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• Great Britain -- Colonies -- West Indies -- Early works to 1800
• Inquisition -- West Indies -- Early works to 1800
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• Naval battles -- West Indies -- Early works to 1800
• Navigation -- West Indies -- Early works to 1800
• Slave trade -- West Indies -- Early works to 1800
• Slavery -- West Indies -- Early works to 1800
• West Indies -- Commerce -- Denmark -- Early works to 1800
• West Indies -- Commerce -- Netherlands -- Early works to 1800
• West Indies -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
• West Indies -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800
• West Indies -- History -- Early works to 1800
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• West Indies -- Politics and government -- Early works to 1800
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• Histoire philosophique et politique : des établissmens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes (Chez Berry, 1794), by abbé Raynal (page images at HathiTrust)

• Histoire de la paix entre les roys de France & d'Espagne (A Paris : Par Iean Richer, MDCVI [1606], 1606), by Pierre-Victor Palma-Cayet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique : contenant l'histoire naturelle de ces pays, l'origine, les mœurs, la religion & le gouvernement des habitans anciens & modernes : les guerres & les evenemens singuliers qui y sont arrivez pendant le long sejour que l'auteur y a fait : le commerce & les manufactures qui y sont établies, & les moyens de les augmenter : avec une description exacte & curieuse de toutes ces isles : ouvrage enrichi de plus de cent cartes, plans, & figures en tailles-douces. (Chez Theodore Le Gras ..., 1722), by Jean Baptiste Labat (page images at HathiTrust)

• True account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West-Indies, by bucaniers of Jamica and Tortuga, both English and French (Printed for William Crooke, at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar, 1684), by A. O. Exquemelin, William Crooke, Alonso de Bonne-Maison, and Basil Ringrose (page images at HathiTrust)
• True account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West-Indies, by bucaniers of Jamica and Tortuga, both English and French (Printed for William Crooke, at the Green Dragon without Temple-bar, 1684), by A. O. Exquemelin, William L. Clements, William Crooke, Alonso de Bonne-Maison, and Basil Ringrose (page images at HathiTrust)

• Flora Indiae Occidentalis aucta atque illustrata sive Descriptiones plantarum in prodromo recensitarum (sumtu Joh. Jacobi Palmii ;, 1797), by Olof Swartz, Johann Jakob Palm, and B. and J. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American physitian, or, A treatise of the roots, plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, herbs, &c. growing in the English plantations in America describing the place, time, names, kindes, temperature, vertues and uses of them, either for diet, physick, &c. : whereunto is added a discourse of the cacao-nut-tree and the use of its fruit, with all the ways of making of chocolate ... / by W. Hughes. (London : Printed by J.C. for William Crook ..., 1672), by William Hughes (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Interims Placat Betreffend den Handel nach den Dänischen Colonien in America und auf der Küte von Guinea (in German; 1754)

• Proposals of the undertakers for setling a free port in West-India. ([London : s.n., 1687]), by European Company for West-India (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Caribbeana : containing letters and dissertations, together with poetical essays, on various subjects and occasions; chiefly wrote by several hands in the West-Indies, and some of them to gentlemen residing there; 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: as likewise the characters of the most eminent men that have died, of late years, in that island; to which are added in an appendix, some pieces never before published. Vol. I [-II] (Printed for T. Osborne and W. Smith, in Gray's-Inn; J. Clarke, at the Royal Exchange; S. Austin, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; G. Hawkins, at Temple-Bar; R. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, and W. Lewis, in Covent Garden, 1741), by William Lewis, Robert Dodsley, George Hawkins, Stephen Austen, John Clarke, William Smith, Thomas Osborne, Samuel Keimer, and Sangorski & Sutcliffe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Caribbeana : containing letters and dissertations, together with poetical essays, on various subjects and occasions; chiefly wrote by several hands in the West-Indies, and some of them to gentlemen residing there; 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: as likewise the characters of the most eminent men that have died, of late years, in that island; to which are added in an appendix, some pieces never before published. Vol. I [-II] (Printed for T. Osborne and W. Smith, in Gray's-Inn; J. Clarke, at the Royal Exchange; S. Austin, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; G. Hawkins, at Temple-Bar; R. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, and W. Lewis, in Covent Garden, 1741), by William Lewis, Robert Dodsley, George Hawkins, Stephen Austen, John Clarke, William Smith, Thomas Osborne, Samuel Keimer, and Sangorski & Sutcliffe (page images at HathiTrust)

• A review of the bloody tribunal : or the horrid cruelties of the inquisition, as practiced in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and the East and West Indies, on all those whom the Church of Rome brands with the name of hereticks (printed and sold by G. Johnston ..., 1770), by John Marchant and G. Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of the Caribby-Islands (London: Printed by J. M. for T. Dring and J. Starkey, 1666), by Charles de Rochefort, trans. by John Davies, contrib. by Raymond Breton
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• Relation of two famous sea-fights. (London : Printed [by Bernard Alsop and Thomas Fawcet] for Nath: Butter and Nic: Bourne, with priviledge, 1639) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• L'architecture navale : contenant la maniere de construire les navires, galeres & chaloupes, & la definition de plusieurs autres especes de vaisseaux ... (Chez Jean de La Caille ..., 1677), by F. Dassié (page images at HathiTrust)

• Interims Placat Betreffend den Handel nach den Dänischen Colonien in America und auf der Küte von Guinea (in German; 1754)

• An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa, by Alexander Falconbridge (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1784), by Anthony Benezet (Gutenberg text)
• A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1785), by Anthony Benezet
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• The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies (Printed for John Stockdale, 1801), by Bryan Edwards and William Young (page images at HathiTrust)

• An essay on the treatment and conversion of African slaves in the British sugar colonies (London : Printed and sold by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street, M.DCC.LXXXIV [1784], 1784), by James Ramsay, James Phillips, and Joseph McDonough Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Interims Placat Betreffend den Handel nach den Dänischen Colonien in America und auf der Küte von Guinea (in German; 1754)

• Casos notables, sucedidos en las costas de la ciudad de Lima. English. Selections (London : Printed for Mercurius Britannicus, 1625), by Well-willer of the Common-wealth, Marten Iansz Brandt, Willem Usselincx, and Jacques l' Hermite (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Rare Trauailes of Iob Hortop, an Englishman, Who Was Not Heard of in Three and Twentie Yeeres Space (1925 photostat reprint; originally published London: Printed for W. Wright, 1591), by Job Hortop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico in the Years 1599-1602 (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1859), by Samuel de Champlain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Journal of a Lady of Quality: Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776 (New Haven: Yale University Press, c1921), by Janet Schaw, ed. by Evangeline Walker Andrews and Charles McLean Andrews
  • 1921 printing; illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • 1923 printing; multiple formats at archive.org
• Curiositez de la nature et de l'art : aportées dans deux voyages des Indes : l'un aux Indes d'Occident en 1698. & 1699. & l'autre aux Indes d'Orient en 1701. & 1702. : avec une relation abregée de ces deux voyages. (Chez Jean Moreau ..., 1703), by Claude Biron and abbé de Vallemont (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of trauayle in the West and East Indies (By Richarde Iugge., 1577), by Pietro Martire d' Anghiera, Richard Jugge, Giacomo Gastaldi, Sebastian Münster, Antonio Pigafetta, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Richard Willes, and Richard Eden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico (Elibron Classics, 2001), by Samuel de Champlain and Alice Wilmere (page images at HathiTrust)
• A description of the island of Jamaica : with the other isles and territories in America, to which the English are related, viz., Barbadoes, St. Christophers, Nievis or Mevis, Antego, St. Vincent, Dominica, Montserrat, Anguilla, Barbada, Bermudes, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New-York, New-England, New-Found-Land (London : Printed by J.B. for Dorman Newman, at the Kings-Arms in the Poultrey, 1678., 1678), by Richard Blome, Robert Vaughan, Dorman Newman, and Joseph Bennet (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies : in His Majesty's ships, the Swallow and Weymouth, by John Atkins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Narrative of a Voyage to the West Indies and Mexico in the Years 1599-1602, by Samuel de Champlain, ed. by Norton Shaw, trans. by Alice Wilmere (Gutenberg ebook)
• A true declaration of the troublesome voyadge of M. Iohn Haukins to the parties of Guynea and the west Indies, in the yeares of our Lord 1567. and 1568 (Imprinted at Londo[n] : In Poules Churchyarde, by Thomas Purfoote for Lucas Harrison, dwelling at the signe of the Crane, Anno. 1569), by John Hawkins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• America: or An exact description of the West-Indies: more especially of those provinces which are under the dominion of the King of Spain. / Faithfully represented by N.N. gent. (London, : printed by Ric. Hodgkinsonne for Edw. Dod, and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivy-lane., 1655), by N. N. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Voyages & travels of that renowned captain, Sir Francis Drake, into the West-Indies, and round the world giving a perfect relation of his strange adventures, and many wonderful discoveries, his fight with the Spaniard, and many barbarous nations : his taking St. Jago, St. Domingo, Carthagena, St. Augusta and many other places in the golden country of America, and other parts of the world : his description of monsters and monstrous people : with other other remarkable passages not before extant : containted in the history of his life and death, both pleasant and profitable to the reader. ([London] : Printed by C.B. for J.F., and sold by E. Tracy ..., [1652]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Voyages and travels of that renowned captain, Sir Francis Drake, into the West-Indies, and round about the world. Giving a perfect relation of his strange adventures, and many wonderful discoveries; his fights with the Spaniard, and many barbarous nations; his taking S. Jago, S. Domingo, Carlagena, S. Augusta, and many other places in the golden country of America, and other parts of the world: his description of monsters and monstrous peopl. With many other other remarkable passages not before extant; containted in the history of life and death, both pleasant and profitable to the reader. (London, : Printed by M.H. and I.M. for P. Brooksby ..., 1683) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The History of the Caribby-Islands (London: Printed by J. M. for T. Dring and J. Starkey, 1666), by Charles de Rochefort, trans. by John Davies, contrib. by Raymond Breton
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• Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique : enrichie de plusieurs belles figures des raretez les plus considerables qui y sont d'écrites : avec un vocabulaire caraibe. (Chez Arnould Leers, 1658), by Louis de Poincy, Arnout Leers, César de Rochefort, and Raymond Breton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trve & exact history of the island of Barbados (Printed for Humphrey Moseley ..., 1657), by Richard Ligon, Humphrey Moseley, and John Ogilby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies In three parts. I. A brief treatise of the most principal fruits and herbs that grow in the East & West Indies; giving an account of their respective vertues both for food and physick, and what planet and sign they are under. Together with some directions for the preservation of health and life in those hot climates. II. The complaints of the negro-slaves against the hard usages and barbarous cruelties inflicted upon them. III. A discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or negro-slave, and a Christian that was his master in America. By Philotheos Physiologus. ([London] : Printed by Andrew Sowle, in the year 1684), by Thomas Tryon (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An houre glasse of Indian newes. Or A true and tragicall discourse, shewing the most lamentable miseries, and distressed calamities indured by 67 Englishmen, which were sent for a supply to the planting in Guiana in the yeare. 1605 VVho not finding the saide place, were for want of victuall, left a shore in Saint Lucia, an island of caniballs, or men-eaters in the West-Indyes, vnder the conduct of Captain Sen-Iohns, of all which said number, onely a 11. are supposed to be still liuing, whereof 4. are lately returnd into England. Written by Iohn Nicholl, one of the aforesaid company. (London : Printed [by Edward Allde] for Nathaniell Butter, and are to bee solde at his shop neere Saint Austens Gate, 1607), by John Nicholl (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Sir Francis Drake Revived, by Philip Nichols (Gutenberg text)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Richard Field, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Roger Ward, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
• Sir Francis Drake revived (Printed by E. for Nicholas Bourne, dwelling at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1626), by Philip Nichols, William L. Clements, Nicholas Bourne, Edward Allde, and Francis Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Francis Drake reuiued calling vpon this dull or effeminate age, to folowe his noble steps for golde & siluer, by this memorable relation, of the rare occurrances (neuer yet declared to the world) in a third voyage, made by him into the West-Indies, in the yeares 72. & 73. when Nombre de Dios was by him and 52. others only in his company, surprised. Faithfully taken out of the reporte of M· Christofer Ceely, Ellis Hixon, and others, who were in the same voyage with him. By Philip Nichols, preacher. Reviewed also by Sr. Francis Drake himselfe before his death, & much holpen and enlarged, by diuers notes, with his owne hand here and there inserted. Set forth by Sr Francis Drake Baronet (his nephew) now liuing. (London : Printed by E[dward] A[llde] for Nicholas Bourne dwelling at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1626), by Philip Nichols and Francis Drake (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. (Printed for T. Cadell ..., 1776), by abbé Raynal and J. O. Justamond (page images at HathiTrust)

• The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies (Printed for John Stockdale, 1801), by Bryan Edwards and William Young (page images at HathiTrust)

• The charter of the Bahama Islands ([London : s.n., 1670?]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Caribbeana : containing letters and dissertations, together with poetical essays, on various subjects and occasions; chiefly wrote by several hands in the West-Indies, and some of them to gentlemen residing there; 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: as likewise the characters of the most eminent men that have died, of late years, in that island; to which are added in an appendix, some pieces never before published. Vol. I [-II] (Printed for T. Osborne and W. Smith, in Gray's-Inn; J. Clarke, at the Royal Exchange; S. Austin, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; G. Hawkins, at Temple-Bar; R. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, and W. Lewis, in Covent Garden, 1741), by William Lewis, Robert Dodsley, George Hawkins, Stephen Austen, John Clarke, William Smith, Thomas Osborne, Samuel Keimer, and Sangorski & Sutcliffe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tentamen medicum inaugurale De febre flava Indiae Occidentalis : quod ... pro gradu doctoratus ... (apud Balfour et Smellie ..., 1778), by Samuel Curtin and Balfour and Smellie (Edimburgo) (page images at HathiTrust)

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