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0266174361.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
B9781020405068Hardback. New. hardcover
0260871923.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1908316262Jamaica 1908. Mounted recto and verso to loose black paper album leaves captioned in white each monogrammed DKM 1908 within image. Oblong 8vo images measure 3-1/2 x 11-3/4 inches. Some chipping to album leaves with occasional wear to corners of images. Mounted recto and verso to loose black paper album leaves captioned in white each monogrammed DKM 1908 within image. Oblong 8vo images measure 3-1/2 x 11-3/4 inches. Locatons include Port Antonio and Hotel Tichfield Kingston including evidence of destruction from the 1907 earthquake Saint Ann's Bay Cuba as seen from a boat and Castleton Gardens. unknown books
0332117103.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1662250234Southampton House England 1662. 1 bifolium 11-3/4 x 8-1/4 in. accomplished entirely in manuscript. Docketed verso: "Sr Tho. Whetstones warrant for £100 out of the privy seals dormant. indistinct initials follow.". 1 vols. 4to. Former fold lines per usual; some surface soil to recto of document; heavy surface soil to verso of integral cognate; small perimeter chips and light distress. 1 bifolium 11-3/4 x 8-1/4 in. accomplished entirely in manuscript. Docketed verso: "Sr Tho. Whetstones warrant for £100 out of the privy seals dormant. indistinct initials follow.". 1 vols. 4to. According to David F. Marley's Pirates of the Americas Sir Thomas Whetstone 1630/31-1668 was a nephew of Oliver Cromwell "reduced from a Commonwealth naval Commodore into an impoverished West Indian rover before dying in Spanish hands." <br/>Whetstone is described by ODNB as a naval officer and adventurer and a son of the favorite sister of the protectorate. Through nepotism per the protector's "misplaced patronage" Whetsone quickly rose through the naval ranks. He ascended from a volunteer on Penn's flagship in the 1654 expedition to Hispaniola was given command of a ship on the return voyage home and eventually commanded a squadron cruising the waters between Malta and Crete.<br/>Whetstone soon became a man of questionable integrity. He flouted orders sold grain seriously needed to sustain the fleet for his own profit quarreled with officers and in general showed high levels of insolence incompetence and dallied onshore avoiding naval duties. <br/>Cromwell's death changed Whetstone's fortunes. When it became apparent to political forces that his usefulness as a pawn to control the naval fleet was insignificant Whetsone returned to England at the restoration impoverished and spent. By 1661 he was in a debtor's jail in Marshalsea where he became a royal nuisance by "bombarding" the government for employment and begging relatives for money. Finally to put this embarrassment out of harm's way the King agreed in April 1662 to give Whetstone £100 and to establish him as a Jamaican planter. The money was considered "royal bounty for his encouragement in settling a plantation in the Isle of Jamaica." Additionally Whetsone was given twelve indentured men to help him establish a foothold in the New World. <br/>Here then is the material evidence that propels Whetstone towards his destiny in the West Indies. The document is signed "T. Southampton" by Sir Lawrence Tanfield Earl of Southampton Keeper of the Privy Seal. Addressed to and directing Sir Robert Pye auditor of the exchequer and indicating that he is to give Sir Thomas Whetstone £100 ". as of his Majesty's free gift for his incouragement sic in settling a plantation in the Island of Jamaica." With this document a new chapter in Whetstone's life opened upon his arrival in Jamaica in 1662.<br/>As Marley notes Whetstone's first actions in the West Indies was not to become a sedentary planter but to be a privateer. With an Indian crew he began operating and raiding off the Cuban coast. Then personally providing recent intelligence to the infamous Sir Christopher Myngs 1625-1666 an English admiral and pirate whose riotous atrocities with his buccaneers were legendary Whetstone joined in Myngs' 1662 sacking of Santiago de Cuba. Myngs was hated by the Spanish and famed for his unbridled cruelty. His atrocities next year in 1663 with pirates Henry Morgan and Abraham Blauvelt would alarm and forced King Charles II to call for a moratorium on further attacks. In the same year Whetstone was likewise endeavoring: on record as commander of a 7-gun Spanish prize manned by sixty souls and noted as one of the "private ships of war belonging to Jamaica."<br/>In addition to his exploits at sea Whetsone was heavily involved with the arrest and deposal of the Jamaican Speaker of Assembly Samuel Long on charges of treason in 1664. By 1666 Whetsone himself became Speaker of the Jamaica House of Assembly. Circa this period he was captured by the Spanish on Providencia Island carried as a prisoner to Portobelo and then force-marched to Panama City where he was tossed in the dungeon. So angry were the Spanish at Whetstone's piratical depredations the Governor Juan Perez de Guzman wrote to Madrid blaming the man for planning "all the damage done on these coasts." Whetsone died in Spanish captivity in 1667. See ODNB; Marley Pirates of the Americas pp. 399-405 unknown books
1412passed in Jamaica in 1703 due to the "uncertainties and disputes in the Payment. by reason of the words Manured and Planted. Her Majesty hath been and now is graciously pleased that whatsoever shall arise from the Quit Rents shall be applied towards the Support of the Government and defraying the contingent charges of this Island." giving the rates per acre to be paid 2 sides folio Jamaica c. unknown
199013339ABBerlin, Lingnau-Verlag für Hörproduktionen (= Lingnau-Reise Karibik), 1990. 1 Kompaktkassette, Stereo, ca. 1 Stunde Spiellzeit, EAN: 4010441067018, tadelloser Zustand, noch originalverschweißt.
41947London: Teape and Son 1832. Fist and only edition 8vo 24pp. without wrappers as issued uncut. "The Baptist missionaries in the island were charged with having incited the negroes to revolt and were persecuted. Knibb one of their number proceeded to England to lay their cause before the English public and became a powerful factor in bringing about passage of the emancipation act in 1833."Ragatz. Ragatx p.356. [London: Teape and Son, 1832.] unknown
1930224461930. Caribbean and Panama travel photograph album. circa early 1930s. This album documents interwar travel through the Panama Canal Zone and Jamaica recording maritime transit canal infrastructure and rural Caribbean life as observed by Western travelers. The photographs provide primary visual evidence of the Panama Canal as a site of industrial activity and international movement alongside scenes of Jamaican village life and landscape establishing a contrast between engineered environments and colonial rural settings. The material is particularly strong in its depiction of canal operations and the presence of local populations within these spaces.<br /> <br /> Album containing 29 silver gelatin photographs mounted on black leaves with individual prints measuring approximately 3.5 x 4.5 to 5 x 7 inches housed in a string-bound album measuring approximately 7 x 9.5 inches. The opening sequence shows passengers aboard a steamship with men and women posed along deck rails and views of ships navigating canal locks and docking areas. Additional images depict cranes drawbridges canal cuts and small boats in the water along with dock workers and uniformed personnel visible among travelers. Architectural and infrastructural views include colonial-style buildings and mechanical equipment associated with canal operation concluding with a monument identified as that of Vasco Núñez de Balboa in Panama City. The Jamaica sequence includes landscape views of hillsides and gardens along with images of Black Jamaican residents posed in village settings. One photograph bears the caption "Kingston Jamaica 10 -- S.S. 'Reliance' West Indies Cruise" showing children and adults gathered along a dirt road lined with wooden and metal-roofed structures. Other images show groups assembled beneath trees and within rural surroundings.<br /> <br /> Produced during a period when the Panama Canal served as a major conduit for global shipping under U.S. administration and Caribbean travel formed part of organized cruise itineraries the album reflects established routes of interwar tourism. The juxtaposition of canal engineering and Jamaican village scenes situates the photographs within broader patterns of travel that linked industrial infrastructure with colonial landscapes. Minor water rippling to pages and photographs; images remain clear; overall very good. A coherent travel album documenting canal operations and Caribbean life in the early twentieth century. unknown
B9781019725726Hardback. New. hardcover
1789227355London: Sold by B. White and Son 1789. Third edition first edition was 1756. 49 copper-engraved plates by George Dionysius Ehret. viii 503 646 Index pp. 1 vols. Folio. Bound in contemporary diced calf rebacked. Bookplate of Clarence Dillon Dunwalke Library and with a note that it comes from the Library of Owen D. Young Esq. Third edition first edition was 1756. 49 copper-engraved plates by George Dionysius Ehret. viii 503 646 Index pp. 1 vols. Folio. Browne was an Irish physician who lived for several years in the West Indies and settled in Jamaica in 1746. This is his major work particularly valuable for its contribution to botany. Sabin 8671; Nissen BBl 255; Cundal Bibliographia Jamaicensis 416 Sold by B. White and Son unknown books
0260389005.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0331457989.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0656085681.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0484858688.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
SB15D-01247Gainey the Brainy. Collectible - Good. Signed Copy Collectible - Good. Signed/Inscribed by author on reverse of front cover. Slightly dampstained. Gainey the Brainy unknown
033106992X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
A9781517910297Hardback. New. hardcover
1962HALL214101Hardback. 1962. Comprising Historical Statistical and General Information Concerning the Island obtained from Official and other Reliable Records. 824pp 32 portraits & 3 maps Kingston 1962. Very good copy. . hardcover
0331239477.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1773217477Spanish Town Jamaica 1773. 2 pp with integral address leaf. 1 vols. 12 x 7 1/2 inches. Usual folds a few separations at folds losses to address leaf. 2 pp with integral address leaf. 1 vols. 12 x 7 1/2 inches. An unusual 18th century letter by a widow in Jamaica seeking assistance for her son from her dead husband's brother. Written in somewhat halting English she writes in part: "I beg Leave to acquant sic you. I was the Widdow of your Bother Mr. Chas. Amos who died the 7 of September 1763 and left me with two children a Daughter named Jane Born December the 3 1758 and a Son Born April 18 1762. The girl I have since had the misfortune to loose. The boy named George is still liveing and was yesterday 11 years of age and is I thank God in good health . The reason of my troubling you now is about 18 months agoe my sister myself not being in town had an applycation made to her by Mr. William Bullock in consequence of a letter he had just recd from on Mr. Campble who to to Mr. Bullock by the desire of the Reverend Mr. Spicer to enquire after me and my children and to acquaint me that he had some Hundred pounds in his possession which belongd to my child in rite of his grandfather . I had some thoughts of carrying him to England myself for his education which cannot be well done in this part of the world where we are badly off for proper schools . Since Mr. Amos death I again married Mr. Jacobi who likewise I have been unhappy enough to loose and am at this time under some embarresment with his affairs . unknown books
1988mon0000978774Virago Press Limited 1988. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. First edition 1988 Pages clean and bright Binding firm Light wear to edges Dust jacket unclipped. Virago Press Limited hardcover
1989Q-0394580354Alfred A. Knopf/Whitney Museum 1989-09-26. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alfred A. Knopf/Whitney Museum hardcover
1989169275New York: Knopf 1989. First Trade Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase. Top slipcase edge split.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Knopf hardcover
