15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 126
 

126

[Leslie, Charles] A New History of Jamaica from the Earliest Accounts to the Taking of Porto...

[Leslie, Charles]
A New History of Jamaica from the Earliest Accounts to the Taking of Porto Bello by Vice-Admiral Vernon In Thirteen Letters from a Gentleman to his Friend. Printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-glass on London-bridge, 1740. 8vo, full calf, spine gilt in compartments; pp. iv, 340; 2 folding maps (tearing to one crease of first map, slight affecting image, map still whole). Second edition.
Leslie was a Barbadian writer from a family with strong Caribbean connections. These letters cover aspects of Jamaican life and history from the laws to the lawless - especially pirates. The book is an important source on the slave trade of the time, recording the conditions in which they were kept and their customs and beliefs. It was first published in 1739, during a period of rising tension between Britain and Spain over Caribbean possesions, and this second edition added a new chapter touching on Vernon's successes against Spain.

Sold for £220
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

. Binding a little scuffed and bumped with loss of gilt to spine, internally toned and water-stained, with marking to maps, still a good copy.

 


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