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Below is a list of my stock of old secondhand and antiquarian books on Trinidad and Tobago for sale.
For a good historical summary of Tobago plus much more information I can recommend the following website:- http://www.mytobago.info
Postage and packing is extra but costs are kept to a minimum. On overseas orders I can offer cheap shipping per airmail M Bag service where total weight is over 1.5kg (3lbs) Cost will be advised after you have submitted your order and before payment is taken.
![]() ![]() | M'CALLUM Pierre F. Travels in Trinidad During the Months of February, March, and April Liverpool: Printed by and for W. Jones (1805) xvi + 354pp + folding map and 2pp publisher's adverts. Some water staining affecting many pages and the map otherwise clean in modern half calf with new end papers. | £450.00 |
![]() ![]() ![]() | 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 |
![]() ![]() ![]() | The Substance of a Speech Delivered by Joseph Marryat, Esq. in the House of Commons, Upon Mr. Hume's Motion for Appointing a Commission of Enquiry on the State of The Island of Trinidad - bound with 'The Crisis Of Spain' London: Printed by W. Hughes, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden (1823) xii + 115 pp + [ii] + 81 + [i] pp Original half red morocco over marbled boards, gilt. Some wear to extremities and spine faded; otherwise a very good copy The Crisis of Spain was published anonymously, but is attributed to Sir Douglas Howard, 3rd baronet (1776-1861), a soldier and colonial administrator. Sir Joseph Marryat (1757-1824) was a West India merchant who served as agent for Trinidad, c.1807- 15. Marryat provides a critique of British colonial policy as applied to Trinidad, which had been captured from Spain in 1797. Spanish laws still applied on the island and this was a grievance which had caused the inhabitants to petition the Commons. Particularly at issue were Spanish commercial and land law and the use of torture against the free, as opposed to slave, inhabitants. Marryat refers briefly to the notorious torture case against Governor Picton, supporting him on the grounds that Picton was merely using an old British cavalry punishment rather than Spanish torture. | £420.00 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | TRINIDAD Copy of the Memorial of the Committee of the Inhabitants of Trinidad - addressed to Lord Viscount Goderich, dated in November 1831, praying for a change in the Legislative Council of the Colony. H.M.S.O. (1832) 44 large pp. Folio. Clean in paper covers. | £25.00 |
![]() | TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Report for 1905-6. H.M.S.O. (1906) 26pp. 1st ed. Clean in paper covers. Small library h/s on title page. Colonial Office report with economic and social reports from different Government departments. | £8.00 |
![]() | TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Report for 1906-7. H.M.S.O. (1907) 23pp. 1st ed. Clean in paper covers. Small library h/s on title page. Colonial Office report with economic and social reports from different Government departments. | £8.00 |
![]() ![]() | UNDERHILL E.B. The West Indies: - Their Social and Religious Condition. Jackson, Walford and Hodder (1862) x + 493pp. 1st ed., lacking front end papers and prelim., title page with tone spots, in worn original green pictorial cloth, corners bumped. Sections on Bahamas, Cuba, Trinidad, Haiti and Jamaica. The tour described in the book was undertaken at the request of the Treasurer and Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society following emancipation. | £75.00 |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | WALL G.P. and SAWKINS J.G. Report on the Geology of Trinidad; - or, Part 1 of the West Indian Survey. Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, London (1860) xi + 211pp + plus folding maps and sections. 1st ed., fine in contemporary half calf, light tone spotting to end papers and folding maps and plans at rear as usual. A scarce Trinidad book with many wood engravings in text. | £275.00 |
![]() ![]() | BRIERLEY J.N. Trinidad: Then and Now. - Being a series of sketches in connection with the progress and prosperity of Trinidad, and personal reminiscenses of life in that island 1874-1912. Trinidad (1912) [4] + 348pp + photo plates and adverts. 1st ed., fine in original worn green cloth. Very scarce. | £425.00 |
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