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1996174199New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1996. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Kincaid's fifth book a novel. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Kincaid on the half title page. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
1996Embry 122207Farrar Straus and Giroux 1996. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed by author. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. First edition, first printing. unknown books
19962271852Farrar Straus & Giroux 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Very minor ink underlining. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 228 pp. "Narrated by an elderly West Indian woman looking back on her life a story beginning at the height of imperialism and ending as colonialism fades deals with sex human relations and the interplay of power and powerlessness. By the author of Annie John. Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover books
UKINBES00LWHoughton Mifflint. Very Good. Kincaid editor Jamaica . The Best American Essays 1995. Boston : Houghton Mifflint ND. 263pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped edges and light soiling. Houghton Mifflint paperback books
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
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 books
34292Peter Freeman Inc. 2011. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the authors with a handwritten and signed presentation card by the publisher. Hardcover. 8.25" x 6". White and black illustrated boards. Slight rubbing to front board. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Near Fine. ISBN: 9780974660479. . LikeNew. Hardcover . Peter Freeman, Inc. 2011 hardcover books
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
1895WRCAM55994Kingston and other locations in Jamaica 1895. Forty-six sepia-tone photographs either 4 x 6 inches or 6 x 8 inches mounted in an album. Oblong quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and pebbled brown cloth front board gilt. Spine perished front board detached cloth soiled and discolored. A few mounts detached mounts toned with occasional soiling and foxing. A few photographs with minor abrasions. Good condition overall. An attractive album of Caribbean images containing almost fifty original photographs showing views of Kingston Jamaica and its environs during the last decade of the 19th century. The album comprises a wide range of settings in and around Kingston including numerous shoreline and harbor views some showing people in sailboats or rowboats a number of street views a handful of images of fruit groves notable residences and other buildings rural views a scene of several people and their horse-drawn carriage outside a barn churches a railroad depot and more. The photographs are present in two distinct sizes; one of the larger-format pictures is titled in pencil on the verso "Palmetto Ave. Kingston." One of the smaller-format photographs is noted as "Bakers Grove." <br> <br> The compiler of the album is unknown though he or she was most likely American; the photograph album was manufactured in New York by Felix Reifschnelder with his label on the inside rear board. <br> <br> A handsome group of photographs featuring the people and places of Kingston Jamaica at the end of the 19th century. hardcover books
