Author: GURNEY, Joseph John.
Title: A winter in the West Indies, described in familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky.
Description: London, John Murray, 1840. Original cloth (rebacked). With engraved frontispiece (Sligoville - Jamaica) and engraved plate (Brownstown - Jamaica) (both stained). XVI,282 pp. First edition; with autograph dedication by the author. - Letters of the celebrated Quaker Gurney (1788-1847) about the consequences of the abolition of slavery in the West Indies (Cuba, Jamaica, Dominica, St. Thomas, Antigua, etc.), wellcomed by the author as a great benefaction. A large part of the work is devoted to a close description of Jamaica. Includes also a chapter on the Cuban slave trade, in which U.S. capital is involved. - (Age-browned). Sabin 29312; Hogg 2654; Work p.268; The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 853; Not in Ragatz.
Keywords: America Caribbean Cuba Islands Jamaica slavery
Title: A winter in the West Indies, described in familiar letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky.
Description: London, John Murray, 1840. Original cloth (rebacked). With engraved frontispiece (Sligoville - Jamaica) and engraved plate (Brownstown - Jamaica) (both stained). XVI,282 pp. First edition; with autograph dedication by the author. - Letters of the celebrated Quaker Gurney (1788-1847) about the consequences of the abolition of slavery in the West Indies (Cuba, Jamaica, Dominica, St. Thomas, Antigua, etc.), wellcomed by the author as a great benefaction. A large part of the work is devoted to a close description of Jamaica. Includes also a chapter on the Cuban slave trade, in which U.S. capital is involved. - (Age-browned). Sabin 29312; Hogg 2654; Work p.268; The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 853; Not in Ragatz.
Keywords: America Caribbean Cuba Islands Jamaica slavery
Price: EUR 324.50 = appr. US$ 352.68 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 22855
- Book number: 22855