(WEST INDIES) Grainger James The Sugar Cane A Poem

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(WEST INDIES.) Grainger, James. The Sugar-Cane: A Poem. Frontispiece plate. 4to, contemporary calf, moderate wear, joints cracked; a few early inked notes, mostly clean internally; bookplate of Alberto Parreño on front pastedown. With half-title. London, 1764

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Mocked by Samuel Johnson and his circle, and its sentimental apologies for slavery have not aged well, but still of value as an historical document for its wealth of technical detail on the sugar plantations of the West Indies. Sabin 28249.