Item 31803Jamaica. An Island Mosaic.
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London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Jamaica. An Island Mosaic Add to Wish List
Item #31803
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London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Jamaica. An Island Mosaic Add to Wish List
Item #31803
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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 Item Details for Acts of Assembly, passed in the Island of Barbadoes, From 1648, to 1718 ... [Bound with:] Acts of Assembly, Passed in the Island of Barbadoes; From 1717-18, to 1738, inclusive. Part II Add to Wish List
Item #329430
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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 Item Details for The public acts in force; passed by the legislature of Barbados, from May 11th 1762 to April 8th 1800, inclusive; carefully compared and examined with the acts in the Secretary's office of the said island: a digested abridgment of the said acts ; and, an index: with a table of the said acts ; and a table of all the acts passed during the above period, which are private or not in force Add to Wish List
Item #329588
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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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London: John Baskett, 1719. First edition. First Collected Laws of Bermuda. Read More Item Details for Acts of Assembly, Made and Enacted in the Bermuda, or Summer-Islands, From 1690, to 1713-14 Add to Wish List
Item #329414
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New York: he Free Press Of Glencoe, Inc, [1961. Read More Item Details for Family Structure in Jamaica Add to Wish List
Item #366167
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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 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
Price: $1,750
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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marabella: Trinprin Services, 1977. First Edition. Inscribed on ffep. Read More Item Details for You an Illusion Add to Wish List
Item #334751
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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 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. 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 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. Presentation Copy. 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..... Read More Item Details for Ho Hum, the Fisherman Add to Wish List
Item #247072
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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923. Later Edition. Read More Item Details for Two Years in the French West Indies Add to Wish List
Item #3399
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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 Item Details for The American Virgin Islands. A Photographic Essay. Introductory essay [2 pp.] and captions by Ellis Gladwin, St. John American Virgin Islands Add to Wish List
Item #254169
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Newark, NJ: The Woodside Press, March 1900. One of seven copies printed, this no. 1 (from the tipped-in limitation leaf printed on blue paper). The author’s own copy with his name and address on front pastedown. NUMBER ONE OF SEVEN COPIES. Beautiful and whimsical private press work presenting an illustrated..... Read More Item Details for Log of the Crescent. Record of a cruise on Biscayne Bay and across the Gulf Stream to Cat Cay and Bemini Add to Wish List
Item #352542
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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]. Early Map of Jamaica. 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
Price: $25,000
St. Jago de la Vega, Jamaica: Alexander Aikman [ or Alexander Aikman & Son], 1792-1803. Remarkable Consecutive Run of Jamaican Laws. A remarkable run of Jamaica laws, comprising the first edition of the 2-volume 1792 revision (comprising the laws in force from 1680 to 1792), followed by a consecutive run..... Read More Item Details for The Laws of Jamaica: Comprehending All the Acts In Force, Passed between the Thirty-Second Reign of King Charles the Second, And the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of King George the Third ... [With:] The Laws of Jamaica, Passed in the Thirty-Third Year of the Reign of King George the Third ... [and with session laws through 43 Geo. III] Add to Wish List
Item #329766