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RADISSON PIERRE-ESPRIT: (1636/40-1710) French courer des bois and explorer in New France.
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RADISSON PIERRE-ESPRIT: (1636/40-1710) French courer des bois and explorer in New France. A remarkable and extraordinarily rare D.S., Radisson, two pages, folio, Rouen, 19th April 1655, and Quebec, 12th October 1655, in Middle French. The manuscript document is consituted of two distinct parts, the first being an agreement between the merchant Le Barbier of Rouen and Etienne Le Forestier of Quebec, for goods to be transported on the vessel Les armes de Nimiereques, stating, in part, ´[Je sous] signé recongnois et confesse que les marchandises.....chargés a mon nom, savoir une baricque de mercerie NB......de draperie NC.ND.NE.NF.NG et une balle de thoille NA.....marqué comme cy a costé, dedans le navire.....les armes de Nimiereques cappitaine et maistre......Richard (?) Frederic Dincuse de pres cy devant Rouen pour faire le voyage....Quebec pays de la Nouvelle France sont pour compte et risques....de Estienne Le Forestier et Compaignie jusqu´au lieu de Quebec.....´ (Translation: ´[I, the undersigned] acknowledge and confess that the goods... loaded in my name, namely a barrel of haberdashery NB... of drapery NC.ND.NE.NF.NG and a bale of cloth NA... marked as hereinafter, inside the ship... the arms of Nimiereques, captain and master... Richard (?) Frederic Dincuse of Rouen, to make the voyage...Quebec, in the province of New France, are for the account and risk of Estienne Le Forestier and Company until the place of Quebec...at which place the said Le Forestier and Company have orders to take delivery of the goods in the ship because this will exempt them from all import duties and other costs that may be incurred in the country for the discharge of the said goods and for the payment of the said goods, I hereby submit and undertake to give sixty per cent in profit to the said Le Forestier....in accordance with the order I have made at the bottom of the said bills, which sixty per cent, together with the amount of the said goods, with the costs incurred on board in accordance with the said bills, I undertake to deliver to Le Forestier and Company or to his order, fifteen days after the arrival of the ship, the total amount of the above-mentioned value, both for the principal and for the profit, in good, loyal and merchantable beaver, namely half and up to two thirds, if possible, in very good, fat beaver and not of a lesser kind, at fourteen pounds per pound, and half or one third in very good, dry and merchantable beaver at six pounds per pound, all delivered and in the ship, free of all exit duties and generally of all other duties, if any, including exemption from the costs and damage of the said castors until they reach France, as also in the above agreement and conditions, I undertake and oblige myself to receive from Le Forestier and Company or at their order from the ship... named Le Sacrifice d'Abraham, captain...Guillaume Poullet of Dieppe, present at La Rochelle, shall deliver the goods he has received from this city by the messenger and other person he has given orders to send from Paris by the messenger who is going directly to La Rochelle in accordance with the order I have made at the bottom of the said invoices, which shall include and add the port charges from here to Paris to La Rochelle and all other duties and expenses until the said goods are returned on board, with the exception of the ... and insurance, which shall not be counted or included in the said invoices for the said ships, in witness whereof I have signed this triplicate document, one copy to be retained and the other of equal value in Rouen....´). Signed by both Le Barbier and Le Forestier at the conclusion, each with a paraph manu propria. Having made the voyage from Rouen to Quebec, a supplementary deed is appended to the document on 12th October 1655, in part, ´Advenant le douziesme jour d´octobre mil six cent cinquante cinq sont compareus par devant moy, secretaire du Conseil estably par le Roy a Quebec, notaire en la Nouvelle France at tesmoing soussigés le sieur Germain Le Barbier et Pierre Le Forestier, lesquels ont consenty et deuclare daccord par ensemble de ce qui suit scavoir ledit.......de Estienne Forestier son frere......par devant Maurice et Borel, tabellions royaux audit Rouen, en datte di dix neufviesme jour avril mil six cent cinquante cinq laquelle il nous a monstrée et exhibée et icelle rendue qui....quil soit spéciffié par le concordat en l´autre part que ledit Pierre Germain Le Barbier seroit obligé de payer audit Forestier les marchandises....quinze jours après l´arrivée en France....Paris moyennant la livraison qui luy en serait faite, ledit sieur Forestier recognoist quil n´a livré aucune marchandise audit sieur Le Barbier et que, partant, il a deuclaré d´accord que le concordat soit nulle tant de sa part que de la part dudit sieur promettant.......fait et passé à Quebecq le jour et an susdit, en pressence de Pierre François tesmoing et Pierre Radisson tesmoing soussignés avec les parties´ (Translation: ´On the twelfth day of October, sixteen hundred and fifty-five, appeared before me, secretary of the Council established by the King in Quebec, notary in New France, and witnessed by the undersigned Germain Le Barbier and Pierre Le Forestier, who have agreed and declared in agreement with each other as follows, namely that the said......Estienne Forestier, his brother......before Maurice and Borel, royal notaries in Rouen, on the nineteenth day of April, sixteen hundred and fifty-five, which he showed and presented to us and which was returned to him, which....is specified in the agreement in the other part, that the said Pierre Germain Le Barbier would be obliged to pay the said Forestier for the goods....fifteen days after arrival in France....Paris upon delivery thereof to him, the said Sieur Forestier acknowledges that he has not delivered any merchandise to the said Sieur Le Barbier and that, therefore, he has declared that the agreement is null and void both on his part and on the part of the said Sieur.......Done and executed in Quebec on the day and year above stated, in the presence of Pierre François, witness, and Pierre Radisson, witness, who have signed with the parties´). Signed (´Radisson´) at the conclusion by Pierre.Esprit Radisson and other witnesses and officials, as well as Pierre Le Forestier and Le Barbier, again with their paraph manu propria. With blank integral leaf. An exceptional document relating to Transatlantic commerce in the 17th century, greatly enhanced by the extremely rare (and attractive) signature of the entrepreneurial Radisson. Some light dampstaining to the edges (as can only be expected for a document of this age which spent months crossing the oceans) and some areas of paper loss to the upper edge, none of which significantly affect the text or signatures, GOWING TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION FOR THIS LOT CAN NOT BE DISPLAYED - PLEASE CONTACT IAA EUROPE DIRECTLY FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
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RADISSON PIERRE-ESPRIT: (1636/40-1710) French courer des bois and explorer in New France. A remarkable and extraordinarily rare D.S., Radisson, two pages, folio, Rouen, 19th April 1655, and Quebec, 12th October 1655, in Middle French. The manuscript document is consituted of two distinct parts, the first being an agreement between the merchant Le Barbier of Rouen and Etienne Le Forestier of Quebec, for goods to be transported on the vessel Les armes de Nimiereques, stating, in part, ´[Je sous] signé recongnois et confesse que les marchandises.....chargés a mon nom, savoir une baricque de mercerie NB......de draperie NC.ND.NE.NF.NG et une balle de thoille NA.....marqué comme cy a costé, dedans le navire.....les armes de Nimiereques cappitaine et maistre......Richard (?) Frederic Dincuse de pres cy devant Rouen pour faire le voyage....Quebec pays de la Nouvelle France sont pour compte et risques....de Estienne Le Forestier et Compaignie jusqu´au lieu de Quebec.....´ (Translation: ´[I, the undersigned] acknowledge and confess that the goods... loaded in my name, namely a barrel of haberdashery NB... of drapery NC.ND.NE.NF.NG and a bale of cloth NA... marked as hereinafter, inside the ship... the arms of Nimiereques, captain and master... Richard (?) Frederic Dincuse of Rouen, to make the voyage...Quebec, in the province of New France, are for the account and risk of Estienne Le Forestier and Company until the place of Quebec...at which place the said Le Forestier and Company have orders to take delivery of the goods in the ship because this will exempt them from all import duties and other costs that may be incurred in the country for the discharge of the said goods and for the payment of the said goods, I hereby submit and undertake to give sixty per cent in profit to the said Le Forestier....in accordance with the order I have made at the bottom of the said bills, which sixty per cent, together with the amount of the said goods, with the costs incurred on board in accordance with the said bills, I undertake to deliver to Le Forestier and Company or to his order, fifteen days after the arrival of the ship, the total amount of the above-mentioned value, both for the principal and for the profit, in good, loyal and merchantable beaver, namely half and up to two thirds, if possible, in very good, fat beaver and not of a lesser kind, at fourteen pounds per pound, and half or one third in very good, dry and merchantable beaver at six pounds per pound, all delivered and in the ship, free of all exit duties and generally of all other duties, if any, including exemption from the costs and damage of the said castors until they reach France, as also in the above agreement and conditions, I undertake and oblige myself to receive from Le Forestier and Company or at their order from the ship... named Le Sacrifice d'Abraham, captain...Guillaume Poullet of Dieppe, present at La Rochelle, shall deliver the goods he has received from this city by the messenger and other person he has given orders to send from Paris by the messenger who is going directly to La Rochelle in accordance with the order I have made at the bottom of the said invoices, which shall include and add the port charges from here to Paris to La Rochelle and all other duties and expenses until the said goods are returned on board, with the exception of the ... and insurance, which shall not be counted or included in the said invoices for the said ships, in witness whereof I have signed this triplicate document, one copy to be retained and the other of equal value in Rouen....´). Signed by both Le Barbier and Le Forestier at the conclusion, each with a paraph manu propria. Having made the voyage from Rouen to Quebec, a supplementary deed is appended to the document on 12th October 1655, in part, ´Advenant le douziesme jour d´octobre mil six cent cinquante cinq sont compareus par devant moy, secretaire du Conseil estably par le Roy a Quebec, notaire en la Nouvelle France at tesmoing soussigés le sieur Germain Le Barbier et Pierre Le Forestier, lesquels ont consenty et deuclare daccord par ensemble de ce qui suit scavoir ledit.......de Estienne Forestier son frere......par devant Maurice et Borel, tabellions royaux audit Rouen, en datte di dix neufviesme jour avril mil six cent cinquante cinq laquelle il nous a monstrée et exhibée et icelle rendue qui....quil soit spéciffié par le concordat en l´autre part que ledit Pierre Germain Le Barbier seroit obligé de payer audit Forestier les marchandises....quinze jours après l´arrivée en France....Paris moyennant la livraison qui luy en serait faite, ledit sieur Forestier recognoist quil n´a livré aucune marchandise audit sieur Le Barbier et que, partant, il a deuclaré d´accord que le concordat soit nulle tant de sa part que de la part dudit sieur promettant.......fait et passé à Quebecq le jour et an susdit, en pressence de Pierre François tesmoing et Pierre Radisson tesmoing soussignés avec les parties´ (Translation: ´On the twelfth day of October, sixteen hundred and fifty-five, appeared before me, secretary of the Council established by the King in Quebec, notary in New France, and witnessed by the undersigned Germain Le Barbier and Pierre Le Forestier, who have agreed and declared in agreement with each other as follows, namely that the said......Estienne Forestier, his brother......before Maurice and Borel, royal notaries in Rouen, on the nineteenth day of April, sixteen hundred and fifty-five, which he showed and presented to us and which was returned to him, which....is specified in the agreement in the other part, that the said Pierre Germain Le Barbier would be obliged to pay the said Forestier for the goods....fifteen days after arrival in France....Paris upon delivery thereof to him, the said Sieur Forestier acknowledges that he has not delivered any merchandise to the said Sieur Le Barbier and that, therefore, he has declared that the agreement is null and void both on his part and on the part of the said Sieur.......Done and executed in Quebec on the day and year above stated, in the presence of Pierre François, witness, and Pierre Radisson, witness, who have signed with the parties´). Signed (´Radisson´) at the conclusion by Pierre.Esprit Radisson and other witnesses and officials, as well as Pierre Le Forestier and Le Barbier, again with their paraph manu propria. With blank integral leaf. An exceptional document relating to Transatlantic commerce in the 17th century, greatly enhanced by the extremely rare (and attractive) signature of the entrepreneurial Radisson. Some light dampstaining to the edges (as can only be expected for a document of this age which spent months crossing the oceans) and some areas of paper loss to the upper edge, none of which significantly affect the text or signatures, GOWING TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION FOR THIS LOT CAN NOT BE DISPLAYED - PLEASE CONTACT IAA EUROPE DIRECTLY FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
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