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Title

A history of the West Indies : containing the natural, civil, and ecclesiastical history of each island : with an account of the missions instituted in those islands, from the commencement of their civilization, but more especially of the missions which have been established in that archipelago by the society late in connexion with the Rev. John Wesley / by Thomas Coke, LL.D. of the University of Oxford ; in three volumes ; vol. I[-III].

Author

Coke, Thomas, 1747-1814.

Publication

Liverpool : Printed by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, Duke-Street, 1808-1811.

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Additional Authors

• Blanchard, T., Rev.
• Paris, Alexander A.
• Bruce, J. (Bookseller)
• Cordeux, Thomas
• Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, printer, bookseller.

Description

3 v. : ill., map; 22 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Wesleyan Methodist Church Missions > West Indies
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• West Indies > History
• Haiti > History
• Missions > West Indies
• West Indies, British > History

Genre/Form

Ink stamps (Provenance)

Note

• Vol. 2 has imprint: "London: Printed for the author, and to be had of the Rev. Mr. Blanchard, 14, City Road. 1810. A. Paris, printer, Took's Court, Chancery Lane." The printer statement can also be found on the colophon, p. 463.
• Vol. 3 has imprint: "London: Printed for the author, sold by T. Blanshard [i.e. Blanchard], 14, J. Bruce, 5, City Road; and Nuttall, Fisher & Dixon, 5, Lovel's Court, Paternoster Row, 16, 18, & 19, Duke Street, Liverpool. 1811." The printer statement can be found on the colophon, p. 543: "Conference-Office, 14, City Road, T. Cordeux, Agent."
• Includes index.
• Vol. 1: VIII, [1], 10-459, [1] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 2: 463, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 3: 543, [1] p., [2] folded leaves of plates.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
• Ragatz, L.J. Guide for the study of British Caribbean history, 1763-1834

Provenance (note)

• with the ink stamp in v. 1: "Schomburg Collection." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 972.9-C (Coke, T. History of the West Indies)

LCCN

02008511

OCLC

3865212

Author

Coke, Thomas, 1747-1814.

Title

A history of the West Indies : containing the natural, civil, and ecclesiastical history of each island : with an account of the missions instituted in those islands, from the commencement of their civilization, but more especially of the missions which have been established in that archipelago by the society late in connexion with the Rev. John Wesley / by Thomas Coke, LL.D. of the University of Oxford ; in three volumes ; vol. I[-III].

Imprint

Liverpool : Printed by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, Duke-Street, 1808-1811.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 2505

Ragatz, L.J. Guide for the study of British Caribbean history, 1763-1834, p. 158

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 972.9-C (accession nos. B498000-B498002) with the ink stamp in v. 1: "Schomburg Collection." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 972.9-C imperfect; lacking folded map in v. 1. NN

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Added Author

Blanchard, T., Rev., bookseller.

Paris, Alexander A., printer.

Bruce, J. (Bookseller), bookseller.

Cordeux, Thomas, printer.

Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, printer, bookseller.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 972.9-C (Coke, T. History of the West Indies)