KIRKE (H).: Twenty-Five Years in British Guiana. NEAR FINE COPY , Sampson Low Marston & Co., 1898

8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 19 plates on 15 and a large folding coloured map (one neat repair); original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, uncut, upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, fresh copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and small blind stamp on title.Kirke served as magistrate in the colony and records a period of rapid change with obvious sensitivity: 'the quaint old manners and habits have disappeared; the old legends are vanishing; people dress and talk as others; the electric light illuminates their houses; the tramcar patrols their streets; the silk chimney-pot of civilization is constantly inn evidence; and they are as other men'. ONE OF RELATIVELY FEW BOOKS ON THE REGION FROM THIS PERIOD. Very scarce, especially in this condition. (Book ref. 19812)  £210.00

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