New York. 1871. xii,[13]-465pp. plus advertisements. Frontis, plates, textual illus. Original gilt cloth. Some wear to extremities, a bit frayed at head of spine, scattered traces of foxing. A very good, tight copy. First American edition. The author toured the islands of the West Indies and offers many illustrations of.....
Leyden. 1706. [2],52,[10]pp. Folding map. 3 folding plates. Dbd., leaves bit foxed, else a very good copy. Account of an early English voyage to the East Indies. Illustrated with beautiful engravings of European and East Indian exchanges and folding map of the East Indies. First published 1625 in London as.....
Havana: Imprenta y papelería de Barcina, 1852. 332,[2]pp. plus lithographic frontispiece, twenty engraved plates, and numerous in-text woodcuts. In Spanish. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Scattered foxing; occasional contemporary ink and pencil graffiti and notes on plates and text leaves. Overall very good. One of the most important works.....
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[Madrid. 1799]. Folding map, 40 1/2 x 26 inches. Minor fold lines and edge wear. Overall quite clean. Very good. A note on the bookplate indicates this map was presented to the Maryland Historical Society by its founder, Brantz Mayer, noted attorney and antiquarian. An attractive chart, diagonally across the.....
Seville: Sebastian Trugillo, 1552. [61] leaves, lacking final blank. Titlepage printed in red and black, with text surrounded by a four-panel woodcut border; text printed in black letter. Small quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt tooled, edges sprinkled red. Front hinge rubbed, head of spine slightly chipped. Scattered contemporary manuscript.....
[Geneva: Gabriel Cartier], 1582. [16],222pp. 12mo. 18th-century calf, spine and board edges finely gilt, rebacked with original backstrip preserved. Binding slightly worn. Occasional minor foxing, light age toning. A very good copy. Las Casas, the first great historian of the New World, arrived in Cuba in 1502 and spent most.....
Amsterdam. 1698. [10],402,[2]; [4],51,[1]pp., plus frontispiece. 12mo. 20th-century green morocco by Brugalla, gilt, a.e.g., gilt inner dentelles. Spine lightly sunned. Minor scattered foxing. Near fine. An interesting combination of Montauban's account of his buccaneering voyages against the slave ships off Guinea, and Las Casas' stirring tracts against the brutal treatment.....
[Spain? 1611]. [12]pp. (leaves numbered 1-6). In Spanish. Folio. Dbd. Early folds, mild foxing. Very good. An early and evidently unrecorded 17th- century Spanish petition to the King on behalf of mendicant and monastic communities in the Spanish Americas. The authors argue that the churches attempting to tax their incomes.....
London: Printed and Published by Robert Laurie and James Whittle, 1801. Mounted on guards throughout, letterpress title (verso blank) and 1p. index (verso blank), otherwise engraved throughout. Fifty-nine engraved maps on seventy-five map sheets, all handcolored in outline (one map on three folding sheets; fourteen on two folding sheets; nine.....
London. 1740. 5,24,[4]pp. Folio. Modern brown cloth, spine gilt. Corners bumped. Minor foxing. Very good. After consolidating their power over most of the Leeward Islands in the late 17th century, the British set about instituting a uniform code of laws. This volume contains the segment of laws from 1690 to.....
London. 1734. 15,[1],24,[4],25-231,[31]pp. Folio. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, morocco label. Small institutional blindstamp on titlepage. Light, even age-toning; very slight foxing. Very good. The first collected printing of British laws for Antigua and the Leeward Islands, and a primary source on the administration of justice in.....
London: John Baskett, 1734. 15,24,[4],25-231,[30]pp. Folio. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with leather labels. A few leaves lightly tanned, last few leaves chipped and worn at edges. Very good. Laws for the Leeward Islands, colonized by the British in the late 17th century, comprising Antigua, Montserrat, and.....
Upsaliæ. 1759. 27,[1]pp. Modern tan cloth boards. Internally clean. Very good. A primary work on the flora of Jamaica. The text gives a brief history of the island, followed by a catalogue of its flora presented in the Linnæan style. This pamphlet is likely Sabin 76420, which he dates erroneously.....
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Amsterdam. 1644. Three parts bound in one volume. [8],160,[8],13- 147,[90]pp. Three engraved titlepages, portrait of Linschoten, and thirty (of thirty-six) double-page plates (several folding), all in handsome original color. Folio. Old boards, skillfully rebacked in calf, retaining original leather labels. Some marginal waterstaining, some browning to text leaves, plates clean.....
Washington. 1805. 28pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Stab holes in left margin. Trimmed close, but with no loss. Contemporary ownership signature on titlepage. A few light fox marks. A good copy. Little, a captain in the U.S. Navy, requested compensation for his role in capturing a French brig carrying coffee off.....
Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1899. viii,260pp. Original red cloth, paper label. Spine sunned, label chipped, hinges cracked, bookplate on front pastedown and front free endpaper, ownership signature on front fly leaf. Internally clean. Good. A condensed account of the three trials, taken from late 18th- and early 19th-century reports.
Amsterdam: Cornille Nicolas, 1609. Two volumes bound in one. Described in greater detail below. Folio. Contemporary boards, rebacked in calf, spine gilt, leather label. Very good. From the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, with engraved 1860 bookplate on front pastedown and blind pressure stamp on first two printed leaves.....
Amsterdam: Cornille Nicolas, 1609-1610. Three volumes bound in one. Described in greater detail below. Folio. Contemporary vellum over boards; rebacked, preserving original spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light soiling and repairs to titlepages. Minor soiling else. Very good. Three highly important Dutch voyages, all in their second French editions and.....
London. 1807. xix,[1],160pp. Old limp marbled boards. Front board detached, rear starting. Titlepage dust soiled, bit tanned, contemporary ink marginalia, else internally quite good. Second edition. Discussion of the value of the West Indies to Great Britain, the poor condition of trade with the islands and possible methods of improving.....
Philadelphia. 1807. xxiii,[1],275,[1],40,220pp. plus seven engraved plates or maps, and advertisements. Half title. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, leather label. Extremities worn, slight chipping at top of spine. Some tanning and light scattered foxing. Good. This copy contains the ownership inscription of Amos Eaton: "Amos Eaton's A present from the.....
Glasgow: Printed by Khull, Blackie, & Co., 1825. 223pp. Dbd. Very clean internally. Near fine. Inscribed on the titlepage: "Messrs. Yates Brothers & Co. from the West India Association." Yates Brothers & Co. of Liverpool was a commercial firm specializing in the West Indies. The Glasgow-based West India Association was.....
Havana: Impr. y Litografía de la Maestranza de Artillería, 1898. Letterpress title (verso blank); contents page (verso blank); 4pp. text (recto only of 4 leaves); 1p. text (a table listing all 34 of the "Acorazados" or battleships in the U.S. fleet, recto only); 1p. text (a table of the 51.....
Martinique. July 18, 1817. Folio. Printed document, completed in manuscript. Badly dampstained. Still legible. A few small holes. Just about good. This document gives permission to William Howard, of young man of Boston, to travel to Marseilles. Signed by the Governor-General of Martinique, Vangiraud. Unusual imprint.
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[Martinique. 1767]. 6pp. Small quarto. Gathered signatures. Minor dampstaining to inner margin. Very good. In a clamshell box. A very rare and early imprint from the island of Martinique regarding the handling of slaves to be freed after the death of their owners. These ordinances outline the protocol for executors.....
St. Pierre: Imprimerie de P. Richard & le Cadre, 1790. 8pp. on a folded sheet. Toned. Very good. In a half morocco clamshell case, cloth chemise. A very early Martinique imprint, which refers to the horrors of the slave revolt there and gives a play-by- play account of the events.....
