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CARIBBEAN Introducing the British Caribbean Colonies H.M.S.O. 1952. 96pp + folding map. 1st ed., clean in card covers. Many fine photo illustrations. Overview of the British colonies and description of Britain's involvement in moves towards independence.CARIBBEA019513 £7

CARIBBEAN Caribbean cultures. Proceedings of the meeting of experts held in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) from 18 to 22 September 1978 Unesco. 1978. 282pp. Clean in orange card covers. CARIBBEA019528 £7

CHING D.S. And here alone. Island songs 1944-47 The Audain Press, Tortola and Belize. 1954. 76pp. 1st ed., clean in blue card covers. Poetry with some attractive woodcuts.CHINGDS019512 £9

CROWTHER W. Report by Mr Crowther on his recent visit to the West Indies Colonial Office. 1894. 31pp. 1st ed., clean in slightly chipped original paper covers. The author was curator of the Botanic Station of Gold Coast and describes his visits to botanic gardens in the West Indies.CROWTHER019521 £16

DREWERY R.F. William Wilberforce 1759 - 1833. A catalogue of the books and pamphlets on William Wilberforce and slavery in the reference library of Kingston upon Hull Public libraries Kingston Upon Hull. 1959. 36pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. DREWERYR019523 £16

GOVERNMENT Report of the British Guiana and British Honduras Settlement Commission H.M.S.O. 1948. viii + 359pp + folding maps in pocket at rear. Clean in original blue card covers, back cover detached. Air Ministry Library h/s on title page. GOVERNME019530 £12

GREENBIE S. Three Island Nations. Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic Row, Peterson & Co., New York. 1942. 84pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. Many fine coloured paintings by Henry Pitz. Children's guide.GREENBIE019520 £9

JERVIS T.S. Robusta Coffee Production in the Eastern Caribbean. Report on a visit from September 1956 to January 1957 Advocate Co., Barbados. 1957. 39pp. Clean in pink card covers. JERVISTS019532 £4

MORRIS Sir D. Sea Island Cotton in the West Indies London. 1906. 19pp. 1st ed., clean in blue paper covers, front cover detached. Substance of a speech to the West India Committee.MORRISSI019517 £12

SCHELL S. Down the Islands. A winter trip through the West Indies The Mentor. November 1924. 44pp article in complete magazine. Fine. Many photo illustrations of Barbados, Cuba, St Lucia and Trinidad.SCHELLS019529 £12

SLAVERY Honduras Indians. Demerara and Trinidad Slaves. Account of the steps taken by H.M. Govt. inquiring into Claims to Freedom of the Descendants of the Native Indians at Honduras. Information on which Lt. Col. Young, protector of slaves in Demerara assigned as a proper and moderate task for a slave, hired to labour on a Sunday in picking coffee, 60lb weight. Reports of the Superintendent of the Free American Blacks to the Governor of Trinidad, of Punishments inflicted on them by his authority, specifying the Offences committed from 1 Jan 1824 to the latest period. Jean Louis Mare, to import into the island 16 slaves from the island of Monos. Number of slaves imported into Trinidad from the Bahamas. H.M.S.O. 1830. 19 large pp. Folio. Clean in paper covers. SLAVERY019537 £50

UNITED FRUIT CO The Golden Caribbean. Vol. II, no. 4, April 1904 United Fruit Company, Boston. 48pp. Clean in rather blood stained card covers. Company monthly magazine with articles on Jamaica and Cuba with some good photo illustrations.UNITEDFR019510 £15

WILENSKY J.M. Yachtman's guide to the Windward Islands CSY Inc, U.S.A. 1973. 224pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers in spiral ring binding. Well illustrated.WILENSKY019522 £5

SCENERY AND ANIMATED LIFE West Indies II Thomas G. Jack, London & Edinburgh. 1872 (circa). Hand coloured steel engraving depicting typical scenes of life in the West Indies. Very minor one spotting. 7.5 x 10.5" SCENERYA019278 £30

Bahamas

HOTEL COLONIAL Nassau, Bahamas. England's peerless winter resort Nassau. 1920 (circa). 24pp. Fine in card covers. 6 x 4" Guide to the island with many photo plates. Includes 3pp on golf course by Fort Charlotte. Attractive.HOTELCOL019505 £24

NASSAU View of Nassau Unknown. 1870 (circa). Woodcut from an early magazine depicting Nassau with paddle steamer in the foreground. 6 x 5" NASSAU019277 £8

Barbados

BARBADOS The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society Vol XXXV, nos. 2, 3 and 4 Barbados. 1978. pp73 - 320. Clean in card covers. BARBADOS019527 £12

British Guiana

BRITISH GUIANA Report on the Gold, Diamond and Forest Industries of British Guiana, 1911-1912 Institute of Mines and Forests of Br Guiana. 1912. 29 + lxx + 9 plates. 1st ed., many minor creases and damage to page edges, grey card covers detached. BRITISHG019514 £8

BRITISH GUIANA Appendices to the Report of the British Guiana Refugee Commission to the advisory committee on Political Refugees appointed by the President of the United States of America H.M.S.O. 1939. 106pp. Air Ministry library h/s on title page, otherwise clean in torn and partially detached blue card covers. Looking into the possibility of resettling Jewish refugees from central europe.BRITISHG019531 £15

BERBICE Monthly Return of Pln. Hope & Experiment, Berbice Berbice. 1833. Large 3pp folded letter sheet, partially printed and completed in manuscript. Addressed to 'Hugh McCalmont Esq., care of Messrs Charles Ironside, Liverpool' and endorsed 'consignee of produce p Regular.' Very fine. The return gives a detailed account of sugar and rum produced and the distribution of the slave labour force with two marked as 'Runaways.' This is followed by a long description of the month's events including the death of two slaves and widespread sickness with visits from the doctor on 17 occasions. 'A great number of your Africans are old and feeble and if they are allowed to sit down all together the field gang will be seriously reduced.' 'The young women at 16 are at present breeding so well as they were a year ago.'BERBICE019487 £160

   

HARRISON & SONS British Guiana. London. 1880 (circa). Lithographed coloured map. 5 x 6" Identifies rivers, Georgetown, New Amsterdam, Kaiteur Falls and Penal Settlement. Attractive.HARRISON019293 £15

MALET A.M. Pays des Caribes et Guiane Paris. 1683. Engraved map with hand coloured border, 4 x 6.5" Fine. MALETAM019291 £50

SWANSTON G.H. British Guayana. according to Sir Robert Schomburgk, drawn by Augustus Peterman F.R.G.S. Engraved by G.H. Swanston. A. Fullarton & Co., London. 1850 (circa). Engraved map with outline colour. 6 x 10" Shows many interesting features including spot where Schomburgk discovered the Victoria Regina and the boundaries according to claims made by Brazil and Venezuela.SWANSTON019292 £35

GUIANA Chasseur negre, arme Paris. 1799. Engraving by Tardieu for French edition of Stedman's history, 5.5 x 8" Depicting negro soldier.GUIANA019299 £30

GUIANA Negre rebelle en faction Paris. 1799. Engraving by Tardieu for French edition of Stedman's history, 5.5 x 8" Depicting negro rebel soldier.GUIANA019300 £30

British Honduras

HONDURAS OBSERVER The Honduras Observer. Vol. 1 No. 25 New Series Henry Gunter, Belize. 1844 (Aug 27). 4pp newspaper. Two heavy filing folds otherwise clean. Early newspaper printed locally by John M. Daly. Articles on the war between Mexico and Texas and speed of the steam packets plus shipping adverts.HONDURAS019275 £160

BELIZE BALIZE Thomas Kelly, London. 1837. Steel engraving 9 x 6" Engraved by Davenport. View of the river front with British troops in the foreground.BELIZE019276 £120

Cayman Islands

ARMSTRONG D.B. The Cayman Islands: Their stamps and post office. Junior Philatelic Soc. Stamp Lover booklet no. 3. 1910 circa. 24 large pp + 2 plates, front cover detached. 1st ed. Very scarce guide to the early stamp issues, well illustrated.ARMSTRON019444 £75

Curacao

ARUBA ROTARY CLUB Travel and information guide to Aruba. The little Dutch Isle Caribbean Style Aruba Rotary Club and Aruba Tourist Bureau. 1970 (circa). 31pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. ARUBAROT019506 £7

Dominican Republic

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Why Dominicans call him El Benefactor The Herald of the Dominican Republic. 1959. 46pp. 2nd revised ed., clean in card covers. Extolling the virtues of President Trujillo Molina.DOMINICA019502 £8

Haiti

MCCONNELL H.O. You can learn Creole. A simple introduction to Haitian Creole for English Speaking People Imprimerie de L'Etat, Port Au Prince. 1945. 106pp. 1st ed., water stained in damaged card covers. Text complete so O.K. as a reading copy. MCCONNEL019526 £9

Panama

CURTIN R.G. A Medical Pilgrimage to the Republic of Panama Reprinted from the Transactions of the American Climatological Association. 1905. 43pp + folding map and plate. Mostly clean in damaged and crudely repaired original card covers. Well illustrated study.CURTINRG019525 £30

PANAMA Souvenir of Panama and the Canal I.L. Maduro, Panama. 1910. 64 large pp. Clean in pictorial card covers. 10 x 8" Photo views, mostly of Panama with good street scenes and views of the people.PANAMA019515 £45

Puerto Rico

PUERTO RICO Puerto Rico in pictures. Visual Geography Series Sterling Pub. Co., New York. 1965. 64pp. Clean in pictorial card covers. PUERTORI019524 £6

St Kitts Nevis

1875 Muster Roll of Windward Troop St Christopher. 1875. Manuscript list of estates, name of representative and their horse. 3 different two with slight loss. Plus two printed documents for Change of Troopers and Parade Return, one completed in m/s. A letter from Wingfield Manor explaining replacement of representative for the estate. An insight into the military conscription service operating on the island.1875019288 £120

   

OLIVER V.L. The registers of St Thomas, Middle Island, St Kitts. Baptisms 1729 to 1814, marriages 1729 to 1832, burials 1729 to 1802. Mitchell Hughes & Clarke. 1915. 64 large pp. 1st ltd. ed. of 200 copies. Tone spotting to front end papers otherwise mostly clean and partially uncut in original faded red cloth, slightly shaken. Supplement to Caribbeana, Vol. IV.OLIVERVL019402 £180

ST KITTS Sales of Cargo pr Sch. Liverpool at St Kitts. St Christopher. 1828. 'Account Sales of Sundries received from Schooner Liverpool. Sims master from Baltimore for sale and account od R.S. Pyje Esquire of Nassau N.P.' 3pp, foolscap. Lightly browned. Interesting manuscript.STKITTS019284 £36

ST KITTS Contemporary copy of correspondence relating to sales of wines and spirits by Messrs C.H. Astley & Co of London and Horatio Adlaw of St Kitts St Christopher. 1834. 7pp manuscript, fine. Two Buts of Sherry shipped to St Kitts plus Stout, Porter, Burton Ale and Brandy at a total cost of £65.12.8 Mr Adlaw writes back to say the Burton Ale was sour and the sherry remained unsold. Further letters relate to the sad state of the market and comments on demand for sugar and rum. Written in a fine clear hand.STKITTS019285 £75

St Lucia

ST LUCIA 1893 Deed of Exchange between S. Barnard and V.S. Gouldsbury, Administrator of the Government. Of Certain portions of land in the quarter of Castries St Lucia. 6 large pp. Slightly browned. Pair of 1/- and a 5/- postage stamp attached on first page and tied by oval REGISTRAR ds to pay the stamp duty. Includes detailed description of the position and extent of the land.STLUCIA019479 £40

ST LUCIA St Lucia Gazette. Wednesday, 30th July, 1879 Government Printer. 5pp. Some staining to title page. 8.5 x 13" Includes notice of the sale of the Monchy estate near Gros Islet and the Esperance estate near Choiseul.STLUCIA019500 £40

ST LUCIA Printed Bill of Sale completed in manuscript for a sailing sloop 'Aid' purchased from the St Lucia Steamship Conveyance Co by the Barnard family for £21/10/- Castries. 1894. A large folded document giving details of the ship which had been built in Bristol in 1870. 20 x 16" STLUCIA019480 £45

Suriname

SURINAME Reports respecting the condition of Coolies in Surinam H.M.S.O. 1877. 94 large pp. Library h/s on title page, disbound. British Government inquiry into treatment of Indian indentured workers.SURINAM019533 £35

SURINAME Netherlands Guiana Tourist Association for Netherlands Guiana at Paramaribo. n.d. 36pp + ads. Mostly clean in pictorial card covers. Guide to the colony with many photo illustrations.SURINAME019501 £32

SURINAME Poste Militaire de Vrydenbourg, sur le Maroni and Vue de trois Campements de la Wana-Crique Paris. 1799. Engraving by Tardieu for Stedman's history, 5.5 x 8" SURINAME019301 £15

SURINAME Poste de Magdenberg sur la Cempaty-Crique and Poste de Calais sur la Casivinica - Crique Paris. 1799. Engraving by Tardieu for Stedman's history, 5.5 x 8" SURINAME019302 £15

SURINAME Vue de la Plantation d'Alkmaar sur la Comewine and Bateau couvert ou Barge d'une Plantation Paris. 1799. Engraving by Tardieu for Stedman's history, 5.5 x 8" SURINAME019303 £15

SURINAME Vue & Plan de la Forteresse d'Amsterdam Paris. 1799. Engraving by Tardieu for Stedman's history, 5.5 x 8" SURINAME019304 £40

SURINAME Plan de la Ville de Paramaribo Paris. 1799. Engraving by Tardieu for Stedman's history, 5.5 x 8" SURINAME019305 £30

Tobago

TOBAGO Papers relative to the Hurricane in Tobago, and loan to British Guiana and Trinidad for the encouragement of Immigration H.M.S.O. 1848. 20 large pp. Folio, clean in paper wrappers. TOBAGO019540 £25

GODEFROY The Capture of Tobago by Major General Cuyler, and Vice Admiral Sir John Laforey London. 1783 (circa). Engraving 6.5 x 5.5" Fine. Depicting the capture of the island in 1781.GODEFROY019289 £120

Trinidad

TRINIDAD Papers relating to the island of Trinidad: also the Royal Ordinance for the Government and Protection of Slaves in the Spanish Colonies H.M.S.O. 1811. 21 large pp. Folio, fine in paper wrappers. Includes copy of Articles of Capitulation for the Surrender of Trinidad and a return of the population of the island.TRINIDAD019541 £90

TRINIDAD Further Paper, relating to the island of Trinidad viz. Emigrants from the Spanish Main, who were sent to Gaol in Trinidad, 1815-1817 H.M.S.O. 1823. 22 large pp. Folio. Clean in rather dusty original paper covers. TRINIDAD019539 £25

TRINIDAD Trinidad Lands. Copy of dispatch addressed by the Rt. Hon. William Huskisson to Sir Ralph Woodford, Governor of Trinidad; dated 17th April 1828 H.M.S.O. 1828. 4pp. Folio. Paper covers. Fine condition. Dispute over ownership of lands acquired when the Spanish were in control of the island.TRINIDAD019538 £15

TRINIDAD Copy of the Memorial of the Committee of the Inhabitants of Trinidad addressed to Lord Viscount Goderich, dated in November 1831, praying for a change in the Legislative Council of the Colony. H.M.S.O. 1832. 44 large pp. Folio. Clean in paper covers. TRINIDAD019536 £25

TRINIDAD Copy of a Circular Dispatch addressed by Lord John Russell to the Governors of the West India Colonies, transmitting an Order of Her Majesty in Council relative to Immigration into Trinidad H.M.S.O. 1840. 5 large pp. Folio. Clean in paper covers. TRINIDAD019535 £9

TRINIDAD Copies of extracts of correspondence, not already laid before Parliament, between the Governor of Trinidad and the Secretary of State, with respect to the Supply and Regulation of Labour, and the general condition of the Colony H.M.S.O. 1848. 100 large pp. Folio. Clean in paper covers. Mostly concerning immigrant indentured labourers.TRINIDAD019534 £30

WILSON CO Wilsons' Album of 12 beautiful views of Trinidad Wilsons Ltd. 1910 (circa). Small booklet of postcards with interleaving. A scarce complete booklet.WILSONCO019503 £40

Turks and Caicos Is.

BELLIN (Sr) Plan de l'Ance au Canot Dans la Cayque du Nord. Pl. XVIII France. 1768. Engraved chart 6.5 x 9" Fine. Chart of part of North Caicos Island.BELLINSR019279 £65

BELLIN (Sr) Plan de l'Ance a l'Eau Dans la Cayque du Nord. Pl. XIX France. 1768. Engraved chart 11.5 x 8" Fine. Chart of Parrot Cay and Dellis Cay, part of North Caicos.BELLINSR019280 £75

BELLIN (Sr) Carte de la Cayque de l'Ouest, et partie de celle du Nord Pl. XVII France. 1768. Engraved chart 14.5 x 9" Fine. Chart of West Caicos and part of Providenciales.BELLINSR019281 £75

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BELLIN (Sr) Carte des Fonds Blancs et Rescifsentre l'Islet de Sable et Franc-Kee France. 1768. Engraved chart 6.5 x 9" Fine. Chart of part of the Caicos Islands.BELLINSR019282 £65

HARRISON & SONS Turks and Caicos Islands London. 1901. Attractive small coloured map. 7.5 x 5" HARRISON019283 £15

Virgin Islands

STARK C.D. Some true tales and legends about Caneel Bay, Trunk Bay and a hundred and one other places on St John Published by the author. 1960. 48pp. 1st ed., fine in yellow card covers. STARKCD019509 £9

VALLS L. What a Pistarckle! A dictionary of Virgin Islands English Creole St John, U.S.V.I. 1981. 139pp. 1st ed., signed by author on title page. Fine in pictorial card covers. VALLSL019508 £12

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