KNOX, John P. - A historical account of St. Thomas, W.I., with its rise and progress in commerce; missions and churches, climate and its adaptation to invalids; geological structure; natural history and botany; and incidental notices of St. Croix and St. Johns; slave instructions in these islands; emancipation and present condition of laboring classes.

New York, Charles Scriber, 1852. Original embossed cloth (hinges rep.). With tinted lithographed view of St. Thomas and folding lithographed map (browned). 271 pp. First edition; with bookplate of Bibliotheca Missionum Societatis Verbi Divini. - The author was a pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church in St. Thomas. He provides an interesting history of the Virgin Islands, the Danish West Indies. Sabin 38170; Afro-Americana 5598.

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