Six Tourist Guides to Jamaica, ca. 1900-1915

Item Details

Collection of six early twentieth century tourist guides and booklets, all illustrated, four with folding maps. Includes:

Jamaica. The Land of Streams and Woods. Fully Illustrated, with Map of Jamaica. Kingston: Jamaica Tourist Association, 1912. 7.25" x 4.75", extensively illustrated, with large folding "Map of the Island of Jamaica" dated 1895. Minor cover wear; near fine. 

Bradford, Mary F. Side Trips in Jamaica, Illustrated. Boston: Sherwood Publishing, 1900.  First edition. 48 pp, with folding "Tourist Map of the Island of Jamaica, B.W.I" at rear, which includes a profile of the Jamaica Railway main line from Kingston to Montego Bay.  in green illustrated wrappers. Text block loosening from covers, otherwise sound and clean; very good. 

Jamaica. Passenger Traffic Department, United Fruit Company. Undated (but appears ca. 1910-15), 8" x 5", 15 pp., with folding road map of the island at rear. Very good, with some rubbing to the wraps. Includes several itineraries for suggested auto tours.

Jamaica. London: Elders & Fyffes Limited. Undated, appears ca. 1900-1910. 7" x 4.5", 15 pp, with illustrations and double-page map of Elders & Fyffes Line routes at center. Near fine. 

Jamaica via the Great White Fleet. United Fruit Company Steamship Service to Jamaica, Panama Canal, Central and South America. 6" x 8", oblong, 47 pp, with many illustrations and decorative borders, in embossed printed wrappers.  Near fine. 

A Happy Month in Jamaica. Printed by for the United Fruit Company's Steamship Lines by the Frank Presbrey Company, New York. 8.25" x 6.75". Unpaginated, ca. 40 pp, with the same map included in the Mary Bradford book listed above. Extensively illustrated. Undated, but with a penciled inscription dated 1907.  Good, with moderate cover wear, wraps slightly loose from staples.