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Showing items in West Indies Books - Bahamas
Below is a list of my stock of old secondhand and antiquarian books on Bahamas for sale.
There are a number of early guide books on the Bahamas which I could recommend. Mary Mosely's Bahamas hand book of 1926 is not uncommon and makes a good starting point for a collection. There are few early works on the Out Islands.
Postage and packing is extra but costs are kept to a minimum. On overseas orders I can offer cheap shipping per airmail M Bag service where total weight is over 1.5kg (3lbs) Cost will be advised after you have submitted your order and before payment is taken.
;) | CRATON Michael A-Z of Bahamas Heritage (Macmillan Caribbean A-Zs) Macmillan (2011) viii + 416pp. Fine in card covers. | £9.00 |
;) | RODRIGUEZ Ruth Out Island portraits: Bahamas, 1946-1956. Out Island Press (1978) 114pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Photo views of the Bahamas Out Islands. | £40.00 |
;) | HITCHCOCK A.S. Plants of the Bahamas, Jamaica and Grand Cayman. Missouri Botanical Garden (1893) Contemporary reprint of scientific papers bound in card covers in later library cloth binding. Pages 47 - 179 + 4 plates, complete thus. Original card cover loose and browned. | £60.00 |
;) | DODGE Steve and MALONE Vernon A Guide and History of Hope Town. White Sound Press (1985) 48pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £7.00 |
;) ;) | BRUCE P.H. Memoirs of Peter Henry Bruce, Esq., - a military officer in the services of Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain, containing an account of his travels in Germany, Russia, Tartary, Turkey, and the West Indies, &c, as also several very interesting private anecdotes of the Czar, Peter 1 of Russia. Dublin (1783) xv + 527pp. 4to. 2nd ed., mostly clean in fine original full calf boards with new spine and label. Includes one of the first detailed accounts of the Bahamas (50pp). | £350.00 |
;) | SUMMERSCALE K. The Queen of Whale Cay. Fourth Estate (1998) 248pp + photo plates. Paperback. Fine. Biography of Joe Carstairs who bought Whale Cay and ran it as her own kingdom in the 1930's. | £4.00 |
;) ;) | UNDERHILL E.B. The West Indies: - Their Social and Religious Condition. Jackson, Walford and Hodder (1862) x + 493pp. 1st ed., lacking front end papers and prelim., title page with tone spots, in worn original green pictorial cloth, corners bumped. Sections on Bahamas, Cuba, Trinidad, Haiti and Jamaica. The tour described in the book was undertaken at the request of the Treasurer and Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society following emancipation. | £75.00 |
;) ;) | JAMAICA The Jamaica Movement, - for promoting the enforcement of the slave-trade treaties, and the suppression of the slave-trade; with statements of fact, convention, and law: prepared at the request of the Kingston Committee. Charles Gilpin, London (1850) 430pp. 1st ed., very fine in orig. boards, re-cased with new spine and end papers. Reports of meetings held around the island of Jamaica by the anti slave trade movement including detailed description of the abduction of negroes from the Bahamas to Cuba. | £275.00 |
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DAVIS John G.M. War Tax Stamps of the British Empire First World War. British West Indies. R.P.S.L. 2009 xii + 400 large pp. 1st ed., two small National PS h/s's on reverse of title page otherwise fine in D/W. Historical background to the issues, study of the overprints and postal use.
£45
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BAHAMAS Nassau Unknown 1935 Original photograph 8 x 6" An early aerial view of Nassau, taken during a tour of the West Indies by H.M.S. York
£18
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PECO Queen's Staircase, Nassau, Bahamas Old Bahamas postcard, circa 1950, fine unused
£3
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Related items available in Stamps and Covers
1952 (10 Oct) Eastern Air Lines airmail cover to New York inscribed, ' First Air Mail ever cancelled at the Columbus Monument San Salvador, Bahamas by Postmaster J.H. Ceslmer.' Stated to be ex Kehr collection.
£15
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DAVIS John G.M. War Tax Stamps of the British Empire First World War. British West Indies. R.P.S.L. 2009 xii + 400 large pp. 1st ed., two small National PS h/s's on reverse of title page otherwise fine in D/W. Historical background to the issues, study of the overprints and postal use.
£45
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Related items available in Maps, Prints, Photographs Ephemera
BAHAMAS Nassau Unknown 1935 Original photograph 8 x 6" An early aerial view of Nassau, taken during a tour of the West Indies by H.M.S. York
£18
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Related items available in Old Picture Postcards
PECO Queen's Staircase, Nassau, Bahamas Old Bahamas postcard, circa 1950, fine unused
£3
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Related items available in Stamps and Covers
1952 (10 Oct) Eastern Air Lines airmail cover to New York inscribed, ' First Air Mail ever cancelled at the Columbus Monument San Salvador, Bahamas by Postmaster J.H. Ceslmer.' Stated to be ex Kehr collection.
£15
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