CORSAIRES - Lot 10

CORSAIRES 28 pieces, and 8 prints, 1742-1827. Procès-verbal of a naval capture off the Canaries by L'Aventurier de Bordeaux (1757). P.S. by Marshal de CASTRIES concerning privateer ships from Saint-Malo (1783). Compte de liquidation et répartition de prises sur la côte de Saint-Domingue (Rochefort 1785, signed by Count Mac-Nemara). Authorization to arm and equip for war a ship in the port of Dunkirk (1793, signed by Monge). Accounts of the liquidation of the capture of the William by the privateer Le Brave (Bordeaux 1801). Judgment on an English prize (Dunkirk 1807). Letters from the Dunkirk police commissioner concerning Americans (1808). Letters and documents concerning shipments and catches in Bayonne, Cette, Dieppe, Nantes, Rochefort, Saint-Brieuc, etc. Printed matter: mémoire des propriétaires du corsaire Le Devoir (1753), arrêt concernant une escadre commandée par La Motte-Piquet (1782), vente de prise par le corsaire le Nantais (1799), liquidations de couses de corsaires (Bordeaux et Saint-Malo 1808, Dunkerque 1810).