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Showing items in West Indies Books - Virgin islands
Below is a list of my stock of old secondhand and antiquarian books on the Virgin Islands comprising Tortola and the U.S. Virgin Islands of St Croix, St John and St Thomas for sale.
Much has been written on the former Danish West Indies, now the U.S. Virgin Islands but very little has been written on the British Virgin Islands.
;) | LEWISOHN Florence What so proudly we hail. - The Danish West Indies and the American Revolution. American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of the Virgin Islands (1975) 52pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. Some light tone spotting. | £4 |
;) | MONTULE E. A voyage to North America, and the West Indies, in 1817. London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co. (1821) 102pp + 6 plates. 1st ed., minor tone spotting otherwise clean in modern card covers. Includes chapters on New York, Philadelphia, St Thomas, Jamaica and St Domingo. | £250 |
;) ;) ;) ;) | OLDENDORP C.G.A. Geschichte der Mission der evangelischen Bruder auf den caraibischen Inseln S. Thomas, S. Croix und S. Jan. - Herausgegeben durch Johann Jakob Bossart. Barby, Switzerland (1777) Two vols. bound in one. [16], 444, [4], [4], 447-1068, [46] pp plus 3 folding maps, four folding plates and folding table. Fine in old calf. Describes the establishment of the first Moravian Mission in the Danish West Indies with much on social conditions of the time, slavery and piracy. The first printed history of these islands with fine maps of each island and good engraved plates. Sabin 57152. | £1250 |
;) | HOVEY Sylvester Letters from the West Indies; - relating especially to the Danish island of St Croix, and to the British islands Antigua, Barbadoes and Jamaica. Gould & Newman, New York (1838) 212pp, 1st ed. Foxing throughout as usual, otherwise clean in later quarter cloth. The author's letters are invaluable sources for the apprenticeship period in the three British islands visited but also contain well written accounts of the state of slavery and of island opposition to emancipation before 1834. (Ragatz) | £240 |
;) | GRAMMER A. Virgin Islands View. - Vol. 1, No.11 St Thomas (1966 (Apr)) 50pp. Clean in pictorial card covers. Includes articles on different aspects of the crisis in tourism with good photo plates. | £12 |
;) | GRAMMER A. Virgin Islands View. - Vol. 3, No.8 St Thomas (1968 (Jan)) 50pp. Clean in pictorial card covers. Includes articles on tourism and Pan Am. | £12 |
;) | GRAMMER A. Virgin Islands View. - Vol. 2, No.8 St Thomas (1967 (Jan)) 54pp. Clean in pictorial card covers. Includes article on space research station off St Thomas. | £12 |
;) | GRAMMER A. Virgin Islands View. - Vol. 2, No.9 St Thomas (1967 (Feb)) 54pp. Clean in pictorial card covers. Includes article on sex education in the Virgin Islands. | £12 |
;) | GRAMMER A. Virgin Islands View. - Vol. 2, No.11 St Thomas (1967 (Apr)) 54pp. Clean in pictorial card covers. Article on Grumman Goose amphibian service between St Thomas and St Croix. | £12 |
;) | GRAMMER A. Virgin Islands View. - Vol. 3, No.2 St Thomas (1967 (July)) 50pp. Clean in pictorial card covers. Article on Grumman Goose amphibian service between St Thomas and St Croix. | £12 |
;) | GRAMMER A. Virgin Islands View. - Vol. 3, No.5 St Thomas (1967 (Oct)) 50pp. Clean in pictorial card covers. Articles on William Thornton and Alexander Hamilton. | £12 |
;) | GRAMMER A. Virgin Islands View. - Vol. 3, No.7 St Thomas (1967 (Dec)) 50pp. Clean in pictorial card covers. Article reprinting extract from Charles Kingsley's At Last written in 1871. | £12 |
;) | BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS Proposals for constitutional advance: - Report by the constitutional commissioners, Sir Colville Deverell and Mr Harvey L. da Costa. HMSO (1974) 26pp. Fine in paper covers. | £4 |
;) | DOWNING E.C. 50 Years - Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the transfer of the Virgin Islands from Denmark to the United States of America, March 31, 1967 St Thomas Friends of Denmark Society (1967) 72 large pp. 1st ed., fine in orange card covers. Historical articles on different aspects of life in the Virgin Islands by various authors. | £8 |
;) | HULL LOW R. and VALLS R. St John Backtime. - Eyewitness accounts from 1718 to 1956. Eden Hill Press, St John (1985) 94 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Well illust. historical articles on different aspects of the island's history. | £9 |
;) | JADAN D. A guide to the natural history of St John. Virgin Islands Conservation Society (1971) 73 large pp. 1st ed., clean in stained card covers. Well illustrated guide to the islands wildlife and flora. | £9 |
;) | JENKINS C.F. Tortola. - A Quaker experiment of long ago in the Tropics. Friends Historical Soc., London (1923) vii + 106pp + plates. 1st ed., original slightly marked grey card covers, minor water stains in top margins of some pages, some pages rather roughly opened having not been cut when printed. Description of the work of the Quakers on the island with chapters on slavery and Thomas Chalkley noted. Copies of this first edition are seldom seen. | £75 |
;) | LEWISOHN F. Divers information on the romantic history of St Croix. - From the time of Columbus until today. St Croix Landmarks Society (1964) 72pp. Reprint in card covers. Well illustrated articles on the island's history. | £4 |
;) | NEWMAN E.M. The Virgin Islands of the United States of America. - The Mentor No 161 Mentor Assoc. (1918) 6pp + 6 loose sepia photo plates. 7 x 10in Views of street scenes and formal lowering of the Danish flag. | £15 |
;) | YORK N. Islands of beauty and bounty. - A historical profile of the Danish West Indies. St Croix (1986) 46pp. 1st ed., signed by author on title page, clean in card covers. | £10 |
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HAGEMANN G.A. Danmarks og Dansk Vestindiens frimaerker. Kobenhavns Philatelist Klub 1942 135pp. 1st ed., fine in original pictorial boards complete with 4 reprints and paper sample. Handbook of the Danish 1864-70 issue plus introduction to DWI philately, DWI bibliography and a handbook of the classic (square) DWI stamps.
£75
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BELLIN (Sr) Carte de l'Isle St Thomas l'Une des Vierges. Petit Atlas Maritime, Paris 1764 Engraved chart showing Fort St Thomas, town and villages. 'Tome I No 78' at top right. Fine condition. 14 x 9" Scarce. One of the few 18th century maps to show the island of St Thomas on its own, rather than as part of the Virgin Islands group
£525
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ANON U.S. Destroyers at dock, St Thomas V.I. Real photo U.S. Virgin Islands postcard, circa 1920, used to U.S.A.
£12
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1905 Danish West Indies Postal Stationery 5b postal reply card (H/G30), clean unused.
£18
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BIRD I.L. The Hawaiian archipelago: six months amongst the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. John Murray 1905 318pp. Fine in worn orig. cloth. Contains some attractive engravings.
£35
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HAGEMANN G.A. Danmarks og Dansk Vestindiens frimaerker. Kobenhavns Philatelist Klub 1942 135pp. 1st ed., fine in original pictorial boards complete with 4 reprints and paper sample. Handbook of the Danish 1864-70 issue plus introduction to DWI philately, DWI bibliography and a handbook of the classic (square) DWI stamps.
£75
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BELLIN (Sr) Carte de l'Isle St Thomas l'Une des Vierges. Petit Atlas Maritime, Paris 1764 Engraved chart showing Fort St Thomas, town and villages. 'Tome I No 78' at top right. Fine condition. 14 x 9" Scarce. One of the few 18th century maps to show the island of St Thomas on its own, rather than as part of the Virgin Islands group
£525
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Related items available in Old Picture Postcards
ANON U.S. Destroyers at dock, St Thomas V.I. Real photo U.S. Virgin Islands postcard, circa 1920, used to U.S.A.
£12
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1905 Danish West Indies Postal Stationery 5b postal reply card (H/G30), clean unused.
£18
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Related items available in Miscellaneous books
BIRD I.L. The Hawaiian archipelago: six months amongst the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. John Murray 1905 318pp. Fine in worn orig. cloth. Contains some attractive engravings.
£35
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