Related items available in Philatelic BooksBRITNOR Leonard E. British West Indies postal rates up to 1900. B.W.I.S.C. 1977 1st ed., 52pp, clean in original card covers.
Well illustrated and containing much useful information. Sought after work.£20
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Related items available in Maps, Prints, Photographs EphemeraBRITISH WEST INDIES AIRWAYS Where to stay in the Caribbean B.W.I.A. 1964 11pp folding brochure.
£6
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Related items available in Stamps and Covers1910 cover from soldier in 2nd W.I. Regiment serving in Sierre Leone sent to England with 1d cancelled on arrival in U.K. with PLYMOUTH PAQUEBOT machine cancel. Embossed West India Regiment monagram on reverse.
£30
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Related items available in West Indies BooksHOARE Prince Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq.: Composed from his Own Manuscripts, and Other Authentic Documents in the Possession of his Family and of the African Institution London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co 1820 xxxii + 524pp + xxxiii. 1st ed., fine in original half calf, front board detached and marbled boards with some loss.
Granville Sharp (1735-1813) was a British campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade. He founded the St George's Bay Company, a forerunner of the Sierra Leone Company to settle black people there.£750
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Related items available in Miscellaneous booksCAMERON John The Wreck Of The West India Steam-Ship Tweed S.P.C.K., London 1847 100pp. 1st ed., original blind-stamped cloth lightly rubbed. A fine copy with the bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst.
The Tweed was an R.M.S.P. which had sailed from Southampton in 1846 with mails for the West Indies.£80
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