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[NASSEY, David de Isaac Cohen, and others]. Essai historique sur la Colonie de Surinam, sa fondation, ses revolutions, ses progrès ... avec l'Histoire de la Nation Juive Portugaise & Allemande y établie. Paramaribo, 1788.
8o (205 x 127 mm). Two parts in one, separately titled and paginated. (Small wormhole in first title, not affecting text, several gatherings with pale dampstaining). 19th-century quarter cloth, marbled boards (upper cover corner bumped, lightly rubbed). Provenance: Frederik Muller (bookseller's label).
FIRST EDITION OF "THE EARLIEST KNOWN WORK PRINTED AT PARAMARIBO" (Sabin) and an early record of Jewish Surinam. Paramaribo, the capital, largest city and chief port of Surinam (formerly Dutch Guiana), originated as an Indian village that became a French settlement (ca. 1640) and was later the site of an English colony established in 1651 by Lord Willoughby of Parham. In 1667 Paramaribo was one of the settlements ceded to the Dutch under the Treaty of Breda, commencing the period of Dutch colonial rule that was interrupted only by brief periods of British control (1799-1802 and 1804-15).
In the mid 17th-century, a group of prosperous Jewish exiles who had been established in Brazil before the Dutch were pushed out by the Portuguese in 1644, decided to make their home elsewhere in America, rather than to return to Holland. Under the direction of David Nassy, they obtained a charter from the West India Company in 1659 to establish a colony in Cayenne (later French Guiana). In 1664 they were expulsed from Cayenne by a company of French colonists (Christian and Jewish) from La Rochelle, and the colony moved to Surinam, at the time in English possession. This important book on a lesser-known episode of American colonization, written by a descendent of David Nassey and other regents of the Jewish colony of Surinam, contains a valuable record of the Jewish settlement there, including a table of annual exports for the years 1700-1788 and transcriptions of the original charter and other documents. Sabin 51894.
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FIRST EDITION OF "THE EARLIEST KNOWN WORK PRINTED AT PARAMARIBO" (Sabin) and an early record of Jewish Surinam. Paramaribo, the capital, largest city and chief port of Surinam (formerly Dutch Guiana), originated as an Indian village that became a French settlement (ca. 1640) and was later the site of an English colony established in 1651 by Lord Willoughby of Parham. In 1667 Paramaribo was one of the settlements ceded to the Dutch under the Treaty of Breda, commencing the period of Dutch colonial rule that was interrupted only by brief periods of British control (1799-1802 and 1804-15).
In the mid 17th-century, a group of prosperous Jewish exiles who had been established in Brazil before the Dutch were pushed out by the Portuguese in 1644, decided to make their home elsewhere in America, rather than to return to Holland. Under the direction of David Nassy, they obtained a charter from the West India Company in 1659 to establish a colony in Cayenne (later French Guiana). In 1664 they were expulsed from Cayenne by a company of French colonists (Christian and Jewish) from La Rochelle, and the colony moved to Surinam, at the time in English possession. This important book on a lesser-known episode of American colonization, written by a descendent of David Nassey and other regents of the Jewish colony of Surinam, contains a valuable record of the Jewish settlement there, including a table of annual exports for the years 1700-1788 and transcriptions of the original charter and other documents. Sabin 51894.
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