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199534060Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1995. Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1995. First Edition Wrapper Issue. Octavo 21cm; publisher's card wrappers; xv3263pp. Wrapper margins a bit worn and dust-soiled else Very Good and sound. Signed by Kincaid on title page. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown
6810777Houghton Mifflin Company H pp. 400 . Papeback. New. Houghton Mifflin Company H unknown
1995Q-0395691842Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1995-11-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover
1995500722Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Robert Atwan series editor. 263pp. Fine in an about fine dust jacket with some rubbing on the rear panel. Signed by Jamaica Kincaid. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
2005Q-061836952XHoughton Mifflin 2005-10-05. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Houghton Mifflin paperback
2010Q-1423606701Gibbs Smith 2010-08-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Gibbs Smith hardcover
2013Q-1590176804NYRB Classics 2013-08-20. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! NYRB Classics paperback
15358Kingston Jamaica. 1785 1787 1789 1791 1792 1795. Chester Vale a substantial estate of 1420 acres paid taxes on 124 slaves in 1801. McLarty d.1844 was Physician-General for Surrey Jamaica and several letters written by him from the island are in the National Library of Scotland and are quoted in Alan L Karras's 'Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica and the Chesapeake 1740-1800' Cornell 1992. In 1794 he acquired Chester Vale on his marriage to Elizabeth Susanna Breon whose father Edmund Breon had died in 1792 leaving her the ward of the solicitor Thomas Cockburn. The six items in good condition lightly aged and worn. ONE: Docketed 'Edmund Breon Esqe. Sales Coffee &c Acct Current'. Signed 'Errors Excepted July 1st. 1785. for Mark Howard Breon's agent - S White'. 3pp. small 4to. Bifolium. Covering the period of May and June 1785. The first page is headed 'Sales of Coffee on Account of Edmund Breon Esqe.' and the central two pages give double-entry accounts headed 'Edmund Breon Esqre. In Account Current with Mark Howard'. Contains references to orders by John Sleater Doctor Davison and Moses Stobo. TWO: Docketed 'Acct. Sales of Coffee & Indigo Steph Cooke'. Signed 'Errors Excepted Kingston 1 Jany. 1787 Stephen Cooke'. 1p. foolscap 8vo in height 12mo in width. Headed 'Account Sales of Coffee & Indigo recd. from Mr. Edmund Breon'. Entries dating from February 1786 to July 1787. In the form of a table including columns for 'Pounds of Indigo' and 'Pounds of Coffee'. Containing references to Alexander Innes Bernall & Henriques Bayard Hankinson & Barrow Grant Archibald Galbraith Aikman Nelson Lindsay Haughton John G. Yonge Budgen Lewis Captain Smith George Shaw and Stephen Cooke. THREE: Solicitors' accounts relating to the action 'Breon ads Thomson & al'. Docketed 'Account Edmond sic Breon Esquire to Cockburn & Davis'. 1p. foolscap 8vo. Headed 'Edmund Breon Esquire To Cockburn & Davis'. Entries dating from February to November 1789 and in another hand 15 November 1794. Entries include: 'Drawing Defeazance from Henry Tippett Esquire to you & Engrossing the same Containing 3 sides of Royal paper' and 'November To attending Secretary's Office in Spanish Town and Searching for Conveyance of Equity of Redemption from Bridges P Attorney & Edwards & at to Fell when you found that it was not on Record and Searching if ditto from Bridges to Fell was Recorded when found it was Lib 294 fo: 135'. FOUR: Solicitors' accounts relating to action 'Breon ads Richardson at September Kingston Court'. Headed 'Edmund Breon Esquire To Cockburn & Robertson'. 1p. landscape 8vo. Dating from May to September 1791. Entries include: 'June . Motion and Order upon reading your Affidavit & Examining Deputy Marshal that the said actions might be returned Process which was granted'. FIVE: Solicitors' accounts. Headed: Thomas Cockburn Esquire Guardian of Miss E. S. Breon To Cockburn Robertson & Vassall'. 1p. foolscap 8vo. Docketed 'Miss Elizabeth S. Breon to Thomas Cockburn her Guardian'. Entries from January 1792 to May 1793. Entries include 'Mar. In Chancery. In the matter of Guardianship of Miss Elizabeth Susanna Breon' and 'September To attending Secretary's office in Spanish Town Searching where Mortgage Breon to Tippet of Chester Vale was dated & paid for Search' and 'Apl. To Attending the Provost Marshal's Office in Spanish Town bespeaking and afterwards Obtaining a List of Writs against Edmund Breon deceased'. References to Counsellor Peppard and Daniel Pennington. SIX: Solicitors' accounts dated from 'Kingston Jamaica 31 Decembr 1796 Errors Excepted'. Headed 'Colin McLarty Esquire in Account Current with Ballantine Fairlie & Co'. 2pp. small 4to. Double-entry accounts dating from December 1795 to December 1796. Entries include: 'January 26 To Cash paid your Order to William Bailey for Cost of 4 Mules'. References to Christie Lara Cockburn Shaw Inglis & Holt Henriques Barnett Henry Tippett Brockhurst vs Breon. Kingston, Jamaica. 1785, 1787, 1789, 1791, 1792, 1795. unknown
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
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169560184to. 227 x 170 mm. 8 pp. Bound in marbled paper over boards. Margins short cropping page numbers on 2 leaves and just touching but not obscuring the top of some letters of text. Generally very good. <br /><br /><p>Very rare with one recorded copy in Bordeaux of a detailed and lively account of this French expedition against Jamaica during the Nine Years War comprising a string of brutal attacks over the summer of 1694 led by Jean-Baptiste Du Casse. Appointed Governor of Saint-Domingue in 1691 Du Casse had earlier in his career been involved with the slave-trading Compagnie du Senegal and had served throughout the Atlantic world in various capacities including as admiral and privateer. Very familiar with the Caribbean and the ways of the filibusterers and buccaneers operating there he was the best candidate for the difficult job of rallying competing interests to align with those of <i>la France d'outre-mer </i>at a time when funding from France was scarce with Louis XIV distracted by the War of the League of Augsburg closer to home. </p><p>In brief 3 French warships accompanied by numerous transport ships under the command of Captain Rollon were sent to Saint Dominique to provide support to the colonists against the Spanish in neighboring Hispaniola. Soon after their arrival they were reassigned by Du Casse to cruise off Jamaica in early April 1694 where they eventually landed at Port Morant on the eastern coast of the island. Over a period of six to seven weeks they ravaged plantations destroyed over 50 sugar-works and kidnapped hundreds of slaves along with killing and torturing numerous English colonists. Soon to follow Du Casse assembling a small fleet of colonial brigantines and sloops embarked from Saint Dominique with 1500 men for Jamaica. He set sail down the southern coast to Carlisle Bay en route to Spanish Town which he planned to plunder. However a militia company of planters and slaves successfully defended their ground and Du Casse withdrew to St. Dominque but not before destroying Carlisle Bay. "The expeditions richest prize was undoubtedly the 1300 to 3000 captured slaves who proved crucial to the immediate future prosperity of the French colony" Pritchard p. 318 where our narrator points out they could be sold for 60 to 120 piastres each.</p><p>Narrated chronologically the eye-witness account gives vivid testimony to the preparations execution and aftermath of the expedition against Jamaica over the spring and summer months and into the fall of 1694 touching on the internal state of martial affairs between the Spanish and French on the divided island they occupied together. The narrator's lively digressions and personal reflections leave no doubt that he was on the spot when he comments on the disease probably Yellow Fever which ravaged the crews the tremors under foot which incited fear of another earthquake like the one which flattened Port Royal two years before the unexpected collateral encounters and skirmishes with the English in the area related through colorful anecdotes and the general atmosphere of depravation of the crews and the weakness of the Saint Dominique defenses against incursion by the Spanish as a result in large part to the lack of sufficient material support coming from France. </p><p>"If Du Casse could declare the attack on Jamaica a success the same conclusion could not be made by the navy. By August sickness was swiftly reducing crew numbers. <i>Le Solide</i> which had been long in the Islands was immediately sent back to France her crew being too diminished for further use. <i>Le Téméraire</i> had lost 50 of her best sailors and the captain of the English prize now called <i>Le Faucon</i> had died. By September <i>L'Envieux</i> had lost 100 men including her captain and disease claimed Captain du Rollon of Le <i>Téméraire</i>. The four warships including <i>Le Hazardeux</i> departed Cap Francais in early October but further disaster awaited them in the Atlantic" Pritchard p.318– storms capture by the English starvation fire shipwreck disappearance and death. Of the 350 men who departed France at the beginning of the year only 130 returned by year's end. </p><p>Collated against the copy at the Collection de la ville de Bordeaux Bibliotheque municipale see https://issuu.com/scduag/docs/bbx17016 a copy with numerous printer's creases significantly obscuring text; Pritchard <i>In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas 1670-1730</i> Cambridge 2004; Charlevoix <i>Histoire de l'Isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue</i> 1731 vol. 2 p. 261. Not in Landis.</p> 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
189843062London: Edward Stanford & Kingston Jamaica Government Printing Office 1898. 8vo; 21.5cm. vii1560xp. in the original pebbled red cloth blind decoration and borders on the boards gilt spine and cover titles closed tear on the top spine edge with gilt Jamaican coat-of-arms on cover marbled endpapers small bind embossed stamp. WANTING the folding map else very good to fine. very to fine. ~ WITHOUT the map mentioned in some copies. Published annually beginning with No. l 1881.Cundall Bibliographia Jamaicensis 914; LC; <br /> Jamaica was a very important colony in the British Empire chiefly valued for its production of sugar cane. The island its history geography and details of the management of its laws finances education medical facilities and commerce can be found in the annual Handbooks put out by government officials. One area of particular interest is the section on Public Gardens and Plantations in which details are provided about the history of the gardens and planting and how some of the plants arrived on the island from other sources. Edward Stanford, & Kingston (Jamaica), Government Printing Office unknown
1990138095Kingston: Government Printer 1990. Hardcover. Used; Like New. 11 numbers tables 1/3 sky blue cloth textured boards discolorations to front and back covers pages lightly yellowing. Compilation of bills and acts proposed and passed by the Jamaican Queen Senate and House of Representatives. Acts span from 1990 until 1991. [Government Printer] hardcover
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1794AQ30515Saint Jago de la Vega: Printed by David Dickson for Thomas Stevenson Stationer Kingston 1794. 146pp 14. With two hand-coloured engraved leaves of plates depicting 'Signals for distinguishing the Several Packets on the Falmouth Station' bound in before title. Variously interleaved at front with numerous blanks at end inserted some of which removed. Contemporary perhaps original gilt-tooled wallet-format calf over card boards the fold-over flap missing but with an open fore-edge to upper board with marbled paper-lined pocket. Rubbed and marked with some occasional staining sometimes rather unsightly to text childish pen and pencil trials to endpapers engraved signals largely erased and some blank- interleaving or areas of text. Occasional manuscript correction to text. Bifolium G3-4 detached from the binding. A rare Jamaican-printed almanac - with the original engraved signals leaves apparently issued only in this edition - featuring an early example of West-Indian Hebrew printing. Almanacs were apparently first issued in Jamaica during the 1760s printed by Weatherby & McCann Walker & Strupar Douglass and Aikman and later Alexander Aikman alone at Kingston. The rival New Jamaica Almanack and Register first appeared in the same city in 1788 printed by Bennett and Dickson for the stationer Thomas Stevenson of King Street. From 1791 this same title was printed by David Dickson alone at Spanish Town Saint Jago de la Vega. This is definitely not the second appearance of a Dickson printed almanac either printed at Kingston or Spanish Town editions for 1791 1792 and 1793 are known for example with the Saint Jago de la Vega imprint despite the title designation. In addition to providing a calendar specifically for use in the colony noting for example the dates of various Jamaican assizes these eighteenth-century almanacks are perhaps best known for their inclusion of some of the earliest examples of printing with Hebrew type - specifically produced for the use of the largest Jewish community in the Atlantic outside of London - in the Western hemisphere significantly predating any American-printed Hebrew calendar. This is displayed in this edition as a final calendar leaf headed 'Of Months Sabbaths and Holidays which the Hebrews or Jews observe and keep for the Years 5554 an 5555 of the Creation'. Whilst much of the remainder of the first half of the volume relates to British government and administration the first 30pp of the second half includes a description of the geography and history of Jamaica and excerpts various commercial treaties applicable including the 'Act for regulating the Commerce with America' and notes the duties due to the Receiver-General for landing traded goods. Rather disturbingly this includes the government duty of £2 'per head' imposed upon the importers of enslaved Africans. Fully 44 further pages headed 'Jamaica Lists' relate to the civil administration and military establishments of the colony including lists of officials and appointees headed by the then Lt.-Governor Major General Adam Williamson. Included in this section are extensive details on the economic output of the plantations of the island grouped by parish within different counties often revealing the extent of enslavement. Thus St. George is noted as housing '19 Sugar Works and 5 more settling 90 other Settlements 7000 Slaves and 4500 Cattle' whilst Trewlawny housed '86 Sugar Works 126 other Settlements 27000 Slaves and 15000 Cattle'. Copies of the Dickson-printed almanacks printed during the final decade of the eighteenth- century are known with and without maps. There is none present here but equally there is no obvious absence of such. However the only reference we can find to any edition of an almanac with engravings of signals flags as here is in the 1794 edition; indeed the foot of the first of the two engraved leaves notes that it was 'Engraved for the New Jamaica Almanac 1794'. Given the increasingly visible presence of Royal Naval ships in the West Indies due to action taken against French colonies in the War of the First Coalition it is entirely possible that the signals were placed in some copies of the 1794 New Jamaican Almanack instead of the map. OCLC locates three copies worldwide Temple with a map and two at Yale one without a map or signals wanting pp81-102 and possibly pp.145-6; and another without map but with the signals. ESTC N67930. 12mo in 6s. Printed by David Dickson, for Thomas Stevenson, Stationer, Kingston hardcover
1991ZB1322704The New Yorker 1991. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item 2 vols. approx. 100 pages total printed paper wrappers near fine; Philostorgy Now Obscure by Allen Barnett; The Woman Lit by Fireflies by Jim Harrison; Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid; A Sandstone Farmhouse by John Updike; The Point by Charles D'Ambrosio Jr.; Puttermesser Paired by Cynthia Ozick. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. The New Yorker unknown
