n.p. [Washington D.C.?]: n.d. [1941]. Rare log of the Presidential cruise from Port Everglades to the Bahamas, in... Read More about Log of the President's Inspection Trip and Cruise on Board U.S.S. Potomac, 19 March - 1 April 1941
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Kingston, Jamaica: ACIJ, September 1984. The African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica (ACIJ) was established in 1972 as a division of the Institute of Jamaica to deepen public awareness of African cultural retentions and its relationship to other ethnic groups in Jamaica. Read More about The African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica pamphlet
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London: John Baskett, 1721-1739. First Collected Laws of Barbadoes. The first two compilations of the laws of Barbadoes. The two leaves following the first continues the laws with a note in the margin that the original was lost and not submitted to the plantation office until 1724. Presumably these leaves..... Read More about Acts of Assembly, passed in the Island of Barbadoes, From 1648, to 1718 ... [Bound with:] Acts of...
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London: Printed for Samuel Moore by Luke Hansard, 1801. Signed on the title by original subscriber Jonathan Blenman, the attorney-general of Barbados. Scarce. Read More about The public acts in force; passed by the legislature of Barbados, from May 11th 1762 to April 8th...
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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 about Portrait Photograph of Harry Belafonte in "Almanac"
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London: John Baskett, 1719. First edition. First Collected Laws of Bermuda. Read More about Acts of Assembly, Made and Enacted in the Bermuda, or Summer-Islands, From 1690, to 1713-14
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New York: Percy Chubb, 1961. Preliminary Edition. With slip noting thta "This copy conatins Leo Miner's pencilled suggestion. Read More about Cruising Guide for the Windward and Leeward Islands of the Eastern Caribbean
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Guadeloupe: January 29, 1759. A firsthand account of the bombardment of Basse-Terre. 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..... Read More about Journal & Plans from Lt. Colonel Cuninghame. Chief Engineer on the Expedition with Major...
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Roseau, Dominica: William Stewart, 1818. First edition of the first compilation of the laws of Dominica. Read More about The Laws of the Colony of Dominica, Commencing from its Earliest Establishment to the Close of...
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marabella: Trinprin Services, 1977. First Edition. Inscribed on ffep. Read More about You an Illusion
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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" First Description of the Spanish Territories in the New World by an Englishman. Originally published..... Read More about The New Survey of the West-Indies: Or, The English American his Travel by Sea and Land:...
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Most Port-au-Prince: 1812-1916. Presidents of the Republic of Haiti — A Collection. An outstanding collection of Haitian material comprising items signed by 11 presidents: 1) ALEXANDRE PETION, president of Haiti 1807-1818. Autograph document signed "Pétion" as president, 6 April 1812, a laissez passer for Mr Douglass, on government business, and..... Read More about Collection of Haitian Presidential autographs, comprising autograph and partly printed documents...
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London: Hurst, Robinson & Co, 1824-1825. Printer's Proofs. 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..... Read More about Small archive of printer's proof plates from Hakewill's A Picturesque Tour of the Islands of Jamaica
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Buffalo, NY: The Courier Company, Printer, 1888. First edition. Read More about The Spanish Main; Thirty Days on the Caribbean
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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923. Later Edition. Read More about Two Years in the French West Indies
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![Item #254169 The American Virgin Islands. A Photographic Essay. Introductory essay [2 pp.] and...](/pictures/thumb/254169.jpg?v=1669651634)
New York: Macmillan, 1971. Portfolio Number 1 inscribed "To Betty and Fairleigh Dickinson. Portfolio No.1." on box and again of the portfolio flap "To Betty and Fairleigh Dickinson with deep gratitude Fritz Henle St Croix 1971. Portfolio No. 1" COPY NUMBER ONE. Henle came to the US in 1936 and..... Read More about The American Virgin Islands. A Photographic Essay. Introductory essay [2 pp.] and captions by...
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Kingston, Jamaica: Published for the Jamaica Committee, 1905. Fifth Year of Issue. Read More about Jamaica in 1905
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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 about Journal of a West India Proprietor, kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica
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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 about A Trip in the Tropics and Home Through America
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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 about A Statement of Facts, Submitted to the Right Hon. Lord Glenelg, His Majesty's Principal Secretary...
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St. Jago de la Vega, Jamaica: Alexander Aikman, 1802. Second edition. A second edition of the 2-volume 1792 revision, comprising the laws in force from 1680 to 1792, with the separately-issued Abridgment. Read More about The Laws of Jamaica: Comprehending All the Laws in Force, Passed between the Thirty-Second Year...
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Jamaica: 1908. Locatons include Port Antonio and Hotel Tichfield, Kingston (including evidence of destruction from the 1907 earthquake), Saint Ann's Bay, Cuba (as seen from a boat), and Castleton Gardens. Read More about Twenty panoramic silver-print photographs of Jamaican vistas and street scenes
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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 about Modern Politics. Being a Series of Lectures on the Subject given at the Trinidad Public Library,...
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London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1885. Large Paper Edition, #201 of 250 copies. Inscribed on the ffep by Lady Brassey to Mr. Treacher in North Borneo in April 1887 (She died in September). The Brasseys visited Madeira, Trinidad, Venezuela, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Azores on this trip. Read More about In the Trades, The Tropics & the Roaring Forties: 14,000 Miles in the Sunbeam in 1883
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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 about Journal of a Residence among the Negroes In the West Indies
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[Washington D.C: Privately Printed], 1938. First and only edition. Fishing Trip with Roosevelt in the Turks and Caicos, 1938. Short narrative account of one of FDR’s vacations at sea, a trip in the spring of 1938 from Charleston, S.C., through the Turks and Caicos, and northern waters of the Virgin..... Read More about Log of the Cruise of the President on board U.S.S. Philadelphia … April 30th to May 8th 1938
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