Author: ALEXANDER, James Edward.
Title: Transatlantic sketches, comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With notes on negro slavery and Canadian emigration.
Description: London, Richard Bentley, 1833.2 volumes. Contemporary half calf, with green and red morocco labels on spines. With two etched frontispieces, etched map and 8 etched plates by W. Heath. XXIII,384; XIII,320 pp.First edition. - 'The author, a well-to-do unattached military officer, went to the new world in 1831. He visited the Guiana coast, the West India islands (Barbados, Tobago, Trinidad, Grenada, St. Vincent, Jamaica, Cuba), the Mississippi valley and that of the St. Lawrence and the eastern part of the United States. His account .. consists of brief descriptions and keen observations on local life and society. .. The author opposes sudden emancipation and holds that the planters had not been given fair hearings. Supports them as against the abolitionists in a temperate, reasonable manner, an entire chapter being devoted to their defence' (Ragatz p.215).. - (Names cut from printed title-pages).Sabin 735; Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 801; Clark III,3.
Keywords: America Caribbean Islands slavery
Title: Transatlantic sketches, comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With notes on negro slavery and Canadian emigration.
Description: London, Richard Bentley, 1833.2 volumes. Contemporary half calf, with green and red morocco labels on spines. With two etched frontispieces, etched map and 8 etched plates by W. Heath. XXIII,384; XIII,320 pp.First edition. - 'The author, a well-to-do unattached military officer, went to the new world in 1831. He visited the Guiana coast, the West India islands (Barbados, Tobago, Trinidad, Grenada, St. Vincent, Jamaica, Cuba), the Mississippi valley and that of the St. Lawrence and the eastern part of the United States. His account .. consists of brief descriptions and keen observations on local life and society. .. The author opposes sudden emancipation and holds that the planters had not been given fair hearings. Supports them as against the abolitionists in a temperate, reasonable manner, an entire chapter being devoted to their defence' (Ragatz p.215).. - (Names cut from printed title-pages).Sabin 735; Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 801; Clark III,3.
Keywords: America Caribbean Islands slavery
Price: EUR 962.50 = appr. US$ 1046.09 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 26418
- Book number: 26418