Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 321

Price Realized: $ 768
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(WEST INDIES.) Edwards, Bryan. The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British West Indies. 11 maps, 11 plates. 6 volumes including atlas. [4], xlviii, 579; [2], vii, 616; [2], xxxii, 477; [3], x-xii, 496; [3], vi-vii, 287 pages. 8vo (atlas volume in 4to), contemporary full calf, backstrips variously defective; minor foxing; early owner's signatures on title pages. London, 1819

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5th edition. "The fifth is the best edition of this most deservedly popular work. In charm of style, in historical grasp of facts and movements, and in accurate presentation of actual conditions, this work still holds its place at the head of the literature of the West Indies"--Larned 4107. Pilling 1129b; Sabin 21901.