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The Jamaica Almanack, Three Copies, 1806, 1832, 1846. Three small octavo copies, all printed in Kingston, 1806 copy in a contemporary green morocco leather wallet-style binding, the calendar interleaved with blank leaves; 1832 copy with folding hand-colored frontispiece displaying Signals of Royal Shipping Packets, bound in green morocco, with a flap and string, binding coming undone; 1846 copy in the original cloth-covered boards with publisher's paper label on front, sewing perished, pages detached. [Together with] William B. Goodwin's Spanish and English Ruins in Jamaica, Boston: Meador, [1946], publisher's blue cloth. (4)
Estimate $600-800
1806 Almanack: A-P6, Q2, a6, [ ]2.
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