Author: KNOX, John P.
Title: 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.
Description: 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.
Keywords: America Caribbean Islands St.Thomas slavery
Title: 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.
Description: 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.
Keywords: America Caribbean Islands St.Thomas slavery
Price: EUR 412.50 = appr. US$ 448.32 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 36742
- Book number: 36742