Washington: Smithsonian, 1990. With Essays by Pete Daniel and Anne Wilkes Tucker. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Slim square 4to, pictorial wrappers, barely worn. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1990). A near fine copy. More about Carry Me Home: Louisiana Sugar Country
3 hand colored folding copperplate maps. 228pp. 8vo, 1/2 morocco: (rubbed, front cover detached). London: R. Baldwin, 1763. First edition. "This work is a classic in the field of colonial and Caribbean literature, embodying as it does one of the clearest statements of eighteenth century philosophy regarding the relations which should exist between a metropole and its outlying possessions." Ragatz, p. 284. Maps depict the Lesser Antilles and Grenada. Sabin 10232. Kress 6081. More about Candid and Impartial Considerations on the Nature of the Sugar Trade; The Comparative Importance...
Map. Original engraving. Image measures 18 x 23 inches. Sheet measures 20 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches. Large scale map of the island with excellent detail on elevation and safe soundings and fresh water noted, in French and Dutch. The Amsterdam publishing firm of Covens and Mortier (1665-c. 1862) was established by Cornelius Mortier and Jean Covens. Together, the two republished the works of great 17th and early 18th century Dutch and French cartographers such as De L'Isle, Allard, Jansson... More about Carte De L'Isle De La Martinique
New Delhi: Indian Central Sugarcane Committee, 1956. Their Morphological Descriptions and Agricultural Characteristics. Profusely illustrated, 136pp., 4to, green cloth; (light wear, staining to cover, corners bumped). New Delhi: The Indian Central Sugarcane Committee, 1956. Second Edition. More about Coimbatore Canes in Cultivation
Garden City: Doubleday, 1958. Illustrated. Slim 4to, 63 pp. Garden City: Doubleday (1958). Some light wear to edges. In very good condition. A pamphlet that was from a world book set that included: Venezuela, Burma, Japan and Virgin Islands. Published with cooperation from the American Geographical Society. Comes with 29 labels to place throughout the pamphlet. More about The Virgin Islands
Portland, Maine: 1812. 1 page, 10 x 8 inches, Portland, Maine, August 6, 1812. Interesting merchant's letter written during the War of 1812 while under British occupation, requesting an accounting based on an unpaid invoice, in part: "...shipped on board the Schooner Eagle...twenty jugs of the extract of the bark of Angostura, which I consigned to the House of Mssrs. Anth, Merchants in Havana...which has arrived out...but I have not received any remittance on account of it yet. My orders... More about 1812 Merchant's Letter
Madrid: Libreria Nacional y Extranjera, 1879. 358, [2]pp. 8vo, rebound in gilt-stamped brown leatherette, unopened and uncut. Madrid: Libreria Nacional y Extranjera, 1879. Very good (+). Articles on Cuba are on slavery and the sugar plantation. More about Fragmentos y Ensayos de Javier Galvete; Estudios Sociales, Filosoficos y Religiosos, Estudios...
New York: Dutton, 1981. Illus. 8vo, blue boards, d.w. New York: Dutton, (1981). vg. More about Cleveland Benjamin's Dead! A Struggle for Dignity in Louisiana's Cane Country
8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Knopf, 1989. vg. More about Big Sugar; Seasons in the Cane Fields of Florida
You've got yourself one happy customer at this end, folks. I've been looking for another copy of "West of the Indus" for nearly twenty years (I know, it's such a cultural wasteland out here in the provinces), and I never expected to find one with a dust jacket. I am amazed. Thank you so much. I've enjoyed many books over the years, but this one has always been one of my favorites. Now if I can just figure out how to share it with my friends without losing it...
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