Companies that are hardly the best of friends...

[INDES ORIENTALES] Dossier sur le différend commercial entre la Compagnie d'Ostende et les compagnies néerlandaises et anglaises des Indes. - Dissertatio secunda De Jure quod competit Societati privilegiatæ foederati Belgii Ad Navigationem & Commercia Indiarum Orientalium ; Adversus Incolas Belgii Hispanici, hodie dicti, Austriaci… - Lettre… à Monsieur Guillaume Pulteney, Membre du Conseil Privé de Sa Majesté Britannique, &c. Dans laquelle on démontre que la Compagnie Imperiale de Commerce & de Navigation, doit être pernicieuse à la Grande-Bretagne & aux Provinces-Unies. Traduites de l'Anglois par F.M.J.

Brand: Eugène Henry Fricx
SKU: 90242
Price: 4000 EUR
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Author: Patrice-François de NENY

[EAST INDIES] Collection of documents concerning the commercial dispute between the Ostend Company and the Dutch and English East India Companies. – Dissertatio secunda De Jure quod competit Societati privilegiatæ foederati Belgii Ad Navigationem & Commercia Indiarum Orientalium; Adversus Incolas Belgii Hispanici, hodie dicti, Austriaci… – Letter… to William Pulteney, Esq., Member of His Britannic Majesty’s Privy Council, &c., demonstrating that the Imperial Company of Commerce and Navigation must prove detrimental to Great Britain and the United Provinces. Translated from the English by F.M.J.

Eugène Henry Fricx • Thomam Johnson • Mathieu Roguet|Brussels • The Hague 1723-1725|18.5 x 24.5 cm|3 volumes reliés en 1

€4,000

⬨ 90242

First editions of each of the pamphlets.

Contemporary full speckled calf binding, smooth spine richly gilt in the grotesque style, beige calf lettering piece, patterned paper endpapers and pastedowns, worn corners, red edges, period binding.

Some rubbing to the spine.

Founded in December 1722 by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, the Imperial Company of Commerce and Navigation established Ostend, in the Austrian Netherlands (roughly present-day Belgium), as its home port and warehouse. However, neighbouring powers, in particular the two Dutch East India Companies and the English East India Company, strongly opposed this new enterprise, which threatened their commercial interests.

This collection comprises three treatises relating to this commercial dispute:

1) [MAC NENY (Patrice)] Refutation des argumens avancés De la part de Mrs les Directeurs des Compagnies d'Orient, & d'Occident des Provinces-unies, contre la liberté du Commerce des habitants des Païs-bas, Sujets de Sa Majesté Imperiale & Catholique dans les Climats éloignés, à pretexte des articles 5. & 6. du Traité de Munster. Printed in Brussels by Eugène Henry Fricx, 1723, (4to, 1 n.p.l., 71 pp.)

Not in Goldsmith nor Kress.

2) WESTERVEEN (Abraham). Dissertatio secunda De Jure quod competit Societati privilegiatae foederati Belgii Ad Navigationem & Commercia Indiarum Orientalium ; Adversus Incolas Belgii Hispanici, hodie dicti, Austriaci… Hagæ Comitum (The Hague), Apud Thomam Johnson, 1724, (4to, 2 n.p.l. title leaves, 63 pp.)

Goldsmith 6293.

3) FORMAN (Charles). Lettre… à Monsieur Guillaume Pulteney, Membre du Conseil Privé de Sa Majesté Britannique, &c. Dans laquelle on démontre que la Compagnie Imperiale de Commerce & de Navigation, doit être pernicieuse à la Grande-Bretagne & aux Provinces-Unies. Traduites de l'Anglois par F.M.J. printed in The Hague by Mathieu Roguet, 1725, (4to, 2 n.p.l., 28 pp.)

It was not until the Treaty of Vienna in 1731 that an agreement was reached whereby the Ostend Company would cease trading in the East Indies.

Provenance: Printed stamp of the library of the Princes of Starhemberg at Eferding Castle on the front free endpaper, with the shelfmark “XI 13” in blue pencil.