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| to select author names starting with A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z back to page 1 of full catalog (starting with NO authornames) | This selection contains 150 title(s) on 6 pages. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 25 |
| Adresse de l'Assemblee provinciale de la partie du Nord de Saint-Domingue, a l'Assemblee nationale Paris, Imp de Demonville. 1790, First Edition. 4to, wrappers. Pp 23. A forceful refutation by the provincial assembly in Saint-Domingue centred in le Cap of the Assemblee Nationale's decree of March 8th 1790. They insist the Assembly has no authority to promulgate decrees, particularly when they touch upon "les differentes classes qui composent la colonie", unless requested to do so by the provincial assembly. USD 423.50 [Appr.: EURO 281 | £UK 255.75 | JP¥ 36419] Book number: 2283 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Declaration du Roi, donnee a Versailles le neuf Aout mil sept cent soixante-dix-sept, Pour la Police des Noirs. Registree en Parlement Grenoble, Imprimerie Veuve d'Andre Giroud. 1778, First Edition. 4to,marbled boards. Pp 7, with armorial head-piece and initial letter. An important royal declaration containing 13 Articles relating to blacks and mulattoes. Henceforward they are barred from entering France, although domestic servants may accompany their masters during the crossing, but not disembark. USD 544.50 [Appr.: EURO 361.25 | £UK 328.75 | JP¥ 46824] Book number: 2279 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Declaration du Roi pour la Police des Noirs, donnee a Versailles le 9 du mois d'Aout 1777 Aix-en-Provence, Imp. Esprit David. 1777, First Edition. 4to, marbled boards. Pp 5, with engraved head-piece. Royal declaration refusing Blacks admission into and ordering their departure from France. USD 423.50 [Appr.: EURO 281 | £UK 255.75 | JP¥ 36419] Book number: 2280 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| The Drake Manuscript in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Histoire Naturelle des Indes London, André Deutsch. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0233990097) Cloth with dust jacket, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, dj, preface by Charles E. Pierce, foreword by Patrick O'Brian, intro by Verlyn Klinkenbourg, edition of manuscript of texts and paintings made by a French Huguenot sailor on one of Drake's voyages to the New World, reproduced in colour with following translations of captions by Ruth Kramer, few sl marks to ffeps, otherwise fine, no faults, a lovely edition of an almost unknown piece of historical artistry. Fine/Fine. USD 54.45 [Appr.: EURO 36.25 | £UK 33 | JP¥ 4682] Book number: 1031 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Extrait des registres du Parlement, du 22 Juin 1768 Paris, Chez P.G. Simon. 1769, First Edition. 4to, marbled boards, red morocco spine label. Pp 4, with ornamental head-piece and initial letter. A legal document setting out a claim against a Capitaine Fautrell Gangy by Messrs Prepaud for delivering a cargo of 200 slaves,of which 143 had died of an epidemic during the voyage. USD 242.00 [Appr.: EURO 160.5 | £UK 146.25 | JP¥ 20811] Book number: 2293 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Lettres-Patentes du Roi, sur le Decret de l'Assemblee Nationale, relatifs aux troubles survenus a Saint-Domingue. Le 22 Octobre 1790 Paris, Chez N.-H. Nyon. 1790, First Edition. 4to, marbled boards. Pp 4, with decorative head-piece. The king here orders the dissolution of the Assemblee Coloniale established at Saint-Marc (on the coast, north of Port-au-Prince),on the grounds that its decrees were "attentatoires (prejudicial) a la Souverainete nationale.". USD 302.50 [Appr.: EURO 200.75 | £UK 182.75 | JP¥ 26013] Book number: 2291 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Loi relative a l'envoi dans la colonie de Saint-Domingue de trois Commissaires civils....... Toulon, Imp de Mallard. 1791, First Edition. 4to, marbled wrappers. Pp 4. The Assemblee Nationale decrees that three commissioners be sent to Saint-Domingue and two to Cayenne and French Guiana with full powers to restore and maintain order in those colonial trouble-spots. USD 302.50 [Appr.: EURO 200.75 | £UK 182.75 | JP¥ 26013] Book number: 2281 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Loi relative a l'envoi dans a colonie de Saint-Domingue de trois Commissaires civils ..... Paris, Imprimerie Royale. 1791, First Edition. 4to, wrappers. Pp 4, with engraved head-piece, small tear to upper corner at head of spine. The commissioners are being sent to Saint-Domingue and Cayenne "pour y maintenir l'ordre & la tranquillite publiques.". USD 302.50 [Appr.: EURO 200.75 | £UK 182.75 | JP¥ 26013] Book number: 2282 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Loi relative aux Colonies, avec l'expose des motifs qui en ont determine les dispositions. Nismes, C. Belle. 1791, First Edition. 4to, marbled boards. Pp 10, with engraved head-piece, title written in old hand on verso of last page. An important law relating to the status of the "affranchis" (freed slaves) and of those not yet free, whereby the Assemblee Nationale does its best to appease the alarm of the colonists provoked by earlier decrees following the emancipation of the Blacks and consequent legislation. USD 484.00 [Appr.: EURO 321 | £UK 292.25 | JP¥ 41621] Book number: 2284 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Loi relative aux Colonies, & aux moyens d'y appaiser es troubles. Toulon, Imp de Mallard. 1792, First Edition. 4to, marbled wrappers. Pp 7, with engraved head-piece, title on verso of last page written by an old hand. Law of April 4th 1792 containing important measures eg recognition of the right to vote of "hommes de couleur & negres libres." Also the nomination of seven "commissaires civils," the installation of an armed force and a 6 million loan. USD 423.50 [Appr.: EURO 281 | £UK 255.75 | JP¥ 36419] Book number: 2285 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Loi relative aux troubles qui ont eu lieu a Cayenne. Donnee a Paris, le 15 Avril 1791 Dijon, Imprimerie de Capel. 1791, First Edition. 4to, wrappers. Pp 2, with ornamental head-piece of royal arms. The king orders the execution of the decree of the Assemblee Nationale permitting various insurgents to return to Cayenne and also the dispatch to Cayenne of commissioners, who will report on recent disturbing "evenemens.". USD 423.50 [Appr.: EURO 281 | £UK 255.75 | JP¥ 36419] Book number: 2286 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Love and the hardware store, and other stories. Island Woman Series, no. 1 Trinidad, Inprint Caribbean Ltd. 1977, First Edition. Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 128, with illustrations by Alice Hearn. Fifteen stories from writers in the Caribbean community. USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 | £UK 4.25 | JP¥ 602] Book number: 12077 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Ordonnance du Roi, concernans les Procureur & Economes-gerans des habitations situees aux Isles sous le Vent. Du 17 Decembre 1784 Paris, Chez P.G. Simon, & N.H. Nyon. 1785, First Edition. 4to, marbled boards, red morocco spine. Pp 12, with ornamental head-piece. The king proposes to rectify abuses which have crept into the "gestions des habitations a Saint-Domingue." A series of enlightened, detailed instructions on the management of properties, many with absentee landlords, with an interesting chapter on the "Nourriture, habillement, chatiment des Negres esclaves." A fine copy. USD 544.50 [Appr.: EURO 361.25 | £UK 328.75 | JP¥ 46824] Book number: 2292 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| AGOSTINI, RANDAL Caribbean Flite Guide Trinidad, Caribbean Flite Guide Co. 1973. Hard Cover. Small 8vo, blue cloth. Pp 244, with numerous maps and charts. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1032] Book number: 9400 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| AGUIRRE, JOSE JOAQUIN (RECTOR DE A UNIVERSIDAD) Republica de Chile. Anales de la Universidad: numero estraordinario pubicado para conmemorar el cuarto centenario del descubrimiento de America. 12 de octubre de 1892 Santiago de Chile, Imp. Cervantes 1892. Contemporary marbled boards, quarter leather, spine skilfully repaired. Pp XLVII, 294, with frontispiece statue of Columbus in Valparaiso and two maps, headpieces. A special issue of the university "anales" commemorating the quatercentenary of the d iscovery of America. USD 145.20 [Appr.: EURO 96.5 | £UK 87.75 | JP¥ 12486] Book number: 1822 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ALEXANDER, ROBERT J. Presidents of Central America, Mexico, Cuba and Hispaniola: Conversations and Correspondence Westport (Ct.), Praeger 1995. Blue cloth, black labels. Pp 266. Conversations and correspondence between the author, professor emeritus at Rutgers University, with presidents during the last 50 years. USD 30.25 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.5 | JP¥ 2601] Book number: 1897 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ALEXANDER, ROBERT J. Presidents, Prime Ministers and Governors of the English-Speaking Caribbean and Puerto Rico: conversations and correspondence Westport (Ct.), Praeger 1997. Blue cloth, black labels. Pp 292. The author never took notes, nor used a tape recorder, during the interviews, but scribbled it all down later. USD 30.25 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.5 | JP¥ 2601] Book number: 1898 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ALFORD, COMMANDER C.E.R. (RETIRED The Island of Tobago -. British West Indies Dorchester, England, Longmans (Dorchester) Ltd. 1949, First. Pictorial wrappers. Pp 128, with folding map of Tobago, photographs, advertisements, sections on wild flowers and vegetables and much else. USD 54.00 [Appr.: EURO 36 | £UK 32.75 | JP¥ 4644] Book number: 1683 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ALVAREZ, EDUARDO A. Cristobal Colon Santo Domingo, Corripio (1982c). Laminated wrappers, portrait of Columbus on front cover, map end-papers. Pp 111, with colour plates. The author, a geriatrist (he wrote "El Anciano Feliz" or "A happy old age") has written a pleasing narrative account of Columbus' life. USD 18.15 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1561] Book number: 1943 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ANDREWS, KENNETH R. (EDITOR) English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 1588-95: documents relating to English voyages to the West Indies from the defeat of the Armada to the last voyage of Sir Francis Drake, including Spanish documents contributed by Irene A. Wright. Cambridge University Press, Published for the Hakluyt Society 1959. Original pale blue cloth, stamped in gilt, dust-wrapper. Pp 421, with illustrations and maps. Documentary accounts of 25 voyages, all privateering ventures, the narratives mostly from Hakluyt, Archivo de Indias in Seville and the records of the High Court of Admiralty. USD 145.20 [Appr.: EURO 96.5 | £UK 87.75 | JP¥ 12486] Book number: 1928 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ANONYMOUS Reclamations des Negres Libres, colons americains Not known, not known. 1790, First Edition. 8vo, modern marbled boards. Pp 3, with ornamental head-piece. In this famous "revendication" the freed slaves claim the right to be represented in the Assemblee Nationale. "Le negre est issu d'un sang pur..Le mulatre est une espece abatardie..D'apres ce principe, le negre libre, dans l'ordre social, doit etre classe avant le mulatre ou homme de couleur." Very rare, last page slightly stained. USD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 232.25 | £UK 211.25 | JP¥ 30098] Book number: 2288 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ANTHONY, MICHAEL & ANDREW CARR (EDITORS) David Frost introduces Trinidad and Tobago London, Andre Deutsch 1975. Large 8vo, photographic dust-wrapper, map end-papers. Pp 203, with colour plates. Articles by 19 different contributors, of whom David Frost is only one. USD 18.15 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1561] Book number: 1678 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ARCINIEGAS, GERMAN Caribbean; sea of the New World New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1946, First. Large 8vo, orange cloth, gilt emblem on cover. Pp XII, 464, XIV index, with folding map and illustrations. A cultural history written with style and scholarship by a distinguished Colombian. USD 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.5 | £UK 33.25 | JP¥ 4730] Book number: 22399 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ASPINALL, ALGERNON E The pocket guide to the West Indies: British Guiana, British Honduras, The Bermudas, The Spanish Main and the Panama Canal London, Duckworth. 1914, New and revised edition. Small 8vo, original red cloth. Pp VII, 488, with colour frontispiece of the Battle of the Saintes, many maps, plans and illustrations, advertisements. An admirable guide, although a bit out-of-date. USD 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.5 | £UK 51.5 | JP¥ 7310] Book number: 22419 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ASPINALL, SIR ALGERNON A wayfarer in the West Indies Boston, Houghton Mifflin 1931. Redcloth. Pp 244, with end-paper map and 19 illustrations. A very popular travel book. USD 36.30 [Appr.: EURO 24.25 | £UK 22 | JP¥ 3122] Book number: 1672 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. |
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