Bermuda: A Colony, A Fortress, and A Prison; or Eighteen Months in the Somer's Islands
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1857. Hardcover. x, 287pp, 8 plates, folding map; 24pp ads. Contemporary ink name on front free endpaper, foxed throughout with some minor stressing to the hinges, cloth worn with most of the spine lettering perished. Map creased in spots with some minor loss at the edges, else a very good, unsophisticated example.
"Bermuda possesses a three-fold claim to attention of Britons, - as a colony, a fortress, and a prison... as the receptacle of our worst convicts" From the preface.
"Col. Whittingham was stationed in Bermuda in 1856 and wrote this somewhat satirical account of Bermuda and Bermudians as seen by a garrison officer"-Hallett. Very good. Item #72647
Sabin 4907; A.C. Hallett, Bermuda in Print page 78.
Price: $2,500.00