MANUSCRIT - Lot 233

MANUSCRIT [COLONIAL PRODUCTS - TRADE]. BOOK OF RECEPTION INVOICES From Nous F. Rivet Neveux from the archives of an importer in the south of France. Manuscript. S.l. [Marseille ?], s.n. [Maison Rivet et neveux?], 1786-1789, in-folio, vellum covered with green cloth [Contemporary binding]. Title and 127 ff, 1 f.n.ch., 12 ff.n.ch. repertory. Interesting book of shipping invoices for M. Vilare, importer of products from the American colonies. It enables us to follow, day by day, the life of a wholesale trading house at the turn of the century, to reconstruct its purchases and its relations with several trading companies throughout Europe, while experiencing in "real time" the economic ups and downs of an era of change and uncertainty.