![[WEST INDIES] A Geographical and Historical Description of the Principal Objects of the Present War in the West-Indies, viz. Cartagena, Puerto Bello, La Vera Cruz, The Havana, and San Agustin, shewing their Situation, Strength, Trade, andc...](/sites/default/files/styles/auction_slider/public/images/lots/795/1557795.jpg?itok=lXLUARMk)
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Lot 268
[WEST INDIES] A Geographical and Historical Description of the Principal Objects of the Present War in the West-Indies, viz. Cartagena, Puerto Bello, La Vera Cruz, The Havana, and San Agustin, shewing their Situation, Strength, Trade, &c...
London: T. Gardner [etc.], 1741. Period mottled calf, rebacked to style by Aquarius (retaining original endpapers), all edges sprinkled red. 7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches (18.5 x 12 cm); [viii], 192 pp. (pp. 97-104 mispaginated pp. 89-9); folding hand-colored frontispiece map of the region, one plan of Porto Bello. Light binding wear, some very minor soiling, in all a rather pretty copy of this scarce work. Bookplate of The Lord Viscount Montague, and the Althorp bookplate (i.e. the library formed by George John, 2nd Earl Spencer).
A surprisingly scarce work, with some significant Florida interest; the last copies we trace at auction were in the 1970s. The section on St. Augustine details General Oglethorpe's expedition against it 1740, and the map has an inset of the harbor of St. Augustine, with soundings. Much of the work is taken up with the activities of the buccaneers who infested these waters.
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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