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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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;) | STARK J.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 their history, inhabitants, climate, agriculture, geology, government and resources. Boston (1890) 157pp + ads + fine photo plates and two folding maps. Original pictorial cloth faded and slightly stained. Very good early guide book. | £50.00 |
;) | RUTTER Owen At the Three Sugar Loaves and Crown. A brief history of the firm of Messrs. Davison, Newman & Company - now incorporated with the West Indian Produce Association Limited. Davison, Newman & Co (1938) 39pp + plates. 1st ed., clean in original boards. History of London shop established in 1650 selling West Indian produce. Chapter on Rose Hall Estate in St Thomas in the Vale, Jamaica. | £18.00 |
;) ;) | ANDRE Eugene A Naturalist in the Guianas. Smith, Elder & Co., London (1904) xiv + 310pp + plates and folding map. 1st ed., a very clean copy in original pictorial cloth, former owner's name on half title. The author travelled from Trinidad up the Macareo River in Venezuela and then the Orinoco River to Ciudad Bolivar and beyond. Fine photo plates and including two fine chromo litho bird plates. | £40.00 |
;) | RILEY Norman D. A Field Guide to the Butterflies of the West Indies. Collins (1975) 224pp + 24 colour plates. 1st ed., very fine in very good D/W. | £12.00 |
;) | BOND James Birds of the West Indies. Collins (1979) 256pp + plates. 4th ed., fine in pictorial boards. | £10.00 |
;) ;) | EGGLESTON George T. Virgin Islands. - Wherein are described in detail the islands, harbors, people, history, weather, passages and facilities, together with many beautiful pictures and some charts. D. Van Nostrand Co., Princetown (1959) 208 large pp + folding map. 1st ed. Fine in original cloth. 8 x 10" Travels through the islands, both British and American. Fine photo illustrations | £15.00 |
;) ;) | HENDERSON John Jamaica - Peeps at many lands A. & C. Black (1906) 87pp + 24 colour plates of paintings by A.S. Forrest. 1st ed., clean with some tone spotting to page edges and more to half title and end papers in worn pictorial cloth, spine sunned and rebacked. Attractive views of the island. | £22.00 |
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;) | CHAPMAN Esther and THWAITES Marjorie Pleasure Island. - The book of Jamaica. Arawak Press, Kingston (1961) 324pp + ads. 5th revised ed., clean in D/W. Well illustrated history and guide book covering all aspects of island life. | £5.00 |
;) | FRISSELL Toni Bermuda Peaceful Islands. Bermuda Trade Development Board (1948 (circa)) 20pp + folding map. Fine in paper covers. | £16.00 |
;) | BERMUDA Views of St Georges Bermuda Robert O. Clifford, Bermuda (1900 (circa)) 31pp. Minor foxing to title page otherwise clean in card covers. 9 x 6.5" Photo views of the town | £75.00 |
;) ;) | WEISS Wiliam Bermuda Illustrated Wm Weiss & Co., Hamilton, Bermuda (1910 (circa)) 48pp. Small stain in margin of last few pages otherwise clean in original card covers. 9.75 x 8" Fine photo views of the islands. | £75.00 |
;) | SAVAGE Ernest A. The Libraries of Bermuda, the Bahamas, The British West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, Puerto Rico, and the American Virgin Islands: a report to the Carnegie Corporation of New York Library Association, London (1934) xi + 103pp + plates. 1st ed., ex library with a few small h/s's and labels on end papers, bound in quarter calf retaining original card covers. Very scarce. | £90.00 |
;) | GURNEY J.J. A winter in the West Indies. - Described in familiar letters to Henry Clay, of Kentucky. London (1841) 282pp + 2 engraved views of Jamaica + printer's ads. 3rd ed., very clean apart from the two plates which are toned as usual, in original blind stamped cloth with bumped corners not affecting pages and defect to top of spine. Gurney was a Quaker emancipationist. Chapters on Antigua, Dominica, Jamaica, St Kitts, St Thomas, Tortola and Cuba. | £75.00 |
;) | BRITISH GUIANA AND MAURITIUS Copies of all Orders in Council, or Colonial Ordinances, for the better regulation and enforcement of the relative duties of masters and employers, and articled servants, tradesmen and labourers, in the colonies of British Guiana and Mauritius; and of correspondence relating thereto H.M.S.O. (1838) 138 large pp. 1st ed., disbound, stain to title page otherwise clean. Details for the establishment of the Apprenticeship system following the emancipation of the slaves. | £120.00 |
;) ;) ;) | HALLIDAY Andrew The West Indies: The Natural and Physical History of the Windward and Leeward Colonies; with some account of the Moral, Social, and Political Condition of their inhabitants, immediately before and after the Abolition of Negro Slavery John William Parker, London (1837) viii + 408pp + 3 folding maps and a table. 1st ed., map of Barbados slightly torn along folds but without loss, edges of leaves darkened otherwise clean in half calf with marbled boards. The author was Deputy Inspector General of Army Hospitals and visited Barbados, British Guiana and Trinidad in 1833. | £320.00 |
;) ;) ;) | FOWLER John A Summary Account of the Present Flourishing state of the Respectable Colony of Tobago - in the British West Indies. Illustrated with a map and plan of its settlement, agreeably to the Sales by his Majesty's Commissioners. London: Printed for A. Grant, Catherine Street, Strand (1774) 80pp + detailed hand coloured folding map in pocket at rear. 1st ed. very fine in old quarter calf with marbled boards. The map has been reinforced on the back but is complete and in fine condition. 22.5 x 17" Gives a detailed record of property sales from 1766 and shows the lots still available for purchase together with information on the state of the island. The map, which is dated 1773, is similar to the 1776 Byres plan but smaller and is unrecorded by Tooley. Ragatz p. 224; Sabin, 25309. | £12,500.00 |
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Links to other West Indies sites
Family history of Jamaica
http://www.mymynton.com/index.htm
Sources of genealogy and historical information