Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 320

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(WEST INDIES.) [Campbell, John.] Candid and Impartial Considerations on the Nature of the Sugar Trade. 3 folding hand-colored maps. 8vo, contemporary calf, front board detached, moderate wear; offsetting and minor wear to maps; early bookplate and owner's signature on front pastedown. London, 1763

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"A classic in the field of colonial and Caribbean literature, embodying as it does one of the clearest statements of eighteenth-century philosophy regarding the relations which should exist between a metropole and its outlying possessions"--Ragatz, page 284. Hough, Lesser Antilles 246; Handler, page 36; Sabin 10231. No copies known at auction since 1980.