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WATTS F. Report on the Sugar Industry in Antigua and St Kitts Nevis, 1881 to 1905.
WATTS F. Report on the Sugar Industry in Antigua and St Kitts Nevis, 1881 to 1905.

H.M.S.O. (1906)
15pp. 1st ed., fine in paper covers.
£32


GRAINGER James The Sugar-Cane: A Poem. In Four Books, With Notes.
GRAINGER James The Sugar-Cane: A Poem. In Four Books, With Notes.		GRAINGER James The Sugar-Cane: A Poem. In Four Books, With Notes.

Dublin: Printed by William Sleater, on Cork-Hill. (1766)
Half title and frontispiece + ix + 180pp. 1st Irish ed., fine in original full calf with new spine. A couple of small h/s's for Belvedere College Dublin on half title and Preface page and some light tone spotting.
The author went to St Kitts in 1759 as a practising physician. A most attractive copy of this rare work.		£450


JAMAICA Copies or Extracts of further communications... relative to the agricultural state of that Colony.
JAMAICA Copies or Extracts of further communications... relative to the agricultural state of that Colony.

H.M.S.O. (1839)
17 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers.
Includes reports from estates on the new labour system and summary on the effects of the change on each of the estates in St Thomas in the East parish.		£30


JAMAICA Copies or Extracts of further communications... relative to the agricultural state of that Colony.
JAMAICA Copies or Extracts of further communications... relative to the agricultural state of that Colony.

H.M.S.O. (1839)
12 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers.
Effects of emancipation on the labour force for the sugar plantations incl. 'Rent-Roll for Spurtree Plantation' individually naming householders and inmates.		£30


JAMAICA Copy of memorial ...by planters, merchants and others interested in Jamaica.
JAMAICA Copy of memorial ...by planters, merchants and others interested in Jamaica.

H.M.S.O. (1839)
5 large pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers.
Complaints following emancipation at difficulties of procuring labour for the plantations. The planters claiming that much of the problem was caused by bad council given by stipendairy magistrates and Baptist missionaries.		£15


MACDONNELL A. Colonial Commerce; - comprising an inquiry into the principles upon which discriminating duties should be levied on sugar, the growth respectively of the West India Possessions, of the East Indies, and of foreign countries.
MACDONNELL A. Colonial Commerce; - comprising an inquiry into the principles upon which discriminating duties should be levied on sugar, the growth respectively of the West India Possessions, of the East Indies, and of foreign countries.		MACDONNELL A. Colonial Commerce; - comprising an inquiry into the principles upon which discriminating duties should be levied on sugar, the growth respectively of the West India Possessions, of the East Indies, and of foreign countries.

John Murray, London (1828)
xix + 302pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue. 1st ed., very fine in original grey boards retaining original paper label.
An important early work on sugar.		£350


LEMOINE M. Bitter Sugar. - Translated from the French by Andrea Johnston.
LEMOINE M. Bitter Sugar. - Translated from the French by Andrea Johnston.

Zed Books Ltd. (1985)
308pp. 1st English ed., very fine in original boards.
Story of Estime, a Haitian, who enrols as a migrant labourer to cut cane in the Dominican Republic and finds that he has been sold into virtual slavery.		£9


YOUNG W. West India Common Place book: - compiled from Parliamentary and Official documents; shewing the interest of Great Britain in its sugar colonies.
YOUNG W. West India Common Place book: - compiled from Parliamentary and Official documents; shewing the interest of Great Britain in its sugar colonies.		YOUNG W. West India Common Place book: - compiled from Parliamentary and Official documents; shewing the interest of Great Britain in its sugar colonies.

London: Printed for Richard Phillips (1807)
xxi + 256pp incl. tables + 2 folding maps and 2 folding tables. 1st ed., clean in half calf. Foolscap quarto (10 x 12in). Overall very fine. Both maps re-inforced along folds and with small library h/s's. No other library handstamps anywhere.
Contains statistics on slaves imported into the Colonies, the distress of the planters and the problem of Caribbean defense. Sabin 106128.		£600


SUTTON P. Dual legacies in the contemporary Caribbean: continuing aspects of British and French Dominion.
SUTTON P. Dual legacies in the contemporary Caribbean: continuing aspects of British and French Dominion.

Frank Cass (1986)
x + 266pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W.
Effects of colonial rule on the Caribbean islands. Essays by various authors with much on the sugar economy.		£18


ROLPH G.M. Something about sugar. - Its history, growth, manufacture and distribution.
ROLPH G.M. Something about sugar. - Its history, growth, manufacture and distribution.

J.J. Newbegin, San Francisco (1917)
341 large pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in original cloth.
An important handbook with technical analysis of growth, manufacture and refining plus chapters on each of the countries where sugar is produced with detailed historical notes, illustrated with many fine photo plates.		£60


PRINSEN GEERLIGS H.C. The World
PRINSEN GEERLIGS H.C. The World		PRINSEN GEERLIGS H.C. The World's Cane Sugar industry. - Past and present.

Norman Rodger, Altrincham (1912)
lx + 399 + xvi pp + plates and folding maps. 1st ed., very fine in chipped D/W.
A detailed work with chapters on sugar production in different countries. Much on the West Indies with maps of Barbados, Cuba and Jamaica. Over 60pp of adverts mostly for machinery with fine photo illustrations. 		£90


PRINSEN GEERLIGS H.C. The World
PRINSEN GEERLIGS H.C. The WorldPRINSEN GEERLIGS H.C. The World		PRINSEN GEERLIGS H.C. The World's Cane Sugar industry. - Past and present.

Norman Rodger, Altrincham (1912)
lx + 399 + xvi pp + plates and folding maps. 4to. 1st ed., very fine in original blue cloth.
A detailed work with chapters on sugar production in different countries. Much on the West Indies with maps of Barbados, Cuba and Jamaica. Over 60pp of adverts mostly for machinery with fine photo illustrations.		£90


HARRISON M. King Sugar. - Jamaica, the Caribbean and the World Sugar Economy.
HARRISON M. King Sugar. - Jamaica, the Caribbean and the World Sugar Economy.

Latin American Bureau (2001)
168pp. Paperback. Very fine.
£5


DUNN R.S. Sugar and slaves. - The rise of the planter class in the English West Indies, 1624 - 1713.
DUNN R.S. Sugar and slaves. - The rise of the planter class in the English West Indies, 1624 - 1713.

Uni. of N. Carolina Press (1973)
359pp. Fine in D/W.
Fine historical study.		£20


DAVIES J.G. The principles of cane sugar manufacture. - (Together with a description of the machinery)
DAVIES J.G. The principles of cane sugar manufacture. - (Together with a description of the machinery)

Norman Rodger, London (1938)
144pp + plates and ads. 1st ed., fine in original grey cloth.
Illustrated guide with interesting adverts for sugar machinery.		£35


CAINES C. Letters on the cultivation of the Otaheite Cane; - the manufacture of sugar and rum; the saving of melasses; the care and preservation of stock; with the attention and anxiety which is due to negroes. To these topics are added , a few other particulars analogous to the subject of the letters; and also a speech on the slave trade, the most important feature in West Indian cultivation.
CAINES C. Letters on the cultivation of the Otaheite Cane; - the manufacture of sugar and rum; the saving of melasses; the care and preservation of stock; with the attention and anxiety which is due to negroes. To these topics are added , a few other particulars analogous to the subject of the letters; and also a speech on the slave trade, the most important feature in West Indian cultivation.		CAINES C. Letters on the cultivation of the Otaheite Cane; - the manufacture of sugar and rum; the saving of melasses; the care and preservation of stock; with the attention and anxiety which is due to negroes. To these topics are added , a few other particulars analogous to the subject of the letters; and also a speech on the slave trade, the most important feature in West Indian cultivation.

London (1801)
xv + 301pp + folding table. 1st ed., fine in full calf, rebacked and with later spine and end papers.
The author was a well known planter in St Kitts and gives a detailed account of sugar estate management. In a speech delivered before the General Assembly of the Leeward Islands in March 1798, and here published, he urges the immediate abolition of the slave trade on the grounds that the planters would profit by the cessation of importations of untrained and unruly Africans. 		£1200


LIGON R. A true and exact history of the island of Barbadoes. - Illustrated with a mapp of the island, as also the principall trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawne out by their severall and respective Scales. Together with the Ingenio that makes the Sugar, with the Plots of the severall Houses, Roomes, and other places, that are used in the whole processe of sugar-making; viz. the Grinding-room, the Boyling-room, the Filling-room, the Curing-house, Still-house, and Furnaces; All cut in copper.
LIGON R. A true and exact history of the island of Barbadoes. - Illustrated with a mapp of the island, as also the principall trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawne out by their severall and respective Scales. Together with the Ingenio that makes the Sugar, with the Plots of the severall Houses, Roomes, and other places, that are used in the whole processe of sugar-making; viz. the Grinding-room, the Boyling-room, the Filling-room, the Curing-house, Still-house, and Furnaces; All cut in copper.		LIGON R. A true and exact history of the island of Barbadoes. - Illustrated with a mapp of the island, as also the principall trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawne out by their severall and respective Scales. Together with the Ingenio that makes the Sugar, with the Plots of the severall Houses, Roomes, and other places, that are used in the whole processe of sugar-making; viz. the Grinding-room, the Boyling-room, the Filling-room, the Curing-house, Still-house, and Furnaces; All cut in copper.

London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley (1657)
122 large pp + [2] + plates and folding map and plan of sugar mill. 1st ed., fine apart from the map which has been relaid on backing paper with loss of margins and slight loss to image. Later half calf binding with raised bands and marbled boards. There are some ink corrections to the text in the margin in a contemporary hand, conceivably the author's.
The first history of the island with much on the fauna and flora plus a very early description of sugar making.		£3750


LITTLETON E. The groans of the Plantations: - or a true account of their grevious and extreme sufferings By the Heavy impositions upon Sugar, and other Hardships. Relating more particularly to the island of Barbados.
LITTLETON E. The groans of the Plantations: - or a true account of their grevious and extreme sufferings By the Heavy impositions upon Sugar, and other Hardships. Relating more particularly to the island of Barbados.LITTLETON E. The groans of the Plantations: - or a true account of their grevious and extreme sufferings By the Heavy impositions upon Sugar, and other Hardships. Relating more particularly to the island of Barbados.LITTLETON E. The groans of the Plantations: - or a true account of their grevious and extreme sufferings By the Heavy impositions upon Sugar, and other Hardships. Relating more particularly to the island of Barbados.		LITTLETON E. The groans of the Plantations: - or a true account of their grevious and extreme sufferings By the Heavy impositions upon Sugar, and other Hardships. Relating more particularly to the island of Barbados.

London. Printed by M. Clark (1689)
35pp. 1st ed. Bound with, 'A Discourse of the Duties on Merchandize, more particularly of that on Sugars, Occasionally Offer'd, in answer to a Pamphlet, intituled, The Groans of the Plantations, &c. exposing the Weakness of the said Pamphlet, and plainly demonstrating, that the taking off the Imposition on Sugars would not be One Farthing Advantage to the Plantations, and yet take away Yearly a great Sum from Their Majesties present Revenue. Also, Shewing how the last Imposition on Sugars did truly affect that Trade, and how the same might yet be advanced, to the greater benefit both of this Kingdom and the Plantations. Also, How certain regulations might be made, for the better Accomodating the Duties on Merchandize, both to the Advantage of Trade and Revenue. By a Merchant. London, Printed in the Year 1695. 32pp. Small quarto. Bound in old half calf with marbled boards. Small library h/s's of 'BRITISH MUSEUM SALE DUPLICATE 1787' also small h/s of 'John Carter Brown' and bookplate of John Carter Brown with 'Released' h/s. Pages closely cut with slight loss of text to the second pamphlet otherwise clean.
Littleton was a Barbados planter. This is one of the earliest books on Barbados. Cox II, p. 209, Sabin 3271. 		£3600


ROUGHLEY T. The Jamaica Planter
ROUGHLEY T. The Jamaica Planter		ROUGHLEY T. The Jamaica Planter's Guide; - or, a system for planting and managing a sugar estate, or other plantations in that island, and throughout the British West Indies in general. Illustrated with interesting anecdotes.

London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown (1823)
8vo, x + 420pp + 4pp adverts., half title. 1st ed., very fine in original boards and retaining original paper label, rebacked.
A very important work giving one of the best early accounts of sugar culture. Much on treatment of slaves. Very scarce.		£1250


CHEMIN DUPONTES P. Les Petites Antilles - etude sur leur evolution economique.
CHEMIN DUPONTES P. Les Petites Antilles - etude sur leur evolution economique.

Paris (1907)
viii + 362pp + map. 1st ed., minor toning but mostly clean, loose in original paper covers.
Economic history of the West Indies with much on the sugar trade and discussion of the then current economic crisis in the islands.		£25


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1989 (8 Apr) Perrin-Fitzherbert correspondence. Cavendish 55pp. Letters re sugar plantations in Barbados and Jamaica.
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1824 A view from the Admiral's Pen. Small pencil sketch on card dated March 1824 showing a sugar estate in Jamaica. 4.5 x 3" Believed to have been done by an English officer.
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1894 Antigua Bill of Lading for 200 bags of muscovado sugar with Leewards 1890 1d cancelled in manuscript. Fine.
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