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8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with numerous musical notations in the text, series title and title lightly spotted, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; decorative cloth, blocked in gilt and black, gilt back, uncut, covers a little age-marked, upper hinge cracked but quite sound else a good, sound copy of a very scarce work. Publications of the Folk-Lore Society, LV.
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
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.
First Edition, 4to, xv, 478, [22]pp., maps, coloured frontis., 10 coloured plates, orig. cloth, d.w. a fine copy.
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
240p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty rear and no bumping to corners. 79pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Washington's French Volunteers, Sir Neil Campbell (1869) on Napoleon, Wu-Chao - Woman Emperor of China, The Rising at Morant Bay - Jamaica 1865, Lord Augustus Fitzclarence, The Seine in the 17th Century and Peter Abelard - Philosoper 12th Century plus book reviews and letters.
Un fort volume broché de format in 8° de 282 pp.; couverture illustrée, à rabats. Bel état.Voir photo.
In-16°, pp. 330 con 85 illustrazioni e 10 tra mappe e piante dell'isola ripiegate f.t. oltre a numerose pagine di pubblicità dell'epoca su carta verdina. Leg. in mezza tela edit. con piatti in cartonato edit. illustrato quello anteriore. Tracce del tempo e d'uso.
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
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.
The author shares the story of her mother's family, tracing their origins in a privileged parish community historically marked as a place through which runaway slaves escaped and describing her mother's life in urban Jamaica. 279p,. Book
Features: Flower arranger's greenhouse; Christmas at the manor; Proteas; design with Proteas; Singapore Orchids; The Big Day; The flora Calendar 1976; Chrysanthemum glory; Wintergreen; Gardening and flower arranging in Jamaica; Why I collect flower stamps; pink frost for Christmas; Coconuts for food and flowers; Flowers at Beaulieu; Men who arrange flowers; pot et fleur; winter in the garden; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Sweetly Scented Flowers; Autumn flowers from Bulbs; Butter Roses; in your garden; base thoughts; protection in the garden; flower festival at Westminster Cathedral; Flowers and button-holes; roses in flora containers; Castle Howard; flowers in praise; treasures from the sea; Derbyshire well-dressing; a flower arranger in Jamaica; watering your garden; flowers through the ages; Maruee Decoration; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
418 pages. "A sensitive and invaluable memoir. Admirable in its reticence and accurate in its mood." - Derek Walcott, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Poetry. Prior owner's details atop half-title page else unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS ATLAS OF THE BRITISH WEST INDIES, published in France during the Seven Years' War (also known as the "French and Indian War".) xii, 171 pp + engraved title and THIRTEEN FINE MAPS, of which 8 are folding (complete). Also illustrated with ten headpieces, nine of which depict the entry into a major port. Includes Jamaica (with several maps), Barbuda, St. Kitts, Nevis, the Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Antigua, the Lucayes (now the Bahamas), and Bermuda. 4to (26 x 20.3 cm). Attractively bound in contemporary calf, with the ARMS OF KING LOUS XV OF FRANCE EMBLAZONED IN GILT ON FRONT AND BACK COVERS. Binding restored at head and tail of spine, and very solid. Small, faint marginal stain to engraved title-page, else INTERNALLY FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH MAPS AND TEXT VERY FRESH. Sabin 4553. RARE AND IMPORTANT.
317pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
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.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards show small bump on bottom edge. Edge wear to dust jacket. 80 pages. 9 1/4"w x 12 1/8"h. Many color and b&w photos.
159 pages. "Deserted by his wife Estella, Jake is engaged in the symbolic carving of Samson whose story is not unlike his own." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
Hardcover in-12, 190 pp., cartonnage editeur, jaquette illustree. TTB exemplaire + TB jaquette. [FL-3][ESC-]
Features include: Australia's flying duck orchids; shoot-tip culture for the novice; stenoptera ananassocomos - acquaintance renewed in Jamaica; Limberlost Orchid and Tropical plant nursery - a tribute to the Perseverance of an orchidist; Specimen plants and Paphiopedilum Potting - growing orchids indoors; cattleya aclandiae; Acceleration of the germination of so-called "hard-to-germinate" orchid seeds; observations on growing catasetums; Erythrostylum - the Queen of Cymbidium species - a Gripp on growing; The morphological effects on pollination in the Brazillian Miltonias; A second look at Doritaenopsis. 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
"Marianne North was one of those intrepid Victorian Lady Travellers, most renowned for her brilliant botanical paintings, displayed in specially designed Gallery in the Botanical Gardens at Kew. This book uses extracts from her autobigraphical account of her travels ("Recollections of a Happy Life. Being the Autobiography of Marianne North". Edited by Her Sister Mrs. John Addington Symonds. Two volumes. 1894) and is beautifully illustrated with her paintings, many reproduced for the first time. The book was published in collaboration with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Preface by J P M Brenan, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Foreword by Anthony Huxley. Biographical note by Brenda E Moon. 240p. illus (col) maps on endpapers. A nice book to send as a gift ! Book
