Beneath Tropic Seas: A Record of Diving Among the Coral Reefs of Haiti
New York: Putma, 1928. Frontis, 60 illustrations. 234 pages. 8vo, cloth; lighty rubbed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First edition. A very good(+) copy. More
New York: Putma, 1928. Frontis, 60 illustrations. 234 pages. 8vo, cloth; lighty rubbed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First edition. A very good(+) copy. More
Paris: Didot, 1730. Ecrite particulierement sur des Memoires Manuscrits du P. Jean-Baptiste le Pers, Jesuite, Missionnaire a Saint Domingue, & sur les Pieces Originales, qui se conservent au Depot de la Marine. 14 engraved plates (most folding maps), vignettes. 2 volumes, small square 4to, 1/2 calf, ornately gilt spine (rubbed); some pages darkened, worming, few inked markings. Paris: Francois Didot, 1730. Very good. Recounts the island's history from its discovery by Columbus to the 1720s. Author was a Jesuit historian..... More
Paris: Blaise, 1812. 2 copper engraved plates, one officer with a ink darkened face. 85 pages, slim 12mo, contemporary polished mottled calf, ornately gilt spine and cover borders, all edges gilt. Paris: J.J. Blaise, 1812. More
Paris: V. Regnard & Demonville, 1771. 2 volumes. 16mo, contemporary tree calf, leather label, gilt spines, spine ends, edges of corners, and top of back cover, all lightly worn on volume II, blank page near end of volume II has 2 inch tear, first and last blank pages lightly soiled on volume II, inner hinge strengthened on volume I. A Lausanne, et se trouve a Paris: V. Regnard & Demonville, 1771. First Edition Jacques-Vincent Delacroix was a prominent French lawyer..... More
New York: Book Collectors Society. Illus. x, 350pp. 8vo, original full brown leather. New York: Book Collectors Society, n.d., (circa 1970). Very good One of 250 copies. More
Paris: Chez Arthus - Bertrand, 1803. Illustrated with 2 folding charts and 1 large folding map. [4], CCVIII, 216; [4], 406 pages. 2 volumes, 8vo, attractively bound in older 1/2 black morocco over green boards; blind-stamped spines with raised bands; marbled endpapers. iParis: Chez Arthus-Bertrand, 1803, An XI. Second printing of this rather scarce book -- OCLC lists only 3 copies of this edition. A near fine copy with minimal scattered foxing and toning. The treatise "Medicine domestique de Saint-Domingue"..... More
3 vols. 4to, cont. marbled calf, recased; (lacks all maps and plates, except Frontis. in vols. II and III, and 6 folding tables). London: John Stockdale, 1794, 1793, 1801. Mixed edn. "A classic in British Caribbean literature and probably the most famous work in the field. Standard for over a century, and still in many respects the best book on the subject up to the close of the eighteenth century...(Edwards') book is written from the point of view of a...... More
1798. To which is added, an Historical Survey of the French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo. Abridged Edition. Folding map of the West Indies and Central America. xvi, 373pp. + 7pp. of publisher's ads. 8vo, original tree calf with elaborately gilt spine; (front cover detached, spine ends and corners worn, some light foxing, not affecting map). London: B. Crosby, 1798. "A classic in British Caribbean literature and probably the most famous work in the field. Standard for over..... More
Paris: A. Durant et Pedone-Lauriel, 1877. Ouvrage ecrit d'apres des documents inedits et les papiers historiques et secrets de la famille Louverture. Frontis. portrait of Toussaint Louverture. viii, 402pp. 8vo, later half black morocco; (edges of boards worn, some foxing including margins of portrait, very small tear in margin of first few pages, otherwise very good). Paris: A. Durant et Pedone-Lauriel, 1877. The portrait of Toussaint Louverture is based on a painting of him from the collection of his son..... More
Paris: France Loisirs, 1989. In French. Color and black & white maps and illustrations at back. 750 pages. 8vo, green cloth, dust wrapper. Paris: France Loisirs, (1989). Fine. Inscribed by the author on flyleaf: "pour [...] avec l'amitie de Julien Green Paris avril 1992" More
New York: Bleak Beauty, 1988. Photographic illustrations. 63pp. Slim 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. (New York: Bleak Beauty Books, 1988). First edition. A near fine copy, signed by the photographer on the half-title. A photographer's account of Haiti and the February Revolution. More
Philadelphia: H. N. Burroughs, 1846. Map. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 15.75" x 12.5". This map of the West Indies extends from the southern tip of Florida to the northern coast of South America, and from the western tip of Cuba to Barbados in the east. The index includes capitals, cities, and towns, labeled in a stylized manner that complements the region's scattered arrangement of islands. Above the title is a paragraph describing the region and its constituent..... More
Boulder: East European Monographs, 1986. Illus. and maps. xii, 378pp. 8vo, blue cloth. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1986. First Edition. More
London: Albion Press, 1805. Beautifully illustrated with 8 plates, a folding map of Haiti, a folding plan of the city of Cap Francois, and a facsimile. xxiii, errata, 467, 9 page index and 3 pages of advertisements, deckled edges. Scattered foxing with the maps heavily browned. Thick 4to, handsomely rebound in 3/4 black morocco, red leather spine labels. (London): Albion Press, Printed: Published by James Cundee, 1805. First Edition. Very good (+). Internally a tight and bright copy. Among the..... More
488pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Doubleday, 1947. vg. More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. Signed by Langston Hughes. Translated by Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook. 180 pages, short slim 8vo, blue cloth, edge-worn, rubbed, chipped, and slightly foxed dust wrapper. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1947). Slightly sunned edges, still a very good(+) copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. Signed and inscribed by Langston Hughes to Jose Ferrer on endpaper: "To Jose Ferrer - Sincerely, Langston Hughes. New York, May 28, 1951." More
several maps, one in color. several plates and text illus. 2 vols. 8vo, modern full morocco with island of Hispaniola stamped on both volumes; (spine of both volumes sunned, some margins repaired, some margins chipped, some illus. including the folding map have foxing, mostly to margins). Paris: Charles Blot, (1892, 1893). More
32 illus. 292pp. 4to, cloth, New York, 1939. Zoologist's travels in Surinam, Trinidad, Curacao, and Haiti. Very good(-). More
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing, 1938. Color Frontis., b/w photo Illus. 8vo, red cloth, edges of corners worn and bumped, spine ends very slightly worn, cloth lightly soiled, pages slightly wavy throughout. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing, (1938). Narrative of a trip through Haiti by an American woman from New England. More
New York: Orchard Books, 1992. Map. 8vo, 1/2 red cloth, d.w. New York: Orchard Books, (1992). Very good A novel. More
8vo, cloth, d.w.; (d.w. soiled and torn). N.Y. Macmillan, (1956). A novel. More
New York: Holt, 2011. Illus. 449pp. 8vo, red cloth, d.w. New York: Henry Holt, (2011). Very good. More
Woodcuts by Lynd Ward. 8vo, green cloth (quite dust soiled). N.Y.: Literary Guild, 1930. A very good(-) copy. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. xiv + 329 pages, 8vo, red cloth-backed boards, d.w.; some light soiling to dust wrapper and fore-edges. New York: Simon & Schuster, (2013). More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. 427pp. 8vo, 1/2 brown cloth, d.w. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1989). Fine Presentation copy from the author to Harry Belafonte. More
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