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Verlag: London: John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1794
Leather Bound. Zustand: Fair. 2 volumes: ill., maps (some folded), [17] leaves of plates ; 28 cm. Second edition. Quarter leather over marbled boards. Large folding map in fair condition, lacking final sheet and creasing. Foxing, tears to folding plates. Front board detached to volume I. Slight cracking where endpapers meet. Minor discoloration to preliminary pages. Folding and darkening to first map in Volume I. Map adjacent to page 123 has minor staining around corners. Bryan Edwards was a renown English politician and historian, and a strong supporter of the slave trade. In the 1794 edition, both titles were consolidated into a three volume collection. They provide a comprehensive account of the colonial histories of several islands, including source documents, detailed maps, letters and ledgers. Sabin 21901. Ragatz: p. 165. Griffin 2796. ESTC T136756.