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Girard, Philippe R (Professor of Caribbean history, Professor of Caribbean history, McNeese State University)Biblio.com

The Memoir of General Toussaint Louverture

réf. ria9780190636357_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A paperback

Ria Christie Collections · Royaume-Uni53,78 £GB≈ 64,23 €

Interesting Album with 233 Original Mounted and Loosely Inserted Gelatin Silver Photos Including 112 Images of Bermuda Showing St. George’s St. Peter’s Church and Clock Tower Salvation Army Church Stewart Hall Harbour Streets Hamilton Princess Hotel Wharf Private Residences Roads Local People &c.; The Album is Titled: Bermuda. 1906. Ca. 1900s.

réf. PE22Oblong Folio album ca. 285x37 cm 11 ¼ x 14 ¾ in. 50 black paper leaves 22 blank. With 218 mounted gelatin silver photos from ca. 8x135 cm 3 x 5 ¼ in to ca. 6x8 cm 2 ¼ x 3 ¼ in. No captions. With 15 loosely inserted photos including 5 duplicates: three large images ca. 22x34 cm 8 ½ x 13 ¼ in ten photos ca. 1520 cm 6x8 in and two smaller images. Period maroon full sheep album with a gilt-lettered title on the front cover. Binding rubbed on extremities the first leaf detached from the stub and loosely inserted several images slightly faded two large loosely inserted photos with creases and tears on extremities but overall a very good album. Interesting collection of original snapshot gelatin silver photos taken by an American or British family in the early 19th century which includes about 112 lively images of Bermuda and its people. The photos of Bermuda include a series of views of the Town of St. George showing the harbour with the Ordnance Island a graveyard with a pink Salvation Army church in the background St. Peter’s church and clock tower the oldest surviving Anglican church in continuous use outside of British Isles Stewart Hall city streets and historical houses &c. The identified views of Hamilton the territorial capital show the Princess Hotel taken from the harbour and city wharf. The other pictures of Bermuda show streets roads harbours with sailboats and naval ships coastal views private city houses and countryside residences portraits of local cart drivers local children the album’s compiler and his companions scenes on board a passenger steamer &c. The second half of the album with over a hundred photos depicts the compiler’s family life and their travels around Europe and the United States. The identified images show the “Peacock Hotel” Rowsley Derbyshire the Cliff Palace 11th-12th-century cliff dwelling in Montezuma County Colorado and the Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs. A portrait of an elderly lady features a sign that says “Cave of the Winds Pleases Everybody” most likely referring to the Cave of the Winds in the Pikes Peak region of Colorado. The other photos include scenes from an auto trip coastal views family portraits views of European cities likely in France &c. The loosely inserted photos are mostly views of the exterior and interior of a manor most likely in England. Overall an interesting collection of original snapshot photos of Bermuda in the early 20th century. unknown

Globus Rare Books & Archives · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 340,12 €

Chasing Latitudes: A Cockamamie Caribbean TaleBiblio.com

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réf. DADAX1468595695New unknown

Ergodebooks · États-Unis54,26 $US≈ 48,48 €

CARIBBEAN - CUBA - ST THOMAS - PUERTO RICOBiblio.com

Interesting Album with ca. 260 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Caribbean Taken and Collected during a Cruise of S.S. “Moltke” with Amateur Snapshot and Studio Photos of Destruction of St. Pierre Martinique after the Eruption of Mount Pelee in May 1902 and Lively Views of Havana Cuba Charlotte Amalie Saint Thomas San Juan Puerto Rico Fort-de-France Martinique Nassau Bahamas Portraits of the Locals and Tourists &c. Ca. early 1910s.

réf. PD19Oblong Folio album ca. 285x36 cm. 49 black paper album leaves. With ca. 260 mounted gelatin silver photographs of various size including ca. 20 large photos from ca. 245x32 cm 9 ½ x 12 ½ in to ca. 155x225 cm 6 x 8 ¾ in and 21 panoramas ca. 85x29 cm 3 ¼ x 11 1 /2 in or slightly smaller. The rest of the photos are from ca. 12x17 cm 4 ¾ x 6 ¾ in to ca. 4x6 cm 1 ½ x 2 ¼ in; most photos are ca. 8x14 cm 3 ¼ x 5 ½ in. No captions. About twenty photos with period ink notes “D.K.M. 10” in the corners. Period style black half morocco with cloth boards; decorative gilt-tooled borders on both boards and spine. Album leaves brittle several with tears and losses on extremities two large photos with tears and losses on extremities two small photos with losses of one corner each one photo has been apparently previously removed a few photos smildly faded or with mild silvering but overall a very good album of interesting photos. Historically significant album with lively amateur snapshots and original studio photos taken and collected by a family of American tourists during a Caribbean cruise in the early 1910s onboard the steamship “Moltke” of the Hamburg America Line Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft or HAPAG. Launched in 1901 S.S. “Moltke” went on regular cruises around the Caribbean and the Mediterranean until it was seized by Italy in 1915 in the course of WW1. Her Caribbean or West Indies cruises departed from New York and included stops in Cuba Puerto Rico Jamaica Panama Canal Venezuela Trinidad Barbados Martinique St. Thomas Dutch West Indies Bermuda & Bahamas. The album opens with several large views and panoramas of Havana harbour and waterfront featuring Castillo del Morro the iconic building of Lonja del Comercio commodities and stock exchange and S.S. “Moltke.” The other photos show Havana streets and passers-by the interior of a Catholic church &c. Over twenty photos are the views of the city and harbour of Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas Island – then the capital of the Danish West Indies since 1917 the U.S. Virgin Islands. The images show the city harbour from the distance and close-up a sign of “St. Thomas Bay & Rum Co.” is seen on one of the photos the statue of King Christian IX erected in the Emancipation Garden in 1909 removed in 2021 streets residential neighbourhoods on sloping hills a local market an official residence with the waving Danish flag garden of a Catholic convent with one of the monks posing alone and with a young tourist &c. Over thirty identified views of Puerto Rico a U.S. colony since 1898 a Commonwealth controlled by the U.S. since 1952 show San Juan: Plaza de Armas with the City Hall completed in 1842 Palacio de la Real Independencia now housing the Department of State of Puerto Rico Castillo San Felipe del Morro in the San Juan Bay Plaza Colon with Christopher Columbus monument San Juan harbour city streets and shops building of the “Hotel y Banos” a passenger train with the travellers walking at the front native cart drivers passers-by &c. A large group of photos ca. sixty depict the French Island of Martinique with a series of views of Fort-de-France: statues of Empress Josephine erected in 1859 destroyed in 2020 and Victor Schloelcher erected in 1904 removed in 2020 St. Louis Cathedral with the spire still under construction city streets and harbour “Hotel de l’Europe” distinctive cliffs on the coast near Fort-de-France &c. The views of Martinique include over twenty images of the ill-fated town of St. Pierre which perished during Mount Pelee’s eruption in May 1902. The photos include one view of St. Pierre before the destruction as well as general views of the ruins and desolation with posing tourists. Several images show the ruins of the Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of Assumption the downtown core with a grid of destroyed buildings and charred trees wrecked ships in the harbour a surviving bridge and the remains of the victims. A couple of images feature the top of Mount Pelee with a distinctive lava spine or the “Needle of Pelee” which was formed in October 1902 and collapsed in March 1903. Among the identified photos of Nassau Bahamas are the views of the famous silk cotton tree St. Matthews Anglican church completed in 1802 and the interior of Fort Charlotte. The other images show sugar cane plantations and native workers Caribbean residences streets and markets ports the American coastal steamer “Colonia” a series of scenes from a street carnival procession portraits of local market goers families diving children &c. Several images portray the tourists on board the S.S. Moltke including a group portrait with a lifebuoy of “Moltke Hamburg”. Overall a historically significant visual source on the history of American tourism to the Caribbean in the early 20th century with interesting views of the aftermath of the destruction of St. Pierre by the volcanic eruption. hardcover