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Showing items in West Indies Books - Dominica
Below is a list of my stock of old secondhand and antiquarian books on Dominica for sale.
Notes on Dominica books:-
The earliest history of the island is Thomas Atwood's 'History of Dominica' published in 1791. There are some fine early guide books to Dominica produced in the late C19th promoting the island to European settlers.
There is a new website with much information on the history and culture of the island which I am pleased to recommend, apart from the suggestion that you purchase books from Amazon:- http://www.lennoxhonychurch.com
Another new website features music from the island and is well worth a look http://www.sunsworksmedia-uk.com
;) | BELL Sir Hesketh Glimpses of a Governor's Life. London (1950 (circa)) 212pp + plates. Ex public library with h/s's, in worn original cloth. A good reading copy only. Mostly on his time as governor of Dominica. | £8 |
;) ;) | ANON Official Guide to the Botanic Gardens, Dominica: Illustrated: With an Index of the Principal Plants. No publisher stated but locally printed (1922) 59pp + xvi + plates and folding plan of the gardens. 1st ed., fine in original card covers. | £90 |
;) | ELIOT E.C. Broken Atoms. London, Geoffrey Bles (1938) 254pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Scarce thus. Autobiography of former Colonial Governor who held appointments in the Caribbean in Barbados, British Guiana, Dominica, Tobago and also the Gilbert & Ellis Is where he became embroiled in an affair concerning phosphate mining. | £75 |
;) | EDWARDS Bryan Dominica. - Extracted from The history civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. Photocopy reprint (2000) 14 large pp. Clean in spiral ring binding. From the 1794 edition. Short history and description of the island. | £4 |
;) | HOUSE OF COMMONS Appendix to the reports. H.M.S.O. (1814 (circa)) 1st ed., clean in modern boards with cloth spine. Eye-witness testimony from customs officers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Barbados, St Lucia, St Vincent, Dominica and Martinique. Very detailed. Includes John Prescod Williams, collector of customs at Hole Town, Barbados and Charles Kydd Bishop in Speights-town. | £60 |
;) | 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. | £8 |
;) | MOLINI R.L.T. The evolution of democracy in Santo Domingo. Dominican Rep. (1955) 64pp. 3rd ed., fine in card covers. | £6 |
;) | DE FOREST DAY Susan The Cruise of the Scythian. F. Tennyson Neely (1899) 297pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in worn original pictorial cloth. Good descriptions of Barbados, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Nevis, Saba, St Kitts and St Lucia. | £80 |
;) | BELL H.H. Notes on Dominica and hints to intending settlers. - Compiled by the Administrator. Dominica (1903) 7 large pp. Fine. Details of island infrastructure. | £36 |
;) | BELL H.H. Notes on Dominica and hints to intending settlers. - Compiled by the Administrator. Unknown publisher (1998) 7pp p/copy of 1903 locally produced pamphlet. Bound in card covers. | £3 |
;) | DOMINICA Standing Rules and Orders of the Legislative Council of Dominica Printed at the Guardian Office, Roseau, Dominica (1898) 10pp. 1st ed., fragile but complete in original paper covers. | £40 |
;) | TAYLOR D. The Caribs of Dominica. Smithsonian Institution, Washington (1938) 50pp + 6 plates. Reprint from bulletin 119 of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Clean in orig. brown card covers. Detailed anthropological study. | £45 |
;) | JAMAICA Annexation of St Domingo. - Copy of a memorial addressed to the Secretary of State from Jamaica. H.M.S.O. (1861) 2 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. Following fears of a Spanish takeover in the Republic. Spain was still a slave holding power. | £7 |
;) | STURGE J. and HARVEY T. The West Indies in 1837; - being the journal of a visit to Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, St Lucia, Barbadoes, and Jamaica; undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining the actual condition of the negro population of those islands. London (1838) ix + 476pp + two folding maps (one detached). 1st ed., lightly browned throughout otherwise clean in later half calf binding, rebacked and with new end papers. An important work on slavery. | £300 |
;) | MYERS R.A. Dominica. - Volume 82. Clio Press (1987) xxv + 190pp + map. 1st ed., clean in pictorial boards. Detailed bibliography to books and articles on the island. | £32 |
;) | GORDON S. and HERSH A. Searching for Sugar Mills. - An architectural guide to the Eastern Caribbean. Macmillan (2005) xiii + 278 large pp. 1st ed., fine in original pictorial boards. Recommended. | £30 |
;) | WOLLASTON N. Red Rumba - A journey through the Caribbean and Central America. Hodder & Stoughton (1962) 231pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in worn D/W. Good travel book in which the author describes his four and half month visit to the Caribbean. Includes account of Cuba, Dominican Republic shortly after the assassination of President Trujillo and Haiti. | £5 |
;) | WIARDA H.J. The Dominican Republic. - Nation in transition. F.A. Praeger, New York (1969) 249pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. History and description of the island. | £12 |
;) | REGO Michael Dominica Roads. - West Indies History Booklet No. 1 Published by the author (2009) 24 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Well illustrated history of the development of a road network on the island using views from old paintings, photographs and postcards. | £8 |
;) ;) | OLIVER V.L. The monumental inscriptions of the British West Indies. Dorchester (1927) 267 large pp. 1st ed., fine in original cloth. Record of inscriptions on headstones found in graveyards of Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago and Br Guiana plus military graveyards throughout all the islands. An important work. | £120 |
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1963 (3 Apr) Burrus British Empire. Robson Lowe Ltd 36pp. No plates which were published separately. Fine Ceylon plus Antigua, Dominica, Gambia, etc.
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JEFFERYS Thomas Dominica from an Actual Survey compleated in the year 1773. London: Printed for Robt. Sayer 1775 Hand coloured engraved map with large margins. Fine condition. 19 x 24" Tooley 4.
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ANON Marketing by the bay, Dominica. Old real photo Dominica postcard, circa 1930, clean unused.
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1963 (3 Apr) Burrus British Empire. Robson Lowe Ltd 36pp. No plates which were published separately. Fine Ceylon plus Antigua, Dominica, Gambia, etc.
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JEFFERYS Thomas Dominica from an Actual Survey compleated in the year 1773. London: Printed for Robt. Sayer 1775 Hand coloured engraved map with large margins. Fine condition. 19 x 24" Tooley 4.
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ANON Marketing by the bay, Dominica. Old real photo Dominica postcard, circa 1930, clean unused.
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