Oct 10, 2002 - Sale 1946

Sale 1946 - Lot 419

Price Realized: $ 1,495
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
SETTLEMENT IN TOBAGO [FOWLER, JOHN.] A Summary Account of the Present Flourishing State of the Respectable Colony of Tobago, in the British West Indies. Large, hand-colored folding map. 8vo, later boards; foxing; map detached and with separations at folds. With the half-title. London, 1774

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"A work to encourage settlement. Contains a list of land sales from 1766, giving acreage, the price per acre paid, and the names of the original purchasers and of the then proprieters. Also a list of officials and directions for entering the several harbors and a map of the island showing portions sold and those remaining available to first purchasers"--Ragatz, page 224; Sabin 25309. We could locate no copies coming to auction in the the last 20 years. OCLC identifies only 6 institutions with copies. <