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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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;) | JAMAICA Report for the year 1947. H.M.S.O. (1949) 163pp + plates and folding map. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £24.00 |
;) | BERMUDA Government Tourist brochure. Bermuda Tourist Board (1940) 20pp + foldout map. Fine in pictorial card covers. | £20.00 |
;) | BERMUDA Government Tourist brochure. Bermuda Trade Development Board (1929) 24pp + foldout map. Fine in pictorial card covers. | £20.00 |
;) | BERMUDA Government Tourist brochure. Bermuda Trade Development Board (1930) 28pp + foldout map. Fine in pictorial card covers. | £20.00 |
;) | KIRKE Henry Twenty-five years in British Guiana. London (1898) x + [1] + 364pp + plates and coloured folding map. 1st ed., inscribed by the author on prelim., some light foxing otherwise clean in original blue cloth. Fascinating account of life in the colony by a British magistrate. | £50.00 |
;) ;) | MARCHANT Sir John Gaspard Le Bermuda 1857. - Reproductions of watercolours by Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant, 1803 - 1874. John Bluck, Netherlands (1973) Brown cloth folder containing 28 reproductions of water colour paintings of Bermuda plus text, 13 x 11" Small defect to base of spine of folder otherwise very fine. A deluxe work and now very elusive. | £350.00 |
;) ;) | BOLINGBROKE Henry A Voyage to the Demerary Containing a Statistical Account of the Settlements There and Those of the Essequebo, the Berbice and Other Continguous Rivers of Guyana Printed For Richard Phillips (1809) 216pp + folding engraved map. Map with a little foxing otherwise clean in modern quarter cloth with marbled boards. The pagination is incorrect as is found on all copies from this edition but is complete. A good description of Guyana and of daily life in the colony with much fascinating detail. Sabin 6182. This edition from Phillips collected voyages & travels. | £145.00 |
;) | 1832 (23 May) An Act to allow the importation of lumber, and of fish and provisions, Duty free, into the islands of Barbadoes, Saint Vincent, and Saint Lucia; - and to indemnify the Governors.. H.M.S.O. 2pp. Fine. | £6.00 |
;) ;) | HOARE Prince Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq.: Composed from his Own Manuscripts, and Other Authentic Documents in the Possession of his Family and of the African Institution London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co (1820) xxxii + 524pp + xxxiii. 1st ed., fine in original half calf, front board detached and marbled boards with some loss. Granville Sharp (1735-1813) was a British campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade. He founded the St George's Bay Company, a forerunner of the Sierra Leone Company to settle black people there. | £750.00 |
;) ;) | BRITISH GUIANA Directory, with Almanack and Diary for the year of our Lord 1871, Demerara: Printed and published by L. M'Dermott, Water Street, Georgetown (1871) 145pp + diary + adverts. 1st ed., fine in original decorated full calf. Includes names of owners of plantations, details of the Post Office with postal rates and the receiving offices for the Georgetown penny post, a trade directory of Georgetown and much more. | £900.00 |
;) | CHIN ALEONG Joe The Picture Postcards of St Vincent and the Grenadines. A checklist and index. Trinidad. (2010) 24pp, fine in card covers. | £6.00 |
;) | ROWE.L.S. (Ed) Haiti Pan American Union (1946) 31pp. Clean in paper covers. Guide to the island. | £12.00 |
;) | PORTO RICO What and where it is Chamber of Commerce of Porto Rico (1923) 15pp. Clean in card covers. | £6.00 |
;) ;) | UNITED FRUIT COMPANY The Cuba Railroad U.F.Co (1915 (circa)) Guide to the railway lines with good map and details of the places along the line. Pp 7 - 50 so lacking prelims but a useful item. | £15.00 |
;) | HAITI A Guide to Haiti, star of the Caribbean Haiti Government Tourist Bureau (1957 (circa)) 64pp. Fine in paper covers. | £24.00 |
;) | CUBA Cuba Ideal Vacation land. Tourist Guide 1951-1952 Cuban Tourist Commission (1951) 96pp + folding map. Fine in original paper covers. | £30.00 |
;) | HAITI Where to go this year. Come to Haiti. New York (1950 (circa)) 14pp folding tourist brochure, one page detached without loss. | £15.00 |
;) | ALCOCK Frederick West Indies Scenery. Andrew Reid & Co (1910 (circa)) 93pp including 21 of 22 colour plates. 1st ed. Clean in card covers. 10 x 7.5" | £30.00 |
;) | BURNS Alan History of the British West Indies. G. Allen & Unwin (1954) 821pp. 1st ed. Very clean in good D/W. Comprehensive history concentrating on period up to 1900. Highly recommended. | £65.00 |
;) | HIGHAM C.S.S. The Development of the Leeward Islands Under the Restoration 1660-1688 Cambridge at the University Press (1921) xiii + 266pp. 1st ed., very clean, still uncut, in worn original cloth. Very scarce. Note pages will need to be separated with a sharp knife. | £90.00 |
Links to other West Indies sites
Family history of Jamaica
http://www.mymynton.com/index.htm
Sources of genealogy and historical information