Author: St. CLAIR, Thomas Staunton.
Title: A residence in the West Indies and America, with a narrative of the expedition to the island of Walcheren.
Description: London, Richard Bentley, 1834. 2 volumes. Contemporary half calf, with red morocco title-labels to spines. With 5 woodengravings and 6 aquatint plates. XIV,(1),395; XII,382 pp. First edition; with the bookplate of H.M. McCance. - 'The author, of Scotch descent, had been born at Gibraltar while his father, a British officer, had been stationed there. His brothers and he also entered service and, in 1805 he was ordered to Demerara, where he held a command for some three years. Contains interesting accounts of his life and peoples there, but nothing whatever regarding the West Indies proper excepting a few pages on Barbados, to which he was invalided for a short time, and several on St. Kitts, where a brother was stationed, both points of call on his return to Scotland in 1808. Gives a secondhand version of the spectacular British attack on Martinique in 1808, at which time one brother was killed' (Ragatz p.234). Dealing with Indians, slaves, Dutch settlements, etc. in Berbice, Demerara and Essequibo and visit to Walcheren in The Netherlands. With pictures of: a runaway negro, Canoe and Arrawaka Indians, Indian village on the Corantine, view on the Demerara River, etc. - (Some pencil annotations). - Scarce. Sabin 75025; Abbey, Travel, 679; Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 814.
Keywords: America Islands Suriname slavery
Title: A residence in the West Indies and America, with a narrative of the expedition to the island of Walcheren.
Description: London, Richard Bentley, 1834. 2 volumes. Contemporary half calf, with red morocco title-labels to spines. With 5 woodengravings and 6 aquatint plates. XIV,(1),395; XII,382 pp. First edition; with the bookplate of H.M. McCance. - 'The author, of Scotch descent, had been born at Gibraltar while his father, a British officer, had been stationed there. His brothers and he also entered service and, in 1805 he was ordered to Demerara, where he held a command for some three years. Contains interesting accounts of his life and peoples there, but nothing whatever regarding the West Indies proper excepting a few pages on Barbados, to which he was invalided for a short time, and several on St. Kitts, where a brother was stationed, both points of call on his return to Scotland in 1808. Gives a secondhand version of the spectacular British attack on Martinique in 1808, at which time one brother was killed' (Ragatz p.234). Dealing with Indians, slaves, Dutch settlements, etc. in Berbice, Demerara and Essequibo and visit to Walcheren in The Netherlands. With pictures of: a runaway negro, Canoe and Arrawaka Indians, Indian village on the Corantine, view on the Demerara River, etc. - (Some pencil annotations). - Scarce. Sabin 75025; Abbey, Travel, 679; Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 814.
Keywords: America Islands Suriname slavery
Price: EUR 935.00 = appr. US$ 1016.20 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 30912
- Book number: 30912