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Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![5Z Davy (John) The West Inpres before and since SLAVE EMANCIPATION : com- prising the Windward and Leeward Islands’ Military Command, folding map, 8vo., calf, 1854 12s 53 Day (Charles Wm.) Five Years’ RESIDENCE in the Wust Inpins, 2/usts., 2 vols, 8vo., e/., 1852 9s 54 Descourtilz (M. BE.) Vovaces d’un NaTuRALISTE et ses OBSERVATIONS, 22th co- loured plates of plants and animals, 3 vols, 8vo., calf, rebacked, Paris, 1809 £2 15s The Author was made a prisoner by revolted negroes in St. Domingo, rescued by French troops and describes Leclerc’s expedition. 55 Drake (Sir Francis) Voyaces and Travets of the RENowNED Capt, SiR FRANCIS DRAKE into the West INDIES and round the WorRLD, curious wood- cuts in the text, 12mo., hf. calf (24 pp.), Printed and sold by J Turner, Coventry [c. 1815] £1 10s A curious little chap-book edition. New Licust on DRAKE: Collection of Documents relating to his Voyage of Circumnavigation, 1577-80, edited by Z. Nuttall, map and plates, 8vo., el., Hakluyt Soc., 1914 £15s 57 Dudley (Robert, Zar! of Warwick and Leicester) VoyacE to the West InpiEs, 1594-95, edited by George F. Warner, map and portrait, 8vo., el., Hakluyt Soc., 1899 £1 15s 56 58 Du Tertre (R. P.) Historre GéNERALE des ANTILLES HABITEES par les FRANcoIs, with folding maps and plates, 4 vols, 4to., contemporary calf, Thomas Jolly, Parts, 1667-71 #15 RARE. The plates show fishes and animals, sugar and indigo machinery, and fights against the English. 59 Edwards (Bryan) History, Civit and ComMERcIAL, of the BritisH CoLoniEs in the Wrst InpiEs, Frrst Eprition, 2 vols, 1793; with the Supplementary Volume, 1801; folding maps and interesting copper-plates ; together 3 vols, 4to., hf. calf, 1793-1801 £1 15s 60 Snconp Epition, wth maps and plates, 2 vols, 4to., original boards, uncut, 1794 15s 61 Evidence on the Prrtirion presented by the Wxst InpIA PLANTERS and MER- CHANTS to the House of Commons, 16th March, 1775, 8vo., hf. cl., wneut [1775] | £1 10s On 5th Sept., 1774, at Philadelphia, Congress imposed an embargo on all West Indian produce, as long as certain Acts of the British Parliament should remain in force. The Petitioners present their case and appeal for Government action. 62 Fothergill (G.) A List of Emigrant Mriyisters to AMERICA, 1690-1811, roy. 8vo., parchment, 1904 63 Froger (Sieur) A Renation of a VoyaGE made in the years 1695-97 on the Coasts of AFRICA, STREIGHTS of MAGELLAN, BRaAziIL, CAYENNA, and the ANTILLES, plates and maps, 8vo., original calf (repaired) (few margins worn), 1698 64 Froude (J. A.) The Eneuisu in the West Inpigs, d//usts., Svo., cl., 1888 6s 65 Gage (Thomas) New Survey of the West-Inp14s, or the English American : his Travail by Sea and Land, Sxconp anp Best Epition, maps, folio, calf, rebacked, 1655 £4 15s The first edition, published in 1648 (without maps) was the first authentic account of New Spain and the West Indies written by an Englishman, and aroused great interest. This (the second) edition, has maps of North and Central America and the West Indies. Cromwell is said to have caused its publication in order to excite public opinion in favour of his ‘‘ Western Design ’’ against the Indies, and in the same year he despatched the expedition against Hispaniola and Jamaica. Survey of the Spanish West-INnpixns, folding map, cr. 8vo., contem- porary calf, 1702 £3 10s 66](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30483530_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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