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LABILLARDIÈRE, Jacques Julien Houton de. Voyage in Search of La Pérouse …London : 1800
First edition in English, same year as the French, this in the favoured, and less common, single-volume quarto edition. Labillardière was the botanist and doctor on the d'Entrecasteaux Pérouse search expedition, and was entrusted with the task of writing the official account following the death of the commander from scurvy. "Although unsuccessful... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 79886
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WATSON, Robert Grant. Spanish and Portuguese South America during the Colonial Period.London : 1884
First edition of this expansive compendium of South American history, in the variant brown cloth binding. Watson travelled widely as a British diplomat allowing him to write a number of regional histories; "it is on of the advantages of foreign legations, that now and then a man connected with them is found intelligent enough and industrious enough... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 119367
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DUANE, William. A Visit to Colombia in the Years 1822 & 1823.Philadelphia : 1826
First edition. Duane (1760-1835), maverick Irish-American journalist and editor of the Democrat organ Aurora, travelled to newly independent Colombia to secure payment for arms and provisions sent to Bolivar's revolutionaries by Philadelphia merchant Jacob Idler, an affair passed over in silence in his important travelogue (such activities had forestalled... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 119211
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(BRAZIL.) CARLS, Francisco Henrique. Album de Pernambuco.Pernambuco : 1880
A wonderfully-preserved copy of this superb visual record of Brazil in the late 19th century. "The colourful and airy rendering contributes much to the appeal of this extensive series of images that forms one of the most comprehensive visual reports carried out on any Brazilian city in the period" (Correa do Lago).
The album was first issued in... Learn More£35,000.00Stock Code: 108232
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(AMERICAN JUDAICA.) Douglass & Aikman's Almanack and Register for the Island of Jamaica:Kingston : 1781
Extremely uncommon. Printed and published by David Douglass and William Aikman, Loyalist refugees from the Revolution in America - Douglass from Charleston, Aikman from Annapolis - this almanac includes, at the conclusion of the calendar proper, on the verso of the leaf bearing a Jamaican historical chronology - a "Kalendar of Months, Sabbaths, and... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 82190
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[LUCKOCK, Benjamin.] Jamaica: Enslaved and Free.London : [1846]
First edition of this history of Jamaica from an abolitionist perspective, detailing the discovery of Jamaica, the cruelty of the colonisers to the natives, the introduction of slavery, and the effects of its abolition. The author argues that the ending of slavery in Jamaica in 1838 was orderly and has seen a marked moral improvement in the former slaves.... Learn More£120.00Stock Code: 129877
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(VERMONT ASYLUM.) Rules for the Attendants and Assistants of the Vermont Asylum.Vermont : c.1850
Founded in 1834 as the Vermont Asylum for the Insane, later renamed the Brattleboro Retreat, and still in operation today as Retreat Healthcare, the asylum was one of the first such institutions established in the United States. The initial funds for its foundation came from a bequest left by Anna Hunt Marsh, the wife of a wealthy local doctor, who... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 111218
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ACOSTA, Jose de. The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies.London : 1604
First edition in English of "the most convincing, detailed, and reliable account" of the Americas at this time, in a notably attractive contemporary binding (Hill). While this influential work is well-held institutionally it is scarce in commerce, and especially so in a contemporary binding, with only five such copies appearing at auction in the last... Learn More£18,750.00Stock Code: 141468
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(WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION.) Europa Libera:London : 1703
First edition (preceding the second edition of that year with an added postscript). Published in the third year of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), the anonymous author proposes that in return for the support of Britain and the Netherlands for the claim of the Emperor of Austria to the Spanish crown, Spain's territories in America should... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 139168
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COOK, James, & James King. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean.London : 1785
Second edition of Cook's fatal third voyage, an attempt to find a north-west passage, during which he "discovered" Oahu and Kauai at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, and, more importantly, "depicted accurately for the first time the north-west coast of America, leaving no major discoveries for his successors. In addition the scientific discoveries... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 75595
