An Island of the Sea. Descriptive of the Past and Present of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies. With a Few Short Stories about Bluebeard's and Blackbeard's Castles.

Second edition, expanded and revised, a presentation copy inscribed on the first blank "To J. H. Fechtenburg Esquire RD. With kind regards and best wishes from Charles E. Taylor MD. St. Thomas, D[anish] W[est] I[ndies]. Sep 12. 1898". Fechtenburg was a commission merchant specializing in alcohol. His business is featured on the eighth page of advertisements. Charles Taylor was "a highly talented and adventurous Englishman, a scholarly and widely read physician, who lived in the Virgin Islands (then owned by Denmark) in the latter half of the nineteenth century. A humanitarian and something of an iconoclast, he has a reputation in the islands for ignoring class and racial divisions in his practice of medicine" (Green, p. 57). He also participated in island government, which was perhaps how he came into regular contact with traders such as Fechtenburg. This volume recounts the history of St Thomas from the Danish settlement in 1672 to the time of publication. This second edition includes a new section on the island of St. Croix. James W. Green, "Review of Leaflets from the Danish West Indies", The Journal of African American History, vol. 57, no. 1, 1972. Octavo. Half-tone photographic frontispiece and 20 plates. With 16 pp. of advertisements to rear. Original blue cloth over bevelled boards, spine and front board lettered and decorated in gilt, coated endpapers, edges gilt. Spine cocked, rear board soiled at head, tips a little bumped, some toning internally, remains of old adhesive to head of advertising leaves: a very good copy.…