(JAMAICA) A Brief and Perfect Journal of the Late Proceeding

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(JAMAICA.) A Brief and Perfect Journal of the Late Proceedings and Success of the English Army in the West-Indies. 4to, later cloth-backed boards, moderate wear; lacking 4 x 1-inch area of title page (filled) with loss of a few letters of the title, moderate browning, a few inked markings on title and final blank page. London, 1655

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The author's name is given as "I.S." "The author was a member of the Penn and Venables expedition sent against the Spanish in the West Indies. . . . He details the manner in which the expedition was provisioned and the preparations undertaken prior to leaving for the northern islands"--Handler, Barbados page 4. Cundall Jamaica 11; European Americana 655/26-7 (mixed issue with "Success" in title and 39 lines on page 6); Sabin 74616.