Oct 10, 2002 - Sale 1946

Sale 1946 - Lot 415

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DALLAS, ROBERT CHARLES. History of the Maroons. Engraved frontispieces, 2 folding maps. 2 volumes. 8vo, 19th century tree calf, minor wear, one joint cracked; browning to the plates and maps, else only scattered minor foxing. London, 1803

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"[Dallas] was descended from an old Jamaican family and lived in the island for several years . . . The narrative covering the Maroon troubles and observations regarding the state of the colony from their close to 1803 are presented in the form of 21 letters to a 'dear friend.' Appendixes contain the consolidated slave code of Jamaica"--Ragatz, page 197; Sabin 18322.<