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;) | HAY Dr John A Narrative of the Insurrection in the Island of Grenada: Which Took Place in 1795 Lightning Source (2011) 36pp. Fine in card covers. | £10.00 |
;) | TURNBULL Gordon Letters to a Young Planter; Or, Observations on the Management of a Sugar-Plantation. to Which Is Added, the Planter's Kalendar. Written on the Island of Grenada, by an Old Planter Gale Ecco Print editions (n.d.) 58pp. Fine in card covers. Facsimile of 1785 edition | £12.00 |
;) | OBER Frederick A. Camps in the Caribbees: The Adventures of a Naturalist in the Lesser Antilles Lightning Source (n.d.) 93pp. Reprint of C19th edition. Clean in card covers. | £6.00 |
;) | ALLSOPP Richard Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage - with a French and Spanish supplement. Uni of West Indies Press (2003) lxxviii + 697pp. Very fine in card covers. | £22.00 |
;) | BUTTERWORTH William Three Years Adventures, of a Minor, in England, Africa, the West Indies, South Carolina and Georgia Kessinger Publishing (2010) 492pp. Facsimile reprint of 1822 ed., fine in card covers. | £10.00 |
;) | DAVIS Darien J. Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc. (1995) 301pp. Ex Library book with several h/s's but very clean in card covers. | £5.00 |
;) | THESEE Francoise Le Général Donzelot a la Martinique : Vers la fin de l'ancien régime colonial, 1818-1826 Karthala (1997) 246pp + plates. Fine in card covers | £9.00 |
;) | CLYDE David F. Health in Grenada: A Social and Historical Account Vade-Mecum Press (1985) 415pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in D/W. | £20.00 |
;) | ZUILL Eldon & Ann Bermuda Postcards Revisited Hamilton (2006) 48pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £18.00 |
;) | KNIGHT Franklin W. UNESCO General History of the Caribbean - Volume III: Slave Societies of the Caribbean UNESCO Publishing (1997) xvi + 379pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £30.00 |
;) | SCHLOSS Rebecca Hartkopf Sweet liberty: the final days of slavery in Martinique Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (2009) 300pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £15.00 |
;) ;) ;) | CHAMBERLAIN J.N. Souvenir of Nassau, N.P. Photo-Gravures Albertype Co (1904) 18 loose pages of photos of the island. Lacking original cord string which would have held the pages together but easy to fix. Fien in card covers. | £120.00 |
;) | ROSS Jacob Song for Simone and Other Stories Karia Press (1986) 126pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. Collection of stories set in Grenada. | £6.00 |
;) | HUMFREY Michael No Tears for Massa's Day (A Novel of the West Indies) London: John Murray (1987) 192pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. | £12.00 |
;) | DE FREITAS C.L. Department of Agriculture. Summary of a Report on a visit to St Vincent in 1949 by F. Hardy Kingstown, St Vincent (1952) 12pp + coloured map. Clean in paper covers, unbound. | £12.00 |
;) | HAMILTON Douglas J. Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820 Manchester University Press (2010) 249pp. Fine in card covers. | £12.00 |
;) | COLONIAL OFFICE Annual Report on Bermuda for the year 1946 H.M.S.O. (1948) Bound with reports for 1948, 1949-50, 1951-2, 1953-4, 1955-6 and 1957-8. Library label on inside cover otherwise fine in library cloth | £60.00 |
;) ;) | STARK James H. Stark's illustrated Bermuda Guide: - containing a description of everything on or about these places of which the visitor or resident may desire information, including its history, inhabitants, climate, agriculture, geology, government, military and naval establishments Boston (1884) 1st ed., 192pp + fine photo plates and two folding maps. Original worn pictorial cloth. Fronitspiece loose but holding. Very good early guide book. | £120.00 |
;) ;) ;) | LABAT R.P. Voyages aux Isles de L'Amerique - (Antilles) 1693-1705. Editions Duchartre, Paris (1931) 2 vols., 355 + 478pp + plates. Clean in original slightly stained card covers. Early description of the New World with many fine plates. | £40.00 |
;) | HUMFREY Michael Portrait of a sea urchin. - A Caribbean childhood. Collins & Harvill (1979) 208pp. 1st ed., fine in slightly marked D/W. Well written description of life in Grenada between the two world wars. | £4.00 |
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