(WEST INDIES) Edwards Bryan The History Civil and Commercial

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(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

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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.