(JAMAICA) [Stewart John] An Account of Jamaica and its Inhab

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(JAMAICA.) [Stewart, John.] An Account of Jamaica and its Inhabitants. 8vo, original boards, tastefully rebacked in paper; uncut; early owner's inscription on front free endpaper. With 16, [2] pages of 1810 publisher's ads. London, 1808

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first edition. "The author lived on the island for 21 years. He gives good accounts of the various social and professional groups . . . and details of town and planter life. . . . The book stirred up great wrath locally"--Ragatz, page 234. Cundall, Jamaica 285; Sabin 35557.