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Below is a list of my stock of old secondhand and antiquarian books on Barbados for sale.
Notes on Barbados books:-
One of the earliest histories of the island is Frere's 'A short history of Barbados' published in 1768. Important later works include Poyer's 'The history of Barbados' published in 1808 and Schomburgk's 'History of Barbados' published in 1848.
Bajan Things is a new blog on Barbados history with some very good, well researched, articles.
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;) ;) | COLERIDGE Rev. W.H. Charges delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Barbados and the Leeward Islands; - together with prayers on certain public occasions; and addresses to candidates for Holy Orders: to young persons offering themselves for confirmation within that Diocese: and at the consecration of a chapel and burial ground in the city of Caracas. London (1835) x + 324pp + 44pp + 4 hand coloured folding maps. 1st ed., clean in original worn and faded cloth with original paper label. Includes chapters on Antigua and British Guiana with maps of each. A scarce work with details of the final abolition of slavery. The author was uncle of H.N. Coleridge. | £250.00 |
;) ;) ;) | 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 |
;) | ALLEYNE Warren Barbados at War 1939-1945. - An historical account. Barbados (1999) 40pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Well illustrated history with much on U Boat war. | £6.00 |
;) | FRASER Henry and HUGHES Ronnie Historic Houses of Barbados The Barbados National Trust and Art Heritage Publications (1986) 96 large pp. 1st ed., clean in worn card covers. | £15.00 |
;) ;) ;) | COLERIDGE Rev. W.H. Charges delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Barbados and the Leeward Islands; - together with prayers on certain public occasions; and addresses to candidates for Holy Orders: to young persons offering themselves for confirmation within that Diocese: and at the consecration of a chapel and burial ground in the city of Caracas. London (1835) x + 324pp + 44pp + 4 hand coloured folding maps. 1st ed., fine in original cloth with later paper label. Includes chapters on Antigua and British Guiana with maps of each. A rare work with details of the final abolition of slavery. The author was uncle of H.N. Coleridge. | £280.00 |
;) ;) | STURGE Joseph and HARVEY Thomas The West Indies in 1837; - being the journal of a visit to Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, St Lucia, Barbadoes, and Jamaica; undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining the actual condition of the negro population of those islands. London (1838) ix + 476pp + two folding maps. 1st ed., a clean copy rebound in modern cloth An important work on slavery. | £175.00 |
;) | TROLLOPE Anthony The West Indies and the Spanish Main. Frank Cass & Co (1968) iv + 395pp. Facsimile reprint of 2nd ed., fine in original green cloth, spine a little faded. Written by the author while on Post Office business in the West Indies to re-organise the Colonial Post Offices and to undertake postal treaties with the Spanish colonies. Much on Jamaica also chapters on Barbados, Bermuda, Cuba, Trinidad and St Thomas. | £24.00 |
;) | SCHOMBURGK R.H. The history of Barbados. - Comprising a geographical and statistical description of the island: a sketch of the historical events since the settlement; and an account of its geology and natural productions. Frank Cass & Co Ltd. (1971) xx + 722pp + 9 tinted plates. Facsimile reprint of 1848 ed., fine in D/W. An important and scholarly study of the island's history. | £75.00 |
;) | COLONIAL OFFICE Papers relating to the late disturbances in Barbados. H.M.S.O. (1876) xii + 247 large pp. 1st ed., clean in original paper covers. Small h/s on cover and on title page. Fascinating detailed eye witness reports on the state of the island and distress of the people. | £300.00 |
;) | BRINKLEY Frances Kay The Military Tradition of Barbados as exhibited in the Challenor Room. Barbados Museum & Historical Society (1982) 35pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £6.00 |
;) | WEDEMEYER A.J.D. On Sapphire Seas, - or cruising in the Tropics. A souvenir of the special cruise of the S.S. Madiana to Bermuda, the West Indies and Demerara, in February and March, nineteen hundred and two. Ernest Hart Printing Co., New York (1903) 112pp. 1st ed., mostly clean in worn and faded original illustrated blue cloth. 7 x 10." With the bookplate of Dorothy A. Bernhardt and inscribed on f.e.p. 'Compliments of Herman Bernhardt to Master Herbert Bernhardt.' Illustrated with many photo plates with good chapters on Barbados and Guiana and including a detailed account of the wreck of the steamship Madiana on the North Rock of Bermuda. There are two photo plates which show the Bernhardt's as passengers on board. | £150.00 |
;) | ANON Barbados. Photo Precision Ltd (1960 (circa)) 40pp. Clean in card covers. Tourist guide with many colour photos including ill fated North Point surf resort. | £18.00 |
;) | 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 |
;) | HOUSE OF COMMONS Appendix to the reports. H.M.S.O. (1814 (circa)) 1st ed., clean in modern boards with cloth spine. Eye-witness testimony from customs officers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Barbados, St Lucia, St Vincent, Dominica and Martinique. Very detailed. Includes John Prescod Williams, collector of customs at Hole Town, Barbados and Charles Kydd Bishop in Speights-town. | £60.00 |
;) | MURRAY JORDAN J. In the West Indies. J. Murray Jordan, Philadelphia (1903) 32pp. Clean in original pictorial card covers. Centre page loose. 10 x 8in Photographic views of the islands with many of Barbados and Jamaica. | £70.00 |
;) | BALLOU Maturin M. Equatorial America. - Descriptive of a visit to St Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes and the principal capitals of south america. Houghton, Mifflin & Co (1892) x + 371pp. 1st ed., clean in original cloth. | £40.00 |
;) | MITCHINSON John Charge delivered in St Michael's Cathedral, Bridgetown, Barbados, - by John, Lord Bishop of Barbados, at his visitation of that island on March 5, 1874, being the first year after his consecration. James Parker & Co (1874) 38 + [2]pp. 1st ed., disbound. | £6.00 |
;) | MACAULAY Zachary (Ed) Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. London (1830) Vol iii, no 8 - Vol iv, no 1. No 56 - 73. pp 167 - 300, (iv), 301 - 508, 1 -24. 8vo. 1st ed., fine in slightly worn half calf with later contemporary spine. The Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter is bound between 'Monthly Extracts from the Correspondence of the British and Foreign Bible Society for 1830 in 12 issues, pp 321-430 and 'Quarterly Extracts of the British Society for Promoting the Religious Principles of the Reformation, 5 issues for 1830. Detailed accounts of abuse of slaves on Barbados and Jamaica also description of conditions in Haiti'Of source value for the emancipation struggle.' (Ragatz p 382). | £450.00 |
;) ;) | WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY Papers relative to the Wesleyan Missions, - and to the State of Heathen Countries London (1827) 16pp. Bound with Missionary Notices January 1827 - December 1827, 192pp. Bound with 'The Report of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society for the year ending December 1826, xx + 124pp. Bound with 'Contributions to the Wesleyan Mission Fund, 1826.' Clean in very worn contemporary half calf. Reports from missions around the World with many reports on the Caribbean. Much on the re-building of the Mission Chapel in Bridgetown, Barbados. | £90.00 |
;) ;) | POYER J. The history of Barbados, - from the first discovery of the island, in the year 1605, till the accession of Lord Seaforth, 1801. London (1808) 668 + xxix large pp. 1st ed., a very clean and attractive copy with large margins, rebound in old style grey sugar paper boards retaining original label. Lacking e.p.'s and with small library h/s's on back of title page and last page. Written from the point of view of a West Indian, the welfare of whose colony home seemed indissolubly bound up with the institution of slavery. Very useful for the detailed account of the course of events during the latter part of the eighteenth century. (Ragatz) This is a later state of the edition with the title page corrected to show 'Barbados' and added corrections to the Erratum page. | £600.00 |
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