1979ref. 1201310172xbvkFort de France, Éditions Émile Désormeaux, 1979. Ca. 160 pages non nummérotés. - Cartonnage de l'éditeur illustrée; gr.-8vo.(ca. 24 x 18,5 x 2 cm).
1955ref. 93003Imprimerie Transatlantique, Paris, 1955. kart.
1913ref. 20017Sydicate Publ. Comp., New York 1913. 414 S. mit über 600 Fotos u. zahlr. Aquarell-Tafeln von E. J. read u. G. Grant., original farbig illustr. Leinen- gebundene Ausgabe, roter illustrierter Leinenband, goldgeprägter Deckel und Rücken, Gebrauchsspuren am Einband, sonst guter Zustand
1839ref. 4092550London: Verlag B. Fellowes 1839. IV, 307 Seiten. Mit gestochenem Frontispiz von J. W. Lowry nach T. H. Foljambe und 2 Holzstichen im Text. 8° (17,5-22,5 cm). Orig.-Leinenband der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und dezenter Blindprägung auf den Deckeln [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
1997ref. Ge0842Jamaica, Ian Randle Publishers, 1997. 406 S.; englischsprachig; Tagungsband des gleichnamigen Symposiums der University of the West Indies, Mona Campus 1993; Literaturverzeichnis; Kanten bestoßen; zwei Eselsohren; ansonsten wohlerhaltenes Exemplar Buch Broschur
ref. 250556New York: Carlton & Lanahan nd. Reminiscences of the West India Islands Second Series.-No. II. Frontis. 159 pp. 12mo. Contemp cloth. Very Good. Reminiscences of the West India Islands Second Series.-No. II. Frontis. 159 pp. 12mo. Carlton & Lanahan unknown books
1825ref. 21618London 1825. Folio. 310pp. Bound in modern blue wrappers with copy of title on front wrapper. Fine. A wonderfully detailed report on the structure of the legal system in these colonies with explanations of the courts forms of action and remedies crimes punishments police forces slave codes manumission reform measures fees tables of cases tables with names and races of parties to legal proceedings. OCLC records nine locations under several accession numbers as of September 2024. unknown books
1835ref. 41420London: Published by Edmund Fry 1835. 2 viii 112 pp. Original cloth rebacked. Title stamped in gilt on upper cover. Frontis engraving with tissue guard of black children in school taught by elegantly dressed white teachers; and with several signs: "The Day of Our Freedom August 1st 1834" engraved by J. Crosland; "That Which I See Not Teach Thou Me"; "Shew Me Thy Ways O Lord Teach Me Thy Paths." Occasional foxing Good plus. A scarce work issued to celebrate the abolition of slavery in British colonies with the Slavery Abolition Act passed in 1833 and going into effect on 1 August 1834. "On the memorable day when British Colonial Slavery ceased the 'Peckham Negro's Friend and Instruction Society' held a special meeting with a view to 'signalizing the day of Negro Emancipation by some act of Christian benevolence" and accordingly came to the unanimous resolution of undertaking 'the charge of an Adult School to be established in the island of Jamaica. The necessary steps were taken to effect this design; and it is the hope of aiding the the extension of its practical usefulness which has prompted a few individuals who have long felt deeply interested in the Negro's cause to collect into a small volume such poems as may be within their reach written for the most part in special commemoration of the abolition of Slavery and to apply the profit if any to the furtherance of the object before described." The authors of most of these poems have signed with their initials only. This is the first edition. LCP 2587. Published by Edmund Fry unknown books
1791ref. 31348Grenoble: M. Cuchet 1791. A French law relating to the armaments permitted on merchant vessels trading with French possessions in the West Indies. Rare. Not on OCLC. Quarto. Modern marbled boards red gilt morocco label. Internally clean. Very good. hardcover books
1703ref. 62765London: Printed for John Gellibrand; and are to be sold by A. Baldwin 1703. A Well-Known Early English Mutiny Kirkby and the other naval officers were court-martialed at Port Royal in Jamaica for their disgraceful behavior in Benbow's encounter with the French in August 1702. The whole action is detailed especially regarding the officers who refused to fight deserted the line of battle etc. A well-known mutiny cited as a precedent in other British naval cases. Later three-quarter calf and marbled boards spine gilt. Corners worn spine scuffed along the joints. Tanned and foxed. Good. SABIN 37982. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 703/84. CUNDALL 94. JCB 1III:29. DNB XI pp.207-8. hardcover books
1707ref. 17560London. 1707. Very Early Tract on the West Indian Trade The author sets out the five most important advantages which he associates with trading with the Spanish West Indies and then proceeds to respond to the potential objections of others. He concludes by listing the conditions set out by the Spanish which he considers very reasonable as "This Trade is a Jewel." 8pp. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Tanned. Very good. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 707/95. hardcover books
1832ref. 45990London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty 1832. Disbound. About very good. Marginal stain along the edges on the first few leaves removed from a larger volume. 31 pp 1141-1171. 4to. Caption title./ "16th August 1832."/ At head of title: Anno Secundo & tertio. Gulielmi IV. Regis. Cap. CXXV. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty unknown books
1797ref. 1022408vo modern calf 407 pp. Lacks half title ex-library stamps on both sides of title front endpaper chipped on top expert repair to last page a little soiling normal aging and foxing; otherwise very good in a very nice modern binding. Before James Monroe 1758-1831 became president of the United States his political apprenticeship included serving as Minister to France. He was appointed by George Washington in 1794 to this post which proved disastrous from a political standpoint. He was recalled in 1796 and while he was an enthusiastic supporter of the French Revolution he was openly critical of the Jay Treaty with Britain which antagonized Washington's pro -British cabinet. This work was Monroe's attempt to justify his position. New Book of Knowledge. Evans 32491. Sabin 50020. Howes M727. Benj. Franklin Bache, books
1797ref. 1022418vo contemporary calf spine and tips rebacked with original spine label laid down new endpapers includes half title 407 pp. Signature on front endpaper and title ink and pencil numbers on back of title extremity wear to binding corner mended dampstaining to the bottom third of book some soiling foxing and aging; otherwise in very good condition overall. Before James Monroe 1758-1831 became president of the United States his political apprenticeship included serving as Minister to France. He was appointed by George Washington in 1794 to this post which proved disastrous from a political standpoint. He was recalled in 1796 and while he was an enthusiastic supporter of the French Revolution he was openly critical of the Jay Treaty with Britain which antagonized Washington's pro-British cabinet. This work was Monroe's attempt to justify his position. New Book of Knowledge. Evans 32491. Sabin 50020. Howes M727. Benj. Franklin Bache, books
1778ref. 1001488vo period calf rebacked with modern calf and new endpapers 3 202pp. Wear to covers; ink name to top of title page and some foxing and darkening within. Otherwise very good. The contents provide coverage of the important proceedings before the Declaration of Independence on July 4th 1776.This commentary reflects the efforts of the Second Continental Congress which was headed by John Hancock. A good portion of the contents focus on correspondence between Washington who had taken command of the Continental Army in May 1775 and Congress election of delegates form each of the Colonies and funding the war with Great Britain. Some remarks actually give insight into the pay that soldiers received privates got $5 per month. Also some information on printing of paper money and what denominations would be used. While the title page indicated this was a reprinted work Sabin only lists the London edition. Reprinted For J. Almon books
1833ref. 34458v.p. including Antwerp London Havana Pensacola New York 1833. Folio. 12 3/4 x 8 inches. 21 leaves plus two additional manuscript leaves laid in. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards manuscript label on front board. Bookseller's label on front pastedown. Account book of Atlantic trading voyages. An interesting manuscript ship's log containing financial accounts for the brigs Nimrod and Jasper for an eight year period from 1826 to 1833 while they were under the command of a Captain John Hill. The two ships made numerous voyages between the United States Europe and the Caribbean. The present log book contains line accounts of expenditures for journeys from London and Marseilles to New York and Norfolk in 1827; from Antwerp to London in 1828; from Philadelphia to the West Indies in 1829; from Madeira to the Turks Islands in 1831; from the West Indies to Pensacola to Havana in 1832; from the Indies to New York in 1833; and other similar voyages. The log also contains two copies of an 1832 letter written in Havana by Hill to merchants there inquiring about the price of molasses and a list of port charges at several major way points. A fascinating artifact of trans-Atlantic trade in the 1820s and 1830s. unknown books
1782ref. CA0094lii315 pages. Octavo 8" x 5 3/4" bound in full leather with gilt lettering to spine. Translated with notes by Pedro Varela y Ulloa. Palau 196692. First Spanish edition. A text that engaged the well-studied debates about the natural history of the Americas and Spain's colonial history. In 1780 in Venice Juan Nuix published Riflessioni imparziali supra l'umanita degli spagnuoli nell' Indie contro i pretersi filosofi e politici. Nuix a Catalan living in Italy since the expulsion of the Jesuits wrote the book to defend Spanish colonialism and historiography against the attacks of Robertson and Raynal. It sailed by the censors in the Council of the Indies and two separate translations appeared in succession one in 1782 edited by a member of the Royal Council Pedro Varela y Ulloa and another in 1783 by Joseph Nuix Juan's brother. The Spanish edition sponsored by the crown opened with an essay by Varela y Ulloa in which he first offered a searing Critique of traditional forms of colonialism not unlike that put forth by Raynal. After describing military campaigns in foreign lands from Alexander the Great to Genghis Kahn as butcheries Varela y Ulloa went on to claim that the Spanish colonialism was unique. The crimes attributed to Spain in the Indies had been committed by private individuals who did not represent the nation as a whole and who had acted as they did while surrounded by hungry cannibals. Moreover compared with the atrocities committed by other European colonial powers the actions of the Spaniards looked like misdemeanors. Varela y Ulloa's effort to portray Spanish colonialism as unique benign captured the essence of Nuix's thesis well. Nuix's defense of the record of Spanish colonialism opened with passages that sought to bolster his credibility by stressing that he was a Catalan and that Catalans had not really participated in the Spanish colonization of the Indies so that he could not be accused of being partisan. He then articulated a five-pronged defense of Castilian colonial behavior in America seeking to demonstrate the unreliability of the sources used by Robertson and Raynal and of their interpretations. Nuix First set out to prove that charges of Spanish cruelty to Amerindians were exaggerations originally put into circulation by writers such as Las Casas whose reports on the destruction of the Indies were at the root of most foreign criticisms of Spain. According to Nuix Las Casas was of Flemish origin which explained why he had sought to undermine Spain. Las Casas also often contradicted himself Nuix argued no impartial jury could trust such "an inept" witness. Foreign historians who had echoed Las Casas's allegations were not credible either not Robertson whose moderation had prompted him to dismiss Las Casas. Robertson had selected and reinterpreted the testimony of Spanish witnesses when recounting various colonial massacres. Instead of quoting them moreover Robertson had manipulated the testimony of witnesses to depict the Amerindians as passive victims of Spanish cruelty. History was not a matter of interpretation however but of faithfully presenting the testimony of witnesses and in that respect Robertson lacked credibility. In order to prove that Spaniards in America had not behaved like greedy barbarians Nuix argued that the alleged depopulation caused by the Conquest was the product of factors outside human control. The infantile susceptibility of the natives to disease for example was why epidemics had wiped them out. The barrenness of the Americas and the idleness of the originally small number of natives had moved the conquerors to create economies based on mining and large estates. Such economies along with the foreign monopoly on colonial trade not Spanish cruelty and greed Nuix contended were responsible for having slowed both markets and population growth. Condition: Provenance: Book plate of Alberto Parreño formerly president of the Cuban Chamber of Commerce in New York to front paste down. Spine head chipped rubbing to edges and corners very crisp internally else about a very good copy. Joachin Ibarra hardcover books
19941 vol. in-8 carré br., 1994, 54 pp. Bon état Français
19321 vol. petit in-4 br., ill. noir et blanc, Imprimerie Commerciale et administrative, Périgueux, 1932, 133 pp. + ff. Ouvrage contenant : 1. la mystérieuse destinée d'Aimé du Buc de Rivery, mère présumé de Mahmoud II ; 2 l'épopée d'une famille aux îles du Vent (Pierre du Buc Le Brave, Jean du Buc l'étang) ; 3. l'utile carrière d'un économiste, Henri de Bertin ; fortunes et infortune d'un balafrer de la Grande Armée, Christophe-Edouard de Malet. Etat moyen (ex libris ms. sur couv., ancienne trace de mouill. marginale sans effet sur le texte, état très satisfaisant par ailleurs). Prix en l'état. Peu courant. Français
19991 reprographié sous reliure spirale, 1999, 254 pp. Très bel envoi de l'auteur, le docteur libournais et écrivain Jean-Pierre Chevalier, "à Michel Suffran, cette évocation, très romancée, de la personnalité du capitaine Etienne de Montauban, flibustier célèbre en Saintonge, dont près d'une centaine de documents gardent la trace aux Archives Départementales de la Gironde et qui a donné son nom à une rue du quartier Saint Augustin, à Bordeaux". On joint une L.A.S. dans laquelle l'auteur explique que cette dernière version du roman est 'l'aboutissant de multiples remaniements du roman". Rare manuscrit, manifestement inédit, relatant de manière romancée, les aventures d'Etienne de Montauban, lequel avait relaté ses propres aventures dans un ouvrage paru en 1698 à Amsterdam sous le titre de "Voyage en Guinée, de Monsieur de Montauban, capitaine Flibustier" (Exmelin en propose un résumé dans son "Histoire des Aventuriers et Flibustiers qui se sont signalés dans les Indes"). Français
19078vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with numerous musical notations in the text, series title and title lightly spotted, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; decorative cloth, blocked in gilt and black, gilt back, uncut, covers a little age-marked, upper hinge cracked but quite sound else a good, sound copy of a very scarce work. Publications of the Folk-Lore Society, LV.
19728vo. First Edition, with numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text, inked scribble on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. With relevant cuttings mounted on endpapers. SCARCE.
19668vo., Fourth Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates, maps and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped but worn dustwrapper, the latter with loss at backstrip and heavily rubbed at fold-ins.
19724to., First Edition, with fine coloured frontispiece, 10 fine coloured plates and endpaper maps; olive cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright, crisp copy of a standard reference.
20118vo., First Edition, with plates, full-page maps in the text and endpaper maps in sepia; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Well-illustrated, detailed and often harrowing account of the West Indies under slavery. The original edition is already scarce in this condition.
