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An almanack for the island of Barbados, for the year of our Lord God 1797: Being the 1st after Bissextile or Leap Year. By Matthias Holst. Containing the Fixed and Moveable feasts. Lunations Sun's Rising and Setting. Length, Increase, and Decrease of Days and Nights. Eclipses. Entry and Court Days. Districts of the several precincts, Times of Surveyors of Highways to meet Vestries to Account. Public Officers. A plain and just Method of bringing and keeping Clocks and Watches to due Time. A correct Interest Table at 6l. per Cent, per Annum. A List of the Births and Reigns of the Crown'd Heads in Europe. The Guard and Excrcising Days. A Table of the Holidays observed at the Custom-House. The set Times of Meeting of the several Lodges of Free and Accepted Masons in this Island. A Table of all the Kings and Queen's Reigns, since the Conquest. A Calendar for the Hebrew Nation. A Table to lind the Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Moon. With the Times of Closing the Mails in London, and Sailing of the Packets in every Month, for these Islands. A new Table of Chronological Events. And the new Commission of the Peace.
Holst, Matthias.Date: [1797?]- Books
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An enquiry into the natural history, cehmical properties, and medical virtues, of the rock oil, or green mineral naphtha, of Barbados : particularising the successful experiments ... observations on digestion ... / by C.H. Wilkinson.
Wilkinson, C. H. (Charles Henry)Date: 1830- Books
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An affecting relation of the appearance of Thomas Ostrehan's apparition, to his friend Robert Straker: ... being an extract of a letter from a gentleman in Barbados to his friend in Philadelphia, dated November - 1766.
Date: 1767- Books
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Considerations on the negroe cause commonly so called, addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, &c. By Samuel Estwick, A. M. Assistant Agent for the Island of Barbados.
Estwick, Samuel, 1735 or 1736-1795.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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A narrative of the insurrection and rebellion in the Island of Grenada, from the commencement to the conclusion. Introduced with a summary discourse on the excellence of the British constitution. &c. by Henry Thornhill Esquire.
Thornhill, Henry, Esquire.Date: 1798- Books
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Catalogus plantarum quæ in insula Jamaica sponte proveniunt, vel vulgò coluntur, cum earundem synonymis & locis natalibus; adjectis aliis quibusdam quæ in insulis Maderæ, Barbados, Nieves, et Sancti Christophori naseuntur. Seu prodromi historiæ naturalis Jamaicæ pars prima / Autore Hans Sloane.
Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753.Date: 1696- Books
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Acts, passed in the island of Barbados. From 1643, to 1762, inclusive; Carefully revised, innumerable Errors corrected; and the Whole compared and examined, with the original acts, In the Secretary's Office. By the late Richard Hall, Esquire: One of the Representatives in the General-Assembly, for the Parish of St. Michael; and one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the said Island, near Thirty Years; And since his Death, continued by his son, Richard Hall. To which is added, An index; and abridgment: With many useful Notes, References and Observations, never before published. And also A List of all the Laws, passed from the Settlement of the Island; which are now become Obsolete, Expired, or have had their Effect.
Barbados.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
Observations on the changes of the air and the concomitant epidemical diseases, in the Island of Barbados. To which is added a treatise on the putrid bilious fever, commonly called the yellow fever; and such other diseases as are indigenous or endemial, in the West India islands, or in the torrid zone / By William Hillary, M.D.
Hillary, William, -1763.Date: 1759- Books
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Astronomical observations made at the island of Barbados; at Willoughby Fort; and at the Observatory on Constitution Hill, both adjoining to Bridge Town. By the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, A. M. Fellow of Trinity-College, in the University of Cambridge, F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, Dcc. [sic] 20, 1764.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LXV. [1765]- Books
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Pteri-graphia Americana Jcones continens plusquam 400 filicum variarum specierum, viz. Arborescentes, scandentes, spinosas, floriferas, alaisque perraras; nec non muscos, lichenes, fungos, corallia, spongias, aliaqe non pauca submarina cui adijciuntur crustacea, testacea, aliaque animalia ferè omnia ex insulis nostris charibbæis viz. Antego, Barbados, St. Christophers, Nevis, Jamaica[,] Figuris Ænaeis, folio incisis, XX tabulis. A Iacobo Petiver. Soc. Regal S.Lond.
Petiver, James, 1663 or 1664-1718.Date: 1712]- Books
A brief history of the West India Committee / Douglas Hall.
Hall, Douglas.Date: 1971- Books
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Pteri-graphia Americana Icones continens plusquam 400 filicum variarum specierum, viz. Arborescentes, scandentes. spinosas, floriseras, aliasque perraras; nec non muscos, lichenes, fungos, corallia, spongias, aliaqe non pauca submarina cui adijciuntur crustacea, testace, aliaque animalia ferè omnia ex insulis nostris charibbæis viz. Antego, Barbados, St. Christophers, Nevis, Jamaica &c. figuris Ænæis, folio incisis, XX tabulis. A Iacobo Petiver soc regal S. Lond.
Petiver, James, 1663 or 1664-1718.Date: 1715]- Books
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Caribbeana. Containing letters and dissertations, together with poetical essays on various subjects and occasions / chiefly wrote by several hands in the West-Indies ... Now collected together in two volumes. Wherein are also comprised, divers papers relating to trade, government, and laws in general; but more especially, to those of the British sugar-colonies, and of Barbados in particular ... To which are added in an appendix, some pieces never before published. Nov. 20, 1731-Dec. 16, 1738.
Date: 1741- Books
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A Dissertation on the revolutions of states and empires. With some considerations on the blessings of peace, and the evils of war.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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.
Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753.Date: 1707-1725- Books
A true and exact history of the island of Barbados. Illustrated with a mapp of the island, as also the principall trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawne out by their severall and respective scales. Together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the severall houses, roomes, and other places, that are used in the whole processes of sugar-making / By Richard Ligon.
Ligon, Richard.Date: 1657- Books
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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 the figures of the things describ'd, which have not been heretofore engraved; In large Copper-Plates as big as the Life. By Hans Sloane, M. D. Fellow of the College of Physicians and Secretary of the Royal-Society. In two volumes. Vol. I.
Sloane, Hans, Sir, 1660-1753.Date: 1707- Books
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Observations on the diseases which appeared in the army on St. Lucia, in December, 1778; January, February, March, April, and May, 1779: to which are prefined remarks, Calculated to assist in ascertaining the Causes, and in explaining the Treatment of those Diseases.
Rollo, John, -1809.Date: M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]- Books
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A General account of the calamities occasioned by the late tremendous hurricanes and earthquakes in the West-India Islands, foreign as well as domestic: With the petitions to, and resolutions of, the House of Commons, in behalf of the sufferers at Jamaica and Barbados: also a list of the committee appointed to manage the subscriptions of the benevolent public, towards their further relief. Carefully collated from authentic papers, By Mr. Fowler.
Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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Free thoughts communicated to Free-Thinkers: in order to promote thinking on the name and works of God. With a relation of a remarkable Providence, which fell out at Port-Royal in Jamaica; suitable to the Subject. Written at sea. By Thomas Chalkley. With a preface and postscript by another Hand.
Chalkley, Thomas, 1675-1741.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Books
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Acts of Assembly, passed in the Island of Barbadoes, From 1648, to 1718.
Barbados.Date: 1732-39- Books
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Acts of Assembly, passed in the Island of Barbadoes, From 1648, to 1718.
Barbados.Date: MDCCXXI. [1721]- Books
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An Ode pindarick on Barbadoes.
Date: 1710?]- Books
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A treatise on the glandular disease of Barbadoes: proving it to be seated in the lymphatic system / by James Hendy.
Hendy, James.Date: 1784- Books
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The British empire in America, consider'd. In a second letter, from a gentleman of Barbadoes, to his friend in London.
Gentleman of Barbadoes.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]