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1908réf. 228161908. Ober Frederick A. A Guide to the West Indies and Bermudas. New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1908. First edition. First printing. 525 pages with five fold-out color maps and numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations. Original red cloth stamped in gilt as issued with no dust jacket. 8vo. An early 20th-century travel guide reflecting U.S. and European imperial tourism in the Caribbean at the height of American expansion following the Spanish-American War. Ober a prolific writer on the Caribbean and Latin America interweaves geography natural history and colonial ethnography offering a period perspective into the ways tourists imperial authorities and travel publishers framed the predominantly Black Afro-Caribbean and Creole cultures of the region during the Jim Crow era. This guide includes detailed chapters on Cuba Puerto Rico Jamaica Trinidad Barbados Guadeloupe Martinique and dozens of other island territories along with sections on "The Bermudas" "The Lesser Antilles" "The South Coast of Cuba" and "A Glimpse of South America." The contents pages visible here show Ober's systematic movement through the archipelago giving each island a discrete treatment with notes on climate agriculture transportation and colonial governance. As Ober writes in his introduction the West Indies form "a region of infinite variety" a phrase that reflects both genuine admiration and the period's exoticizing tone common to pre-WWI travel literature. The fold-out maps chart shipping routes railways ports and political boundaries at a moment when the United States had recently taken possession of Puerto Rico 1898 and solidified its influence in Cuba and the broader Caribbean basin. Light rubbing to cloth with slight sunning to spine; corners mildly worn. Five fold-out maps complete crisp and clean one with a minor tear near margins. Interior exceptionally bright with no writing or markings; binding tight. Overall very good condition. A well-preserved first printing of an important Caribbean travel guide valuable for scholars of U.S. imperial history Caribbean studies tourism studies and the racial-cultural representation of the West Indies during the early American century. unknown
1908réf. 228161908. Ober Frederick A. A Guide to the West Indies and Bermudas. New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1908. First edition. First printing. 525 pages with five fold-out color maps and numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations. Original red cloth stamped in gilt as issued with no dust jacket. 8vo. An early 20th-century travel guide reflecting U.S. and European imperial tourism in the Caribbean at the height of American expansion following the Spanish-American War. Ober a prolific writer on the Caribbean and Latin America interweaves geography natural history and colonial ethnography offering a period perspective into the ways tourists imperial authorities and travel publishers framed the predominantly Black Afro-Caribbean and Creole cultures of the region during the Jim Crow era. This guide includes detailed chapters on Cuba Puerto Rico Jamaica Trinidad Barbados Guadeloupe Martinique and dozens of other island territories along with sections on "The Bermudas" "The Lesser Antilles" "The South Coast of Cuba" and "A Glimpse of South America." The contents pages visible here show Ober's systematic movement through the archipelago giving each island a discrete treatment with notes on climate agriculture transportation and colonial governance. As Ober writes in his introduction the West Indies form "a region of infinite variety" a phrase that reflects both genuine admiration and the period's exoticizing tone common to pre-WWI travel literature. The fold-out maps chart shipping routes railways ports and political boundaries at a moment when the United States had recently taken possession of Puerto Rico 1898 and solidified its influence in Cuba and the broader Caribbean basin. Light rubbing to cloth with slight sunning to spine; corners mildly worn. Five fold-out maps complete crisp and clean one with a minor tear near margins. Interior exceptionally bright with no writing or markings; binding tight. Overall very good condition. A well-preserved first printing of an important Caribbean travel guide valuable for scholars of U.S. imperial history Caribbean studies tourism studies and the racial-cultural representation of the West Indies during the early American century. unknown books
1992réf. 033551Montreal: Les Editions Du Cidihca 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 254 Pp 2 Pp Index At End. Green Wrappers Printed In Black As Issued. Fine No Wear But Some Fading To Background Color On Spine. Inscribed By The Author To Andre Girard. Per Wikipedia Émile Ollivier 1940 - 2002 Was A Haitian -Born Educator And Writer Living In Quebec Canada. He Was Considered One Of The Most Important Haitian Writers Of His Time. He Was Born In Port-Au-Prince And After Studying At The Lycée In Port-Au-Prince Went On To Study Philosophy At The École Normale Supérieure D'haïti And Literature And Psychology In France. Following The Rise To Power Of The Pig-Dictator François Duvalier Ollivier Left Haiti For France In 1964. In 1965 He Came To Quebec First Settling In Amos In The Abitibi-Témiscamingue Region Where He Taught School And Later Moving To Montreal. Ollivier Worked As A Coordinator For The Quebec Ministry Of Education From 1973 To 1976. From 1977 To 1980 He Was An Administrator At The Université Du Québec À Montréal . He Was A Professor In The Education Sciences Department Of The Université De Montréal For 25 Years. Les Editions Du Cidihca paperback
1899Light fraying to spine ends, light rubbing to extremities. Rear hinge started; Rear folding maps: Geographical map in color (not folded) and folded map of telegraph lines and stations as well as Porto Rico and its coastline ; Ex-Library; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 240 pages
1897Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Light soiling to back boards. ; A detailed, self published guide of Trinidad, one of the few ones written about this island at this time. Numerous b&w photographs - including a tissue guarded frontispiece. Large fold out map. Numerous ads in rear unpaginated section ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 172 + ads pages
1979réf. 020829N.Y.: J.B. Lippincott Company 1979. First U.S. Hardcover Edition paperback original published by Gold Medal 1972 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket not price clipped in protective mylar cover. Cover illustration by Don Brautigan. Travis McGee with help from his friend Meyer outwaits and outwits a deranged killer as he searches for a missing wife on the remote Caribbean island of Granada where he tangles with a baby-faced businessman with a lust for murder. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Brautigan Don. Book. J.B. Lippincott Company
1783réf. 17472London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell. Very Good-. Hardcover. Full leather boards with quite some rubbing. Book block split. Bookplate.; This is volume 5 only of the 8 volume edition. Was originally published in 10 volumes. Including a steel engraved map of the European settlements in Africa.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 499 pages . 1783. W. Strahan and T. Cadell hardcover
1851réf. 200111AG1851. London & New York J & F. Tallis 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Illustrations by H. Warren and Engraved by J. Rogers. Plate Size: 25 cm x 35 cm. Sheet Size: 27 cm x 37.4 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. A beautiful map of the West Indies: from the Bahamas in the North near the southern tip of Florida down to Barbados and Trinidad of the coast of Colombia. Cuba Jamaica Hispaniola San Domingo and Haiti Porto Rico the Virgin Islands and the myriad of smaller islands throughout the Caribbean Sea are also included. The Mosquito Coast in modern Nicaragua Guatemala and the Panama isthmus can also be seen. Relief depicted with hachuring. The major towns and cities across this region such as Havana Kingston and Port Royal Port Republican Port-au-Prince and Cartagena are also shown. A depiction of native peasants and a medallion complete this pleasant map. John Tallis 7 November 1817 3 June 1876 was an English cartographic publisher. His company John Tallis and Company published views maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846 and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858 selling it for £1370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. Wikipedia The most important project John Tallis undertook was the 'Illustrated Atlas' from 1851. The original map we offer here was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it contained are still today considered as the last reminder of an era of lavish map production. Tallis worked the project together with John Rapkin 1815-1876 and it was Rapkin's style and talent that we have to thank for when we marvel at these maps today. What makes these maps so special is the detail of engraved vignettes that surround the map and often show indigenous scenes people in their environment and even more so historical buildings or historical views of towns and cities architecture and landscape. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia unknown
19521st edition. Original Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 157 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. On verso of Title Page: "Fun goles Daichland biz mdinas Isroel. " Prolific Cuban Zionist writer. SUBJECT (S) : Zionism. Jewish travelers -- Biography. World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees. Israel -- Description and travel. OCLC lists 9 copes worldwide. Residue of later outer binding on spine and adjacent original cover, otherwise Very Good Condition (latam-2-3)
1783Full leather boards with quite some rubbing. Book block split. Bookplate. ; This is volume 5 only of the 8 volume edition. (Was originally published in 10 volumes). Including a steel engraved map of the European settlements in Africa. ; 8vo; 499 pages
1938réf. 029977Julia Ellsworth Ford 1938. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 74 illustrations and maps. 9 Pp. Yellow Card Wrappers Printed In Black. With Paste-On Printed Sheets With Additional Text On Inner Side Of Wrappers. Nerar Fine. Scarce; Only Two Examples In Worldcat. Her Archives Are At Yale And Presented There As "Julia Ellsworth Ford Was A New York Socialite Art Collector And Patron And Author Of Children's Books. She Was Married To Simeon Ford A Financier And Co-Owner Of The Grand Union Hotel In New York. Ford Presided Over A Salon That Included The Lebanese Mystic Kahlil Gibran Irish Poet W. B. Yeats And American Dancer Isadora Duncan. Her Published Works Include: Simeon Solomon: An Appreciation 1908 Imagina 1914 And Snickerty Nick 1919 Among Others." The Archive Apparently Does Not Include This Booklet. [Julia Ellsworth Ford] paperback
1890réf. List3666New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co 1890. Folio sheet music illustrated pictorial cover printed in orange. 5 pp. including cover. Approximately 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Covers detached loss to front cover contents complete fair to good. A decorative late nineteenth-century dance publication for “Trocha” described on the cover as “A Cuban Dance” composed by the African American composer and bandleader W. H. Tyers. The elaborate pictorial cover incorporates stylized tropical foliage and island scenery rendered in a bold single-color design typical for the period’s fascination with exoticized musical forms. William H. Tyers 1870–1924 was an African American composer arranger and bandleader active in New York during the ragtime era. Born in Petersburg Virginia to Henry Tyers and Jane “Jennie” Jones both formerly enslaved he spent part of his youth in Richmond before his family relocated to New York City where he began studying piano. His early teachers recognized an aptitude for composition as well as performance and by the mid-1880s he was writing dance pieces including polkas and waltzes. Around the age of twenty Tyers secured employment as a music librarian and arranger with a touring concert company a position that brought him to Europe where he studied orchestration and arranging with Professor Gaspari in Hamburg. Returning to New York Tyers became active in the city’s rapidly expanding popular music trade working as an arranger and composer for publishers including F. A. Mills and Jos. W. Stern & Co. In 1896 he published “Sambo” a syncopated march sometimes considered to be one of the first instrumental rags.1 “Trocha” also released in the 1980s brought Tyers prominence for his ability to write Latin-style rhythms. It was re-issued in 1913 as a tango and its success led Tyers to work as an arranger with Joseph W. Stern in 1897. Tyers’ compositions blended contemporary American dance music with Caribbean and Latin themes a style reflected in pieces such as Trocha and later in his well-known ragtime composition Panama 1911 which remained a staple of early jazz and dance orchestras. OCLC finds two copies with different entries at the Cleveland Public Library and the British Museum Reference Collections. 1 “William Tyers Music Arranger” African American Registry https://aaregistry.org/story/william-tyers-born/ accessed March 10 2026. Jos. W. Stern & Co unknown
1890réf. List3666New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co 1890. Folio sheet music illustrated pictorial cover printed in orange. 5 pp. including cover. Approximately 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Covers detached loss to front cover contents complete fair to good. A decorative late nineteenth-century dance publication for “Trocha” described on the cover as “A Cuban Dance” composed by the African American composer and bandleader W. H. Tyers. The elaborate pictorial cover incorporates stylized tropical foliage and island scenery rendered in a bold single-color design typical for the period’s fascination with exoticized musical forms. William H. Tyers 1870–1924 was an African American composer arranger and bandleader active in New York during the ragtime era. Born in Petersburg Virginia to Henry Tyers and Jane “Jennie” Jones both formerly enslaved he spent part of his youth in Richmond before his family relocated to New York City where he began studying piano. His early teachers recognized an aptitude for composition as well as performance and by the mid-1880s he was writing dance pieces including polkas and waltzes. Around the age of twenty Tyers secured employment as a music librarian and arranger with a touring concert company a position that brought him to Europe where he studied orchestration and arranging with Professor Gaspari in Hamburg. Returning to New York Tyers became active in the city’s rapidly expanding popular music trade working as an arranger and composer for publishers including F. A. Mills and Jos. W. Stern & Co. In 1896 he published “Sambo” a syncopated march sometimes considered to be one of the first instrumental rags.1 “Trocha” also released in the 1980s brought Tyers prominence for his ability to write Latin-style rhythms. It was re-issued in 1913 as a tango and its success led Tyers to work as an arranger with Joseph W. Stern in 1897. Tyers’ compositions blended contemporary American dance music with Caribbean and Latin themes a style reflected in pieces such as Trocha and later in his well-known ragtime composition Panama 1911 which remained a staple of early jazz and dance orchestras. OCLC finds two copies with different entries at the Cleveland Public Library and the British Museum Reference Collections. 1 “William Tyers Music Arranger” African American Registry https://aaregistry.org/story/william-tyers-born/ accessed March 10 2026. Jos. W. Stern & Co unknown books
1994réf. 004097S. l.: Bital Grupo Financiero 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good . 4to. 200 2 pp. Bound in full black cloth stamped in in white on spine in illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated many in full color including two fold-outs. Includes chronology list of works bibliography and an analysis of the composition of several works. Near Fine there is some bleed-through of adhesive on front and rear pastedowns otherwise bright copy in Very Good dust jacket with minor scuffing and wear. Bital Grupo Financiero hardcover
1849réf. G1027Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, Éditeurs, 1849 ; in-8, 4-160-164-156-102-2-8 pp. + 1 carte dépliante, 26 pl. hors-texte, broché (dos fendu, avec quelques petits manques, quelques rousseurs, quelques planches sont détachées). Collection: l'Univers«Histoire et description de tous les peuples». Ouvrage particulièrement intéressant sur les Antilles, qui sont peu nombreux. Illustré de gravures en taille-douce, exécutées par divers graveurs. État moyen.
1849Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, Éditeurs, 1849; in-8, 4-160-164-156-102-2-8 pp. + 1 carte dépliante, 26 pl. hors-texte, broché (dos fendu, avec quelques petits manques, quelques rousseurs, quelques planches sont détachées). Collection : l'Univers « Histoire et description de tous les peuples ». Ouvrage particulièrement intéressant sur les Antilles, qui sont peu nombreux. Illustré de gravures en taille-douce, exécutées par divers graveurs. État moyen.
1829réf. 18501829 Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1829. In-8 demi-veau. xii, 608 pages. Traduit de l'Espagnol. Supplément sur les "Courants de l'Océan Atlantique"
1829réf. PHO-1018Paris,Baudry, 1829 volumes in-8 ,(180x110),xiii-473p,490p,413p,489p , relié demi veau époque, dos ornés avec pièces de titre et tomaison , bon exemplaire et 2eme édition française .
réf. awd-1172Affiche originale imprimée en lithographie sur papier brun par l’Atelier Bordas.
1940réf. 222371940. Puerto Rico Education Industrial era Puerto Rico elementary school class photo archive. Three vintage silver gelatin black-and-white photographs each mounted on photo studio original boards with decorative borders. Two are early prints circa 1940s; the third is dated 1961. Each measure about 7" x 9". This evocative trio of Puerto Rican school photographs captures diverse elementary-age students posed in front of their local schools documenting a pivotal era of transformation in the island's social and educational landscape. One of the earlier cabinet cards features a group of students seated outdoors with a teacher or administrator standing behind them; the setting includes neoclassical columns and a colonial street with visible signage. Another card marked "Escuela No. 29" shows a racially integrated group of students with the school's flag held at the center of the image. The final print dated 1961-declared "Año de la Educación" Year of Education in the printed caption-presents a classroom posed beneath a prominently displayed Puerto Rican flag reflecting both a growing sense of national identity and post-war political shifts toward public investment in education. These photographs span a transformative period in Puerto Rico's 20th-century history as the island transitioned from an agricultural economy to a more industrialized state-supported system under Operation Bootstrap Operación Manos a la Obra. Begun in the late 1940s and accelerated through the 1950s and early 1960s the program prioritized urban development mass education and labor force modernization. The 1961 card framed by official state messaging reflects this emphasis-part of Governor Luis Muñoz Marín's vision of expanding universal literacy and integrating Puerto Rican youth into a skilled industrial economy. At the same time these images document the continued presence of racial and class diversity within public schools signaling the layered complexities of colonial modernity and U.S. influence on the island's educational and political systems. Mild surface soiling and edge wear to the mounts with light silvering to the gelatin surfaces of the two older prints. Overall very good condition. A rare and compelling visual record of Puerto Rican childhood education and racial integration during a formative mid-century era of political and economic redefinition. unknown
1940réf. 222371940. Puerto Rico Education Industrial era Puerto Rico elementary school class photo archive. Three vintage silver gelatin black-and-white photographs each mounted on photo studio original boards with decorative borders. Two are early prints circa 1940s; the third is dated 1961. Each measure about 7" x 9". This evocative trio of Puerto Rican school photographs captures diverse elementary-age students posed in front of their local schools documenting a pivotal era of transformation in the island's social and educational landscape. One of the earlier cabinet cards features a group of students seated outdoors with a teacher or administrator standing behind them; the setting includes neoclassical columns and a colonial street with visible signage. Another card marked "Escuela No. 29" shows a racially integrated group of students with the school's flag held at the center of the image. The final print dated 1961-declared "Año de la Educación" Year of Education in the printed caption-presents a classroom posed beneath a prominently displayed Puerto Rican flag reflecting both a growing sense of national identity and post-war political shifts toward public investment in education. These photographs span a transformative period in Puerto Rico's 20th-century history as the island transitioned from an agricultural economy to a more industrialized state-supported system under Operation Bootstrap Operación Manos a la Obra. Begun in the late 1940s and accelerated through the 1950s and early 1960s the program prioritized urban development mass education and labor force modernization. The 1961 card framed by official state messaging reflects this emphasis-part of Governor Luis Muñoz Marín's vision of expanding universal literacy and integrating Puerto Rican youth into a skilled industrial economy. At the same time these images document the continued presence of racial and class diversity within public schools signaling the layered complexities of colonial modernity and U.S. influence on the island's educational and political systems. Mild surface soiling and edge wear to the mounts with light silvering to the gelatin surfaces of the two older prints. Overall very good condition. A rare and compelling visual record of Puerto Rican childhood education and racial integration during a formative mid-century era of political and economic redefinition. unknown books
19518vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, numerous full-page photographs by Costa and double-page map on green stock, neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at extremities and with one short closed tear on front panel. Published a year after the first edition. The author's first book and a travel classic. EARLY PRINTINGS ARE VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1929Gilt lettering a bit faded to spine and front boards. Usual browned endpapers. Else a wonderful copy with all the maps in NF condition; With three specially drawn maps and seven plans. A rare Baedeker look-alike for a destination that almost nobody else published. Large interesting ad section at rear; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; x, 460 pages
19628vo., First Edition, with front and rear endpaper maps; original black cloth, gilt back, blue top (moderately faded), a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased at edges, chipped with minor loss at head and tail (just affecting lettering) and with two short closed tears. Jacket design by William Belcher. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
1973réf. 44039London: Caribbean Situationist 1973. First Edition. thus. Very good. Poster reproducing translated text by Khayati originally published in Internationale Situationniste and subsequently as a brochure in 1971 Ford 167. Illustrated with black and white photographs of Kingston Jamaica; Trinidad; and Hungary. Lower right corner includes a blank space intended to advertise a record shop where an LP of the text apparently spurious would be available. Uncommon. OCLC odes not locate a copy though there does appear to be on at Michigan. Wraps. Poster folded into quarters 36" x 23" approx. unfolded. Verso lightly toned; moderate wear to edges and fold lines. Creasing to corners. Very good. Caribbean Situationist unknown
