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EDWARDS, Bryan.
See original version (French)
42
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EDWARDS, Bryan.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
EDWARDS, Bryan.
The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies.
London, printed for John Stockdale, 1794.
2 volumes in-4 (26 x 20 cm), frontispiece, LIV–494 pp., 2 plates and 9 maps, including one on two leaves; frontispiece, title page, 520–(1) pp., 3 plates. Modern speckled fawn half-basane, ribbed spine, title and volume number gilded, covers covered with pebbled paper, yellow edges (spine slightly faded, corners slightly rubbed, foxing, a tear without loss at the folds of the large map of the West Indies, trace of an old English stamp).
Second, expanded edition.
Complete and regarded as the best edition, with added maps, plans and illustrations.
A reference work on the Caribbean and the West Indies in the late 18th century.
Copy on laid paper with wide margins.
Bryan Edwards (1743–1800), a renowned English politician and historian who inherited a plantation in Jamaica, was able to provide a first-hand account of this region following the American War of Independence and prior to the abolition of slavery. He provides a description of the islands, their natural history and their inhabitants, the slave trade (of which he was a supporter), the cultivation of sugar, cotton and coffee… and various documents concerning Barbados, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles.
Illustrated with 16 black copper engravings, including a frontispiece at the beginning of each volume, 5 plates and 9 maps: the West Indies on two sheets, a fold-out map of Jamaica, as well as maps of Barbados, Grenada, Saint Vincent, Dominica, Saint Kitts, Antigua and the Virgin Islands.
Sabin, V, 21901. Brunet, II, 947.
See original version (French)
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