The history civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies : to which is added, An historical survey of the French colony in the island of St. Domingo / abridged from the History written by Bryan Edwards Esq. ...

Author:: Edwards, Bryan, 1743-1800
Uniform Title:: History civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies. Abridgments
Additional Titles:: Edwards' West Indies and History of the West Indies
Published:: London : Printed for B. Crosby ... for Mundell & Son, Edinburgh; and J. Mundell ... Glasgow, 1798.
Physical Description:: xvi, 373, 7 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : map ; 23 cm (8vo in 4s)
Additional Creators:: Edwards, Bryan, 1743-1800 and Brown, John Carter, 1797-1874

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Charles L. Blockson Collection of African Americana and the African Diaspora.

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"Illustrated with a map."
With a half-title.
Advertisements: 7 p. at end.
Blockson Collection Vault copy formerly owned by John Carter Brown (1797-1874), a prominent nineteenth century book collector whose library formed the basis for the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown and name stamp in red ink on t.p.. A small illustrated plate (clipped from earlier illustrated ed.?) tipped in as frontispiece.

Reviewed/Cited In:

English short title catalogue, t137075
Cox, E.G. Travel, II, p. 228

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