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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.
;) | BOURNE Gloria The Settler's Handbook for the U.S. Virgin Islands Douglas S. Burns Productions (1987) 114pp. 8th ed., clean in card covers. | £6.00 |
;) | PARISER Harry S. The Adventure Guide to the Virgin Islands MPC Hunter (1989) 206pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. | £4.00 |
;) | 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. | £8.00 |
;) ;) | BAIRD Robert Impressions and Experiences of the West Indies and North America in 1849 William Blackwood & Sons (1850) 2 vols. bound in one, vi + 329pp + iv + 315pp + two tinted frontispieces. 1st ed., remarkably clean copy with no foxing, bound in modern quarter calf with marbled boards. Vol 1 gives the author's impressions as he travelled through the Caribbean islands with good sections on Antigua, Cuba, Jamaica, St Kitts Nevis and St Thomas while Vol 2 is concerned with the U.S.A. | £175.00 |
;) | 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. | £9.00 |
;) | 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. | £10.00 |
;) | BALLOU Maturin M. Equatorial America. - Descriptive of a visit to St Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes and the principal capitals of south america. Houghton, Mifflin & Co (1892) x + 371pp. 1st ed., clean in original cloth. | £40.00 |
;) | PORY J. John Pory's lost description of Plymouth Colony in the earliest days of the Pilgrim Fathers. - Together with contemporary accounts of English Colonization elsewhere in New England and in the Bermudas. Edited with an introduction and notes by Champlin Burrage. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston & New York (1918) xxiv + 65pp + folding plates. Ltd. ed., no. 135 of 365 copies. Very fine in original green cloth in worn slip case. Includes folding facsimiles of Capt. John Smith's issue of Norwood's map as published in 1624 and also Norwood's map published in 1626. | £225.00 |
;) ;) | TAYLOR C.E. Leaflets from the Danish West Indies: - descriptive of the social, political, and commercial condition of these islands. With a sketch of the author and a biographical sketch written by PH Linet. Wm Dawson & Sons, London (1888) ix + 228pp + coloured plate + tinted frontispiece and engraved plate of author + ads. 1st ed., some tone spotting otherwise clean in original slightly worn decorated blue cloth. Historical notes on St Thomas and St John illustrated with many engraved views. Very scarce. | £450.00 |
;) | ARBER E. and BRADLEY A.G. Travels and Works of Captain John Smith. - President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England 1580 - 1631 Edinburgh: John Grant (1910) 2 vols. cxxxvi + 984pp + plates and folding maps. 1st ed., very fine in fine original maroon cloth. Includes important section on Bermuda. | £120.00 |
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2019 (25 Sep) Danish West Indies 1768-1917. The Hogensborg Collection (part II) Henrich Kohler 84pp. Hard bound catalogue in fine condition.
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BARCLAY View taken in Santa Cruz Island. (U.S. Virgin Islands) From The Universal Geography. J.S. Virtue & Co., London 1890 (circa) Woodcut. 6.5 x 5.5"
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MAISON DANOISE St Thomas, V.I., seen from Government Hill Old St Thomas postcard, circa 1910, fine unused.
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1901 Virgin Islands 1d postal card (H/G5), used in 1902 to soldier in St Thomas with 'A91' obliterator and light TORTOLA cds plus fine ST THOMAS arrival mark. No message.
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CURRER-BRIGGS N. English adventurers and Virginian Settlers. The co-ordinated use of seventeenth century British and American records by Genealogists. Phillimore 1969 3 vols. 837pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers.
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2019 (25 Sep) Danish West Indies 1768-1917. The Hogensborg Collection (part II) Henrich Kohler 84pp. Hard bound catalogue in fine condition.
£12
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Related items available in Maps, Prints, Photographs Ephemera
BARCLAY View taken in Santa Cruz Island. (U.S. Virgin Islands) From The Universal Geography. J.S. Virtue & Co., London 1890 (circa) Woodcut. 6.5 x 5.5"
£7
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MAISON DANOISE St Thomas, V.I., seen from Government Hill Old St Thomas postcard, circa 1910, fine unused.
£5
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Related items available in Stamps and Covers
1901 Virgin Islands 1d postal card (H/G5), used in 1902 to soldier in St Thomas with 'A91' obliterator and light TORTOLA cds plus fine ST THOMAS arrival mark. No message.
£36
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Related items available in Miscellaneous books
CURRER-BRIGGS N. English adventurers and Virginian Settlers. The co-ordinated use of seventeenth century British and American records by Genealogists. Phillimore 1969 3 vols. 837pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers.
£15
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