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CARIBBEAN Caribbean Breeze. Official Publication. Sixth Air Force. Dec 1944, Jan, June/July and August 1945 issues. U.S.A. 1944. 4 illustrated magazines each with different colour art cover. Mostly on Central America with many photo plates.CARIBBEA012656 £36

FRANCK H.A. Things as they are in Panama. T. Fisher Unwin. 1913. 314pp + plates. 1st ed. fine in illust. cloth, slightly worn. U.K. ed. of Zone Policeman 88 with new title but same contents.FRANCKHA001865 £35

FRANCK H.A. Zone Policeman 88. A close range study of the Panama canal and its workers. The Century Co., New York. 1913. 314pp + plates. 1st ed. lacking front end paper otherwise clean in orig. pictorial cloth. Scarce book giving a humourous and interesting insight into the construction of the canal.FRANCKHA001864 £35

GILLSATER S. From island to island. Oases of the animal world in the Western hemisphere. Allen & Unwin. 1968. 126pp + col. plates. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Includes chapters on San Blas islands, Guadeloupe and Panama. Description of tour by professional photographer of animals and birds.GILLSATE003129 £5

GISBORNE L. Journal of a trip to Darien. 1852. Printed for private circulation, London. 1853. [1] + 254pp. 1st ed., inscribed by author on title page., very fine in fine original green cloth, rebacked. Contains early references to possible canal development.GISBORNE018006 £450

GUNSON P. The dictionary of contemporary politics of Central America and the Caribbean. Routledge. 1991. 397pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Includes much on Cuba, Belize, Jamaica, Panama, Haiti and Trinidad.GUNSONP003185 £9

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

HARRISON E. The Panama Canal. Illustrated by color photography from the original autochrome photographs. Moffat, Yard & Co., New York. 1913. 35pp. 1st ed., fine in orig. boards. Tipped in colour photo plates depicting the canal and its creation.HARRISON012674 £24

HEALD J.S. Picturesque Panama. The Panama railroad. The Panama Canal. Panama. 1928. 126pp + folding map. 1st ed., fine in stained pictorial cloth. Well illustrated history of the building of the canal and railroad.HEALDJS003237 £25

HOWARTH D. The Golden Isthmus. Readers Union, Collins. 1967. 285pp + plates. Fine in D/W. History of the Isthmus of Darien and Panama with details of the Scottish colony formed in 1698.HOWARTHD015846 £7

PANAMA Souvenir of the Panama Canal. I.L. Maduro's Souvenir Store, Panama. 1920 (circa). 32 large pp. Loose in pictorial card covers. Rust stains from staples which have been removed. Photo views of the canal.PANAMA010217 £25

PANAMA Souvenir of the Panama Canal. I.L. Maduro's Souvenir Store, Panama. 1920 (circa). 64 large pp. Clean in pictorial card covers. Crease to back cover. Photo views of the canal and Panama city.PANAMA012661 £25

PANAMA Panama. American Nation Series No. 15 Washington D.C. 1926. 30pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Illustrated guide.PANAMA008218 £20

PENNELL J. Joseph Pennell's pictures of the Panama Canal Reproductions of a series of lithographs made by him on the Isthmus of Panama, January-March, 1912, together with impressions, and notes by the artist. J.B. Lippincott Co, Philadelphia. 1913. 28 litho plates + text. 5th ed., fine in orig. cloth. PENNELLJ008273 £18

PERKINS D. The United States and the Caribbean. Harvard Uni. Press. 1947. 253pp. 1st ed., h/s of U.S. navy on title page, fine in D/W. Description of U.S. policy with much on Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala.PERKINSD005638 £14

RICHARDSON B.C. Panama money in Barbados 1900-1920. Uni. of Tennessee Press. 1985. 283pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Social and economic historical study of the effects to Barbados of the Barbados migrant workers on the Panama Canal.RICHARDS003501 £25

SHAW SAVILL LINE Panama and Panama Canal. USA. 1950 (circa). 24pp. Clean in card covers. Guide produced by shipping line with good photo illustrations.SHAWSAVI008217 £6

STURGUS B.B. Field Book of the Birds of the Panama Canal Zone. A description of all the species of the birds of the Panama Canal Zone, with notes on their habits, call notes and songs, for the purpose of identifying them. Many of these birds are also common elsewhere in Central and in South America. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 1928. xxxix + 466pp + plates + coloured frontispiece. 1st ed., very fine in good D/W. STURGUSB015180 £26

TINNIN J.V. Roughing it in the San Blas Islands. Panama City. 1940. 135pp. 1st ed., clean in worn orig. boards, front hinge broken. Description of life on the islands.TINNINJV008012 £12

WAFER L. A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America with Wafer's secret report (1698) and Davis's expedition to the gold mines (1704). Hakluyt Society, Oxford. 1934. 221pp + folding plates. 1st ed., occasional minor tone spots otherwise clean in orig. slightly faded pictorial blue cloth. The author was surgeon on bucanneering expeditions in Darien, the West Indies and the Pacific from 1680 to 1688.WAFERL010322 £85