Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection at Hamilton College: A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Maps, and Drawings, 1521-18

Hough, Samuel J. [Editor]; Hough, Penelope R.O. [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0813012929 / ISBN 13: 9780813012926

Editore: University Press of Florida, 1994

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[Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Minimal tear to jacket. Contemporary signature of Morgan on front end page. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).

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• Titolo: Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection at Hamilton College: A Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Maps, and Drawings, 1521-18
• Editore: University Press of Florida
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0813012929
• ISBN 13: 9780813012926
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: As New
• Peso: 54 once
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Books on Books

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Riassunto

A catalogue of the Lesser Antilles providing thorough, accurate descriptions of some 1,000 printed books and 1,000 manuscripts that Walter Beinecke, Jr. collected over several decades and donated to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. The collection includes hundreds of rare original documents, 50 maps, plantation reports, correspondence, and oil paintings and watercolors. Includes two color photos and three maps. Impeccable production. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Informazioni sull?autore

Samuel J. and Penelope R. O. Hough own and operate a book business specializing in rare and scholarly books and have extensive library and curatorial experience.  They have organized archival collections for Brown University, the Rhode Island Hospital, and the Newport Historical Society and have organized the archives and design library of Gorham, Inc.  They are the American agent for the Biblioteca Berenson at the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence and have published extensively on Gorham silver.