Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth an Nineteenth Centuries
by B.W. Higman
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Jamaica Publications Limited, 1988. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A handsome copy of the 1988 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of light creasing along the panel edges. Thick quarto, "brings to the public for the first time a representative sample of the enormous collection of plantation maps and plans in the National Library of Jamaica" (from the dustjacket front flap).
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- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21848
- Title
- Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth an Nineteenth Centuries
- Author
- B.W. Higman
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Institute of Jamaica Publications Limited
- Place of Publication
- Kingston, Jamaica
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- rare Caribbean history, rare Jamaican history, 18th and 19th century Jamaica, plantation maps of Jamaica, rare Jamaican cartography
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Waccabuc, New York
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