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1887 Down the Islands: A Voyage to the Caribbees
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
First edition.
In the original decorative cloth binding.
Illustrated with a frontispiece, fourteen plates and numerous vignettes from drawings by M. J. Burns. Collated, complete.
An intriguing account of a voyage taken by William Agnew Paton through the Caribbean islands, with descriptions of the islands' inhabitants, a sugar plantation, market places, the future of slavery, and the physical geography.
Paton, a publisher for the New York World and business manager of Scribner's Magazine, made this extended trip for health reasons after leaving his work.
With five leaves of publisher's advertisements to the rear.
Condition
In the original decorative cloth binding. Externally, with darkening to the spine and rubbing to the extremities, heaviest to the spine head and tail. Marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages.
Very Good
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