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[Bridgetown, Barbados]: Advocate Co., Ltd - Printers, 1946. The proposed formation of a low-income housing district in Bridgetown, Barbados. Read More Item Details for Report of the Committee Appointed by his Excellency the Governor to Advise on the Utilisation [sic] of the Pine Estate for Housing and Slum Clearance Add to Wish List
Item #353394
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New York: Feb. 18, 1954. Belafonte's film and singing career was taking off -- in 1954 he landed a role in the film Carmen Jones, and in the year Van Vechten photographed him in this series, Belafonte was starring in the Broadway musical "John Murray Anderson's Almanac", for which he..... Read More Item Details for Portrait Photograph of Harry Belafonte in "Almanac" Add to Wish List
Item #222019
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Guadeloupe: January 29, 1759. Lt. Colonel Cunninghame's journal outlines the early days of the invasion of Guadeloupe, a pivotal action in the Seven Years' War, in which the British would ultimately take control of the island from the French. Beginning on 13 January, Cunninghame describes the amassment of ships in..... Read More Item Details for Journal & Plans from Lt. Colonel Cuninghame. Chief Engineer on the Expedition with Major General Hopson [manuscript title] [manuscript signed, a firsthand account of the invasion of Guadeloupe] Add to Wish List
Item #352660
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Roseau, Dominica: William Stewart, 1818. First edition of the first compilation of the laws of Dominica. Read More Item Details for The Laws of the Colony of Dominica, Commencing from its Earliest Establishment to the Close of the Year 1818; and Tables of Several Acts, with Preface and Index Add to Wish List
Item #329370
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Santo Domingo: May 17, 1870. A fascinating unpublished letter from Buenaventura Báez, President of the Dominican Republic ,concerning the proposed annexation of his country by the United States. Baéz (1812-1884), who served 5 non-successive terms as president, was a staunch proponent of annexation — seeing it as a solution to..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed ("Buenaventura Baez"), as President to Colonel Joseph W. Fabens, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic Add to Wish List
Item #239274
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London: Printed for J. Owen, 1796. First edition. The first and only edition of Lord Melville's official account of Britain's campaigns in the West Indies during the ongoing War of the First Coalition. The War of the First Coalition began between France and other European powers in 1792, as France's..... Read More Item Details for Facts Relative to the Conduct of the War in the West Indies; Collected from the Speech of the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, in the House of Commons, on the 28th of April, 1796, and from the Documents Laid Before the House upon that Subject Add to Wish List
Item #370903
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London: Printed by A. Clark, and are to be sold by John Martyn, Robert Horn and Walter Kettilby, 1677. Third edition, and first edition thus, "Enlarged by the Author, with a New and Accurate Map" Originally published in 1648 as The English-American his travail by sea and land, this edition..... Read More Item Details for The New Survey of the West-Indies: Or, The English American his Travel by Sea and Land: Containing A Journal of Three Thousand and Three Hundred Miles within the main Land of America: Wherein is set forth His Voyage from Spain to St. John de Vihna; and thence to Xalappa, to Tlaxcall, the City of Angels, and forward to Mexico: With a Description of that Great City, as it was in former times, and also at this present. Likewise His Journey from Mexico... As Also His Strange and Wonderful Conversion and Calling from Those Remote Parts... With a Grammar, or Some Rudiments of the Indian Tongue, called Poconchi or Pocoman. The Third Edition. Enlarged by the Author, with a New and Accurate Map Add to Wish List
Item #333174
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London: Hurst, Robinson & Co, 1824-1825. Having published his Picturesque Tour of Italy in 1820, Hakewill visited Jamaica in 1820-21, making the colony the subject of a wonderful color plate book, originally issued in 7 parts from 1824 through 1825. The lithographs are engraved by Sutherland (6) and Clarke after..... Read More Item Details for [Small archive of printer's proof plates from Hakewill's A Picturesque Tour of the Islands of Jamaica] Add to Wish List
Item #338811
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Buffalo, NY: The Courier Company, Printer, 1888. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Spanish Main; Thirty Days on the Caribbean Add to Wish List
Item #325134
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New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, no. 12 of 100 copies. An engaging account of a marlin-fishing expedition out of Bimini and Cat Cay, privately printed for the author, and not offered for sale. Harkness records using bonefish for bait (pp. 9, 42-43), and seeing young tarpon, but..... Read More Item Details for Ho Hum, the Fisherman Add to Wish List
Item #247072
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Kingston, Jamaica: Published for the Jamaica Committee, 1905. Fifth Year of Issue. Read More Item Details for Jamaica in 1905 Add to Wish List
Item #217074
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London: John Murray, 1834. First edition. Journals of "Monk" Lewis' two residences in Jamaica, in 1815-1816 and in 1817. Printed from the manuscript. The author died at sea while returning to England in 1818. Read More Item Details for Journal of a West India Proprietor, kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica Add to Wish List
Item #16914
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London: John Murray, 1834. First edition. Journals of "Monk" Lewis' two residences in Jamaica, in 1815-1816 and in 1817. Printed from the manuscript. The author died at sea while returning to England in 1818. It is his last book and has some dozen unpublished poems. Coleridge called it " ....... Read More Item Details for Journal of a West India Proprietor, kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica Add to Wish List
Item #243094
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London: Hurst and Blackett, 1867. First edition. Presentation on endpaper "C. Noles 1st Prize for Mental Arith Presented by Mr. Burden of Duke Street Grovenor Square..." He travelled to Jamaica, Haiti which he called "Niggerdom" and the Southern States. Read More Item Details for A Trip in the Tropics and Home Through America Add to Wish List
Item #24796
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[Augsburg: c. 1730]. Read More Item Details for Nova Designatio Insulae Jamaicae ex Antillanis Americae Septentrion non posiremae Secundum Gubernationes suas accuratas aeri incisa et publiieri juris facta a Maththaeo Settero Add to Wish List
Item #34040
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London: Printed by J. C. Chappell, 1837. First edition. An impassioned appeal by Henry Sterne, resident of St. George, Jamaica, in defense of "apprentices" (i.e. newly-freed slaves following the 1834 emancipation in the West Indies) who have suffered mistreatment, citing detailed legal cases and presenting legal and religious arguments: "The..... Read More Item Details for A Statement of Facts, Submitted to the Right Hon. Lord Glenelg, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies. Preparatory to an Appeal About To Be Made by the Author to the Commons of Great Britain, Seeking Redress for Grievances of a Most Serious Tendency, Committed Upon Him, Under the Administration of His Excellency, The Marquis of Sligo, the Late Governor, and Sir Joshua Rowe, the Present Lord Chief Justice of the Island of Jamaica, with an Exposure of the Present System of Jamaica Apprenticeship Add to Wish List
Item #333372
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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: Printed by P.N.M. Publishing Co., Ltd, 1960. First edition. The author was born in Trinidad in 1901. He was a "teacher and Newspaperman, left for England in 1932. In Great Britain, 1932-1938, the United States, 1938-1953, and again in Great Britain, 1953-1958, wrote and radio. Returned to the..... Read More Item Details for Modern Politics. Being a Series of Lectures on the Subject given at the Trinidad Public Library, in its Adult Education Programme Add to Wish List
Item #52251
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London: Printed by J. Darby for D. Brown [and others], 1699. Las Casas, the first great historian and humanist of the New World, arrived in Cuba in 1502 and spent most of his time in the Caribbean and Mexico until his return to Spain in 1547. An early critic of..... Read More Item Details for An Account of the First Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spaniards in America. Containing the most Exact Relation hitherto publis'd, of their unparallel'd Cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above Forty Millions of People Add to Wish List
Item #377781
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London: John Murray, 1845. Journals of "Monk" Lewis' two residences in Jamaica, in 1815-1816 and in 1817. Printed from the manuscript. The author died at sea while returning to England in 1818. It is his last book and has some dozen unpublished poems. Coleridge called it " ... the most..... Read More Item Details for Journal of a Residence among the Negroes In the West Indies Add to Wish List
Item #318273
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London: Hurst and Blackett, 1867. Second edition. Haiti "Niggerdom", Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba & the South. Read More Item Details for A Trip Through the Tropics and Home Through America Add to Wish List
Item #318444
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London: Whittaker & Co, 1836. First edition. Part of the British Colonial Library. Read More Item Details for A History of the West Indies: comprising Jamaica, Honduras, Trinidad, Grenada, the Bahamas and the Virgin Isles Add to Wish List
Item #24868
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Martinique: July 18, 1817. This document gives permission to William Howard, of young man of Boston, to travel to Marseilles. Signed by the Governor-General of Martinique, Vangiraud. Unusual imprint. Read More Item Details for CONGE POUR L'EXTERIEUR Add to Wish List
Item #354259
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Nevis: July 22, 1818. Born and baptized on the Caribbean island of Nevis in 1758, Frances Herbert Woolward was ushered into the colonial elite form the earliest moments of her life. In June of 1779, Frances married her first husband, Dr. Josiah Nisbet, an affluent physician, who moved in Nevis's..... Read More Item Details for Manuscript document, being a release of land in Nevis by the Dowager Lady Nelson to Jonathan Nesbitt Add to Wish List
Item #353097
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Amsterdam: Printed By Stephen Swart, 1675. First edition, missing first half-title. Concerning the Franco-Dutch war, with plates showing the fortifications of Dutch cities and European heads of state, as well as the dramatic deaths of the DeWitt brothers. Read More Item Details for The Netherland-historian, containing a true and exact relation of what hath passed in the late warrs between the King of Great Britain, and the French King with their allyes, against the States Generall of the United Provinces; from the beginning thereof anno 1671. to th conclusion of peace between his aforesaid Majesty of Britain, and the said states; with the continuation of what hath since happened between France and his allyes, against the said states, and their confoederates, to the end of the year 1674. Illustrated with above 60 sculptures, being the exact delineations of the most principall fortifications in those provinces, and the pourtraictures of severall mighty princes and eminent officers Add to Wish List
Item #252373
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Boston: Lee and Shepard. New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1880. First edition. The Caribbees refer to the Lesser Antilles. This Ober's first book From 1876 to 1878 he made ornithological surveys to the Lesser Antilles where he discovered 22 bird taxa new to science. Two of them - the Lesser..... Read More Item Details for Camps in the Caribbees Add to Wish List
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