Jamaica merchant (fl. 1672)

Trade notes and general memoranda by a merchant captain trading to Jamaica, written on extra fly-leaves and interleavings of a copy of James Bowker, Kalendarium ... 1672, London, A. Clark, 1672. Jamaica The two earliest dated entries are for 12th March 1671 [O.S.]. The title-page and text of the Almanack are printed in red and black. The printed text includes a crude woodcut 'The Dominion of the Moon in Mans Body'. The MS notes include a list of the crew, notes on the commodities traded, and notes on relations with the Spanish from whom Jamaica had been seized (1655) and over which British sovereignty had been recently established by the Treaty of Madrid (1670).

1672

64 ll. 8vo. 14.5 x 9.5 cm. Original sheep binding with flap and tie.

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Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).