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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
New York: Dutton, 1981. Illus. 8vo, blue boards, d.w. New York: Dutton, (1981). vg.
8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Knopf, 1989. vg.
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