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Dans ce numéro, les nouvelles de Londres sont consacrées à la guerre d'Amérique. La Gazette reproduit une requête des planteurs de sucre, propriétaire et négocians présenté au Roi le 16 décembre « au commencement de la malheureuse division entre ce Royaume & les Colonies de l'Amérique septentrionale, les Requerans, (…) représentèrent aux Ministres de V. M. les craintes qu'ils avaient des dangers et des malheurs auxquels les isles à sucre seraient nécessairement exposées (...)ils ont aujourd'hui sujet de regretter, par la perte de la Dominique et par le danger imminent des autres isles, que leurs fréquentes démarches pour obtenir de la protection n'ont pas eu l'effet désiré ; qu'ils sont à présent dans l'état le plus cruel d'incertitude, par le délai du secours envoyé de New-York aux Isles sous le Vent (…) tandis que la Jamaïque a été laissée presque absolument à ses propres efforts,lesquels, vu le petit nombre d'habitans Blancs, sont devenus extrèmement fatiguans » P. 87, une communication du chimiste et futur ministre de l'Intérieur Jacques Antoine Mourgue livre les résultats des Observations météorologiques, agronomiques & physiques, faites à Montpellier & dans les environs, pendant l'année 1778.
First and only edition, [2], 30pp., stitched as issued in blue paper wrappers, a very good copy. The author argues against putting an additional duty on sugar "which... would be a great hardship on the sugar-planter in the West Indies, and very little benefit to the revenue...". He sets out all the costs involved in producing sugar, such as the price of slaves and the cost of keeping them, the higher freight costs, insurance, cost of animals and contributions to the defence force. Finally, he states the advantages of the sugar trade for Britain and shows how an additional duty would be to the detriment of the trade. Goldsmiths'-Kress, 8163; Hanson, 5917; Sabin, 40397; ESTC gives the British Library as the only UK hold.
Two Volumes. Top edges gold gilt. Mildly XLib. 6.75" x 4.25" In 8's. Original full leather bindings, bound by Brentano's, New York. Boards ruled in gold with gilt turn ins. Spines decorated in gold with raised bands. Remnants of leather spine labels. Volume One spine repaired, front board very fragile. Volume Two front board detached. Hardbound. Very good. Michael Scott, wrote a series of amusing and exotic stories for "Blackwood's Magazine" which were later collected as "Tom Cringle's Log" and "The Cruise of the Midge." Published anonymously, their authorship was not known till after Scott's death at Glasgow. Scott paints many interesting and alluring pictures of his sea travels. Sea fights, tropical scenery, Creoles, planters, flirtations, duels, and other pleasures or dangers of West Indian life. Interestingly, the first known use of the phrase "Where there's a will, there's a way" came from these pages. Scarce original edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN5 BOX 7
Very Good English Original 36 b/w photographs taken by anonymous Turkish traveler to the US in 1958-59. 9x12,5 cm. Printed on Kodak Velox Paper. Embossed frames. Dated mostly February 1958 and April 1959. Photographs show the entrance of Rockefeller Plaza, New York with flags of various countries (including the Turkish flag); streets and districts of NY; Botanical Garden; Bronx Zoo of NY; New York Coliseum Long Island; Triboro Hospital of Jamaica (NY); QGH (Queens General Hospital) and parking cars in front of the building; Queens Hospital Center of NY; Animal Hospital (Boarding - Grooming); Road of Jamaica NY; Rockefeller Plaza building; Garden of QGH; building for doctors; Some American houses of NY; Ice rink of Rockefeller Plaza; Lakeshore, etc. A fine vintage photo collection of the 1950s' New York.
Jamaica Surveyed by Staff Com.r G. Stanley 1873-5 and Lieut.t T. F. Pullen 1876-9. Morant Cays by Lieut A. Carpenter and the Officers of H. M. S. Sparrowhawk 1890.London Published at the Admiralty 27 October 1880 under the Superintendence of Captain F.J. Evan. Small corrections: 1931. Folded
Jamaica South Coast Port Royal and Kingston Harbours surveyed by Captain J.W.F. Combe assisted by Lieutenant L.G. Garbett and Lieutenants J.A. Rupert-Jones & E.V Shankland 1913 Soundings East of Kingston by Lieut-Comm.r J.A. Edgell Surveying Ship "Mutine" 1914. Additional soundings from a Survey by Staff Comm.r G. Stanley 1873-4. Kingston and adjacent topography chiefly from a Colonial map.London Published at the Admiralty 18 January 1916 under the Superintendence of Captain J.F. Parry. Small corrections: 1931. Folded
Port Antonio (556x644 mm) Surveyed by Captain R.W. Glennie assisted by Lieut.t Com.dr C.S. Lockhart A.E. Harbord D.L. Cowan R.M. Southern & A.H. Stanley H.M. Surveying Ship "Mutine" Jan.y - March 1921. Intesting "Objects on this chart conspicuous to the Navigator" Titchfield Hotel, Richmond House, Isolation Hospital...London Published at the Admiralty 7 May 1923 under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral Fred.k C. Learmonth. Folded
Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5" Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
246 pages. "Granny Brown, known as GB to her many friends and enemies, was tennant of one of the king-sized dust-bins constructed and filled with rubbish by the slum area behind Montego Bay, Jamaica. She was a stonebreaker by profession and by genius historian of all the scandalous gossip of the community". - from back cover. Underlining and/or marginalia interspersed throughout. Average wear. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
In-8°, leg. in tela e sop.c. edit., pp. 255(1). Testo in inglese. Con 24 ill. in nero su tavv. f. testo. Strappetti senza mancanze alla sopracopertina.
Paris, 1760 circa. Incisione in rame al'acquaforte, colore, cm 23 x 35,2 (alla lastra). Sono segnati meridiani e paralleli sulla “Longitude du Méridien de l'Isle de Fer” e sulla “Longitude du Méridien de Paris”. Buone condizioni.
First Edition, 4to, xv, 478, [22]pp., maps, coloured frontis., 10 coloured plates, orig. cloth, d.w. a fine copy.
4to., First Edition, with fine coloured frontispiece, 10 fine coloured plates and endpaper maps; olive cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright, crisp copy of a standard reference.
There is minimal wear on the cover, with a faint mark on the rear where a price label was. The bfep are lightly tanned on the margins. Clear and tight throughout. K Used
Book shows only very slight use/very light shelfwear only. Interior/text is clean and unmarked in any way. 251 pages. Graphs, charts, tables, maps.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. 246 pages.
This is a good hardcover copy in a good dust jacket. Jacket spine darkened, tips and corners chipped. Very clean inside and out. Illustrated with photographs, woodcuts, maps, etc. One color map of the whole island. Copyright date is 1951, but looks like the later printing from 1955. 8" high X 6" wide, 316 pages + ads. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
ril. L'isola madre traccia una genealogia tra le scrittrici caraibiche contemporanee Jean Rhys e Jamaica Kincaid a partire dalla complessa eredità culturale materna. Percorrendo i temi della dislocazione e della diaspora, della memoria e della rimozione, il volume rilegge, sostenuto dagli strumenti critici degli studi culturali e postcoloniali, la scrittura di Rhys e di Kincaid in una prospettiva più specificamente caraibica. Attraverso l'immaginario dell'isola madre, spazio geografico e mentale in cui s'intrecciano e si stratificano traumi storici e tradimenti culturali, Manuela Coppola suggerisce nuove intersezioni nell'esplorazione delle assonanze e delle dissonanze tra le due scrittrici.
Outside dimensions 10.75" x 14.5". Unmarked with light wear and soiling. An attractive vintage copy. Book
Features: Desirable orchids of the Bahamas; Vanda cristata; Triplods are wonderful but...; Angraecum distichum vs. Mystacidium distichum - Collector's item; A sumer collecting trip to Jamaica; Gastrorchis humblotii; a survey of cymbidium composts - a Gripp on Growing; a checklist of the orchids of Jamaica; Improvement of species by inbreeding; Stenia species in Peru. Book
4to. Pp. 217, many photos and figs., tabs., refs. Orig. wrs. - Consists of 12 papers by an international team of invited authors, outlining sedimentology, geomorphology and aspects of geochemistry, as well as most of the principal groups of fossils including foraminifera, sponges, scleractinian corals, brachiopods, nautiloids, crustaceans, echinoderms, fishes, and trace fossils.
1st edition. 12mo, 248 pages, illustrated. Very good condition paperback. 41090. eng
240p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
8vo. First Edition, with numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text, inked scribble on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. With relevant cuttings mounted on endpapers. SCARCE.
