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0559883951.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
#[13617]Amsterdam Isaac Tirion ca. 1760. Engraved map contemporary coloured by hand with a large inset plan of the fortified town and castle to the upper right corner. Ca. 39 x 43 cm. A fine detailed map of Cayenne with many locations identified per key: sugar and coffee works indigo plantations the locations of native villages and a farmstead. An inset plan depicts the plan of the city with the cathedral parade ground Jesuit college hospital and the fortress. The region was not colonized until 1604 when the French founded their first settlement. It was soon destroyed by the Portuguese but the French colonists returned in 1643 and founded Cayenne. They were forced to leave once more following the attacks by the local Indigenous population. In 1664 France finally established a permanent settlement at Cayenne. Over the next decade the colony changed hands between the French Dutch 1658-1664 and 1676 and English before being restored to France. It was used as a French penal colony from 1854 to 1938. Koeman AN III Tir4. unknown
6459Cayenne French Guiana 17 June 1837. 11 x 7 inches one small hole occasional light stains only. Cayenne a seaport and the capital of French Guiana became a penal settlement for politicial offenders. unknown
#[34004]Diss. Leiden rechtsgeleerdheid 30-11-1835 ; 6 56 p. l Opdracht aan oom Alexander Ferrier. unknown
1017887411.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
6901London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1953. 8vo: 129 pp 3 pp of advertisements at end followed by fold-out map in black red and blue 'Published by Directorate of Colonial Surveys'. Four pages of plates at centre consisting of eight photographs. In original buff printed wraps. The book very good on discoloured high-acidity paper with map and plates very good on better paper. Scarce. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1953. paperback
20002-0850925770Commonwealth Secretariat 2000. Paperback. New. 289 pages. 9.50x6.00x0.75 inches. Commonwealth Secretariat paperback
10910London: George Bell and Sons 1901. First edition. Octavo half binding by Morrell of of brown morocco and marbled boards spine with one raised band and an intricate decorative panel containing spheres and petals reminds me a little of an astronomical chart; titling and binding have an 1890s feel top edge gilt pp. xxxvii 514. Armorial bookplate of Herbert Claiborne Pell light foxing throughout leather is starting to split at hinges coners are bumped and worn bare to boards. An interesting and unusual binding with attractive period design. NCBEL III column 617. London: George Bell and Sons, 1901. First edition. hardcover
26080The Times and the Globe London. Four letters by 'NIGER' to the Globe dated 29 and 30 January 9 February and 2 March 1850. Four letters to The Times two apiece from 'NIGER' and 'JACOB OMNIUM' dated in October and November 1850. A contemporary manuscript note to the present item reveals for the first time the identity of ‘Niger’ one of the two correspondents of whose letters it consists. And minor manuscript corrections to the last of the four letters would seem to suggest the involvement of the author. This is Sir James Robert Carmichael 1817-1883 2nd Bart who was intimately connected with British Guiana through his father Sir James Carmichael-Smyth 1779-1838. Having served from 1829 as governor of the Bahamas where he abolished the flogging of female slaves Carmichael-Smyth had been appointed governor of British Guiana in June 1833. According to Carmichael-Smyth’s entry in the Oxford DNB he ‘arrived at Georgetown Demerara shortly before the emancipation of slaves when much depended on the governor. Unmoved by the reckless hostility of a section of the planters Carmichael-Smyth by a firm impartial and vigorous government won the confidence of the slaves. He so closely supervised every department of government that as he himself observed he could sleep satisfied that no person could be punished without his knowledge and sanction. Carmichael-Smyth died suddenly at Camp House Georgetown Demerara of ‘brain fever’ after four days’ illness on 4 March 1838; he was widely esteemed and his death much regretted.’ The other correspondent ‘Jacob Omnium’ is Thackeray’s friend Matthew James Higgins 1810-1868 whose entry in the Oxford DNB states: ‘In 1838–9 he visited British Guiana where he later inherited the Alliance estate after the death of his mother and repeated the visit in 1846–7. This experience enabled him to keep his estate in good order during the critical period which followed the abolition of slavery and to put the case for the West India planters in defence of the protective sugar duties. He wrote four effective pamphlets upon the difficulties of the sugar-producing colonies in 1847 and 1849.’ The material consists of eight long letters in small print to the Globe and The Times laid down on nine foolscap 8vo pages over six leaves extracted from an album. The total length of text in 7-inch wide columns is 430 cm. In good condition lightly aged and worn on worn leaves. The first four letters from ‘Niger’ to the editor of the London newspaper the Globe are on the subject of ‘British Guiana and Governor Barkly’. These four are dated 29 and 30 January 9 February and 2 March 1850. ‘NIGER’ is identified in a contemporary hand at the end of the first letter as ‘Sir J R Carmichael’. The last four letters are an somewhat intemperate exchange in The Times of two letters apiece between ‘NIGER’ writing from London on 30 October headed ‘A WORD TO WEST INDIA PROPRIETORS’ and 12 November and ‘JACOB OMNIUM’ writing from Lombard Street on 10 and 16 November. At the start of the first of his letters to the Globe Carmichael states his position: ‘Mr Barkly has earned so high a reputation among men of all parties both in his late position in Parliament and in the discharge of his present arduous functions in Guiana that he may well afford to despise the bitter revilings of disappointed faction; but the article in question contains allegations so unfair ungenerous and unscrupulous in their nature that I consider the public should be made acquainted with the true state of the case at issue between the Morning Chronicle and the Governor of Guiana.’ This he proceeds to do presenting a mass of detail including some taken from ‘the lastest accounts’ he has received from ‘the West India mail’. In the first of his letters to The Times Carmichael discusses ‘the treatment the unfortunate race of Africa hae met with at the hands of the white man’: ‘I have known a slave to be destroyed by torture and a fine inflicted on the overseer as a punishment; but these thank God are tales of a bigone day. My only object in alluding to them is to point out to the West India proprietors that they have been guilty of a great and sad dereliction of duty of which they are now reaping the unavoidable punishment. They have treated the colonies as hotbeds from whence to forcec money into their pockets; they have forgotten what they owed to those whose toil supplied their wants and luxuries’. Higgins responds: ‘All that “Niger†says concerning the unhappy fate of the slaves in the British West Indies in bygone days may for all I know be most accurate. I cannot however divine why he has reverted to it. . Without disputing the accuracy of his picture of West Indian cruelty and West Indian mismanagement under the obsolete system of slavery I submit that it is . unfair and irrelevant to endeavour to introduce it into the present question between Lord John Russell and the free-labour sugar-growers’. In his last letter Higgins complains: ‘Your correspondent “Niger†preserves a great advantage over me. He well knows who I am the nature of my connexion with the colonies and the habits of my family and he very skilfully and I think somewhat unhandsomely turns the minutest points of that knowledge to his advantage whilst he carefully preserves his own incognito affording me no clue whereby I may infer what manner of man my assailant is.’ While acknowledging ‘Niger’ to be ‘a very able partisan’ Higgins concludes by accusing him of ‘doing his best to throw dust in the eyes of the British nation’. See Scan. I've yet to find an example of Carmichael-Smyth's handwriting to make a judgment on the signature. The setting out of the articles suggests a personal interest even file copy. The Times and the Globe, London. Four letters by 'NIGER' to the Globe dated 29 and 30 January, 9 February and 2 March 1850. Fou unknown
1932HALL510223Paperback. 1932. 44 to 224pp plates & maps card covers London 1932-1961. Very good ex-library copies. . paperback
B9781019938461Hardback. New. hardcover
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33971Diss. Leiden rechtsgeleerdheid 30-6-1831 ; 8 75 p. unknown
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3726649<p>Paris: Imprimerie de Firmin Didot Frères 1842. 14 pages. Pamphlet; removed dbd. without wrappers. Title-leaf with closed diagonal tear near spine fold; good.</p> <p>First edition. A rare 1842 French governmental memorandum addressing conditions in the colonies of Martinique Guadeloupe and Guyane in the Caribbean and Bourbon modern Réunion in the Indian Ocean. The report was issued by a small committee and signed in print by its member representing Martinique the French mathematician and economist Baron Pierre Charles François Dupin 1784–1873.</p> <p>The text opens with a stark assessment of economic distress and structural injustice in the colonial system arguing for equality in tariffs and in the regulation of imports and exports as essential remedies. Relief is sought on the grounds of the colonies’ economic importance within the French imperial system.</p> <p>OCLC two copies both at BnF.</p> unknown
1925810841925. Manuscript report on on the recto sides only of 15pp of lined notepaper to the secretaries of a combined mining venture based out of Number 8 Old Jewry London. A few small dogears and creases some age toning of the paper and the fact that it's written in pencil make it a little tricky to decipher at times although a partial transcript is included from a previous collector. A very good <br /> A hand-written preliminary report which nevertheless contains a wealth of logistical and local detail regarding the business of pitching camp supply lines sickness boring results and assay findings depths propected gravel assessments depth of survey records etc. Comments regarding the local labor supply place the whole exploit firmly into the realm of exploitation with phrasing like ".the riff-raff of coastal negroes who are unstable - lazy and contemptuous of authority." A fascinating and ephemeral piece of industrial colonial history. Wray himself seems to have been a widely traveled mining surveyor with some of his recorded work being not only across Africa but also the Koorboora mining region of Queensland Australia among others. unknown
197484941Georgetown Guyana: Sheik Sadeek 1974. First Edition. Slim octavo 20.25cm; mimeographed sheets stapled into pictorial card wrappers; ii381pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page to Puerto Rican editor translator and literary critic Roberto Marquez: "For my friend R. Marquez / With the compliments of Sheik S. / Hope you find something suitable / 21.8.79" Light wear gentle sunning to spine; Near Fine. Self-published volume by the noted Guyanese poet and author gathering six short works published between 1949-1972 most centered around Guyanese daily life and written in the local patois. A nice association copy inscribed to Marquez who at the time was founder and editor of the journal Caliban: A Journal of New World Thought and Writing. Uncommon; OCLC notes 11 holdings. 84941. Sheik Sadeek unknown
197884948Georgetown Guyana: Labour Advocate Printery 1978. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.5cm; bright orange card wrappers with titles printed in black on front cover; xii1053pp. Inscribed by Seymour on the title page to Puerto Rican editor translator and literary critic Roberto Marquez: "For Roberto Marquez / from Arthur Seymour / Jan 30. 1978 / With best wishes." Marquez has marked several passages in ink throughout the text. Hint of sunning to spine some trivial wear to extremities; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Collection of verse by the Guyanese poet capturing memories of his visits to various places Bonafoux Hato Rey Brasilia Rome Gibbs St. Peter and touching on themes of love the national ethos Black consciousness and the "philosophical quest for the underlying and varied meanings of the various moods that come upon us all" from the introduction. 84948. Labour Advocate Printery unknown
