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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
200297317Kingston 2002. Paperback. Very Good. 2 vols. xvi 95; iv 750p. tables graphics wrps 4to. Kingston paperback
14752'Jamaica No 81'. Executive Committee Office. 26 January 1856. 3pp. foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. In good condition on lightly aged and worn paper. The letter begins: 'Gentlemen I am directed to inform you that a Bill of Exchange drawn by His Excellency the Governor and the Members of the Executive Committee on the Lords of the Treasury for the sum of £10.822 . 9 . 6 at thirty days' sight will be forwarded to you by the Receiver General by the present Mail together with Bills of the Colonial Bank making with the Bills already forwarded the further sum of £9.500 - and to provide altogether the sum of £20.000 which I am to instruct you to receive and pay to the Bank of England in liquidation of that amount payable there on the 1st April next for Interest and Sinking Fund on the Jamaica Guaranteed Loan.' The letter continues for more than a page in the same vein. From the Hankey & Co. banking archive. Underneath summary of contents "Ansd do 16 Feb. /56 the date of receiving W.W. William Wilson of Hankeys" has initialled 'Jamaica No 81'. Executive Committee Office. 26 January 1856. unknown
1999140009New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1999. 36p. 5x7.5 inches two excerpts together printed in blue ink; dos-a-dos in stapled blue wraps nice production with rubricated title pages and tissue-guard separator. Limited edition chapbook promoting the two books to be published by FS&G in 2000. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
25800Bel état,n'a pas été collée,texte au dos
a103452Boston Mass. 1982 first edition. Camp Dresser & McKee. 4to wraps. Black plastic spiral binding. Over 100p. bw Photo illus. Near Fine. . paperback
20693Without place or date. Jamaica 1811. . On both sides of a 13 x 20 cm piece of paper cut from an official letter. In fair condition on aged and worn paper. The recto reads: '… Having received the enclosed Papers since I wrote to you on the 27th inst transmitting the Proceedings of a General Court Martial on the Trial of Lieutt Irwine of the 55th Regt. I think it right to transmit them to you as they are documents relating to …'. Reverse reads: 'I have the honour to be Sir Your most obedient humble Servant Edw: Morrison Lt: Govr Commr of the Forces at Jamaica <>'. The details of the court martial of Lieutenant Robert Irvine are to be found in Charles James's 'Collection of the Charges Opinions and Sentences of General Courts Martial' 1820. Without place or date. [ Jamaica, 1811. ] unknown
26760No place or date. Signature and subscription separated from a letter not present 7 x 4cms on sl. larger backing aging but good condition SEE IMAGE. Note: Signature and subscription matches the signature on an ALS sold Googled. Their learned description concludes: "Edward John Eyre the renowned Australian explorer of southern Australia & New South Wales and the first European to explore the coastline of the Great Australian Bight. Drawing upon his experiences overlanding sheep in the 1830's Eyre 1815 - 1901 applied for the job of laying out an overland route to the west. In June 1840 the expedition started out but failed. Sending back all but Baxter & Wylie Eyre set out from Fowlers Bay to cross the Great Australian Bight. After much hardship & losing Baxter Eyre & Wylie ran into and were saved by a French whaler which gave them supplies to continue. This letter was written in the period following Eyre's governor ship of the colony of Jamaica during which time he had brutally suppressed the Morant Bay Rebellion using government troops to kill innocent men women & children. Eyre returned to England August 1866 where those who called him a murderer founded a committee calling for him to be put on trial; he was charged with murder twice but the cases were never pursued." Antipodean Books No place or date. unknown
2023195306Kingston: The Planning Institute of Jamaica 2023. First edition. Paperback. New. Np. maps tables graphics indices wrps. Highlights and analyses are presented concerning national social and economic developments. The study's contents are classified under two major categories: macroeconomic and social issues. Issued as a CD-ROM. The Planning Institute of Jamaica paperback
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
195851048The Book Club, London 1958. 248 pages ohne Schutzumschlag gebundene Ausgabe, Hardcover/Pappeinband, Einband fleckig, sonst Exemplar in gutem Erhaltungszustand
1929641060.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1890259881Jamaica 1890. Octagonal paper wrappers tied at spine with blue satin ribbon partial doilie inset to front cover lettering on cover partially chipped 2 complete doilies laid-in. Doilies in fine condition. Octagonal paper wrappers tied at spine with blue satin ribbon partial doilie inset to front cover lettering on cover partially chipped 2 complete doilies laid-in. Two elaborate doilies made from plant parts native to Jamaica. unknown books
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
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
19411484CBBrünn, Rohrer, 1941. 8°, 391 S., original Halbleineneinband, Einband und Schnitt mit ganz leichten Altersspuren, Seiten nachgedunkelt und mit vereinzelten Fleckspuren, sonst aber noch gutes aber leicht schiefes Exemplar .
194232132ABBrünn/Leipzig/Wien, Rohrer, (1942). Gr.8°. 392 Seiten. Originalhalbleinenband mit Deckelvignette und illustriertem Schutzumschlag. (Umschlag fleckig und mit unterlegten Randeinrissen. Schnitt gering fleckig). - Innen erfreulich gut erhalten und sauber. Keine Eintragungen.
194966594Aus den Briefen Richard Beckfords, die von seinen Erlebnissen auf dieser Insel in den Jahren 1737 und 1738 berichten. Übersetzt von Georg Kurt Schauer. Frankfurt, Schauer, (1949). Mit Buchschmuck. 375 S., 1 Bl. Or.-Lwd.; etw. gebräunt u. Rückendeckel etw. fleckig, etw. schiefgelesen.
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
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.
1946206442Kingston: Central Bureau of Statistics 1946. Folded three times; short tear at one fold very good. Printed map 16-1/2 x 21 in. printed on one side only. Official government map showing each of the island's fourteen parishes with statistical details: area population density dwellings schools illiteracy post offices main roadsetc. Central Bureau of Statistics unknown
317pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
197918650World Bank, 1979. 4°, 180 S., mit zahlreichen Diagr., Schaubildern, Bibl. Ex. Bezahlung per PayPal möglich, we accept PayPal, Stempel u. Nr. a.Vorsatz, Nr. a. Rücken, altersbedingte Bräunungen, sonst min. Gebr.sp., kartoniert
18620A Londres et à Paris, chez la veuve Duchesne, 1767, 1 broché, couverture en papier dominoté. 2 volumes in-8, faux-titre, titre, 382 pages et faux-titre, titre, 399 pages, exemplaire à pleines marges ;
