Paris: De l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1791. [1],74pp. in French. Dbd. Small pair of worm holes penetrating volume, joining in rear half, barely affecting text. Overall very good. Administrative orders for the colony of Saint-Domingue (later Haiti), passed by the National Assembly on June 15, 1791, two months before the outbreak of.....

Port-au-Prince. May 13, 1796. Broadside, 4 x 9 1/2 inches, docketed on verso. Minor toning and edge wear. Very good. A rare pay order for supplies made out to Baron Jean- Charles de Montalembert on behalf of the invading British occupation force in Haiti. The document is signed by John.....

Port-au-Prince. Sept. 21, 1796. Broadside, 3 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches, docketed on verso. Minor toning. Very good. A rare pay order for supplies intended for the British occupation force in Haiti, made out to M. Jure aine. The document is signed by John Wigglesworth, agent to the Commander of.....

Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid, 1885-1890. Sixteen volumes in 124 [of 126] original parts as issued. This set lacks volume 10, part 4, and volume 14, part 2, both of which have been replaced with duplicates of volume 9, part 4 (for a total of three copies of that part.....

London: The Argonaut Press, 1928. cvi,182pp. plus folding facsimile map. Portrait. Facsimile. Quarto. Half vellum and buckram. Vellum bit soiled, else about fine. From an edition limited to 975 numbered copies, printed on Japon vellum. The definitive study of Raleigh.

Paris: Grangé, 1776. xvi,327pp. and folding table. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt. Remnants of paper spine, boards and corners heavily worn. Light wear to folding table. Minor foxing and soiling. Good. Volume one of this scarce work; the second volume was published in 1777. Hilliard d'Auberteuil lived in St. Domingue.....

Middletown [Ct.]: Printed by Tertius Dunning, 1812. [2],186pp. Original rear drab board (spine perished and front board lacking). Minor foxing and occasional dampstaining to text. Good plus. Untrimmed. First American edition of the report of the groundbreaking trial of West Indian plantation owner Arthur Hodge for the murder of one.....

Philadelphia. 1860. 526pp. plus advertisements. Original cloth. Cloth sunned and edgeworn. Some scattered spotting. A good, tight copy. A collection of letters written by Kate Conyngham and originally published in the SATURDAY COURIER in 1853-54, giving observations gleaned from her travels in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Washington, D.C., South Carolina, and.....

Birmingham: Printed by B. Hudson, 1828. 24pp. Half title. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Some wear and tanning to half title and p.24, paper fault in upper right corner of titlepage (no text affected). Very good. Second edition, following the first of 1825, giving accounts of the "wanton, cold-blooded".....

Kingston, Jamaica: Printed by Alexander Aikman, 1787. Two volumes bound in one. [2],31,262,[2],[2],15,82pp. [bound with:] AN ABRIDGEMENT OF THE LAWS OF JAMAICA, IN MANNER OF AN INDEX.... Kingston: Aikman, 1787. [4],29pp. [bound with:] APPENDIX: CONTAINING LAWS RESPECTING SLAVES. Kingston: Aikman, 1787. [4],32,5pp. Large folio. Old calf, rebacked. Internally near fine.....

[Kingston: Printed by Alex. Aikman, Junior, 1823?]. 24pp. 12mo. Dbd., signatures loose. Some soiling throughout. In good condition. A rare Jamaican imprint, giving the names of the proprietors on the island, the name of their properties, and the number of slaves and livestock that they owned. The list is very.....

[Washington. 1805]. 8pp. Gathered signatures, loose. Stab holes in left margin, minor foxing. Trimmed close along lower edge with some loss of text. Overall very good. A series of documents relating to the capture of the Danish merchant vessel, Heinrich. Earlier, the Heinrich had been captured by a French privateer.....

London. 1726-1727. Three volumes. xi,[1],iv,180,[4]; [2],vii,[1],184,[6],[16, advertisements]; [2],vi,221,[1],[160],16pp. plus folding engraved map and portrait. First two volumes in contemporary paneled calf, leather labels, raised bands; third volume in a somewhat different contemporary calf binding with more gilt tooling. A crisp, clean set. Very good. An important work about the French.....