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Old and antiquarian books on Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire and Saba for sale.
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![]() ![]() | COCKBURN Sir James Dedicated to the army, and more particularly to the late garrison of St. Eustatius. An authenticated copy of the proceedings on the trial of Lieut. Col. Cockburn, (of the Thirty-fifth Regiment) for the loss of the island of St Eustatius. London: Printed for J. Debrett (1783) [1] + 194pp + folding table + [4] publisher's ads. 1st ed., title page repaired but with some loss otherwise clean in old quarter calf with paste paper boards. Rare. | £475.00 |
![]() | FORTMAN B. DE and MENKMAN W.R. & HUMMELINCK P.W. De West Indische Gids. - April, July and October 1951 and July 1959 issues. Martinus Nijhoff (1951-9) 4 magazines, clean in card covers. 192 + 76pp + plates. Artilces on Curacao and Suriname. | £16.00 |
![]() | ASHER G.M. A Bibliographical & Historical Essay on Dutch Books & Pamphlets Relating to New Netherland & to the Dutch West India Company. N. Israel, Amsterdam (1966) lii + 234pp + 22pp + 23pp + folding map. Fine in original black cloth. | £25.00 |
![]() | LESTER H.Lenton High lights in the West Indies and Mexico. Privately printed (1937) 61pp + 11 photo plates. 1st ed. printed on hand made paper, with signature of author on last page, fine in original cloth. The author describes a cruise from England visiting Madeira, Barbados, Curacao, Panama, Mexico, Miami, Bermuda and the Azores. Very scarce. | £45.00 |
![]() | DE LOOS Dr D. Voortbrengselen van Nederlandsch West-Indie. Haarlem (1900 (circa)) 105pp. 1st ed., fine in damaged paper covers. Listing of plants on the islands. | £25.00 |
![]() | GORDIJN W. Bibliografie van de Nederlandse Antillen. Amsterdam (1975) 271pp. Clean in blue card covers. | £16.00 |
![]() ![]() | ROBINSON W. A Flying Trip to the Tropics. - A record of an ornithological visit to the United States of Colombia, South America and the island of Curacao, West Indies in the year 1892. Cambridge (1895) x + 194pp + 4 coloured plates and many line drawings and two folded maps. 1st ed., fine in worn originial pictorial cloth, slightly shaken. Includes 4 fine coloured chromolitho plates. Much on Curacao including fine folding coloured map and some photo plates of island views. | £225.00 |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | MARTIN K. Westindische skizzen. - Reise-erinnerungen. Leiden (1887) 186 large pp + 22 tinted litho plates and folding map. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Expedition through Suriname, Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire and Venezuela with much on flora and fauna and archaeology illustrated with lovely tinted plates. | £50.00 |
![]() ![]() ![]() | HALL E.T. The Spanish Main; - or, thirty days on the Caribbean. Courier Co., Buffalo (1888) 139pp. 1st ed., lacking f.e.p. otherwise clean in worn pictorial cloth. Much on Curacao and a chapter on Caracas. Many fine engraved views of Curacao. | £120.00 |
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