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WALLER, JOHN AUGUSTINE. A Voyage in the West Indies: containing various observations made during a residence in Barbadoes.<> Map, 6 aquatint plates. 8vo, 19th-century 1/2 calf, worn, lacking small portion of backstrip; foxed; ex-library, with remnants of a bleached out ink stamp on title and a bookplate on the front pastedown. Sabin 101114; Ragatz, page 235. London, 1820
This journal was issued in volume 2 of Richard Phillips' New Voyages and Travels and also separately. "The author was a surgeon assigned to the naval hospital in Barbadoes in 1807 and later to a war vessel cruising through the islands . . . His book presents an interesting picture of the rushing business conducted by the slave traders in Barbados on the eve of abolition . . ."--Ragatz. Not listed in Abbey, Travel.<
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