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A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.

A voyage to the islands, Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life / By Hans Sloane.

Sugar: a plantation of sugar cane in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and processing equipment in the foreground. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.

Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique, contenant l'histoire naturelle de ces pays, l'origine, les mœurs, le religion & le gouvernement des habitans anciens et modernes. Les guerres & les evenemens singuliers qui y sont arrivez pendant le séjour que l'auteur y a fait / Par le r. p. Labat.

Carnival / Cunard White Star.

A Brazilian sassafras tree (Aniba species) and a Petunia plant in an exotic landscape with snakes, lizards and tribal people. Etching, c. 1671.

Elephantiasis in the right leg of an inhabitant of the West Indies. Photograph.

Three plants, including a calabash-tree (Crescentia cujete) with starfish and sea urchins in an exotic tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

A reprieve from death : in two physical chapters, viz. Chap. I. Objections against the use of vinegar, or other acids, to prevent or cure the epidemic and mortal fever of the West-Indies ... Chap. II. Reasons why all medicines should be freely published. With an appendix ... / By John Tennent.

Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

List of publications of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

Colonial and Indian Exhibition : official guide.

Notes by a field-naturalist in the western tropics : from a journal kept on board the Royal Mersey steam yacht "Argo" / by Henry H. Higgins.

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A reprieve from death : in two physical chapters, viz. Chap. I. Objections against the use of vinegar, or other acids, to prevent or cure the epidemic and mortal fever of the West-Indies ... Chap. II. Reasons why all medicines should be freely published. With an appendix ... / By John Tennent.

Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

List of publications of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

Colonial and Indian Exhibition : official guide.

Notes by a field-naturalist in the western tropics : from a journal kept on board the Royal Mersey steam yacht "Argo" / by Henry H. Higgins.

West Indies

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A reprieve from death : in two physical chapters, viz. Chap. I. Objections against the use of vinegar, or other acids, to prevent or cure the epidemic and mortal fever of the West-Indies ... Chap. II. Reasons why all medicines should be freely published. With an appendix ... / By John Tennent.

Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

List of publications of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

Colonial and Indian Exhibition : official guide.

Notes by a field-naturalist in the western tropics : from a journal kept on board the Royal Mersey steam yacht "Argo" / by Henry H. Higgins.

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