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Davenport, Bishop . GAZETTEER OR GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF NORTH AMERICA AND WEST INDIES
Baltimore 1832 M'Dowell and Son. 8vo., 471pp., color foldout map of U.S. tipped in on front end paper (map wrinkled and some closed tears), a few vignettes in tex, full leather. Good, a bit worn, some browning and spots in text. (a11267)
$185.00Stephen, James. THE SLAVERY OF THE BRITISH WEST INDIA COLONIES DELINEATED AS IT EXISTS BOTH IN LAW AND IN PRACTICE AND COMPARED WITH THE SLAVERY OF OTHER COUNTRIES VOLUME 1 BEING A DELINEATION OF THE STATE IN POINT OF LAW (first edition)
London 1824 first edition. Joseph Butterworth and Son. Volume one is complete in itself. Very much a detailed treatment of slavery; includes vivid descriptions of abuse of slaves. Octavo, 480pp., original cloth with later paper spine. Owner signed. Good, cover faded and worn, leaves gently wrinkled throughout, one leaf has 2 inch marginal tear (no loss of text). Volume 1 only. (a13390)
$100.00 Westermann, J. H. and J. Zonneveld . PHOTO-GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AND LAND CAPABILITY AND LAND USE SURVEY OF THE ISLAND OF BONAIRE (NETHERLAND ANTILLES)
1956. Uitgave van Het Koninklijk Inst voor de tropen. Mededeling No. CXXIII No. 47. Octavo, 101pp., 5 figs, 7 tables, 61 photo illustrations, maps in rear pocket, papercovered boards. Good plus, binding secure; text clean; no ownership marks . (a17335)
$50.00 Campbell, Albert A. . ST. THOMAS NEGROES: A STUDY OF PERSONALITY AND CULTURE
NY 1943. American Psychiatric Association Volume 55, Number 5, Whole No. 253. Author professsor at Northwestern. Octavo, 90pp., wraps. Good, lightly wrinkled. Very Scarce. (a19510)
$95.00 Garrettson, F. P. . A SNAP-SHOT IN THE WEST INDIES A 35 DAY TRIP
Newport 1902 Herald. 12mo., 182pp.,,photo illus., map. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Good, hinges beginning to crack, cover soiled and a bit worn. (a27746)
$130.00 Hall, Edward H. . REMINISCENCES OF DR. JOHN PARK
Worcester 1890. In the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol VII, New Series Part 1, October 21 1890 at pp.69-93. Dr. Park, a surgeon, spent much time in the West Indies. He was also a pioneer in the education of women. Whole issue has several articles. 8vo., wraps. Unopened. Text VG; cover good with small chips and light wear. (a31172d)
$55.00 Eguiluz, Antonio . FATHER GONZALO TENORIO, O.F.M/ AND HIS PROVIDENTIALIST ESCHATOLOGICAL THEORIES ON THE SPANISH INDIES
Washington 1960. In The Americas, A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History, Vol. XVI, Number 4, April 1960 at pp.329-356. Whole issue has several articles. 8vo., wraps. VG. (a35160a)
$35.00Weed, Thurlow. LETTERS FROM EUROPE AND THE WEST INDIES 1843-1862
Albany 1866 first edition. Weed, Parsons. Hardcover. Large Octavo, 805pp., 3/4 leather with matching marbled boards, end papers and fore-edges. Letters from Europe, 1843, pp. 1-307; from West Indies 1844-4, pp. 315-99; from Europe 1851-52 and 1861-62, pp. 407-797; Letter to New York Common Council 1862, pp.798-805. Name in gilt at heel of spine (S. W. Updike.) Near Fine, text clean and bright; almost no wear at all. Lovely condition! (a39237)
$160.00 Hiss, Philip Hanson . A SELECTIVE GUIDE TO THE ENGLISH LITERATURE ON THE NETHERLANDS WEST INDIES WITH A SUPPLEMENT ON BRITISH GUIANA
NY 1943 Netherlands Information Bureau. 8vo., 129pp., wraps. VG. (a41172)
$27.00 Ford, Worthington Chauncey . LIST OF THE VERNON-WAGER MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Washington 1904 GPO. These eighteenth century papers cover a very interesting period in the history of the English operations in the West Indies. The expedition against Cartagena and Cuba, a proposed expedition against Georgia and Florida and the attempts to suppress piracy. ...(T)he slave trade, the commercial operations of the South Sea Company and much relating to Jamaica, the Bahamas and Nova Scotia. (p. 5) 4to., 148pp., 3 photo illustrations of the documents, index, cloth. Institution bookplate and blind stamp. Good, light wear. (a48611)
$39.00 Hood, C. I. . HOOD'S PHOTOS OF THE WORLD - WEST INDIES
Lowell n.d. (c.1900). 10 photo views (4 of which are of Cuba) , all view identified with text on verso. Photos 4-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches and are individually printed on medium heavy stock and are cased in original printed envelope (printed on both sides.) Fine in Good envelope. (a51924)
$25.00 Hearn, Lafcadio . TWO YEARS IN THE FRENCH WEST INDIES
NY 1890 1st Harper. 8vo., 431pp., illustrations, decorated green cloth with oval design on front board. Good plus, light cover soiling, end papers stained. (a51964)
$325.00 Chamberlin, S. E. ; H.J. Abbott and F. M. Endlich . REPORT ON THE METHODS OF MANUFACTURING SUGARS IN WEST INDIA ISLANDS AND BRITISH GUIANA
Washington 1880. Treasury Department report, 8vo., 61pp., new wraps. Three binding puncture holes along left margin. Good. (a54096)
$35.00 Champlain, Samuel . NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE WEST INDIES AND MEXICO IN THE YEARS 1599-1602 WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
NY c. 1970. Franklin reprint of original Hakluyt Society edition. Translated ...with biographical notices and notes by Alice Wilmere. Edited by Norton Shaw. Hardcover. Octavo, xcix, 48pp., illustrations, blue grey cloth. VG, light spotting on endpapers. (a58217)
$145.00 Eves, C. Washington . THE WEST INDIES
London 1893 3rd Sampson Low Marston. Hardcover. Small octavo,, 351pp., woodcut illustrations, 9 large color folding maps, bright red cloth with gilt picture and lettering on front and lettering on spine. All edges gilt, Good, new end papers, spine ends professionally reinforce, spine and corners a bit worn. Scarce. (a58377)
$190.00(slave trade). THE ASSIENTO ADJUSTED BETWEEN THEIR BRITANNICK AND CATHOLICK MAJESTIES FOR THE ENGLISH COMPANY'S OBLIGING ITSELF TO SUPPLY THE SPANISH WEST-INDIES WITH BLACK SLAVES ...TO SUPPLY THE SPANISH WEST-INDIES WITH BLACK SLAVES FOR THE TERM OF THIRTY YEARS TO COMMENCE ON THE FIRST DAY OF MAY OF THIS PRESENT YEAR 1713 AND TO END ON THE LIKE DAY OF THE YEAR 1743. ASSIENTO AJUSTADO ENTRE LAS DOS MAJESTADES CATHOLICA Y BRETANICA SOBRE ENCARGARFE LA COMPANIA DE INGLATERRA DE LA INTRODUCION DES ESCLAVOS NEGROS EN LA AMERICA ESPANOLA ...
1713 first edition. sm4to., 48pp. (double column text - left hand column in Spanish and right-hand in English), in plain (original?) wraps. Some ink numerical notation on final text pages written on top of text . Fairly Good, inner margin has two-inch area of wear and chipping (no loss to text), some water staining on final pages (does not affect legibility). Lacks original titlepage however text is complete. Rare and important original document in slave trade. (a61351)
$1400.00 (missionary) . MISSIONARY ANECDOTES SERIES FIRST
Philadelphia (c. 1850) American Sunday-School Union. The Islands of the Pacific; India and Burmah; China; North Africa and Turkey; South Africa and Madagascar; North America and the West Indies. 12mo., 233pp., frontis illustration of Chinese prayer wheel index, gilt decorated purple cloth hardcover. Good, occasional light foxing, front cover almost faded to grey. Scarce. (a62196)
$160.00 Venables, General . THE NARRATIVE OF GENERAL VENABLES WITH AN APPENDIX OF PAPERS RELATING TO THE EXPEDITION TO THE WEST INDIES AND THE CONQUEST OF JAMAICA 1654-1655
London 1900 1st Longmans Green. Edited for the Royal Historical Society by C. H. Firth. Square octavo, 180pp., original brown cloth hardcover with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine, (a66260)
$145.00McQuade, James. THE CRUISE OF THE MONTAUK TO BERMUDA, THE WEST INDIES AND FLORIDA
New York 1885 (1884) Knox. Octavo, 441pp., full pictorial brown cloth. VG slight wear; hinges not cracked in or out. no dj. (a67816)
$38.00 Maas, C. . WHY DON'T YOU TRY IT, MON?
c. 1950. Privately Printed Memoir of two week sailing trip in Windward Islands, British West Indies by Mrs. Stanley E. Maas. 4to., 37pp., plastic spiral binding with pictorial front wrap. 37p. Small ink note from C. Maas on front end paper. VG plus. (a68130)
$45.00 Aspinall, Sir Algernon . THE POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES
NY 1931 Brentano's. British Guiana, British Honduras, Bermuda, Spanish Main, Surinam and the Panama Canal. 12mo., 500pp.,color maps, advertisements, lime green cloth hardcover. Good, spine browned and a bit worn. (a68240)
$23.00 (west indies) . ACT TO ENCOURAGE THE SUBJECTS OF FOREIGN STATES TO LEND MONEY
London 1773 Charles Eyre and William Strahan. Upon the security of freehold or Leasehold Estates, in many of His Majesty's Colonies in the West Indies; and to render the Securities granted to such Aliens effectual for recovering payment of the money to be lent, by sale of such freehold or leashold estates. 4to., pp.299-306, removed from volume and rebound in later plain wraps. Three binding holes in left margin. VG. (a7170)
$95.00 Stokes, Anson Phelps . CRUISING IN THE WEST INDIES, &
NY 1902 1st Dodd Mead. Yachting in the West Indies. Hardcover. Small octavo, 126pp., large foldout map, white cloth. Bookplate of William John Matheson. VG, light wear, cover foxed. (a71817)
$30.00 Lawson, Philip (editor) . PARLIAMENT AND THE ATLANTIC EMPIRE
1995 1st Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-7486-062809. Includes: Philip Lawson- The Many Faces of Parliament's Role in Anglo-American History to 1783; Ian Steele - The British Parliament and the Atlantic Colonies to 1760. Octavo, 102pp., wraps. Near Fine. (a75117)
$95.00 (religion) . THE UNITED BRETHREN'S MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCER AND RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY 4 SEPARATE ISSUES 1826-1828
1826- 1828. Four issues, each octavo about 40pp., in original printed stringbound wraps. Issues for 1st, 3rd and 4th Quarters 1826, and 1st Quarter of 1828. One has contemporary signature of Miss G. Parker. Each issue has discard stamp of Historical Society on the title page. Good with some wear, fraying of most edges and bumping of corners. 4 issues. (a76799)
$100.00 Gurney, Joseph John . FAMILIAR LETTERS TO HENRY CLAY OF KENTUCKY DESCRIBING A WINTER IN THE WEST INDIES
NY 1840 1st Mahlon Day. Hardcover. Mostly on Jamaica, much on slave trade. 8vo., 203pp., cloth hardcover. Good, original spine label remounted on later paper spine, corners worn and bent, somewhat foxed throughout. (a7852)
$49.00 Spencer, J W; Lobley, J. Logan . ON THE GEOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIP OF THE VOLCANOES OF THE WEST INDIES; VOLCANIC ACTION AND THE WEST INDIAN ERUPTIONS OF 1902
1903. Two articles at p. 198-228, removed from the Journal of Transactions of the Victoria Institute and rebound in later wraps. VG. (a85864)
$35.00Trelease, William. AGAVE IN THE WEST INDIES
Washington 1913 first edition. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences Volume XI. Hardcover. Large 4to. 55p. plus Plates A-E and 116 fullpage photo plates, 7 text figures, cloth. VG, cloth worn off extreme corner of top righthand cover. No ownership marks. (a87702)
$45.00 Siler, J F . MEDICAL NOTES ON BARBADOS, BRITISH WEST INDIES; PART TWO PELLAGRA IN BARBADOS
pp. 46-63 and 186-221 in two complete issues of The America Journal of Tropical Diseases, July and October 1915. Original green printed wraps. large octavo. Other articles in issues as well. Good, lower right corner of front cover torn off; medical society stamp on covers. Two issues: (a89526)
$35.00 Warburton, Eliot . HOCHELAGA; OR, ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD
NY 1848 John Wiley. Warburton, an Irishman who travelled in Canada in 1844, wrote several well-received travel books and died in January of 1852 during a fire aboard a ship near the West Indies. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo., 198pp., boards. Owner bookplate. Old owner bookplate. Good, worn, spine ends torn, foxing. (a9208)
$65.00