Lot 387
  • 387

Day, Charles William

Estimate
300 - 500 GBP
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Description

  • Five Years' Residence in the West Indies. London: Colburn and Co., 1852
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (198 x 118mm.), (vol.1) x, 336pp., 16pp. adverts; (vol.2) viii, 318pp., 24pp. adverts, half-titles, engraved frontispiece to each volume, illustrations in the text, original blindstamped blue cloth, yellow endpapers with adverts, slipcase

Day travelled to Barbados, St. Vincent, Granada, Trinidad, Guadeloupe and various other places in the Caribbean describing the islands and their people as well as social and political circumstances.

Condition

A very good copy
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