![ORDONNANCE CONCERNANT LES FONCTIONS DE LA MARÉCHAUSSÉE [caption title]. Martinique, Guadeloupe](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM49588.jpg?v=1593711771)
Martinique: Pierre Richard, 1764. 8pp. Small quarto. Folded sheets. Lightly creased. Near fine. Incredibly early and unrecorded imprint from the island of Martinique, regarding the establishment of a constabulary in Guadeloupe. Passed by the Governor of Guadeloupe (François-Charles de Bourlamaque, who remained in office one year, due to sudden death).....
![ORDONNANCE CONCERNANT L'IMPOSITION A ÉTABLIR SUR L'ISLE SAINTE-LUCIE [caption title]....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM49558.jpg?v=1593711768)
[St. Pierre, Martinique. 1768]. 4pp. plus outer blanks. Quarto. Folded sheets. Faint dampstain at bottom edge. Near fine. Ordonnance signed in type by the Commandant Général Charles-Louis de Mauris and Intendant Louis de Thomassin de Peinier, concerning taxes on the small Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. The people of Saint.....
Paris: Simon de Colines, [ 1532]. [8],207 leaves. Small quarto. 18th-century calf, gilt, inner dentelles; rebacked to style, spine gilt with leather label. Bookplates on front pastedown. Some minor soiling. Scattered notations in Spanish in an early hand. Very good. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label. First French edition.....
![SUMMARIO DE LA GENERAL HISTORIA DE L'INDIE OCCIDENTALI...(title given on verso of first leaf)]....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM41694.jpg?v=1593711624)
Venice. 1534. 79; 64,[2]; [15] leaves. Double-sheet map. Woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary full vellum, manuscript title on spine, raised bands. Neat bookplate on front pastedown, old bookseller's label on rear pastedown. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper. Title-leaf and first leaf of text remargined, not affecting text. Slight.....
![HISTORIA DE L'INDIE OCCIDENTALI.] LIBRO VLTIMO. Peter Martyr](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM30869.jpg?v=1593711470)
[Venice]. 1534. [15] leaves. Small quarto. Contemporary vellum. A few fox marks, trimmed close at the top. Else near fine, with a contemporary ownership inscription of a Jesuit priest on a rear fly leaf. The third part, here in a separate issue, of this important collection of voyages and narratives.....
London: Printed for B. White, 1770. [2],41pp. Half title. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands, gilt leather label. Mild toning to half title, small holes to lower corner of pp.35-[42], not affecting text. Very good. Sole edition of this scarce argument in favor of admitting representatives.....
Boston. Sept. 27, 1781. 4pp. Folio. Old folds. Very minor loss at some folds. Light soiling and wear. Contemporary ownership inscription on top of first page. Very good. THE CONTINENTAL JOURNAL... was a weekly Boston paper published by John Gill from 1776 to 1785. This issue includes an article on.....
Boston. July 21, 1785. 4pp. Folio. Light wear at folds. Lightly soiled. Very good. This issue includes some accounts of Parliament, in which imports and exports from British colonies in Jamaica and Canada are discussed. Also, a brief account of the Kentucky country, providing a description of its agriculture, climate.....
New York. 1885. xv,[1],441pp. plus illus. Original pictorial cloth. Rubbed, small tear at front joint, but very good. Includes visits to St. Kitt's, Martinique, port of Spain, Trinidad, Curacoa, Jamaica, and Havana, with notes on slavery and the natives of the regions visited.
[Philadelphia. 1818]. Engraved map with full period hand-coloring, dissected into forty sections and backed on linen, as issued. Inset of the West Indies, statistical table. Sheet size: 36 3/8 x 58 1/4 inches. Very good. In a blue morocco box, spine gilt. This very rare issue of the first large-scale.....
Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale, 1828. [2],182pp. plus folding map. Half title. Contemporary red three-quarter morocco and calf, ornate gilt borders and spine. Minor foxing on front matter, slight browning on edges. Very good. A description of the coast of Martinique coupled with an account of a geographical survey. The text includes.....
New York: Published by Prior & Dunning, 1810. [4],127pp. Contemporary calf. Backstrip lacking, front cover detached. A bit tanned, else internally clean and good. American edition, after the original London edition. "Written to commemorate the abolition of the slave trade. The title piece sketches the history of the islands, the.....
London: John Baskett, 1740. x,146; v,24,[4]pp. Folio. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards. Light dampstaining in gutter margin of first few leaves. Very good. Laws of the island of Montserrat, from its early settlement through the first half of the 18th-century. Settled by the British in the mid-17th century, Montserrat.....
Boston. 1797. viii,[619]pp. printed in double columns, plus seven maps (six folding) and errata. Contemporary tree calf boards, expertly rebacked in modern calf, gilt, gilt leather label. Boards lightly rubbed and edge worn. Moderate tanning, offsetting from maps, one map with two-inch closed tear. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Good.....
Amsterdam: Cornille Nicolas, 1609. Two parts. 22,[8] leaves (second part with its own titlepage). Folio. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. A few leaves with worm tracks expertly repaired. Very good. Second French edition, following the first French edition of 1601, of this important voyages narrative, describing the.....
Trinidad. April 29, 1828. [1]p. on a folded folio sheet, addressed on the fourth page with remains of wax seals, postmarks, and docketing. Old folds. Slight loss at seal, otherwise very good. A brief but informative letter from Robert Neilson on the management of the Brechin Castle Estate, a sugar.....
Amsterdam: Jacques Benjamin, 1668. 241,[2]pp. Numerous in-text engravings. Small quarto. Later half vellum and marbled boards. Scattered dampstaining, else very good. The most complete and detailed contemporary account of the Anglo- Dutch war from 1664 to 1667, when the Treaty of Breda brought it to an end. This work was.....
London: Printed by James Phillips, 1787. 16pp. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Spine chipped, wraps faded and somewhat worn. Light soiling to titlepage, otherwise internally clean. Very good. A letter printed for distribution arguing in favor of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade by England. Nickolls, describing himself as, "a native.....
Philadelphia. 1800. 167pp. plus errata. 12mo. Modern half morocco. Old stamp on titlepage, upper forecorner of titlepage clipped affecting one letter of title, else good. In the fall of 1779 the author travelled from New York to visit the settlements in Pennsylvania. This is one of the best 18th-century accounts.....
Philadelphia. 1800. 167pp. plus errata. Extra-illustrated with a folding plate and view of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 12mo. Contemporary half calf and boards, gilt leather labels. Front hinge tender, corners heavily worn, light wear to binding. Later bookplate on front pastedown. Ownership inscription on titlepage. Light toning, some scattered soiling and foxing.....
London. 1741. Two volumes. xxxiv,[2],567,[1]; [2],478pp., plus eight folding maps. Contemporary calf, rebacked, with original spine labels laid down. Minor rubbing. Two bookplates in each volume, moderate scattered foxing, expertly-repaired tears to two maps. Very good. "Second edition, corrected and amended," with the history brought down to the date of.....
London. 1876. [4],264pp. plus colored folding map and folding plan. Half title. Original cloth. Ex-lib. with shelf label, bookplate and stamps. Hinges broken, contents shaken with one signature nearly detached, some light scattered foxing, else internally good. The author only spent two weeks in Dutch Guiana visiting friends, but compiled.....
London: Trubner and Co., 1866. [vii],72pp. plus advertisement on verso of front wrapper. Half title. Printed blue wrappers. Lacking rear wrapper. Front wrapper detached and lightly chipped and soiled. Internally clean. Good. An "anthropological" speech delivered in London following the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica. The brutal suppression of.....
Cologne [actually Amsterdam]: Jean L'Ingenu [i.e. Holland], 1678. 248pp. [bound with:] de la Roche-Guilhen, Anne: ALMANZAIDE NOUVELLE.... Paris: Claude Barbin [i.e. Holland], 1676. 96pp. 12mo. Contemporary plain paper boards, spine renewed to style. Light wear to extremities. Very good. Evidently the first edition of this scarce work, offering three fictional.....
London: Printed by James Phillips, 1792. 32pp. Dbd. Titlepage nearly detached and lightly foxed, otherwise very good. "The debate of this date was one of the most important in the history of the anti-slavery struggle. It resulted in a victory for the colonial party, the latter securing a pledge from.....
