Account of the British Settlement of Honduras
Item #83574
HENDERSON, [George], Capt. An Account of the British Settlement of Honduras... To Which Are Added, Sketches of the Manners and Customs of the Mosquito Indians, Preceded by the Journal of a Voyage to the Mosquito Shore. London: C. and R. Baldwin, 1809. 1st ed. xi, 203, [4, advts.]pp. Folding frontis. map. Modern speckled calf, with gilt label and raised spine bands. Mild foxing to the map, else very good. Field 684. Sabin 31308. Pilling, Proof-Sheets 1730. First edition of this detailed report on British Honduras, with descriptions of the flora and fauna, as well the current status of slavery in the colony. A short section on the Mosquito Indians includes a three-page vocabulary table. The rest of the text describes the history of British settlements in the region, and the folding map shows British Honduras and the Yucatan peninsula in detail, with gold and silver mines marked in addition to towns. The author was a British army officer, who published a 1816 treatise on Black slaves in the British colonies.
Price: $1,500.00