Cuba. SlaveryABAA
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18772027Havana 1877. Very good. 1p. on a bifolium. Removed from a a bound volume with unobtrusive stabholes at gutter margin. Light wear at edges; light dust soiling and damp staining. Remarkable bidsheet submitted by a Cuban business in response to a newspaper advertisement for an auction of slaves for hire held in Havana during November 1877. The firm Jado Sarasúa y Compañia writes that "Enterada del anuncio publicado en la Gaceta fecha 9 del corriente para el arrendamineto en publica subasta de los esclavos existentes en el Asilo de San Jose pertenecientesa Bienes Embargados y sujentadose en un todo al pliego de Condiciones inserto en la misma Gaceta hace la siguente proposicion." Below is a list of fourteen slaves mostly women and the prices that the company is willing to offer for the slaves being rented ranging from ten to seventeen pesos per month. Signed and dated at the bottom "Habana Noviembre 14 de 1877. unknown books
18842025Matanzas 1884. Still very good. 3 leaves plus 4pp. pamphlet in original plain wrappers string tied. Light wear at edges. A few very small worm holes. Contemporary ink stamps. Light tanning and foxing. The Spanish Cortes approved a gradual manumission law in 1880 for slaves in Cuba that provided for an eight-year period of patronato tutelage for all slaves liberated according to the law which essentially amounted to indentured servitude. The transition to the patronato system was overseen by a provincial network of government agencies called Juntas de Patronato. Most of the workings of the slave system were preserved but patrocinados as former slaves came to be known received a minimal set of legal rights and were to be paid a token wage. <br/><br/>This fascinating set of Cuban manumission documents from the Junta de Patronato of Matanzas records this process and contains a rare cedula de patrocinado an identification booklet stating a slave is now a freedman with a supporting sponsor. The cedula completed in manuscript states that "Moreno Luis Morejon Natural de Africa.Vecino del Potrero Miraflores.Patrocinado de Da Josefa Morejon de Rodriguez" is "Gratis Sin Enmienda" as of September 15 1881. The second leaf of the pamphlet prints the rights of the freedman and the responsibilities of the sponsor such as the provision of food clothing and nominal salary. <br/><br/>The second document present here is a contemporaneous manuscript letter from Josefa Morejon de Rodriguez confirming that she will act as sponsor for the freedman and the final document dated January 28 1884 and signed by Rodriguez and the relevant local magistrates states that the sponsorship has been completed and is now legally concluded. With the ink stamp of the Matanzas Junta Provincial on first page and the contemporary stamps of several other relevant authorities. An outstanding record of the process of gradual manumission in Cuba during the last years of legal slavery on the island with a rare surviving freedman's identification book. unknown books
18562026Remedios 1856. About very good. 4pp. on a large bifolium. Printed form completed in manuscript. Separated at fold repaired with tissue. Light wear at edges. Light tanning and foxing. Rare Cuban population census form listing the number of residents in and around the town of Remedios located on the northern central coast of Cuba in 1856. The present document completed in manuscript lists the population according to various categories such as ethnicity and race age range occupations marital status location of residence and several others. The census includes slaves of African origin newly arrived Chinese indentured servants "colonos Asiaticos" immigrant laborers from Yucatan freedmen and free white residents "Blancos". In all there are just over 2000 people living in and around Remedios at this time comprising just over 1300 free whites over 300 free people of color 460 slaves and 19 Chinese laborers. One of the most interesting sections records the population by place of residence which shows that the great majority people in the area lived on estancias with a good part of the remaining population living on livestock farms and sugar plantations. On the final page are two additional sections which enumerate the types of property farms and other enterprises in the regions and provide statistics on agricultural and industrial production and land usage along with some manuscript notes with the signatures of the census takers or local magistrates. An interesting document of slavery agriculture and population in rural Cuba during the mid-19th century. unknown books
1898535Springfield Oh: Mast Crowell & Kirkpatrick 1898. Good. 121pp. Folio. Original orange printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling spine chipped with some glue repair. Ink ownership inscription at top of front cover. Minor internal soiling several leaves with tape repairs at edges. Extensively illustrated souvenir publication of the Spanish-American War. Images include local street scenes and landmarks photos of the native populations and the American military occupation. "Depicting the natives their costumes habitations and occupations; prominent buildings street scenes mountain and river scenery etc. Also life in the American Army and Navy with portraits of the chief actors in the Spanish-American War. Over three hundred illustrations. Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick unknown books
19301471Havana 1930. Very good. 271pp. Printed self wrappers stapled. Light toning and dust soiling. Attractive and detailed promotional for tours of Havana and day trips through Cuba led by ABC Tours from the Hotel Astor. Programs include a tour of Tropical brewery and gardens and an evening experience of the "Slums Chinatown and Grand Casino." With numerous ads for Havana businesses and entertainments and much "useful information" such as telegraph rates and customs regulations on cigars. unknown books
19281489Havana 1928. Very good. 60pp. Oblong 12mo. Original printed pictorial wrappers stapled and tied with ribbon. Minor wear and soiling contemporary ink stamp on rear cover. Internally clean. A handsome promotional booklet for the island of Cuba provided by the Cuban Tours and Transportation Company and extensively illustrated. After the opening leaf of text each page features a full-page photographic half-tone illustration with caption highlighting tourism spots and attractions on the island. These include an aerial view of the capitol which includes a biplane flying at camera-level; the Malecon driveway; a view of Paseo de Marti; San Francisco Machina and the Santa Clara wharves; countryside scenes depicting sugar production and agriculture; a view of the jockey club and grand stands at Oriental Park; street scenes and more. Leading hotels in Havana are shown on the last few leaves. A wonderful illustrated souvenir guide. No copies located in OCLC. unknown books
1935848Key West 1935. Very good. Broadside 18 x 8 inches. Printed on pink paper slightly faded. Old folds minor wear. Broadside advertising a steamship cruise offered by Price Tours from Key West to Havana during Carnival with additional sightseeing itineraries available once on the island. The cruise is a five-day all expenses included trip for the reasonable price of $38.50 with four nights in Havana and the option to add a driving tour across the island seeing Cuba from coast to coast. Other potential tours include a cigar factory a rum distillery Morro Castle a shopping tour and more. No copies recorded in OCLC. unknown books
1878WRCAM38237Cuba 1878. Broadside 12 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches. Chip at upper left corner not affecting text. Small tears in all edges several repaired by tape on verso. Good. A rare and fascinating Cuban political broadside calling for an end to armed struggle but a beginning to a "struggle for ideas" at the conclusion of Cuba's "Ten Years' War" the battle for independence from Spain in 1868 to 1878. The broadside is addressed to the residents of the region around the north-central coast of Cuba some 150 miles east of Havana. The text of the broadside is signed in print by Gabriel Aguilera y Zayas Secretary of the Partido Union Constitucional PUC one of the two main political parties that developed out of the Ten Years' War. The PUC which was a conservative pro-Spanish party led by prominent Creoles sought a measure of local political autonomy while favoring continued Spanish control over Cuba. The text exhorts Cubans to partake in the ideological struggle that would succeed the armed rebellion and urges them not to fall into lethargy but to continue the battle of ideas against radicals seeking independence from Spanish colonial rule. <br> <br> Due to their ephemeral nature as well as the climate of the Caribbean any such Cuban broadsides are scarce. No copies of this broadside are located in OCLC. Important evidence of the political factionalism and the strength of pro-Spanish sentiment in Cuba in the late 19th century. Rare and possibly unique. unknown books
1815WRCAM49642Havana: Esteban José de Boloña 1815. 19pp. Gathered signatures stitched. Stitching mostly perished. Light fold lines minimal foxing ink marginal notations contemporary ink inscription after the text. Very good. An early Cuban imprint printed by Esteban José de Boloña the first printer in Cuba after the 1776 ban on printing. Juan de Arrondo y Santilices was an official in Spanish Florida the Auditor of War of East Florida during the early 19th century. This is a work detailing the deeds of Arrondo y Santilices likely an attempt to secure a pension. Rare with one copy located by OCLC at the John Carter Brown Library. Esteban José de Boloña unknown books
1856WRCAM53452New York: Nathaniel Currier 1856. Broadside 10 x 13 inches. Foxed bottom right corner chipped. Lower margin trimmed costing the title. Good only. Framed under glass. A scarce political cartoon regarding the controversial Ostend Manifesto the initially- secret attempt by the United States to purchase Spanish-controlled Cuba. Earlier President Franklin Pierce had instructed Pierre Soulé upon his appointment as minister to Spain in April 1853 to negotiate to buy Cuba. Three American foreign ministers serving in Europe - James Buchanan John Y. Mason and Soulé - met secretly at Ostend Belgium in late 1854 to draft a plan to either buy Cuba from Spain or force Spain to give up Cuba by inciting a Cuban revolution. The plan met with overwhelming opposition once it was made public in America. <br> <br> In the present political cartoon Buchanan is attacked for his role in the Ostend controversy. He is surrounded by four armed ruffians seeking to rob him of his coat hat watch and money a particularly sharp turn- about on the American minister to Great Britain. The muggers' demands include quotations from the manifesto which is pasted to the fence at right. Buchanan calls out: "Why! Why! This is rank robbery! Help! Help! All honest men!" <br> <br> The fallout from the Ostend controversy was widespread. President Pierce's Democratic Party split asunder after he refused to continue any discussions of the plan or any other expansionist ideas; Soulé understandably resigned; and the international community saw it as a threat to Spanish sovereignty in the region. Oddly enough James Buchanan was not too hurt by the controversy; he was easily elected president in 1856 and still harbored hope for Cuban annexation. He was smart enough however to table the Cuba question for the foreseeable future after meeting with both popular opposition and increasingly bitter sectional conflict the latter only spurred on by incidents such as the Ostend controversy. CURRIER & IVES: CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ 5021. NEVINS & WEITENKAMPF p.72-73. Nathaniel Currier unknown books
1854WRCAM46994Havana 1854. Broadside 12 1/2 x 8 inches. Printed on green paper. Old fold lines. Light wear and soiling minor separation at some folds. A few contemporary notations. Very good. Cuban broadside advertising a bullfight featuring matador Don Manuel Rodriguez Lanza and the "8 toros de muerte." The top of the sheet features a woodcut of a matador holding his cape out to a bull. The first swordsman for the fight is Manuel Diaz Lavi with two alternates listed. The names of the Banderilleros and Picadores for the fight are also noted. Bullfighting was a popular entertainment in Cuba during the Spanish colonial period though it was done away with after Cuban independence at the beginning of the 20th century. unknown books
1869WRCAM56566Camagüey Cuba 1869. Pictorial letterpress broadside 18 1/2 x 13 inches. Numbered "54" in manuscript bearing the embossed red seal of the Republica Cubana and signed in ink by Salvador Cisneros y Betancourt Eduardo Agramonte Ignacio Agramonte Loyn áz Francisco Sánchez y Betancourt and Antonio Zambrana. Old horizontal folds minor creasing handful of small edge chips. Small hole in bottom margin just touching one ink signature. Very good condition. A rare and significant pictorial Cuban decree from the provisional rebel government abolishing slavery on the part of the island they controlled issued by the radical faction of the Cuban nationalists fighting against Spanish rule in the first months of the Ten Years' War. <br> <br> This proclamation is illustrated with a dramatic woodcut signed "LFR" depicting an ill-clad but exultant freed slave and a rebel celebrating in front of the Cuban flag. This decree stipulated freedom for all the enslaved people of Cuba in hopes that they would join the revolutionary struggle. The decree also provided for eventual compensation to slaveholders and ordered that freed individuals must serve the revolution either through military service or by continuing with their previous work. Among the important leaders who signed the present document were Salvador Cisneros y Betancourt as president just below the printed text and Ignacio Agramonte y Loynáz as secretary to the left of the engraving. <br> <br> The practical effect of this decree was modest as the rebels only controlled limited territory before their ultimate defeat and their territory was generally under the control of more conservative military commanders but such a proclamation joined a growing chorus of abolitionist sentiment in Cuba which finally realized the end of slavery in 1886. A powerful statement of anti-slavery policy in mid-19th century Cuba with a striking illustration of a jubilant slave celebrating his short-lived freedom. Rare with no copies recorded in OCLC. unknown books
1900WRCAM51843Havana 1900. Approximately 520; 600pp. including several folding charts. Over 200 separate imprints. Original half leather and brown cloth boards spine gilt. Corners and edges worn spine rubbed boards scuffed. Initial leaves of first volume torn away but present. Several other leaves chipped and torn throughout. With many official signatures and docketing stamps. Good. Two volumes of orders promulgated in 1889 and 1900 by the American military government of Cuba after the cessation of hostilities in the Spanish-American War. Under the terms of the Teller Amendment to the Congressional Joint Resolution for war with Spain in 1898 the United States denied the intention of using the conflict as a pretext for the annexation of Cuba and promised to leave the island following the termination of the war. The American military therefore oversaw the creation of the new independent Cuban government before departing in 1902. The documents contained in this collection consist of over two hundred orders in both English and Spanish from the Headquarters Division of Cuba that helped to shape the emerging civilian government. They include instructions for the running of elections the organization of the courts and school system the appointments for various government offices provisions for tax regulations and many other critical issues facing Cuba at its independence. The directives cover two periods from January to July in 1899 and from July to September in 1901. Many of the orders are signed in manuscript by the assistants to the military governor for the island Gen. Leonard Wood including assistant adjutant generals J.B. Hickey and L.W.V. Kennon and Brig. Gen. Chief of Staff Adna R. Chaffee. An interesting documentation of the first American occupation of Cuba. hardcover books
1993RDINART00RJBFulcrum Publishing 1993. Fine. Dines Dorothy. The Art of Charles Partridge Adams. Leonard Stephen J.; Cuba Stanley L. Golden Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing 1993. 146pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. Oblong 4to. Signed by author. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gently rubbed and bumped edges and faint scuffs. Signed by the author Dines on dedication page. Fulcrum Publishing unknown books
90478hardcover. 211pp. 12mo modern 3/4 cloth. Montevideo: La Espana 1896. First Edition. Palau 82136.<br/><br/> unknown books
214582San Francisco: the Committee 196_. two 8.5x11 inch sheets one is blank stationery for the Bay Area chapter of the FPFC Committee while the other is a type-set form letter for thanking contributors and summarizing the purpose of the FPFC Committee. Very good condition. Staff names on both sheets are Alexander Saxton Bay Area Chairman Asher Harer Bay Area Executive Secretary and Robert Taber National Executive Secretary. Saxton was a noted historian and proletarian novelist. the Committee unknown books
1961131306San Francisco CA: Fair Play for Cuba Committee 1961. 8.5x11 inches dense text printed on one side of single sheet very good condition "Why is the CIA hell-bent upon drowning in its own blood a people who are carrying through a revolution like our own 1776 Fair Play for Cuba Committee unknown books
198560167Havana: Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba 1985. Paperback. Very Good. 2 separate volumes. 206 186p. Wrappers. 21cm. Author's name and title inked on each backstrip. Spanish text. <br/><br/> Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba paperback books
189587496Havana: Castro Fernandez 1895. First. hardcover. near fine. Folding table. 414pp. 1/2 modern lavender buckram marbled boards original wrappers bound in. Habana: Castro Fernandez 1895. First Edition. Near Fine.<br/><br/> Laws regulating the telephone and telegraph industries.<br/><br/> Castro, Fernandez unknown books
195535421La Habana: El Instituto 1955. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy wrappers rubbed and soiled. 95 pp. Sm. 8vo. El Instituto unknown books
199248472New York: International Peace for Cuba Appeal 1992. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound card wrappers; 48pp. Fine. Program for the Appeal's 1992 rallies at the Javits Center New York and Mission High School San Francisco. International Peace for Cuba Appeal unknown books
1996148583Culver City CA: TriStar 1996. Shooting Script for the 1997 film. SIGNED on the title page by director-screenwriter James L. Brooks.<br/><br/>A misanthropic novelist uses sarcasm and animosity to mask his extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder but finds his highly regimented world begins to unravel when he is forced to dog-sit for his neighbor following a violent robbery. Nominated for seven Academy Awards and winning two for Best Actor and Best Actress for Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt respectively.<br/><br/>Set in New York City and Baltimore shot on location in New York New Jersey and California.<br/><br/>Navy generic Tri-Star Pictures wrappers. Title page present dated 7/29/96 noted as Shooting Script with credits for screenwriters James L. Brooks and Mark Andrus. 164 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Xerographic duplication with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 9-24-96 and 6-12-97. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. TriStar unknown books
20139027858Havana: National Museum of Fine Arts 2013. 1st . Hardcover. Fine. Text in English. Beautifully illustrated in color <br/><br/> National Museum of Fine Arts hardcover books
186042951Santiago de Cuba 1860. A very good copy with small tape repair on verso at fold. 2 pp. 1 sheet. 7 3/4" x 11 3/4" A license to hear confessions issued by Emmanuel Maria Negueruela et Mendi 1811-1861 Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba exactly one month after he arrived in Santiago de Cuba. A partially printed document completed in manuscript and signed 8th April 1860 and recorded. On the verso is a list of cases that are to be reserved for the Archbishop. Published one month before his first and only recorded work his first pastoral letter Carta pastoral que el Excmo. e Ilmo. Señor D. D. Manuel Ma Negueruela y Mendi. OCLC locates only copies of this letter and we could locate no other items by him. unknown books
1799WRCAM51487Havana: Imprenta de la CapitanÃÂa 1799. 212pp. Dbd. Loose sheets. Heavily tanned outer leaves slightly chipped. Good. A short tract on equine husbandry with its own titlepage but published as a part of a royal decree entitled "Gracia concedida por S.M. àlos habitantes de esta isla para la introduccion de caballos frisones de ambos sexôs desde las provincias del Norte de América" which approved the importation of horses to Cuba. Initially presented to government officials in 1797 the report by Joseph Ricardo O'Farril and Juan Bautista Lanz laments poor breeding practices in Cuba that have led to weaknesses in the horse stock and recommends the introduction of North American horses and different breeding methods. Until the suggestions of this work were implemented by the decree in 1798 horses were not allowed to be imported from other sources in greater numbers than they were from Spain. According to Trelles this is the first Cuban imprint to address issues related to livestock and animal husbandry. Very rare with OCLC recording only five copies. SABIN 56747. MEDINA HABANA 162. TRELLES pp.177-78. OCLC 19860506. Imprenta de la CapitanÃÂa unknown books
