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 (top of spine sl. dam.). With folding lithographed map (browned). 271 pp. First edition; with book stamp of G.A.F. Molengraaff and H.P. Paulsen, St, Thomas. - 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. - (Missing view of St. Thomas added in photocopy). 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 (top of spine sl. dam.). With folding lithographed map (browned). 271 pp. First edition; with book stamp of G.A.F. Molengraaff and H.P. Paulsen, St, Thomas. - 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. - (Missing view of St. Thomas added in photocopy). Sabin 38170; Afro-Americana 5598.
Keywords: America Caribbean Islands St.Thomas slavery
Price: EUR 192.50 = appr. US$ 209.22 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 36808
- Book number: 36808