A New Atlas Of The British West Indies With A Whole Sheet General Map Of The West India Islands And A

by Bryan Edwards

$8,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Expertly bound to style in half tree calf and period marbled paper covered boards. First American edition, published to accompany the Philadelphia edition of Bryan Edwards's History of the West Indies, first published in London in 1793. Bryan Edwards was a British politician and sometime Jamaica planter, noted for his history of the West Indies. The work had a particular appeal in Philadelphia, due to the many Quaker merchants in the city active in the West Indian

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.