Research Catalog

Title

A description of British Guiana, geographical and statistical : exhibiting its resources and capabilities, together with the present and future condition and prospects of the colony / by Robert H. Schomburgk, Esq.

Author

Schomburgk, Robert H. (Robert Hermann), 1804-1865.

Publication

London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers' Hall Court, 1840.

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Additional Authors

• Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873
• Simpkin, Marshall and Co., publisher.
• Richard and John Edward Taylor (Firm), printer.

Description

155, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map; 22 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Guyana > Politics and government
• Guyana > Economic conditions
• Great Britain > Colonies > Guyana
• Natural resources > Guyana
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Guyana > Description and travel

Genre/Form

Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• Map signed: London, John Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Square 1840.
• "Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street."--printer's statement, colophon, p. 155.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "To the Reverend K. Fulda a token of the high respect from the Author. [Voiglsledt?] [...] April 1845." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

1. Geographical description: Physical aspects of the colony ; Geology ; Rivers ; Climate ; Vegetable productions ; Animal kingdom ; Statistics of British Guiana ; Inhabitants ; Religious and public instruction ; Public income and expenditure ; Staple products and commerce ; Form of government, Civil constitution, &c. of the colony ; Towns and villages ; Brief historical records of the present colony of British Guiana -- 2. Resources and capabilities of British Guiana -- 3. The present condition and future prospects of the colony.

Call Number

Sc Rare 918.8-S (Schomburgk, R. H. Description of British Guiana)

LCCN

07003219

OCLC

• 1512701
• NYPGR1512701-B

Author

Schomburgk, Robert H. (Robert Hermann), 1804-1865.

Title

A description of British Guiana, geographical and statistical : exhibiting its resources and capabilities, together with the present and future condition and prospects of the colony / by Robert H. Schomburgk, Esq.

Imprint

London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers' Hall Court, 1840.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 918.8-S (accession no. B499058) inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "To the Reverend K. Fulda a token of the high respect from the Author. [Voiglsledt?] [...] April 1845." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Simpkin, Marshall and Co., publisher.

Richard and John Edward Taylor (Firm), printer.

Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873, engraver.

Fulda, K., Rev., former owner.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 918.8-S (Schomburgk, R. H. Description of British Guiana)

HEC (Schomburgk, R. H. Description of British Guiana)