Authors:SAMUEL J. HOUGH, PENELOPE R.O. HOUGH,
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Keywords: manuscripts, books, prints, maps, drawings, catalogue, college, lesser, antilles, collection, hamilton, beinecke
Number of Pages: 425
Published: 1994-09-28
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0813012929
ISBN-13: 9780813012926

This distinguished catalogue of the Lesser Antilles provides extensive, precise descriptions of approximately one thousand printed books and one thousand manuscripts that Walter Beinecke, Jr., collected over several decades and donated to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he is a trustee. The collection includes hundreds of rare original documents, fifty maps, plantation reports, correspondence, and oil paintings and watercolors.   The catalogue of the Walter Beinecke, Jr., Collection describes unique manuscript material and many rare books more fully than previously available i