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;) | 1868 (31 July) An Act to relieve the consolidated fund from the charge of the salaries of future Bishops, Archdeacons, Ministers and other persons in the West Indies. London 3pp. Fine. | £5.00 |
;) ;) | BUXTON Charles Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet - with selections from his correspondence. John Murray (1851) 614pp + engraved frontispiece + ads. 1st ed., foxing to frontispiece otherwise clean in original cloth with faded spine, rebacked. Biography of Wilberforce's successor who carried the fight for emancipation on to completion. | £30.00 |
;) | ADAMS F.U. Conquest of the Tropics. - The story of the creative enterprises conducted by the United Fruit Co. Doubleday, Page & Co, New York (1914) 368pp with many photo plates. 1st ed. Original cloth slightly worn and slightly shaken, contents fine. Detailed company history. Much on W.I. banana industry. | £36.00 |
;) | WEST INDIES The West India Committee Circular London (1958) 12 issues for the year bound in green library cloth. 352pp + adverts. Fine and scarce. Details of activities in the Caribbean with some good photo views and many good adverts. mostly for apparatus for the sugar industry. | £32.00 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | CAMPBELL John Candid and Impartial Considerations on the Nature of the Sugar Trade; The Comparative Importance of the British and French Islands in the West-Indies: with The Value and Consequence of St. Lucia and Granada, truly stated. London: Printed for R. Baldwin in Pater-noster Row. (1763) 228pp + 3 hand coloured folding maps. 1st ed., minor tears to two of the maps without loss, later end papers otherwise fine in old full calf binding with recent spine. This work is a classic in the field of colonial and Caribbean literature, embodying as it does one of the clearest statements of eighteenth century philosophy regarding the relations which should exist between a metropole and its outlying possessions. (Ragatz) Written just after Britain had acquired Grenada and St Lucia from France following the Peace of Paris. | £900.00 |
;) | U.S. BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES British West Indies and Bermuda; official standard names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names Washington (1955) 157 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Detailed listing of towns, villages, places and islands | £40.00 |
;) ;) | BARCLAYS BANK British West Indies London (1952) 64pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Brief guide to the islands with short sections on each island and good B7 W photo illustrations. | £14.00 |
;) ;) | BARCLAYS BANK The British Caribbean Barclays Bank (1960 (circa)) 105pp. Fine in spiral ring binding. Economic overview of the islands with fine colour and B & W photo plates | £16.00 |
;) ;) ;) | METHODIST CHURCH For Ever Beginning. - Two Hundred Years of Methodism in the Western Area. Literature Department of the Methodist Church (Jamaica District) (1960) vi + 96pp. 1st ed., clean in worn D/W. Well illustrated history with much on Jamaica and the Turks & Caicos Islands. | £50.00 |
;) | MITCHELL Carleton Islands to Windward: Cruising the Caribbees D. Van Nostrand Co (1955) xvi + 295 large pp + plates. 2nd ed., clean in worn and faded original cloth. Chapters on most of the islands. | £14.00 |
;) | MARRYAT Joseph A Reply to the Arguments contained in various publications, recommending an equalization of the duties on East & West Indian Sugar. London : Printed for J.M. Richardson (1823) 111pp. 1st ed., fine, disbound retaining half title. Marryat was the founder of a large commercial house with interests in the trade of Trinidad. 'Opposes equalization and attempts to prove that East India sugar was a slave, not a free-grown, product. Presents arguments on both sides very fully.' [Ragatz p.308] | £75.00 |
;) ;) ;) | ANON Windward Islands 1902. Quebec Steamship Company Ltd (1902) 40pp. Clean in stained card covers. Advertising brochure with photo views of the islands and descriptions of each one. | £50.00 |
;) ;) | TROLLOPE Anthony The West Indies and the Spanish Main. Chapman & Hall, London (1860) iv + 371pp + folding map. 4th ed., clean in worn original blind stamped cloth. Written by the author while on Post Office business in the West Indies to re-organise the Colonial Post Offices and to undertake postal treaties with the Spanish colonies. Much on Jamaica also chapters on Barbados, Bermuda, Cuba, Trinidad and St Thomas. | £120.00 |
;) | HART Richard From Occupation to Independence. - A short history of the peoples of the English speaking Caribbean region. Pluto Press (1998) x + 189pp. 1st ed. Foxing to page edges otherwise clean in original cloth. | £16.00 |
;) | EMMER Pieter C. UNESCO General History of the Caribbean - Volume II: The Caribbean in the 'Long' Sixteenth Century UNESCO Publishing (1999) 344pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £75.00 |
;) | KNIGHT Franklin W. UNESCO General History of the Caribbean - Volume III: Slave Societies of the Caribbean UNESCO Publishing (1997) xvi + 379pp. 1st ed., some foxing to card covers and first and last few pages otherwise clean in card covers. | £25.00 |
;) | HENRY Paget and BUHLE Paul C.L.R. James's Caribbean Duke Uni Press (1992) xvi + 288pp. 1st ed., foxed throughout otherwise clean in card covers. | £5.00 |
;) ;) | GREY Earl The Colonial Policy of Lord John Russell's Administration. Richard Bentley, London (1853) 2 vols. xxvii + 447pp + xii + 508pp. 2nd revised and enlarged ed., clean in modern half calf with marbled boards and new end papers. Faint library h/s on title pages only. Good sections on Guiana, Jamaica, St Lucia and Trinidad and sections on other countries within the Commonwealth. | £200.00 |
;) ;) | WILLYAMS Cooper An account of the campaign in the West Indies, in the year 1794, - under the command of their excellencies Lieut. General Sir Charles Grey, K.B. and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. commanders in chief in the West Indies; with the reduction of the islands of Martinique, St Lucia, Guadeloupe, Marigalante, Desiada, &c. and the events that followed those unparrelled successes, and caused the loss of Guadeloupe. London, printed by T. Bensley for G. Nicol (1796) 149 + [5] + 62 large pp + plan of Fort Bourbon in Martinique and map of the island with two aquatint engravings in text. 4to. 1st ed., a few tone spots otherwise fine in half calf retaining original marbled boards. 9 x 11" The author was a chaplain with the British navy at the time of the occurrence of the events described. Rare. Note this edition does not include the full page acquatint plates. It is printed in a smaller size font and has much smaller margins than the other edition. | £495.00 |
;) ;) | BAIRD Robert Impressions and Experiences of the West Indies and North America in 1849 William Blackwood & Sons (1850) 2 vols. bound in one, vi + 329pp + iv + 315pp + two tinted frontispieces. 1st ed., remarkably clean copy with no foxing, bound in modern quarter calf with marbled boards. Vol 1 gives the author's impressions as he travelled through the Caribbean islands with good sections on Antigua, Cuba, Jamaica, St Kitts Nevis and St Thomas while Vol 2 is concerned with the U.S.A. | £175.00 |
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