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There is a surprisingly rich resource of books on the West Indies. Only a few books on the Caribbean are commonly found in bookshops but there are an enormous range of titles in existence. There is a fine online bibliography of West Indies books, mostly sorted by author, compiled by Don Mitchell at http://books.ai
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;) | ANON Bermuda Robert O. Clifford, St Georges, Bermuda (1905) 40pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. 10 x 8" Photo views of the island. | £45.00 |
;) | ANON Sixteen Popular Views of Bermuda H.A. & E. Smith, Hamilton, Bermuda (1905 (circa)) 16pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. 10 x 7" Photo views of the island. | £35.00 |
;) ;) | RENNY Robert An history of Jamaica. - With observations on the climate, scenery, trade, productions, negroes, slave trade, diseases of Europeans, customs, manners and dispositions of the inhabitants. J. Cawthorn, London (1807) xx + 333pp + [2] publisher's catalogue + large folding map. 1st ed. 4to, lacking half title, repair to title page, some sporadic light brown staining throughout. Modern half calf with marbled boards. Very scarce. | £525.00 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | 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 |
;) | KENNEDY Sister Jean de Chantal Biography of a Colonial Town: Hamilton, Bermuda 1790-1897 The Bermuda Book Stores (1963) 400pp + folding maps and plates. 2nd ed., inscription on title page and minor foxing to page edges only otherwise clean in slightly worn D/W. | £12.00 |
;) | 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 |
;) ;) | STEWART John A View of the Past and Present State of Jamaica; - with remarks on the moral and physical condition of slaves, and on the abolition of slavery in the colonies. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd (1823) xiii + 363pp. 1st ed., browning to pages otherwise mostly clean in modern half calf. The author holds that the planters have at times been unfairly accused but that their advocates have also been too prone to vindicate indiscriminately. Approves of abolition but is opposed to sudden emancipation. Supports the work of the sectarists and religious toleration. (Ragatz) | £375.00 |
;) ;) | FRANKLIN James The present state of Hayti, (Saint Domingo), with remarks on its agriculture, commerce, laws, religion, finances, and population London: John Murray (1828) vi + 411pp. 1st ed., clean in old quarter calf. A fine copy. | £275.00 |
;) ;) | MALENFANT Colonel Des Colonies, et particulierement de celle de Saint-Domingue; memoire historique et politique Paris (1814) xii + 334pp + index [2] + errata {1]. 1st ed., slightly browned, in modern half calf with new end papers. Much on Toussaint Louverture. Rare. | £475.00 |
;) | BROWN Charles B. and SAWKINS J.G. Reports on the Physical, Descriptive, and Economic Geology of British Guiana Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office and sold by Longmans, Green, & Co. and Edward Stanford (1875) iv + 297pp + folding map and large folding map in rear pocket. 1st ed., clean in worn original cloth. Former owner name, G.R. Sandbach, on inner cover. | £375.00 |
;) | HAMMOND Norman Lubaantun, 1926-70: The British Museum in British Honduras Trustees of the British Museum (1972) 48pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £10.00 |
;) | BINNEY Marcus Jamaica's Heritage: An Untapped Resource The Mill Press, Kingston (1991) 88 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £18.00 |
;) | SOLA PINTO Geoffrey de Jamaican Houses, a vanishing legacy. (1983) 40 large pp + 40 plates. Clean in D/W. | £14.00 |
;) | BOURNE Gloria The Settler's Handbook for the U.S. Virgin Islands Douglas S. Burns Productions (1987) 114pp. 8th ed., clean in card covers. | £6.00 |
;) | KING Jacqueline A. The Bi-Centennial Handbook 1779 - 1979 Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (1979) vi + 210 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £18.00 |
;) | PARISER Harry S. The Adventure Guide to the Virgin Islands MPC Hunter (1989) 206pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £4.00 |
;) | VIRGIN ISLANDS The Virgin Islands. A description of the commercial value of the Danish West Indies National Bank of Commerce in New York (1917) 34pp + plates. Small library h/s on cover but without any other marks. Clean in card covers. | £15.00 |
;) | JACOBS H.P. Sixty Years of Change, 1806-1866. - Progress and Reaction in Kingston and the countryside. Institute of Jamaica (1973) 122pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in good D/W. | £32.00 |
;) | STYCOS J. Malone and BACK Kurt W. The control of human fertility in Jamaica Cornell University Press (1964) xii + 377pp. 1st ed., minor foxing to page edges otherwise clean in worn D/W. Birth control | £12.00 |
;) | DOWNING E.C. 50 Years - Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the transfer of the Virgin Islands from Denmark to the United States of America, March 31, 1967 St Thomas Friends of Denmark Society (1967) 72 large pp. 1st ed., fine in orange card covers. Historical articles on different aspects of life in the Virgin Islands by various authors. | £8.00 |
Links to other West Indies sites
Family history of Jamaica
http://www.mymynton.com/index.htm
Sources of genealogy and historical information