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  • A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.
  • A voyage to the islands, Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life / By Hans Sloane.
  • A voyage to the islands, Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved; in large copper-plates as big as the life / By Hans Sloane.
  • Sugar: a plantation of sugar cane in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and processing equipment in the foreground. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.
  • Sugar: a plantation of sugar cane in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and processing equipment in the foreground. Engraving, 1683, after S. Leclerc, ca 1671.
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    Three papaya trees (Carica papaya) with lizards, dodos and a man hunting in an exotic, tropical landscape. Etching, c. 1671.

    | Date: [1671] | Reference: 24654i
    • Books

    List of publications of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

    | Date: 1927
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    Colonial and Indian Exhibition : official guide.

    Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886 : London, England) | Date: 1886
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    Notes by a field-naturalist in the western tropics : from a journal kept on board the Royal Mersey steam yacht "Argo" / by Henry H. Higgins.

    Higgins, Henry H. (Henry Hugh), 1814-1893. | Date: 1877
    • Books

    West Indian doctors in London : John Alcindor (1873-1924) and James Jackson Brown (1882-1953) / Jeffrey P. Green.

    Green, Jeffrey P. | Date: 1986
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