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
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
New Orleans: Pelican, 1952. Illustrated. 212 pages, 8vo, pale green cloth, edges sunned and a bit worn at extremities. New Orleans: Pelican, (1952). First edition. A very good(-) solid copy. Inscribed by the author on half title, along with previous owner's ink-stamped address. More
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
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
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
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
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
New York: Dutton, 1981. Illus. 8vo, blue boards, d.w. New York: Dutton, (1981). vg. More
8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Knopf, 1989. vg. More
Washington DC: Andrew and Graham, 1898. Map. Color lithograph. Sheet measures 24 x 20 inches. In very good condition. Shows some very light staining folded as issued. Bathymetric (water depth) map shows Wallabout Channel in Brooklyn. Map also shows some docks, a portion of the Brooklyn Navy Yard including some buildings, businesses, and causeways. Depth shown by soundings and isolines. Oriented with north to the right. Businesses are shown including, Cross, Austin and Co., Nassau Gas Light Co., Brooklyn City..... More
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