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‎Précis de L'Origine de la Marche et de la Chute de la Compagnie d'Asie & d'Afrique dand les Ports du Littoral Autrichien.‎

‎ Liège, no publisher, 1785, in-8°, 76 pp + (1)nn pp (errata). Sewn in the original blind blue wrapper. Uncut copy. Nicely printed booklet, all pages within a typographical border. This copy with dustsoiled outer margins and some old waterstains at the end. With (an anymous) manuscript ex-dono from the author (?) to ''Au Bourguemestre D'Anvers Van Den Cruijce ''. (written on the first paste down). Extremely rare contemporary account on the bankrupcy of the socalled Austrian East India Company created by Charles Proli from Antwerp in the Southern-or Austrian Netherlands. This account is written by a well informed insider and was allmost certainly printed in Antwerp (Liège being fictituous). The publication is very rare. We could only trace one physical copy (Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp). . H.Houtman-De Smedt mentions the publication on pp. 281 among the printed sources of her elaborate study on Charles Proli: ''Charles Proli, Antwerps zakenman en bankier 1723 - 1786''... Brussel, Academie, 1983..‎