Bajan Cook Book
Bridgetown: 1967. 73pp. 8vo, spiral bound, wrappers lightly soiled, otherwise very good. (Bridgetown), Barbados, 1967. Second Edition Contains many ads from local businesses in Barbados. Some of the ads are illustrated. More
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The Forbidden Fruit Tree (Grapefruit Tree) - plate 7 from A Natural History of Barbados
London: 1750. Engraving. Image measures 11.25" x 7.5", sheet measures 13.75" x 9". Shows some light toning at edges. In very good condition. Plate 7, page 127 from "The Natural History of Barbados" by Reverend Griffith Hughes, A.M. which depicts local flora and sea fauna from the island country. Inscription reads: "To the right Reverend Father in God, George L'd Bishop of Exeter, This Plate is humbly inscribed". Each plate is dedicated to a prominent person in elaborate engraved calligraphy..... More
French Willow - plate 8 from A Natural History of Barbados
London: 1750. Engraving. Image measures 11.25" x 7.5", sheet measures 13.75" x 9". Shows some light toning at edges. In very good condition. Plate 8, page 133 from "The Natural History of Barbados" by Reverend Griffith Hughes, A.M. which depicts local flora and sea fauna from the island country. Inscription reads: "To his Excellency the Rt. Hon.ble Earl of Albermarle, this Plate is humbly inscribed &c.". Each plate is dedicated to a prominent person in elaborate engraved calligraphy and accompanied..... More
The Horse-Nicker or Chick-Stone Tree - plate 18 from A Natural History of Barbados
London: 1750. Engraving. Image measures 11.25" x 7.5", sheet measures 13.75" x 9". Shows some light foxing, and some light toning at edges. In very good condition. Plate 18, page 195 from "The Natural History of Barbados" by Reverend Griffith Hughes, A.M. which depicts local flora and sea fauna from the island country. Inscription reads: To His most serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Saxegotha, This Plate is humbly Inscrib'd, &c". Each plate is dedicated to a prominent person in..... More
Male Papaya Tree - plate 14 from A Natural History of Barbados
London: 1750. Engraving. Image measures 11.25" x 7.5", sheet measures 13.75" x 9". Shows some light toning at edges. In very good condition. Plate 14 from "The Natural History of Barbados" by Reverend Griffith Hughes, A.M. which depicts local flora and sea fauna from the island country. Inscription reads: "To His most serene Highness - The Duke of Orleans - This Plate is humbly Inscrib'd, &c.". Each plate is dedicated to a prominent person in elaborate engraved calligraphy and accompanied..... More
Wild Olive Tree - plate 12 from A Natural History of Barbados
London: 1750. Engraving. Image measures 11.25" x 7.5", sheet measures 13.75" x 9". Shows some light toning at edges. In very good condition. Plate 12 from "The Natural History of Barbados" by Reverend Griffith Hughes, A.M. which depicts local flora and sea fauna from the island country. Inscription reads: "To the most Rev'd Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of London". Each plate is dedicated to a prominent person in elaborate engraved calligraphy and accompanied by a rendering of the..... More
Wayside Trees and Shrubs of Barbados
London: Macmillan, 1980. Many color photo Illus. 96pp. 12mo, pr. wrs. (London): Macmillan, (1980). Very good. More
In The Castle of My Skin.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954. Introduction by Richard Wright. Frontis. 8vo, green cloth, d.w. chipped on spine ends, d.w. lightly soiled on back portion. New York: McGraw Hill, 1954. More
West Indian Eden; The Book of Barbados
Glasgow: Robert Maclehose, 1959. Illus. 8vo, 1/2 blue cloth, top of cloth dampstained, spine faded. Glasgow: Robert Maclehose, 1959. More
The Barbados Book.
Revised by E.L. Cozier. illus. 8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Coward, McCann, 1973. vg. More
Barbados; A Smiling Island.
55 color illus. thin 4to, boards, d.w. Hollywood, FL, (1970). More
Petition to the President with 19 Signatories from the State of Massachusetts
Boston: 1897. 1 page on lined paper, 11.75 x 8 inches, Boston, July 20, 1897. This petition to President McKinley recommends the appointment of Florentine Kossuth Bradman as "Consul to Barbadoes" (sic) and is signed by 19 influential Bostonians, in part: "...Mr. Bradman is an honest, sober and thoroughly reliable man of good habits. He has been a resident of this city for seventeen years and has been in business for himself for the past fifteen years. He is an..... More
The History of the Caribby-Islands, viz. Barbados, St. Christopher, St. Vincents, Martinico, Dominico, Barbouthos, Monserrat, Mevis (sic). Antego, &c. in All XXVIII.
London: Dring & Starkey, 1666. In Two Books. The First Containing the Natural; The Second, the Moral History of those Islands... With a 10 page Caribbian-Vocabulary. Rendred into English by John Davies of Kidwelly. 9 copper engraved plates. (6), 351, (14) pages. Slim 4to, full mottled calf, blind stamped decorations and red and green leather spine labels, marbled edges. First issue of the first English edition. London: Thomas Dring and John Starkey, 1666. A near fine copy with slight off..... More
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