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Title

The history of Barbados : comprising a geographical and statistical description of the island : a sketch of the historical events since the settlement : and an account of its geology and natural productions / by Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, Ph.D.

Author

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

Publication

London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848.

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Additional Authors

• Hedges, W. S.
• Walton, W. L., active 1834-1855
• Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried, 1795-1876
• Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787-1871
• Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, publisher.
• Richard and John Edward Taylor (Firm), printer.
• Hullmandel & Walton, printer of plates.

Description

xx, [2], 722 p., [10] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., col. map; 25 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Barbados > History
• Natural history > Barbados
• Insertions (Provenance)
• Barbados > Description and travel,

Genre/Form

Insertions (Provenance)

Note

• "Printed by Richard and John Edward Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street."--verso of title page.
• Four plates signed: Drawn on stone by W.L. Walton from a sketch by Hedges. Hullmandel & Walton lithographers; one signed: Ehrenberg del. J. deC. Sowerby scr.
• Errata, p. [xvi].
• List of subscribers, p. [xi]-xiv.
• Includes index.

Indexed In (note)

• Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 917.298-S (Schomburgk, R. History of Barbados)

LCCN

02013845

OCLC

• 612903
• NYPGR612903-B

Author

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

Title

The history of Barbados : comprising a geographical and statistical description of the island : a sketch of the historical events since the settlement : and an account of its geology and natural productions / by Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, Ph.D.

Imprint

London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1848.

Indexed In:

Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 694

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, 9175

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 917.298-S (accession no.B498967) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 917.298-S accompanied by a handwritten [4] p. letter from Schomburgk to an unknown recipient, dated: "Surbiton near Kingston, Surrey [England], Septb. 27th 1848"; this letter is tipped in at the end of the volume. NN

Copy in Sc Rare 917.298-S imperfect: lacking frontispiece plate and added engraved title page plate, copy also lacks folded plate of tables facing p. 686; plate meant to face p. 9 in bound in at front of title page. NN

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Added Author

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, publisher.

Richard and John Edward Taylor (Firm), printer.

Hedges, W. S., illustrator.

Walton, W. L., active 1834-1855, lithographer.

Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried, 1795-1876, illustrator.

Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787-1871, lithographer.

Hullmandel & Walton, printer of plates.

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

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 917.298-S (Schomburgk, R. History of Barbados)

HRG (Schomburgk, R. H. History of Barbados)