Islands lying between southeastern North America and northern South America, enclosing the Caribbean Sea. They comprise the Greater Antilles (CUBA; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; HAITI; JAMAICA; and PUERTO RICO), the Lesser Antilles (ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA and the other Leeward Islands, BARBADOS; MARTINIQUE and the other Windward Islands, NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES, BRITISH VIRGINI ISLANDS, and the islands north of Venezuela which include TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO), and the BAHAMAS. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1330)
    

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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.

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.

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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.