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![]() ![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | HAMILTON Douglas J. Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820 Manchester University Press (2010) 249pp. Fine in card covers. | £12.00 |
![]() | MOITT Bernard Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848 Indiana University Press (2001) 217pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £14.00 |
![]() | JOHNSON Howard After the Crossing: Immigrants and Minorities in Caribbean Creole Society Frank Cass Publishers (1988) 147pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. | £50.00 |
![]() | IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Cotton Cultivation in the West Indies Advocate & Co., Barbados (1914) 118pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Sea Island cotton | £60.00 |
![]() | ANON Catalogue of the library of the West India Committee West India Committee, London (1941) 125pp. 1st ed., fine in worn original cloth. Very scarce bibliography with detailed listings by island. | £125.00 |
![]() | MACPHERSON Sir John Development and Welfare in the West Indies 1945-46 H.M.S.O. (1947) 162pp. 1st ed., small Colonial Office Library h/s otherwise clean in card covers. | £8.00 |
![]() | LUKE Sir Harry Development and Welfare in the West Indies 1955-1956 H.M.S.O. (1956) 140pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £8.00 |
![]() | LUKE Sir Harry Development and Welfare in the West Indies 1955-1956 H.M.S.O. (1956) 140pp. 1st ed., small Colonial Surveys h/s on cover otherwise clean in card covers. | £8.00 |
![]() ![]() | 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 |
![]() | 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 |