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
HAITI
Histoire de L'Isle Espanole ou de S. Domingue.
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
Haiti Singing
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1939. Illus. 4to, red cloth, spine ends and edges of corners lightly worn. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1939. First Edition. More
Histoire de Mesdemoiselles de Saint-Janvier, [les deux seules blanches sauvées du massacre de Saint-Domingue].
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
Memoires d'un Americain, Avec une Description de la Prusse & de L'Isle de Saint-Domingue.
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
Divine Horsemen; The Living Gods of Haiti.
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
Manuel des Habitans de Saint-Domingue, contenant un precis de l'Histoire de cette Ile, depuis sa decouverte; la Description Topographique et Statistique des parties Française et Espagnole; le Tableau des productions naturelles et des cultures Coloniales...; suivi d'un traite de Medicine Domestique appropriee aux Iles, d'une Pharmacopee Americaine; du premier Vocabulaire Francais-Creole...
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
The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies.
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
The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies.
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
The Idols and the Prey
New York: Harper, 1953. 8vo, 1/2 black cloth, d.w. chipped and dampstained on blank side. New York: Harper, (1953). First Edition. A novel of Haiti. Inscribed by the author to Harry Belafonte. More
Toussaint Louverture, general en chef de l'armee de Saint-Domingue, surnomme le premier des noirs.
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, Isaac. The painting was painted by..... More
Les Etoils du Sud
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
Merci Gonaives.
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
Merci Gonaives.
New York: Bleak Beauty, 1988. Photographic illustrations. 63pp. Slim 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. (New York: Bleak Beauty Books, 1988). First edition. A fine copy, as new. A photographer's account of Haiti and the February Revolution. More
Poland's Caribbean Tragedy; A Study of Polish Legions in the Haitian War of Independence, 1802-1803
Boulder: East European Monographs, 1986. Illus. and maps. xii, 378pp. 8vo, blue cloth. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1986. First Edition. More
Autographed Letter Signed as Haitian President
Port-au-Prince: 1816. 4 pages, 3 blank, 8.25 x 6 inches, manuscript on printed official stationery, round state seal, Port-au-Prince, April 16, 1816. This letter, written in French, directs the keeper of the state warehouse to provide cloth and other furnishings for a uniform for one of his army officers, in part: "...invite le Garde Magasin de l'Etat a delivrer du drap necessaire a faire un Habit de la toile pour le doubler une garniture de boutons au Lieutenant Jean Salie..... More
Autographed Letter Signed as President
Port-au-Prince: 1814. 4 pages, 2 blank, 12 x 7.5 inches, manuscript on printed official stationery, Port-au-Prince, October 11, 1814. Written to the republic's treasurer, directing him to pay a month's pension to a disabled soldier, in large part: "Je vous invite, Citoyen Tresorier, a payer des fonds de la Caisse Militaire la somme de deux gourdes, quatre vingt-un cens, montant du decompt ci joint faveur du Cne Jre Pierre, Invalide, poNTun mois de pension accordee par la loi." Chipping at..... More
Autographed Letter Signed as President
Port-au-Prince: 1815. 4 pages, 2 blank, 11.5 x 7.25 inches, manuscript on printed official stationery, Port-au-Prince, December 12, 1815. In this letter, Petion directs the republic's administrator of finances, authorizing a payment of a bill, in part: "Je vous invite, Citoyen administrateur, a faire ordonnoncer le compte ci-joint montant a la somme de mille six cent vingt gourdes -- faveur de Mad'me V." Some browning; closed tear on the right edge affects one word; faint damp-stain at the bottom. Good..... More
An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti: Comprehending a View of the Principal Transactions in the Revolution of Saint Domingo; with Its Antient and Modern State.
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
Lydia Bailey.
488pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Doubleday, 1947. vg. More
Masters of the Dew
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
Dictionnaire Geographique et Administratif Universel D'Haiti...ou Guide General en Haiti. large color folding map of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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
Carribbean Treasure.
32 illus. 292pp. 4to, cloth, New York, 1939. Zoologist's travels in Surinam, Trinidad, Curacao, and Haiti. Very good(-). More
Haitian Art.
New York: Abrams, 1978. 200 Illus., 16 in colors. 176pp., slim small 4to, blue cloth, d.w. New York: Abrams, (1978). A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. From an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. More
A Puritan in Voodoo-Land
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