Related items available in Maps, Prints, Photographs EphemeraTRICHON Sugar Mill at Guadaloupe 1880 (circa) Hand coloured wood engraving, fine. 9.5 x 7"
£12
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Related items available in Old Picture PostcardsEDITION PHOS Martinique et Guadeloupe - Train de cannes a sucre Old Guadeloupe postcard used in 1904 to Uruguay. Fine.
Martinique has been deleted and 'Basseterre' added in m/s£30
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Related items available in Stamps and Covers1867 (24 Nov) Trinidad 1d lake (SG69) on wrapper front plus lower flap to Pointe A Pitre, Guadeloupe
with red TRINIDAD PAID NO 24 1867 broken dbl-arc and blue O'CONNOR BROTHERS/ COMMISSION MERCHANTS/TRINIDAD sender's cachet alongside. Rated red "1" with handstruck black "8". Contents being part Prices Current in French.
Carried by RMSP Eider to Barbados and on by RMSP on the 27th. The '8' decime charge on arrival indicates that this 1d printed paper rate did not meet approval at Guadeloupe.£160
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Related items available in West Indies BooksWILLYAMS Cooper An account of the campaign in the West Indies, in the year 1794, under the command of their excellencies Lieut. General Sir Charles Grey, K.B. and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. commanders in chief in the West Indies; with the reduction of the islands of Martinique, St Lucia, Guadeloupe, Marigalante, Desiada, &c. and the events that followed those unparrelled successes, and caused the loss of Guadeloupe. London, printed by T. Bensley for G. Nicol 1796 149 + [5] + 62 large pp + plan of Fort Bourbon in Martinique and map of the island with two aquatint engravings in text. 4to. 1st ed., a few tone spots otherwise fine in half calf retaining original marbled boards. 9 x 11"
The author was a chaplain with the British navy at the time of the occurrence of the events described. Rare. Note this edition does not include the full page acquatint plates. It is printed in a smaller size font and has much smaller margins than the other edition.£495
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