Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/16
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    115 Maps.—West Inpins and C. Ammrica, by Arrowsmith, 2 large folding sheets, coloured, 1810 15s The finest map issued up to this time. 116 ——— Speer (Capt. J. S.) West Inpia Pitot, 13 folding plans and charts, with descriptive text, folio, full contemporary calf, London, 1766 £8 The Preface is endorsed: ‘‘This book is examined and corrected by me Joseph Smith Speer.” There are a few MS. corrections in the Author’s hand. 1147 ————_ ———— West Inp1A PILOT, SECOND EDITION, 26 plans and charts, with descriptions, folio, contemporary calf, 1771 #10 10s The first edition contained only 13 plans. 118 Martyr (Peter) The Historie of the West Inpiss, containing the Actes and Adventures of the Spaniards which have con- quered and peopled those Countries . . . published in Latin by Mr. Hakluyt, and trans. into English, by M. Lok, Gent. (sighz repairs to two or three leaves), sq. 8vo., hf. red morocco, Printed for Andrew Hebb |? 1625] £18 A re-issue of the edition published by Adams in 1612, the first complete edition of the eight decades in English. 119 Monardes (N., Physician of Seville) JoyroLi Newss out of the NewE FounDE Wor.pE, Englished by J. Frampton, 1577, reproductions of woodcuts, 2 vols. 8vo., cl. (Tudor Translations), 1925 © 15s Monardes describes the herbs, trees, oils, and medicines that are obtained from the West Indies, and their uses in medicine and asfood. Tobacco is recommended for wounds and chilblains ; its cultivation by John Nicot is described. 120 Newton (Prof. A. P.) The Evrorran Nations in the Wust Inpizs, 1493- 1688, with 4 mapa, Svo., el., 1933 (just pubd.) 15s The first work to deal with the broad lines of development of national policies in the Caribbean and the repercussion of world events. 121 Octroy, by pE Hreren StaTEN GENERAEL, verleent aen de West-Indische Compagnie in date 20 Sept., 1674, 36 pp., sm. 4to., hf. vellum, ’s Gravenhage, 1674 £3 Charter or licence granted by the States General to the West India Co. Important for the history of the Dutch possessions in the W. Indies. The detailed regula- tions give an interesting picture of the organisation of Dutch trade. 122 Oliver (V. Langford) West Inp1an Bookriatss: being a First List of Plates relating to those Islands, front., roy. 8vo., wrappers, 1914 12s Over 750 bookplates, coats-of-arms, and crests are fully described, and brief bio- graphies of the owners are given. The compilation of this quantity of material must have involved a very large amount of research work. As there is a complete index, the volume forms an invaluable reference book of the men and women who have been connected with the West Indies. The following islands are treated separately: Antigua, Barbados, Bermuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guadelope, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Croix, Trinidad, Virgin Is. ; also British Guiana. 123 Parliamentary Papers.—Bitt for RecuLatTiInc the Trape between the CoLontes and PLANTATIONS of NortH AMERICA, and in the West India Islands and the Countries belonging to the United States of America, 9 pp., folio, hf. cl., 1788 . 15s
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