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Below is a list of my stock of old secondhand and antiquarian books on Belize, formerly British Honduras, for sale.
For what always was a rather remote colony British Honduras has a surprising number of books written about its history. I was most surprised to come across a photo album produced for sale to tourists done around the turn of the last century. I doubt I will see another copy.
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BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1900. H.M.S.O. 1901. 28pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Scarce large paper edition. Colonial Office report with statistical information and reports from different government departments. News of war against Yucatecan Indians fought by Mexican forces using Belize as a forwarding station.BRITISHH012825 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1901. H.M.S.O. 1902. 32pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Scarce large paper edition. BRITISHH012826 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1903. H.M.S.O. 1904. 38pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Scarce large paper edition. BRITISHH012828 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1904. H.M.S.O. 1905. 38pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Scarce large paper edition. BRITISHH012829 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1905. H.M.S.O. 1907. 30pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Scarce large paper edition. Report of outbreak of Yellow Fever.BRITISHH012830 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1906. H.M.S.O. 1907. 29pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Scarce large paper edition, disbound. BRITISHH012831 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1907. H.M.S.O. 1908. 30pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Scarce large paper edition, disbound. Much on disease and fever prevention.BRITISHH012832 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1910. H.M.S.O. 1912. 29pp + map. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Scarce large paper edition. Timely strengthening of the Belize fire brigade helped prevent the spread of another serious fire in the town.BRITISHH012834 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1911. H.M.S.O. 1912. 28pp + map. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Scarce large paper edition. Training for the Belize fire brigade by Mr Perry from the West Ham fire brigade.BRITISHH012835 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1912. H.M.S.O. 1914. 20pp + map. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Scarce large paper edition. Disturbances in the Cayo District leading to the murder of a Police Officer.BRITISHH012836 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1913. H.M.S.O. 1915. 22pp + map. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Scarce large paper edition. Efforts to prevent illicit gun-running and the use of the Colony by Mexican revolutionaries. Mexican bandit, Hernandex shot while resisting arrest in Cayo.BRITISHH012837 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1915. H.M.S.O. 1917. 15pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Scarce large paper edition. Loss of member of Legislative Council who was on board the Lusitania when it was sunk by a German torpedo plus departure of contingent to fight with the British West Indies regiment.BRITISHH012839 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1918. H.M.S.O. 1920. 9pp. 1st ed., small library h/s on title page, clean in paper covers. BRITISHH012483 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1919. H.M.S.O. 1921. 8pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Scarce large paper edition, disbound. BRITISHH015805 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1950. H.M.S.O. 1951. 53pp + folding map and photo plates. 1st ed., ex libre with some small h/s's otherwise clean in card covers. BRITISHH012558 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1955. H.M.S.O. 1957. 94pp + folding map and photo plates. 1st ed., ex libre with some small h/s's otherwise clean in card covers. BRITISHH012560 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1956. H.M.S.O. 1958. 100pp + folding map and photo plates. 1st ed., ex libre with some small h/s's otherwise clean in card covers. BRITISHH012561 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1959-61. H.M.S.O. 1963. 109pp + folding map and photo plates. 1st ed., ex libre with some small h/s's otherwise clean in card covers. Small tear to cover and title page. BRITISHH012562 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1962-63. H.M.S.O. 1965. 116pp + folding map and photo plates. 1st ed., ex libre with some small h/s's otherwise clean in card covers. BRITISHH012563 £8
BRITISH HONDURAS Report for 1964-65. H.M.S.O. 1968. 115pp + folding map and photo plates. 1st ed., ex libre with some small h/s's otherwise clean in card covers. BRITISHH012564 £8
BELIZE How we are Governed Belize. 1964. 12pp. Clean in blue card covers. Explaining the new form of independent government. BELIZE019206 £5
BELIZE A new look at Belize Latin American Report. 1968 (circa). 34 large pp. Clean in paper covers. Well illustrated report for potential investors in the country.BELIZE019184 £7
BELIZE Manifesto for the New Belize in the surging seventies A Belizean plan for accelerated development to bring prosperity to all Belizeans regardless of race or creed or colour Belize. 1970. 16pp. Clean in card covers. BELIZE019208 £5
BELIZE The Manifesto for the Independent Belize 1974 - 1979 A dynamic plan to make the peaceful constructive Belizean Revolution and decisely improve the quality of life of all Belizeans. Belize. 1974. 19pp. Slightly creased in card covers. BELIZE019209 £5
BELIZE The Belize Hospital Auxiliary presents Scenes of Old Belize. Original photographs taken 1909 Belize. n.d. 16 large pp. Fine in green card covers. 30 photographs which I believe are all old postcard views. Street scenes of Belize, two views of Belize Volunteers noted.BELIZE019183 £30
CRAINE E.J. Airplane Boys at Belize. World Syndicate Pub., Cleveland. 1932. 224pp. 1st ed., small h/s's of Sky Life Flying Club on first few pages otherwise clean in worn D/W. Boys story book.CRAINEEJ014133 £20
DAVIES H. The South American Handbook 1931. Trade & Travel Pubs. 1931. 742pp + folding map, fine in faded orig. cloth. Chapters on each country. Includes British Honduras, Cuba and Mexico.DAVIESH007241 £9
DONOHOE W.A. A history of British Honduras. Provincial Pub., Montreal. 1946. 118pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Useful history with good bibliography and a few illustrations some taken from old postcards.DONOHOEW016377 £38
GADSBY W.J. On the shores of the Caribbean Sea Stories of far-off British Honduras. J.W. Butcher, London. 1910. 128pp + plates and ads. 1st ed., circa 1910, clean in pictorial boards. Description of missionary work in the colony with many fine photo illusts.GADSBYWJ014991 £46
HABA Louis De La Belize, the awakening land. Photographs by Michael E. Long National Geographic. 1972. 26pp. Special reprint from magazine containing just this article. HABALOUI019182 £6
HARDING DAVIS R. Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America. Harper Bros., New York. 1903. 282pp. 2nd ed., fine in orig. worn cloth. Illustrated account of a journey through Venezuela, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras and Br. Honduras. Very readable.HARDINGD010878 £30
HENRY M. British Honduras in story and pictures. Pictured Geography series. Albert Whitman & Co., Chicago. 1946. 28pp. 1st ed., fine in fine original orange boards. Children's guide to history and geography with coloured and black and white drawings.HENRYM016758 £12
JOYCE T.A. Report on the British Museum expedition to British Honduras 1928. Royal Anthropological Institute of GB. 1928. 28pp + 12 plates. 1st ed., clean in card covers. 7.5 x 11" Many photo plates of archaeological discoveries.JOYCETA014005 £30
MARTIN R. MONTGOMERY History of the West Indies: comprising Jamaica, Honduras, Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, the Bahamas, and the Virgin Isles + Vol 2 comprising British Guiana, Barbadoes, St Vincents, St Lucia, Dominica, Montserrat, Antigua, St Christophers, &c. London. 1844. xxxvi + 308 small pp + engraved plate + viii + engraved plate and two folding maps. Fine in worn orig. cloth. Vol. IV and V of Montgomery's British Colonial Library but complete in itself. Good descriptions of each of the islands mentioned in the titles with attractive engraved views of Kingston, Jamaica and Kingstown, St Vincent.MARTINRM017732 £225
SAMUEL Rev. P. The Wesleyan - Methodist Missions, in Jamaica and Honduras, delineated: containing a description of the principal stations. Together with a consecutive account of the rise and progress of the work of God at each. London. 1850. 320pp + 33 litho plates. 1st ed., fine in orig. cloth, rebacked. 8vo. The author was a missionary in Jamaica for 12 years. Very fine tinted litho plates, mostly of Mission houses in Jamaica.SAMUELRE012214 £1,100
SIMMONS D.C. Confederate Settlements in British Honduras. McFarland & Co, N. Carolina. 2001. vii + 176pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. During and after the American Civil War more Confederate sympathisers sought exile in British Honduras than anywhere else. This work provides an interesting history and is also of use to geneologists as it provides lists of arrivals at hotels and passenger lists.SIMMONSD014002 £12
WADDELL D.A.G. British Honduras. A historical and contemporary survey. Oxford Uni. Press. 1961. 151pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. WADDELLD007599 £12