small group of contemporary newspaper clippings announcing the cargo auctions and selling places for passengers and cargo to locations including Philadelphia and Baltimore, c.1759-1763; sections of insurance documents with ms. insertions for various merchants including a William Burch and Alexander Smith; a good group of printed (with ms. insertions) bills of lading for numerous vessels, c.1769-1782; a broadside account of the life and injustices facing 'Francis Oliver, the son of a Spaniard, went at 17 years of age, to settle in the colony of St. Domingo', referring to the slave uprising there and his subsequent flight to Baltimore, ?Bristol, c.1803; ms. copies of Custom House entries for ships bound for Jamaica and Africa, date of voyages c.1712-1717; along with various other receipts, indentures, and related documents, together c.115 pieces, some tears and holes with occasional loss, some staining and soiling, all mounted in a 19th century half morocco album, spine gilt, worn at extremities, rubbed, folio, c.1750-1830 [the majority 18th century]   A fascinating and extensive documentary history of one of Britain's major trading ports in the mid- to late-eighteenth century, and of the operations of the privateers who used it. With much detail of individual vessels, their owners, cargos and trade routes (including the Caribbean and America); along with an insight into the sale of goods once landed and the merchants involved in this process, as seen through 10 superb unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues.   Provenance: 'Weare's Bristol Collection Vol. IV' (gilt title to spine of album).    
151 Privateers in the Caribbean & Bristol merchants.- An outstanding archive of printed and manuscript material of the 18th and early 19th centuries relating to Privateers, Bristol merchants and shipping, and shipping insurance, including 10 unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues for the sale of cargoes captured by British privateers, most with ms. prices or notes and some with buyer's names, Bristol, 1756-1768; 7 printed insurance documents with ms. insertions insuring the ships of Samuel Munckley (1720-1802, Bristol slave trader, merchant and ship owner) for voyages to Jamaica, Madeira, Hamburg and Riga, c.1746-1749; a group of 6 promissory notes with ms. insertions on behalf of Samuel Munckley, 1759; a small group of trading and personal correspondence relating to Thomas and James Tierney and Elton & Noble, c.1750; a small group of contemporary newspaper clippings announcing the cargo auctions and selling places for passengers and cargo to locations including Philadelphia and Baltimore, c.1759-1763; sections of insurance documents with ms. insertions for various merchants including a William Burch and Alexander Smith; a good group of printed (with ms. insertions) bills of lading for numerous vessels, c.1769-1782; a broadside account of the life and injustices facing 'Francis Oliver, the son of a Spaniard, went at 17 years of age, to settle in the colony of St. Domingo', referring to the slave uprising there and his subsequent flight to Baltimore, ?Bristol, c.1803; ms. copies of Custom House entries for ships bound for Jamaica and Africa, date of voyages c.1712-1717; along with various other receipts, indentures, and related documents, together c.115 pieces, some tears and holes with occasional loss, some staining and soiling, all mounted in a 19th century half morocco album, spine gilt, worn at extremities, rubbed, folio, c.1750-1830 [the majority 18th century]   A fascinating and extensive documentary history of one of Britain's major trading ports in the mid- to late-eighteenth century, and of the operations of the privateers who used it. With much detail of individual vessels, their owners, cargos and trade routes (including the Caribbean and America); along with an insight into the sale of goods once landed and the merchants involved in this process, as seen through 10 superb unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues.   Provenance: 'Weare's Bristol Collection Vol. IV' (gilt title to spine of album).    
151 Privateers in the Caribbean & Bristol merchants.- An outstanding archive of printed and manuscript material of the 18th and early 19th centuries relating to Privateers, Bristol merchants and shipping, and shipping insurance, including 10 unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues for the sale of cargoes captured by British privateers, most with ms. prices or notes and some with buyer's names, Bristol, 1756-1768; 7 printed insurance documents with ms. insertions insuring the ships of Samuel Munckley (1720-1802, Bristol slave trader, merchant and ship owner) for voyages to Jamaica, Madeira, Hamburg and Riga, c.1746-1749; a group of 6 promissory notes with ms. insertions on behalf of Samuel Munckley, 1759; a small group of trading and personal correspondence relating to Thomas and James Tierney and Elton & Noble, c.1750; a small group of contemporary newspaper clippings announcing the cargo auctions and selling places for passengers and cargo to locations including Philadelphia and Baltimore, c.1759-1763; sections of insurance documents with ms. insertions for various merchants including a William Burch and Alexander Smith; a good group of printed (with ms. insertions) bills of lading for numerous vessels, c.1769-1782; a broadside account of the life and injustices facing 'Francis Oliver, the son of a Spaniard, went at 17 years of age, to settle in the colony of St. Domingo', referring to the slave uprising there and his subsequent flight to Baltimore, ?Bristol, c.1803; ms. copies of Custom House entries for ships bound for Jamaica and Africa, date of voyages c.1712-1717; along with various other receipts, indentures, and related documents, together c.115 pieces, some tears and holes with occasional loss, some staining and soiling, all mounted in a 19th century half morocco album, spine gilt, worn at extremities, rubbed, folio, c.1750-1830 [the majority 18th century]   A fascinating and extensive documentary history of one of Britain's major trading ports in the mid- to late-eighteenth century, and of the operations of the privateers who used it. With much detail of individual vessels, their owners, cargos and trade routes (including the Caribbean and America); along with an insight into the sale of goods once landed and the merchants involved in this process, as seen through 10 superb unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues.   Provenance: 'Weare's Bristol Collection Vol. IV' (gilt title to spine of album).    

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Privateers in the Caribbean & Bristol merchants.- An outstanding archive of printed and manuscript material of the 18th and early 19th centuries relating to Privateers, Bristol merchants and shipping, and shipping insurance, including 10 unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues for the sale of cargoes captured by British privateers, most with ms. prices or notes and some with buyer's names, Bristol, 1756-1768; 7 printed insurance documents with ms. insertions insuring the ships of Samuel Munckley (1720-1802, Bristol slave trader, merchant and ship owner) for voyages to Jamaica, Madeira, Hamburg and Riga, c.1746-1749; a group of 6 promissory notes with ms. insertions on behalf of Samuel Munckley, 1759; a small group of trading and personal correspondence relating to Thomas and James Tierney and Elton & Noble, c.1750; a small group of contemporary newspaper clippings announcing the cargo auctions and selling places for passengers and cargo to locations including Philadelphia and Baltimore, c.1759-1763; sections of insurance documents with ms. insertions for various merchants including a William Burch and Alexander Smith; a good group of printed (with ms. insertions) bills of lading for numerous vessels, c.1769-1782; a broadside account of the life and injustices facing 'Francis Oliver, the son of a Spaniard, went at 17 years of age, to settle in the colony of St. Domingo', referring to the slave uprising there and his subsequent flight to Baltimore, ?Bristol, c.1803; ms. copies of Custom House entries for ships bound for Jamaica and Africa, date of voyages c.1712-1717; along with various other receipts, indentures, and related documents, together c.115 pieces, some tears and holes with occasional loss, some staining and soiling, all mounted in a 19th century half morocco album, spine gilt, worn at extremities, rubbed, folio, c.1750-1830 [the majority 18th century]

A fascinating and extensive documentary history of one of Britain's major trading ports in the mid- to late-eighteenth century, and of the operations of the privateers who used it. With much detail of individual vessels, their owners, cargos and trade routes (including the Caribbean and America); along with an insight into the sale of goods once landed and the merchants involved in this process, as seen through 10 superb unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues.

Provenance: 'Weare's Bristol Collection Vol. IV' (gilt title to spine of album).

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Privateers in the Caribbean & Bristol merchants.- An outstanding archive of printed and manuscript material of the 18th and early 19th centuries relating to Privateers, Bristol merchants and shipping, and shipping insurance, c.1750-1830 [the majority 18th century].  

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Privateers in the Caribbean & Bristol merchants.- An outstanding archive of printed and manuscript material of the 18th and early 19th centuries relating to Privateers, Bristol merchants and shipping, and shipping insurance, including 10 unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues for the sale of cargoes captured by British privateers, most with ms. prices or notes and some with buyer's names, Bristol, 1756-1768; 7 printed insurance documents with ms. insertions insuring the ships of Samuel Munckley (1720-1802, Bristol slave trader, merchant and ship owner) for voyages to Jamaica, Madeira, Hamburg and Riga, c.1746-1749; a group of 6 promissory notes with ms. insertions on behalf of Samuel Munckley, 1759; a small group of trading and personal correspondence relating to Thomas and James Tierney and Elton & Noble, c.1750; a small group of contemporary newspaper clippings announcing the cargo auctions and selling places for passengers and cargo to locations including Philadelphia and Baltimore, c.1759-1763; sections of insurance documents with ms. insertions for various merchants including a William Burch and Alexander Smith; a good group of printed (with ms. insertions) bills of lading for numerous vessels, c.1769-1782; a broadside account of the life and injustices facing 'Francis Oliver, the son of a Spaniard, went at 17 years of age, to settle in the colony of St. Domingo', referring to the slave uprising there and his subsequent flight to Baltimore, ?Bristol, c.1803; ms. copies of Custom House entries for ships bound for Jamaica and Africa, date of voyages c.1712-1717; along with various other receipts, indentures, and related documents, together c.115 pieces, some tears and holes with occasional loss, some staining and soiling, all mounted in a 19th century half morocco album, spine gilt, worn at extremities, rubbed, folio, c.1750-1830 [the majority 18th century]

A fascinating and extensive documentary history of one of Britain's major trading ports in the mid- to late-eighteenth century, and of the operations of the privateers who used it. With much detail of individual vessels, their owners, cargos and trade routes (including the Caribbean and America); along with an insight into the sale of goods once landed and the merchants involved in this process, as seen through 10 superb unrecorded coffee house auction catalogues.

Provenance: 'Weare's Bristol Collection Vol. IV' (gilt title to spine of album).

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