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1. A description of the island of Jamaica : with the other isles and territories in America, to which the English are related, viz. Barbadoes, St. Christophers, Nievis or Mevis, Antego, St. Vincent, Dominica, Montserrat, Anguilla, Barbada, Bermudes, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New-York, New England, New-Found-Land : taken from the notes of Sr. Thomas Linch, Knight, governour of Jamaica, and other experienced persons in the said places. Illustrated with maps / published by Richard Blome.

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Creator:
Blome, Richard, 1635–1705
Date:
1672
Physical Description:
[8], 192 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill. (maps) ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A description of the Spanish islands and settlements on the coast of the West Indies / compiled from authentic memoirs, revised by gentlemen who have resided many years in the Spanish settlements ; and illustrated with thirty-two maps and plans, chiefly from original drawings taken from the Spaniards in the last war, and engraved by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty.

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Creator:
Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[4], xxiv, 106, [2] pages, 32 folded leaves of plates : maps, plans ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A description of the windward passage, and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to, and from the island of Jamaica : also an account of the trade-winds, and of the variable winds and currents on the coasts thereabouts, at different seasons of the tear : illustrated with a chart of the coast of Florida, and of the islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller islands, shoals, rocks, and other remarkable things in the course of the navigation in the West-Indies : whereby is demonstrated, the precariousness of those voyages to the West-India merchants, and the impossibility of their homeward-bound ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's : the whole very necessary for the information of such as never were in those parts of the world : to which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies ...

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Creator:
Cowley, J. (John)
Physical Description:
23, [5] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : maps ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A voyage to North-America: undertaken by command of the present King of France : containing the geographical description and natural history of Canada and Louisiana : with the customs, manners, trade and religion of the iInhabitants : a description of the lakes and rivers, with their navigation and manner of passing the Great Cataracts / by Father Charlevoix ; also, a description and natural history of the islands in the West Indies belonging to the different powers of Europe ; illustrated with a number of curious prints and maps not in any other edition ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682–1761
Date:
MDCCLXVI [1766]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.

A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica : with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands : to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America : illustrated with the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved, in large copper-plates as big as the life / by Hans Sloane.
Creator:
Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660–1753
Date:
1707-1725
Physical Description:
2 v., XI, 274 leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., port. (frontispiece), map (engravings) ; 36 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. An account of the expedition to the West Indies against Martinico : with the reduction of Guadelupe, and other the Leeward Islands : subject to the French king, 1759 / by Captain Gardiner of the King's Royal Musqueteers, late Captain of Marines on board his Majesty's Ship Rippon, employed on this expedition.

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Creator:
Gardiner, Richard, 1723–1781
Date:
1762
Physical Description:
[6], 91, [1] pages, [4] leaves of plates (2 folded) : i lllustrations, maps ; 31 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The history of the bucaniers of America : from the first original down to this time : written in several languages : and now collected into one volume ... : the whole newly translated into English, and illustrated with 25 copper-plates.

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Creator:
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Date:
1704
Physical Description:
3 volumes in 1 : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The voyages, dangerous adventures and imminent escapes of Captain Richard Falconer: containing the laws, customs, and manners of the Indians in America; his shipwrecks; his marrying an Indian wife; his narrow escape from the island of Dominico, &c. : intermix'd with the voyages and adventures of Thomas Randal, of Cork, pilot; with his shipwreck in the Baltick, being the only man that escap'd; his being taken by the Indians of Virginia, &c. / written by himself, now alive.

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Creator:
Chetwood, W. R. (William Rufus), -1766
Date:
1720
Physical Description:
[3], page viii, 72, 136, 179, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.

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Creator:
Matthews, John, lieutenant in the Royal Navy
Date:
MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Physical Description:
24 pages, [21] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts