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(WEST INDIES.) Edwards, Bryan. The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies.
(WEST INDIES.) Edwards, Bryan. The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. 9 maps on 10 plates (3 folding), 7 other plates; each plate of the general West Indies map has a short tear along center of fold. 8vo, contemporary calf, joints split, moderate wear, missing small portions of each backstrip, one spine label detached, the other lacking; hinges starting; bookplates on front pastedowns. London, 1794
- Notes: A clean wide-margined copy of an important history by a Jamaican planter. One of the plates is the infamous "Sable Venus," which attempted to glamorize the horrors of the slave trade. "In two volumes . . . Second edition." This set does not include the 1801 Historical Survey of the Island of Saint Domingo, which was issued seven years later as Volume III. Cundall 2095; Sabin 21901.
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