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;) | AYRE John The Caribbean in Sepia: A History in Photographs, 1840-1900 Every Generation Media (2012) 303pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. The contents bound upside down. Very fine work on early photography in the Caribbean. Includes profiles of the photographers. | £120.00 |
;) | HUTCHINSON William F. Under the Southern Cross. A guide to the Sanitariums and other Charming Places in the West Indies and Spanish Main. Providence (1892) 231pp + plates and adverts. Fine in original pictorial cloth. Many attractive line drawings in text. Chapters on many of the islands. | £40.00 |
;) | DOBSON David Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607-1785 University of Georgia Press (2004) 266pp. Fine in card covers. Includes information on the West Indies. | £18.00 |
;) ;) | ALCEDO, Antonio de and THOMPSON, George A. (translator and editor) The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies. Containing an entire translation of the Spanish work. With large additions and compilations from modern voyages and travels, and from original and authentic information. London Printed for James Carpenter, and others (1812) 5 vols. 1st ed., ex Ramsgate Monastery library with small h/s's on inside covers otherwise without any marks. Original boards with later spines and paper labels. Light foxing throughout. Front end paper of vol. 4 missing. Complete text without the atlas. First edition in English, first published in Madrid as "Diccionario geografico-historico de las Indias Occidentales ó America: es a saber: de los reynos del Peru, Nueva Espana, Tierra Firme, Chile, y Nuevo reyno de Granada" from 1786 to 1789. A series of folding maps of the Americas by Aaron Arrowsmith was published to accompany this. Sabin 368. | £600.00 |
;) | CARMICHAEL (A.C.) Mrs Domestic manners and social condition of the white, coloured, and Negro population of the West Indies London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co (1833) 2 vols. 1st ed., viii, (3) - 336pp, (2 blank): iv, (3) - 338pp, complete thus, with the half title in the first volume (none issued to the second) and blank leaf in volume one. 8vo, original cloth backed boards with printed paper spine labels, uncut. Very clean. "The writer was the wife of a planter and resided in St Vincent and Trinidad for five and a half years commencing in 1821. The writer is extremely pro-colonial, whitewashes the estate owners of all charges brought against them and finds little that is good in the negro character." Ragatz | £850.00 |
;) | McQUADE James The cruise of the Montauk - to Bermuda, the West Indies and Florida. Thomas R. Knox & Co., New York (1884) xv + 441pp + engraved plates. Very clean in original pictorial cloth, front hinge shaken. Description of cruise calling at Bermuda, St Kitts, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Trinidad, Curacao, Jamaica and Cuba, illustrated with attractive wood engravings. | £60.00 |
;) | WEST INDIES The West Indies and Caribbean Year Book 1941-2. Thomas Skinner & Co, London (1942) 497 large pp + folding map and ads. 1st ed., clean in worn original orange cloth binding. Very useful guide with lists of estate owners and officials and with many maps and photo illustrations plus good gazetteer. | £40.00 |
;) | ANON Caribbean Tourist Trade. - A regional approach. Anglo-American Caribbean Commission (1945) 171pp + folding map. 1st ed., clean in worn and chipped card covers. Descriptions of the tourist attractions on the islands. | £8.00 |
;) | RHONE Trevor Old Story Time and Smile Orange Longman Publishing Group (2010) 155pp. Fine in card covers. | £6.00 |
;) | WELSH Louise Yonder Awa: Poetry from the Empire Cafe Collective Architecture Ltd (2014) 48pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £24.00 |
;) | BETTON W.G. MELBURNE A handbook or descriptive reader on the British West Indies Liverpool (1897) 40pp. 1st ed., fine in original blue cloth boards. Rare - not recorded by Mitchell. | £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. | £10.00 |
;) | ANON The Case of the Free-Labour British Colonies: Submitted to the British Legislature and British Nation for an Impartial Re-Hearing London: James Madden (1852) xvi + 155pp. 1st ed., fine in original card covers with modern spine. Mostly on British Guiana and Jamaica. Very scarce. | £165.00 |
;) | PATON William A. Down the islands. - A voyage to the Caribbees. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York (1887) xiii + 301 large pp + plates + publisher's ads. 1st ed., clean in original pictorial cloth. Fine descriptions of many of the islands illustrated by photos and very attractive engraved views. Much on Antigua, Barbados, Martinique, St Kitts and St Lucia. A classic early work on the Caribbean. Cundall 2357. | £75.00 |
;) ;) | FOLLETT Helen Islands on guard. Chas. Scribner's Sons, New York (1943) 170 large pp. 1st ed., clean in original pictorial cloth. Guide to the islands with fine photo illustrations giving details of the U.S. bases and effects of the war. | £10.00 |
;) ;) | BAYLEY F.W.N. Four Years' Residence in the West Indies London: William Kidd (1830) xiii + 693pp + plates. 1st ed., very clean in contemporary half calf with marbled boards. | £450.00 |
;) | ALCOCK Frederick West Indies Scenery. Andrew Reid & Co (1910 (circa)) 93pp including 22 colour plates. 1st ed. Clean in slightly stained card covers. 10 x 7.5" | £36.00 |
;) | ELKINTON Thomas A Cruise among the Windward Islands: Being ten letters published to a friend, 1885 Leopold Classic Library (n.d.) 71pp. Facsimile reprint of 1885 ed. Fine in card covers. | £8.00 |
;) | 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 |
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CAMERON John The Wreck Of The West India Steam-Ship Tweed S.P.C.K., London 1847 100pp. 1st ed., original blind-stamped cloth lightly rubbed. A fine copy with the bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst. The Tweed was an R.M.S.P. which had sailed from Southampton in 1846 with mails for the West Indies.
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CAMERON John The Wreck Of The West India Steam-Ship Tweed S.P.C.K., London 1847 100pp. 1st ed., original blind-stamped cloth lightly rubbed. A fine copy with the bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst. The Tweed was an R.M.S.P. which had sailed from Southampton in 1846 with mails for the West Indies.
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