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1485707371485. Mainz Peter Schöffer 28 März 1485 1 einspaltiges original Inkunabelblatt 238 x 171 mm 1 alt color. Holzschnitt. Erstdruck! Cap. 299: Papauer - msagsamen- Papaver somniferum L. var. album DC. Kapitelende. Cap. 300: Polegium - poley; Mentha pulegium L.; Darstellung: schematisiert; Portulaca oleracea L. "Im Gegensatz zu den meisten Kräuterbuch-Inkunabeln lässt sich das Druckdatum des "Gart der Gesundheit genau auf den 28. März 1485 festlegen wie es am Ende des Werks vermerkt ist: "Disser Herbarius ist rzu mentz gedruckt und geendet uff dem XXVIII dage des mertz -Anno-M-CCCC-LXXXV". An gleicher Stelle wird Peter Schöffer als Drucker durch das Fust-Schöffersche Signet bestätigt. Der "Gart der Gesundheit gilt wie Muther 1884: 88: "als wichtigstes naturhistorisches Werk des Mittelalters" und Klebs/Becher 1925: 11: "The most important mediaeval work on natural history with illustrations Choulant the publication of which forms an important landmark in the history of botanical Illustration and marks perhaps the grea-test single Step ever made in that art" meinten als wichtigste bebilderte Arzneipflanzen-Inkunabel. Auch Keil 1982: 604 bestätigte später diese Aussage: "Zweifellos ist der "Gart das wichtigste naturhistorische Werk des Mittelalters". Auf 359 Seiten die in 435 Kapitel gegliedert sind wird der gesamte zur damaligen Zeit bekannte Arzneischatz abgehandelt und mit 382 Holzschnitten illustriert. Die wichtigsten 366 Heilpflanzen zwei Wiederholungen werden jeweils einzeln in den verschiedenen Kapiteln beschrieben und abgebildet. Der Text ist 42zeilig geordnet." B. Baumann & H. Baumann Die Mainzer Kräuterbuch-Inkunabeln 2010 p.111 Johann Wonnecke von Kaub um 1430 in Kaub am Rhein; gestorben 1503/04 in Frankfurt am Main auch Johannfes Dronnecke bzw. Johannes de Cuba er selbst nannte sich "Johan von Cube" war ein deutscher Arzt und Botaniker. Am Mainzer Hof wirkte er als Leibarzt. unknown
1485707451485. Mainz Peter Schöffer 28 März 1485 1 einspaltiges original Inkunabelblatt 239 x 171 mm 1 alt color. Holzschnitt. Erstdruck! Cap. 193: Flores sci johannis - johans blomen; Hypericum spec. / H. troquetrifolia Turra. Darstellung: klar erkennbar; Leucanthemum vulgare s.l. Cap. 194: Fustula pastoris - hyrtenpfiff; Alisma plantago-aquatica L. "Im Gegensatz zu den meisten Kräuterbuch-Inkunabeln lässt sich das Druckdatum des "Gart der Gesundheit genau auf den 28. März 1485 festlegen wie es am Ende des Werks vermerkt ist: "Disser Herbarius ist rzu mentz gedruckt und geendet uff dem XXVIII dage des mertz -Anno-M-CCCC-LXXXV". An gleicher Stelle wird Peter Schöffer als Drucker durch das Fust-Schöffersche Signet bestätigt. Der "Gart der Gesundheit gilt wie Muther 1884: 88: "als wichtigstes naturhistorisches Werk des Mittelalters" und Klebs/Becher 1925: 11: "The most important mediaeval work on natural history with illustrations Choulant the publication of which forms an important landmark in the history of botanical Illustration and marks perhaps the grea-test single Step ever made in that art" meinten als wichtigste bebilderte Arzneipflanzen-Inkunabel. Auch Keil 1982: 604 bestätigte später diese Aussage: "Zweifellos ist der "Gart das wichtigste naturhistorische Werk des Mittelalters". Auf 359 Seiten die in 435 Kapitel gegliedert sind wird der gesamte zur damaligen Zeit bekannte Arzneischatz abgehandelt und mit 382 Holzschnitten illustriert. Die wichtigsten 366 Heilpflanzen zwei Wiederholungen werden jeweils einzeln in den verschiedenen Kapiteln beschrieben und abgebildet. Der Text ist 42zeilig geordnet." B. Baumann & H. Baumann Die Mainzer Kräuterbuch-Inkunabeln 2010 p.111 Johann Wonnecke von Kaub um 1430 in Kaub am Rhein; gestorben 1503/04 in Frankfurt am Main auch Johannfes Dronnecke bzw. Johannes de Cuba er selbst nannte sich "Johan von Cube" war ein deutscher Arzt und Botaniker. Am Mainzer Hof wirkte er als Leibarzt. unknown
1485707321485. Mainz Peter Schöffer 28 März 1485 1 einspaltiges original Inkunabelblatt 238 x 171 mm 1 alt color. Holzschnitt. Erstdruck! Cap. 347: Salvia - heysset selbe. Savia triloba L. Kapitelende. Cap. 348: Serpillum - heysset quendel; Thymus sibthorpii L.; Darstellung: schematisiert. "Im Gegensatz zu den meisten Kräuterbuch-Inkunabeln lässt sich das Druckdatum des "Gart der Gesundheit genau auf den 28. März 1485 festlegen wie es am Ende des Werks vermerkt ist: "Disser Herbarius ist rzu mentz gedruckt und geendet uff dem XXVIII dage des mertz -Anno-M-CCCC-LXXXV". An gleicher Stelle wird Peter Schöffer als Drucker durch das Fust-Schöffersche Signet bestätigt. Der "Gart der Gesundheit gilt wie Muther 1884: 88: "als wichtigstes naturhistorisches Werk des Mittelalters" und Klebs/Becher 1925: 11: "The most important mediaeval work on natural history with illustrations Choulant the publication of which forms an important landmark in the history of botanical Illustration and marks perhaps the grea-test single Step ever made in that art" meinten als wichtigste bebilderte Arzneipflanzen-Inkunabel. Auch Keil 1982: 604 bestätigte später diese Aussage: "Zweifellos ist der "Gart das wichtigste naturhistorische Werk des Mittelalters". Auf 359 Seiten die in 435 Kapitel gegliedert sind wird der gesamte zur damaligen Zeit bekannte Arzneischatz abgehandelt und mit 382 Holzschnitten illustriert. Die wichtigsten 366 Heilpflanzen zwei Wiederholungen werden jeweils einzeln in den verschiedenen Kapiteln beschrieben und abgebildet. Der Text ist 42zeilig geordnet." B. Baumann & H. Baumann Die Mainzer Kräuterbuch-Inkunabeln 2010 p.111 Johann Wonnecke von Kaub um 1430 in Kaub am Rhein; gestorben 1503/04 in Frankfurt am Main auch Johannfes Dronnecke bzw. Johannes de Cuba er selbst nannte sich "Johan von Cube" war ein deutscher Arzt und Botaniker. Am Mainzer Hof wirkte er als Leibarzt. unknown
1485707391485. Mainz Peter Schöffer 28 März 1485 1 einspaltiges original Inkunabelblatt 238 x 171 mm 1 alt color. Holzschnitt. Erstdruck! CAp. 280: Nux avellana - haselnuß. Corylus avellana L. Kapitelende. Cap. 281: Nux Vsualis siue magna - welch nuß; Juglans regia L.; Darstellung: stelisiert. "Im Gegensatz zu den meisten Kräuterbuch-Inkunabeln lässt sich das Druckdatum des "Gart der Gesundheit genau auf den 28. März 1485 festlegen wie es am Ende des Werks vermerkt ist: "Disser Herbarius ist rzu mentz gedruckt und geendet uff dem XXVIII dage des mertz -Anno-M-CCCC-LXXXV". An gleicher Stelle wird Peter Schöffer als Drucker durch das Fust-Schöffersche Signet bestätigt. Der "Gart der Gesundheit gilt wie Muther 1884: 88: "als wichtigstes naturhistorisches Werk des Mittelalters" und Klebs/Becher 1925: 11: "The most important mediaeval work on natural history with illustrations Choulant the publication of which forms an important landmark in the history of botanical Illustration and marks perhaps the grea-test single Step ever made in that art" meinten als wichtigste bebilderte Arzneipflanzen-Inkunabel. Auch Keil 1982: 604 bestätigte später diese Aussage: "Zweifellos ist der "Gart das wichtigste naturhistorische Werk des Mittelalters". Auf 359 Seiten die in 435 Kapitel gegliedert sind wird der gesamte zur damaligen Zeit bekannte Arzneischatz abgehandelt und mit 382 Holzschnitten illustriert. Die wichtigsten 366 Heilpflanzen zwei Wiederholungen werden jeweils einzeln in den verschiedenen Kapiteln beschrieben und abgebildet. Der Text ist 42zeilig geordnet." B. Baumann & H. Baumann Die Mainzer Kräuterbuch-Inkunabeln 2010 p.111 Johann Wonnecke von Kaub um 1430 in Kaub am Rhein; gestorben 1503/04 in Frankfurt am Main auch Johannfes Dronnecke bzw. Johannes de Cuba er selbst nannte sich "Johan von Cube" war ein deutscher Arzt und Botaniker. Am Mainzer Hof wirkte er als Leibarzt. unknown
1485707801485. Mainz Peter Schöffer 28 März 1485 2 einspaltige original Inkunabelblätter 266 x 210 mm 2 alt color. Holzschnitte; etwas fleckig. Erstdruck! Cap. 8: Apium rusticum - buern eppich. Apium graveolens L. Kultursorte. Darstellung: schematisiert. Cap. 9: Apium emorroidarum - fickblatern eppich. Ranunculus ficaria subsp. Ficariiformis F. Schulz Rouy et Fouc. "Im Gegensatz zu den meisten Kräuterbuch-Inkunabeln lässt sich das Druckdatum des "Gart der Gesundheit genau auf den 28. März 1485 festlegen wie es am Ende des Werks vermerkt ist: "Disser Herbarius ist rzu mentz gedruckt und geendet uff dem XXVIII dage des mertz -Anno-M-CCCC-LXXXV". An gleicher Stelle wird Peter Schöffer als Drucker durch das Fust-Schöffersche Signet bestätigt. Der "Gart der Gesundheit gilt wie Muther 1884: 88: "als wichtigstes naturhistorisches Werk des Mittelalters" und Klebs/Becher 1925: 11: "The most important mediaeval work on natural history with illustrations Choulant the publication of which forms an important landmark in the history of botanical Illustration and marks perhaps the grea-test single Step ever made in that art" meinten als wichtigste bebilderte Arzneipflanzen-Inkunabel. Auch Keil 1982: 604 bestätigte später diese Aussage: "Zweifellos ist der "Gart das wichtigste naturhistorische Werk des Mittelalters". Auf 359 Seiten die in 435 Kapitel gegliedert sind wird der gesamte zur damaligen Zeit bekannte Arzneischatz abgehandelt und mit 382 Holzschnitten illustriert. Die wichtigsten 366 Heilpflanzen zwei Wiederholungen werden jeweils einzeln in den verschiedenen Kapiteln beschrieben und abgebildet. Der Text ist 42zeilig geordnet." B. Baumann & H. Baumann Die Mainzer Kräuterbuch-Inkunabeln 2010 p.111 Johann Wonnecke von Kaub um 1430 in Kaub am Rhein; gestorben 1503/04 in Frankfurt am Main auch Johannfes Dronnecke bzw. Johannes de Cuba er selbst nannte sich "Johan von Cube" war ein deutscher Arzt und Botaniker. Am Mainzer Hof wirkte er als Leibarzt. unknown
a58469A wonderful and poignant collection of 8 letters written by a Spanish emigrant in Cuba 1905-06. The letters total 39 sides on 12 sheets of paper all handwritten in ink in Spanish and addressed to Sra. Mercedes Chueca Alonso in Barcelona. All are signed Pepe who also identifies himself as Jose Vila Maria and as Jose Vicente. The letters include a fairly detailed account of his voyage to Cuba via Barcelona Paris Marseille; a comparison of Havana to Barcelona; advice to a prospective emigrant Mercedes's brother; and some account of his attempts to seek his fortune apparently in the miitary. In passing he mentions something of the events of the time - the August 1906 uprising and subsequent American military intervention:.El haberme hecho ciudadano Cubano fue con objecto de ingresor en la academia del cuerpo de artilleria mas me imponian condiciones que no pude aceptar pues tenia que entrar de soldado y firmar un contrato por cuartro anos y el examen para oficial era libre pues aqui el servicio es voluntario mas illegible quiero que aqui solo illegible la influencias y son muchos los libertadores que de la ultima guerra existen resultan que por muy benos examanes que se hagan podran illegible a extranjero a illegible la plaza inguesaron cuando la intervencion americana fueron relevados en sus cargoes. April 1 1906 .Hace unos dia me intregaron dos targeta y una carta tuya; en esta ultima me manifiestas estraneza por no tenor noticia mas.a circumstancias por que ha estado atravesando la Habana; pues en momentos en que ya tenia el nombramiento.a ingresor en el cuerpo del ejercito contro lo que era de esperar intervinieron los americanos por lo que me virprecisado a marcher a Port Tampa Estados Unidos en donde he permanecido hasto unos dias antes de pasar por aqui.los muchos destrozos que en esta capital. November 20 1906 Also included is a letter from Pedro Marden of Barcelona postmarked 1907 informing Sra Chueca of the death of Vicente presumably the Pepe of the other letters in Cuba of unknown causes. Together with 9 stamp-bearing envelopes. . unknown
189262697Chicago IL: Rand McNally & Co. 1892. One pocket map. 12mo. sized 3.75 x 6 in. which folds out into 21.5 x 15 in. colour-lithograph map printed index on verso. Brown embossed publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on front cover slight shelfwear very slight rubbing light toning & edgewear to map still a VG bright copy. First edition thus of this “Business†pocket map of Cuba issued by the Rand McNally Co. the same year that Jose Marti established the Cuban Revolutionary Party to organize independence of Cuba and Puerto Rico from Spain. The printed index on verso references islands lakes mountains provinces rivers and towns in Cuba. Although several different versions of this particular map were produced by Rand McNally along with the San Francisco Chronicle and versions including an inset map of Havana Harbor none located in Worldcat are the same maps as this pocket map. Rand McNally & Co., hardcover
1920224751920. Cuba Havana landmarks and urban development real photo post card archive ca. 1920s-1940s. 11 color and sepia real photo postcards of iconic civic and cultural architecture in Havana Cuba. Each measure 4" x 6". Many with captions identifying the locations in the negative or en verso with some printed in English and others in Spanish signaling their intended audience of both locals and foreign tourists. A compelling photo archive documenting early 20th-century Havana's architectural and political aspirations this collection showcases prominent landmarks that symbolized Cuba's nationalist identity international cosmopolitanism and American-influenced modernization in the decades between independence from Spain and the Cuban Revolution. The archive includes silver gelatin and printed color views of the National Theatre Cuba's Capitol Building Central Railway Station Gran Casino Nacional National University and the grand gateway of Havana's Colón Cemetery. Other views depict Paseo de Martí one of Havana's most iconic boulevards lined with vintage American cars and flanked by ornate colonial facades and new Art Deco-style hotels evidence of the influx of U.S. capital and tourism during the Batista era. Havana in this period was rapidly transforming into a showcase city of the Caribbean its urban core reflecting both Spanish colonial heritage and American urban planning models. The presence of monumental buildings like El Capitolio constructed between 1926 and 1929 and modeled after the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. points to Cuba's alignment with American political aesthetics and aspirations toward modern statehood. Similarly the University and Gran Casino Nacional represent both the intellectual elite and leisure-class investment that typified pre-revolutionary Cuban society. The mixture of European and U.S. architectural influences ranging from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco speaks to the layered colonial legacy and new economic dependency forged during the Platt Amendment era. Some mild edge wear. One card with a small corner crease others clean. Overall very good condition. This archive captures Havana in the midst of dramatic urban renewal and internationalization before the massive ruptures brought on by the 1959 revolution. unknown
193250120Santiago de Cuba 1932. A unique album of 19 leaves of heavy black stock 7 x 5 1/2 inches with 67 mounted b&w silver photographs of varying sizes 1 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches - 3 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches all captioned in white ink. The album is titled and decorated in gilt on the upper cover "PHOTOGRAPHS: SOUVENIR OF SANTIAGO CUBA and tied with a cloth lace. Very good. An earthquake of 6.7 magnitude struck the city of Santiago de Cuba at dawn on 3 February 1932. Over half the buildings were destroyed or damaged and reports of the deaths range to 1500. These photographs show the destruction to the commercial and residential buildings and the Cathedral and the tents set up as temporary shelters. A few of the photographs were made by local commercial photographers just after the quake and the remainder within days. All captions in Spanish. unknown
19459277New York New York and Havana Cuba 1945. <br /> <br /> William John Mantz Jr. worked as an engineer and assistant manager for the West Indies Sugar Corporation for 10 years traveling back and forth frequently between his home in Tarrytown New York and the sugar plantations in Havana Cuba. This archive contains travel materials government documents and other personal artifacts pertaining to his time in Cuba and concerning his status with the draft during World War II. Most correspondence in original postmarked envelope.<br /> <br /> Included:<br /> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- One black and white photograph of Bill and Marjorie Mantz</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Birth certificate copy with raised seal for Bill Mantz dated January 1938 </p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Two personal letters from Marjorie to Bill in 1938 that mention her recent travels to visit him in Cuba</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Cuban drivers license for Bill dated January 1940 with photo attached and stamped by the police department</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Cuban Foreign Identification Card for Marjorie dated June 1940 with receipt and three copies of her photo attached</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Receipt for surrendered passport in Miami Florida December 1940</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Letter from Bill's sister Margie in May 1942 forwarding paperwork from Selective Services</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Two Cuban tax withholding documents from May/July 1942</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Letter from Bill in Spanish requesting the renewal of Marjorie's Foreigner's Identification card in May 1943 and follow up letter to a different recipient in English dated June 1943 regarding missing documents</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Three permits from Selective Services for to depart from the United States 1943-1945 plus one duplicate</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Four pieces of correspondence from the American Consulate in Cuba dated December 1944 - April 1945 regarding passports medical exams and registering the Mantz’s infant daughter</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Sixteen letters and other correspondence between Bill his boss Arthur Kirstein and Selective Services mostly regarding Bill’s draft status but also some sugar industry business such as frequent air travel to Havana trains and fuel options and US politics after Truman assumed the presidency.</p> <br /> . unknown
1994170268Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1994. Revised Draft script for the 1995 film. Bound in at the rear of the script are nine pages relating to revisions to the script. <br /> <br /> US Army doctors race to find the cure to a deadly virus quickly spreading from Africa to North America by way of a smuggled capuchin monkey. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in California and Hawaii. <br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated May 13 1994 noted as REVISION POLISH with credits for screenwriters Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool and revision credits for uncredited screenwriter Ted Tally. 174 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between August 7 and 17 1994. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
18308598<p>Two volumes in one with continuous pagination. No further volumes were published. Spanish text. Full mottled calf with red morroco label to spine and gilt particulars. Marbled endpapers. Loss to foot of spine see image and to corners. No previous owners' names or other defacements. Very scarce.</p><p>6 x 8.25 in</p> Imprenta de las Viudas de Arazoza y Soler hardcover
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
19615832Guanabara 1961. About very good. 111pp. Small folio. Original pictorial self-wrappers stapled. Contemporary and slightly later ink stamps to front wrap. Light edge wear. Some tanning and dust soiling. First issue of this evidently unrecorded periodical published by the "Comissão Brasileira de Solidariedade ao Pavo Cubano" in May 1961. The publication contains numerous positive stories on the progress of the Cuban Revolution and support of the cause from the Brazilian people. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings including the beginning of a serial comic on the history of the revolution at the rear. The front wrap depicts Fidel Castro with his foot on the chest of a supine eagle and a rifle raised triumphantly over his head. Interesting support for the Communist cause in Cuba from South America. Not in OCLC. unknown
19595470Habana: June 3 1959. Good plus. 11pp. Small folio. Previously folded; stapled along gutter margin. Some edge and corner wear; closed tear to initial leaf from fore-edge along old fold. Toned cheap newsprint. A special edition of the Gaceta Oficial of Communist Cuba devoted to the printing of the First Agrarian Reform Law passed and signed on May 17 1959. The law effected the first major land redistribution under Fidel Castro and the Communist Party. Under its authority all properties were over 420 hectares were confiscated and redistributed to the people and native businesses. Prior to the law over 80% of Cuban land was owned by foreign mostly American companies. The preamble and sixty-seven articles lay out the motivations for the law the parameters for confiscation by the Department of Agriculture the mechanisms for seizure and redistribution and the creation of a new government organization to facilitate the land transfers the Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria. Signed in print by Fidel as Prime Minister Manuel Urrutia Lleo as President and a slew of other officials. June 3 unknown
197232549Moscow: ИздательÑтво ЦК ВЛКСМ ÐœÐ¾Ð»Ð¾Ð´Ð°Ñ Ð³Ð²Ð°Ñ€Ð´Ð¸Ñ 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; 348 3pp; portraits plates. Slight external rubbing and shelfwear; corners nudged; still a solid Very Good copy. Apparently the first full-length Soviet biography of the Argentinian revolutionary martyr and hero of the Cuban Revolution well-illustrated with photographic portraits and plates. <br /> <br /> According to Costa Rican investigative journalist Marjorie Ross "Lavretsky" was a pseudonym for Soviet master-spy Iosif Grigulevich who got his start as a hired hit-man against Trotskyist and Anarchist factions in the Spanish Civil War. She pegs him as the never-identied "third man" in the assassination of Leon Trotsky; and during the Cold War posing as an international coffee expert Grigulevich reputedly penetrated the highest levels of government and culture in Costa Rica Chile and Mexico during which time he was also the Kremlin's "handler" for Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and Mexican painter José Siqueiros see Marjorie Ross El secreto encanto de la KGB/ The Secret Charm of the KGB: Las cinco vidas de Iosif Grigulievich/ The Five Lives of Iosif Grigulevich. San José: 2006. <br /> <br /> Apparently an uncommon work at least in Western institutions; OCLC locates just one copy British Library; KVK and European Library Meta Catalog find three more Nat. Lib. Lithuania; BNF; Staatsbibliothek Berlin. ИздательÑтво ЦК ВЛКСМ ÐœÐ¾Ð»Ð¾Ð´Ð°Ñ Ð³Ð²Ð°Ñ€Ð´Ð¸Ñ unknown
19235672Havana 1923. Fair. 14pp. Original wrappers rear cover lacking. Contemporary ink notation to front cover reinforced at spine with later paper tanned. Text guillotined; leaves silked some chipping and wear at edges. A rare work arguing against railroad consolidation in Cuba and a victim of the New York Public Library's microfilming project. The subtitle reads "Exposicion que dirige al Congreso la Asociacion de Hacendados y Colonos." We locate only the microfilm copy at NYPL in OCLC no physical copies. unknown
18995378Puerto-Principe Cuba: Imp. el Progreso-Soledad January 11 1899. Good. Broadside 11.75 x 8.25 inches. Old folds minor chip at top left corner uniformly tanned and somewhat tender. An unrecorded general order issued in Spanish by the American "Jefe de Estado Mayor" Chief of Staff John E. McMahon during the military occupation of Cuba in the Spanish-American War. The order stipulates that a paragraph in a previous order prohibiting the auction of mortgaged property in the province of Puerto-Principe until January 1 1900 is hereby repealed and any further instructions on this matter will come from the Army's General Headquarters in Havana. McMahon issued several general orders during the American Army's occupation of Cuba and all appear to be rare. An interesting artifact from America's expansionist period with no other copies in OCLC auction history or the trade. Imp. el Progreso-Soledad, January 11 unknown
18723066Havana 1872. Very good. Manuscript form approximately 8.5 x 6.25 inches. Minor wear at edges; a few small worm holes. Contemporary ink stamp. Light tanning and offsetting. This 1872 manuscript form from a Havana jail the Celaduria de la Punta notes the death there of an "Asiatico" a Chinese indentured servant with the given name of Juan Macao and orders the transfer of the body to the mortuary for cremation. Indentured servants found themselves jailed for several reasons including suspicion of theft and other crimes recapture following runaway or mere suspicion of abandoning a contract. unknown
18792090Cuba 1879. About very good. 3pp. on a small bifolium. Contemporary ink stamps; accomplished in a fairly legible hand. Minor wear. A few small wormholes. Light tanning and dust soiling. Brief but very interesting manuscript report on the case of a missing Chinese indentured servant in the district of Alagranes near Matanzas. On February 18 1879 the owner of the plantation Juanita reports the missing person stating that there was a fire in his sugar cane field and it is thought that the laborer might have been burned. It seems that the present document serves to register the case with regional authorities in Matanzas and is a good record of the bureaucracy controlling indentured servitude in Cuba at this time. unknown
198383069Havana: S.i. 1983. Original illustrated poster with text and pictorial elements silkscreened in four colors on white stock measuring 51cm x 76.25cm 20 1/8" x 30". Mild handling to extremities ele a bright Fine copy unbacked. Striking poster designed by Concepción Robinson Mendoza aka. "Coni" for Victor Cassaus's 1983 documentary Que Levante la Mano la Guitarra centered around Cuban musician and folk singer Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez. 83069. S.i. unknown
1860234291860. Spanish colonial administration in Havana used port health regulation as a mechanism of commercial and maritime control with the Captaincy General directing military customs and sanitary officials through centralized orders. This December 6 1860 manuscript concerns the "Junta local de Sanidad" "víveres averiados" and Dr. Rafael Cortés placing damaged provisions public health authority and port enforcement within the same bureaucratic chain. The phrase "usando de las facultades que me competen" invokes the vested powers of the colonial government confirming that the matter was handled through Spanish imperial authority rather than local civic discretion.<br /> <br /> Gobierno y Capitanía General de la Isla de Cuba. Secretaría de Gobierno sección de Gobierno. Manuscript order. Havana Cuba: December 6 1860. Single folded manuscript document with printed colonial seal and heading docketed "Habana y Dic. 6 de 1860" and addressed to maritime or port authorities. The text instructs compliance with a petition or order involving the local Board of Health damaged provisions or foodstuffs and Dr. Rafael Cortés with official endorsements and large administrative signatures below. The verso bears docketing and filing marks consistent with bureaucratic circulation.<br /> <br /> The document belongs directly to Spanish colonial governance in Cuba where the Governor and Captain General exercised civil military and administrative power over the island until the end of Spanish rule in 1898. Its contents connect colonial rule to the management of ports food safety and public health all crucial areas in Havana's nineteenth-century Atlantic economy. Folded as issued with toning scattered foxing edge wear and original folds; seal heading date and principal manuscript text remain legible. Overall good condition. unknown
19302416<p>Memoria administrativa y descriptiva de las obras de la carretera nacional de cuba 4 vols primera edicion habana cuba 1930 nueva encuadernacion 4 tomos con algunas paginas restauradas y algo gastadas publicado por la Republica de cuba secretaria de obras publicas negociado de caminos y puentes bajo la administracion del honorable presidente de la republica de cuba general gerardo machado y morales siendo secretario de obras publicas el dr carlos miguel de cespedes.</p><p>La <strong>Carretera Central de Cuba</strong> es la principal vía de transporte automotor de la isla. Fue construida entre 1927 y 1931 bajo el gobierno del presidente Gerardo Machado. Con una longitud total de 1139 km en 1931 la carretera está dividida en dos ramas a partir de La Habana: una hacia oriente y otra a occidente. El kilómetro 0 se encuentra en el Capitolio de La Habana. En el momento de su construcción enlazaba las 6 capitales provinciales: >Pinar del Río La Habana Matanzas Santa Clara >Camagüey y Santiago de Cuba actualmente enlaza 14 de las 15 provincias del país con la sola excepción de Cienfuegos.</p><p><strong>Gerardo Machado y Morales</strong> Camajuaní Las Villas 28 de septiembre de 1869-Miami Beach Florida 29 de marzo de 1939 fue un militar y >político cubano que fungió como general a favor de su país en la guerra de independencia contra España y fue el quinto presidente de la >República de Cuba 1925-1933.</p><p>Machado ingresó a la presidencia con una amplia popularidad y apoyo de los principales partidos políticos. Cabe destacar que durante su administración se realizaron obras que perduran hasta el día de hoy: el Capitolio de La Habana y la Carretera Central. Aquellas obras públicas y otras "menores" caracterizaron su gestión dado que puso énfasis en la impulsión de ellas para absorber el desempleo que entonces azotaba a la isla tras el hundimiento de los precios del azúcar en 1921. Sin embargo su apoyo disminuyó con el tiempo puesto que reformó la Constitución de 1901 para perpetuarse en el poder. A medida que las protestas y rebeliones se volvían más estridentes debido al impacto del crac del 29 en Cuba su administración redujo la libertad de expresión y recrudeció la represión cosa que significó por parte de su mandato la lenta transición a una dictadura. Finalmente en 1933 fue obligado a dimitir a favor de un Gobierno provisional encabezado por Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada hijo de su homónimo padre a quien se considera padre de la patria y mediado por el embajador estadounidense Sumner Welles</p> secretaria de obras publicas hardcover
1836231491836. Diario Constitucional de Santiago de Cuba No. 57 November 1836 just months after the restoration of Spain's liberal Constitution of 1812. This newspaper records the transmission of Spanish constitutional government into eastern Cuba in late 1836 through decrees ministerial correspondence and public political dispute printed for circulation in Santiago de Cuba. Issued weeks after the political upheavals that restored constitutional rule in Spain this number shows how the language of the regency government the suppression and reorganization of state bodies and local declarations of loyalty to Isabel II reached colonial readers through the newspaper press. In a Cuban setting where metropolitan policy was filtered through governors ministries and municipal elites an issue such as this preserves the working connection between imperial administration and provincial print.<br /> <br /> Diario Constitucional de Santiago de Cuba. No. 57. Santiago de Cuba 27 November 1836. 4 pages. Folio newspaper issue. The masthead reads "DIARIO CONSTITUCIONAL / DE SANTIAGO DE CUBA" with the date line "DOMINGO 27 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1836." Page 1 opens with "MINISTERIO DE LA GOBERNACION DEL REINO" followed by a circular and a substantial "EXPOSICION A LA REINA GOBERNADORA" leading into a "REAL DECRETO" concerning the suppression of the Consejo Real de España e Indias. Interior pages continue the decree and carry translatedly legible sections including "MISCELANEA" notices on "Las islas turcas libres" and "Noticias sobre Tejas" and a long exchange under "REMITIDOS" dated "Cuba 25 de Noviembre de 1836" addressing militia service volunteers of Isabel II and the political insult attributed to an earlier subscriber. The issue survives as a complete four page folio with dense double column text throughout and no wrappers as issued.<br /> <br /> Printed in Santiago the issue shows constitutional and monarchist language being adapted for a colonial audience that was expected to follow ministry decrees military loyalty and debates over public honor in the same sheet. Folded as issued with minor edge chipping small losses at corners and margins some toning and closed tears and pinholes; complete and legible. Overall good condition. The juxtaposition of metropolitan government text Caribbean and Atlantic news and the local controversy printed in "Remitidos" gives the number a documentary range broader than a routine official gazette placing state policy beside the contested language of provincial political life. unknown
1915224781915. Polk George Washington Jr. Havana and rural Cuba photo archive 1915 documents Cuba through the viewpoint of an American military traveler during the Platt Amendment era when U.S. power shaped Cuban sovereignty port security naval access and commercial movement. The photographs record ships in Havana Harbor coastal fortifications rural dwellings Cuban farmers agricultural landscapes and colonial plazas providing insight into how U.S. military personnel visually encountered Cuba just before American entry into World War I. The Platt Amendment gave the United States broad authority to intervene in Cuban affairs and required Cuba to lease land for naval stations remaining central to U.S.-Cuba relations until its repeal in 1934; this archive therefore places vernacular travel photography within a larger framework of military oversight and commercial access. <br /> <br /> Polk George Washington Jr. Havana Cuba vernacular photo collection. Havana Cuba: unpublished December 1915. Twenty-eight silver gelatin photographs pasted to album pages with some loose or partially detached ranging from approximately 2 x 2½ inches to 4½ x 3½ inches many with handwritten ink annotations dated December 22 to 29 1915. The images include vessels anchored in Havana Harbor harbor views from on board ship Morro Castle and other coastal fortification views colonial civic plazas local laborers and civilians thatched rural huts or bohíos sugarcane fields and agricultural scenes captioned "Orange Trees & Coconut Palms Near Havana." One photograph is captioned "Cuban Farmer & Son Near Havana Dec 22 1915" giving the archive direct documentary value for rural family life and American observation of Cuban agricultural communities. Other captions identify boats as "U.S.C. 5th Protectors off Havana" and refer to the United Fruit Company steamer Abangarez on the Havana-Colon route; the Abangarez was a United Fruit Company passenger and cargo vessel completed in 1909 and later brought under United States registry during World War I.<br /> <br /> The photographs combine military commercial and rural subjects in a compact record of U.S.-Cuban contact. Polk's annotations and the repeated Potchernick-Birdsong Co. Kodak Place San Antonio Texas stamps on versos indicate that the images were developed in the United States after the trip or sent home for processing preserving the path by which overseas military travel became a personal photographic record. Polk's later military service is supported by burial and veterans' records identifying George Washington Polk Jr. as born May 13 1889 died July 27 1976 and buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery; the supplied description identifies him as later a Colonel in the U.S. Army Air Corps and instructor in the early U.S. Air Force. Most photographs lightly pasted along one edge to scrapbook leaves with some detached or partially affixed; a few corner creases otherwise sharp images with strong contrast good to very good overall. Focused 1915 Cuba archive linking Havana Harbor rural Cuban labor vernacular architecture United Fruit maritime movement and American military observation during the U.S. protectorate period. unknown
