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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    HAITI AND ST. DOMINGO—continued. 452 Franklin (James) The Present State of Hayti (St. Domingo), with Remarks on its Agriculture, Commerce, Laws, &c., 8vo., boards, 1828 6s 453 Hazard (Samuel) Santo Dominco, Past and PRESENT, with a Glance at Hayti, maps and tllusts., 8vo., cl., 1873 8s 454 Laborie (P. J.) The Correr PLANTER of Saint Dominco, with a View of the Conditions, Government, &c., to 1789, with 21 folding plates, 8vo., hf. sot 1798 1 Chapter IV. concerns the ‘‘ Government and Care of Negroes and Cattle.”’ 455 Madiou (Thomas) Historre d’Haiti, Tome Premier, sq. 8vo., c/., Port-au- Prince, 1847 10s 456 Malenfant (Col.) Des Cononirs, et Particulierement de celle de Saint- Domingue ; Memoire Historique et Politique, 8vo., calf, rebacked, Paris, 1814 10s 457 Prichard (Hesketh) Wurre Biack RuLes WHITE: a Journey across and about Hayti (stamp on title), illusts., 8vo., binders’ cl., 1900 15s 458 Rainsford (Marcus) Historica Account of the Back Empire... of Hayti: the Revolution of Saint Domingo, &c., map, plan and 10 plates, 4to., boards, uncut, 1805 459 Roth (H. Ling) Brstiocrapuy and CartoGRaPHy of HisPpANIOoLA, 8vo., hf. cl. (excerpt R.G.S.) (1889) “10s 460 St. Domingo.—Manuscripr Account of the State of the Istanp of Sr. Dominao, from the Privy Council of the Island to M. de Malouet, 18 pp., folio, Oct. 20, 1795 £3 . ‘*the English Troops diminish in point of number with a rapidity really alarming, and this owing not so much to the climate itself as to the inexperience of the English surgeons.”’ . . . Sno one Corps is above half compleat in consequence of this recourse ‘has necessarily been had to that most dangerous expedient, which necessity alone can justify, the formation of Negro Corps.’’ Distressed state of the finances, weak- ness of General Commanding [Gen. Williamson], &c. 461 St. John (Sir Spenser) Hay, or the Black Republic, wth map, 8vo., cl., 1884 10s 462 ANOTHER Copy, with autograph in pencil of R. L. Stevenson on fly-leaf 110s 463 Stanislaus (F. A., Baron de Wimpffen) VovacE to St. Domrneo, 1788-90, folding map, 8vo., hf. calf, 1797 12s JAMAICA. 464 Beckford (William) Descriptive Account of the Isnanp of Jamaica, with Remarks upon the Cultivation of the Sugar Cane, &c., 2 vols, 8vo., calf, rebucked, 1790 £1 10s 465 Browne (Patrick) The Civiz and Naturat History of Jamaica, in Three Parts: 1, Description of the Island; 2, Natural Productions, Birds, Fishes, &c. ; 3, Nature of Climates ; wth 2 folding maps, BOTH IN DUPLICATE, and 49 plates after G. D. Ehret, ALL COLOURED, contemporary panelled calf (a few slight repatrs), 1756 ) 10 UNIQUE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, WITH MAPS AND PLATES IN COLOURS. This must be a special copy, as we do not know of another with the plates coloured. It is printed on LARGE PAPER, and the duplicate maps, besides being finely coloured, are on thick paper. : 466 ANOTHER COPY, with folding map and 49 plates, folio, calf, rebacked, £2 10s 1789
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