PIRON HippolyteLivre Rare Book
[Cuba]; Davey RichardBiblio.com
CUBA PAST AND PRESENT
1898ref. 35080London: Chapman & Hall Limited 1898. First Edition. A copy with pleasing provenance having been owned by Thomas Fermor-Hesketh 1st Baron Hesketh. With a number of full-page illustrations and a large folding map of Cuba at the end of the volume. 8vo publisher's original red cloth the upper cover lettered and decorated in gilt the spine lettered in gilt. vi 1o 284 4 ads. pp. A very good and well preserved copy of this fine work the binding tight and strong with some light age mellowing the text-block bright and clean. FIRST EDITION AND A COPY WITH PLEASING PROVENANCE. The book embodies the experience gathered during a visit to Cuba and is rich with facts and memoranda collected from other scholars and works on Cuba and West Indian subjects. Cerain chapters on Columbus and on the West Indian Manuscripts in the Colonial Exhibition have been included as an Appendix. Davey's description of the youth of Columbus had in his view never been attempted in English prior to his own writing. It is founded on oriignal and authentic documents discovered in the Genoese Archives. Sir Thomas Hesketh 1881 – 1944 was a British peer soldier and Conservative Member of Parliament. He achieved the ranks of 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards Captain in the Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry and Honorary Major in the Territorial Army and also served as a Justice of the Peace for Lancashire and for Northamptonshire. Hesketh sat briefly as a Member of Parliament for Enfield from 1922 to 1923 and was later High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1932. He succeeded his father as eighth Baronet of Rufford in 1924 and in 1935 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hesketh of Hesketh in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Chapman & Hall, Limited hardcover
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