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188955777EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS <br />extra-illustrated 8vo. xxiv 389pp. folding coloured map extra-illustrated with 17 small tipped in contemporary photographic portraits and a larger one of a medal original olive green cloth front board blocked in black and gilt spine gilt lettered title page foxed else very good. <br />Contemporary armorial bookplate of J. Y. Calwell and an article on Hayti clipped from the Belfast News-Letter of June 1 1802 tipped to verso of front free endpaper.<br /><br />St John 1825-1910 British diplomat became British chargé d'affaires in Haiti and in 1871 took up the same post in the Dominican Republic. He was promoted to Minister in Haiti late in 1872. His assessment of the country based on twenty-five years experience which occurs on the first page of the introduction was that it was "a country in a state of rapid decadence". The book includes a description of the country and its troubled history together with chapters on the population "Vaudoux-Worship and Canniballism" cannibalism the government on the various aspects of the state and society on language and literature and on economic activity. The book caused outrage because of its sensational tales of vodoo and cannibalism and is described as "a savagely hostile account" in O.D.N.B. In his introduction to this second edition St. John replies to some of his critics.<br />The photographs circa 8.5 x 5.8 cms. are contemporary or earlier portraits of leading figures from Haitian history and are tipped in at the head of the pages on which they are first mentioned in the text. Some of the photos are probably from life and others of earlier figures are presumably from miniatures. The persons generally identified at the foot of the print were presumably at some time commercially available separately from the book. Smith Elder, & Co. hardcover
18841132<p><b> A SOURCE BOOK FOR <i>JEZEBELL PETTYFER</i></b></p><p><b>MACFALL Haldane. ST. JOHN Sir Spenser. </b><i>Hayti or The Black Republic. </i>8vo nearly contemporary remainder cloth pp. xiv 2 343. London: Smith Elder 1884. </p><p>First Edition. An important copy bound without the map. <b>ODNB </b>calls this a "savagely hostile" book. We have seen the book referred to as "racist." It was written by a British diplomat who spent several years in the country. This copy belonged to Haldane Macfall while he was writing his classic picaresque West Indian masterpiece set in Barbados <i>The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer </i>1897. Ownership inscription inside front cover: "C. Haldane Macfall 60 Wynnstay Gardens Kensington SW '96." Macfall has made marginal scorings and underlinings on 82 pages in pencil the greatest number in the section on voodoo and also written 44 words. On free half of front end paper he cites three books on Haiti calling Moreau de St. Mery's "excellent & truthful." It is interesting that Macfall should focus on voodoo which St. John said involved cannibalism. Spine lettered in gold "St. John's/ Hayti." The covers are a little soiled and there is evidence of removal of a label from front cover. <b>Cundall </b>507. </p> Smith, Elder hardcover
#[36744]London Smith Elder & Co. 1884. Original decorated green cloth. With folding map. XIV343 pp. First edition. - St. John wrote this account of Haiti after spending several years there as a chargé d'affaires and later resident minister. Included are chapters on population voodoo worship and cannibalism and a general description of the country and its history. The book caused outrage because of its sensational tales of vodoo and cannibalism and is described as 'a savagely hostile account' in O.D.N.B. Cundall 507; Afro-Americana 9066. hardcover
188924710New York:Scribner and Welford 1889. 2nd Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:Scribner and Welford. 1889. 2nd edition. xxiv389pp Illustrated with folding map as frontispiece. Hardcover. Green decorated boards lightly soiled with light wear to edges spine ends and edge points. Page edges soiled with dust residue. Internally some penciled notes to verso of 1st free endpage with light foxing to prelims otherwise a very good clean copy. The binding is tight and hinges intact. New York:Scribner and Welford hardcover
1884WytST. J71London: Smith Elder & Co. 1884. 1884. 8vo. pp. xiv 1 leaf 343. folding partially hand-coloured engraved map. original black & gilt-stamped cloth recased covers rubbed spine ends repaired with darker coloured cloth. First Edition. St. John wrote this account of Haiti after spending several years there as a chargé d'affaires and later resident minister. Included are chapters on population voodoo worship and cannibalism and a general description of the country and its history. Cundall 507. F. Hardcover. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1884. Hardcover
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101570Oxford University Press Kuala Lumpur. 1974. Oxford University Press Kuala Lumpur. 1974. Two volumes. Hardbacks with DWs. Illustrated and both have a colour frontis and fold out maps. Both wrappers are slightly browned and spine of volume one is sunned. Top page edges foxed but overall nice clean copies. hardcover
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1863A48993London: Smith Elder and Co. 1863. xvi 406 2 ads; xi 424 4 hand-col 12 tinted lithographic plates 3 folding maps. . HB. 2 vols 8vo orig. green cloth blind-stamped borders and central floral design to boards gt title and dec. palm design to spines. Minor wear short nick to head of each spine. Orig. coated yellow endpapers browned to reverse; hinges cracked but firm. Stitching tender in places with a few gatherings just starting. Some foxing to a few plates and adjacent pages mostly light but heavier to several of the tinted plates. Folding maps each with one short closed tear to inner edge. Armorial bookplate with motto 'Festina Lente'. A pleasing set of this rare work in bright original bindings. Second edition revised. Published a year after the first St. John added to this second edition an introduction a chapter on pirates another on animals an index and occasionally introduced some new anecdote. The four hand-coloured plates illustrate carnivorous pitcher plants <i>Nepenthes</i> and are engraved after illustrations first published in the <i>Transactions of the Linnean Society</i>.'Borneo one of the most interesting and romantic regions in the world' thus starts this fascinating book. Its author Spenser St. John 1825-1910 was a British diplomat and explorer. He was private secretary to Sir James Brooke the Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo. In 1856 St. John was appointed British consul-general to the native states of Borneo; he explored the country and went further into the interior than any previous European traveller. His habit of wearing native dress resulted in complaints to London. The present book based on his full and accurate journals also supplemented by other visitors' testimonies is a well-written and beautifully illustrated account of the author's travels. ODNB. Smith, Elder and Co. hardcover
186247595London: Smith Elder and Co 1862. First Edition. Full leather. Fine. 400p 420p octavo. With errata and both half titles 12 tinted lithographs 4 color lithographs and 3 folding maps. Beautifully bound in full green morocco top edge gilt spines sunned to brown bound by P. Fister Co. Inscribed by the author in volume 1 on the half title page to Mrs Menzies from her sincere friend the Author" Rare signed. <br/><br/> Smith Elder and Co hardcover
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