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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Some tanning and wear to spine and covers, otherwise pages clean and binding sound. Book chronicles the visit of Washington to Barbados, the only trip he made outside of the U.S. when he accompanied his brother who had been advised to seek warmer climes to combat tuberculosis. The book also gives the history and economy of Barbados at that time and briefly looks at life in Colonial Virginia also during this period. A reproduction of the 1756 Mayo map is included, attached to the inside back cover.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Light foxing to spine and covers, otherwise pages clean and binding sound. Book chronicles the visit of Washington to Barbados, the only trip he made outside of the U.S. when he accompanied his brother who had been advised to seek warmer climes to combat tuberculosis. The book also gives the history and economy of Barbados at that time and briefly looks at life in Colonial Virginia also during this period. A reproduction of the 1756 Mayo map is included, attached to the inside back cover.…