UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS - TAYLOR, Charles Edwin. 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. Published by the author at Taylor's Bookstore, St. Thomas, 1895.
8vo. Original illutrated cloth with bevelled edges; pp. 120, [6, local advertisements], plates after photographs; text a little toned, repaired marginal tear to rear fly-leaf, a very good copy.
First edition, privately printed. Charles Edwin Taylor was a physician and member of the Colonial Council of St. Thomas and St. John and wrote a number of books on the Danish West Indies, which were bought by the United States during the First World War.
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