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182918501829 Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1829. In-8 demi-veau. xii, 608 pages. Traduit de l'Espagnol. Supplément sur les "Courants de l'Océan Atlantique"
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
18207589AHavana, Kuba, 1820. 21 x 29 cm. 3 Seiten.
1889V39836Stuttgart (J.G.Cotta'sche Buchhandlung ) 1889 (= Erste Auflage). 8°, 12 Bände in 9 Büchern in rotem Leinen der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rücken, marmoriertem Schnitt und Exlibris (Hardcover), 1 Portrait 1
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
1841WRCAM15527Havana 1841. Broadside 23 x 16 1/2 inches. Splitting on middle fold else very good. A proclamation by the Spanish military government in Cuba concerning legal tender and its circulation and providing a series of regulations for commerce and exchange. unknown books
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
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
1854AMA-124Librairie de l’Association pour la propagation et la Publication des Bons livres, s.d. [1854-1855]. 3 volumes in 12, demi-chagrin noir, dos à nerfs orné de petits fleurons et de filets dorés, têtes dorées. (2)ff.-VIII-408 pp., (2)ff.-444 pp., (2)ff.-433 pp.
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
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
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
1844PHO-1491Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1844, in-8, 2 volumes, LXXI-771-[2] pp. en numérotation continue, 20 diagrammes hors texte, demi-chagrin rouge, dos à faux nerfs, monogramme "J.M.C." doré en pied des dos, Rousseurs, quelques auréoles, l'une assez large en tête du second tome.
18282401Gibraltar 1828. Good. 3pp. on a bifolium. Previously folded with separations. Tanned somewhat brittle. An interesting example of official communications concerning trade between colonial Cuba and the Spanish mainland. In this manuscript letter date March 14 1828 the new Spanish Vice Consul in Gibraltar writes to the Governor General of Cuba concerning several topics. These include the regulation of shipping to Cuba and by implication the rest of the Caribbean through Gibraltar particularly of French ships leaving Mediterranean ports. Also discussed is keeping track of individuals particularly merchants going to Cuba by means of identification papers and other documents. The consul also reminds the colonial government of the importance of documenting duties and tariffs paid for shipping cargo and goods. unknown
18732024Cuba 1873. About very good. 3 folio leaves. Light wear at edges a couple of small chips at lower left edge of each leaf. Light tanning and foxing. Accomplished in a neat legible script. Scarce manuscript listing of slaves and indentured servants from a Cuban sugar plantation. The present list was made in January 1873 on the Ingenio Tartesio east of Havana near the small village of Las Pozas. On two separate sheets nine Chinese and twenty-eight African or Criollo men are listed as rented to the farm; on a third sheet eighteen slave births for 1873 and 1874 are recorded giving names mothers and dates of birth. The Chinese men are identified simply by first name and owner; the African and other slaves are listed with additional details such as nationality age owner. A section for additional observations notes which slaves have run away and at least one death. A fascinating document of slave hires on an isolated Cuban plantation during the 1870s. unknown books
184213073Nueva York: Imprenta Espanola de R. Rafael 1842. viii631pp. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled-paper boards spine gilt gilt leather label. Substantial scuffing and wear to spine and extremities spine ends frayed rubbing to boards. Hinges somewhat tender but holding strong varying degrees of toning and foxing throughout. Good condition. A scarce historical work on Cuba by a Cuban-born Spain-and-France-educated soldier and historian. Jacobo de la Pezuela 1812-1884 was born in Havana went to school in Valladolid and Montpellier then returned to Cuba in his thirties to serve at various army posts and also record the history of his native country. He published several works and later became a member of Spain's esteemed Real Academia de la Historia. In the present work which translates to Historical Essay on the Island of Cuba Pezuela begins at the beginning with Columbus's arrival on the island and continues to almost the present moment concluding with an appraisal of the governorship of Miguel Tacon. In the last chapter Pezuela also includes a section on "Negros emancipados" "Emancipated Blacks". A dense history of Cuba by a Cuban-born historian published in Spanish in New York in 1842.<br /> <br /> Sabin 61329. Imprenta Espanola de R. Rafael unknown
1890231711890. Stereoview archive of the post-emancipation Caribbean showing how the islands were marketed to western viewers through plantation labor export agriculture civic spectacle and catastrophe. As a group these photos function not only as an ethnographic travel archive but as evidence of the visual economy that followed slavery. The British West Indies moved through emancipation in 1834 to 1838 the French Caribbean in 1848 Puerto Rico in 1873 and Cuba in 1886 yet plantation production remained central to regional life well into the early twentieth century. These stereoviews preserve a colonial way of seeing in which Black and Afro-Caribbean labor rural discipline and extractive agriculture remained the background condition of "tropical" beauty and commercial modernity. Cuba's sugar economy in particular expanded through the nineteenth century and slavery was not abolished there until 1886 while Weyler's later reconcentration policy during the Cuban War of Independence violently reorganized rural life. Martinique after 1848 likewise shifted into new labor regimes including imported workers from India and China.<br /> <br /> Archive of 11 stereoview cards late 1890s to early 1900s depicting Cuba Jamaica Martinique Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Most black and white with a few colorized. Each measure 3.5" x 7". All with captions on the margins. "Reconcentrado Farming Scene Province of Havana Cuba" links agricultural production to the brutal displacements of Spain's reconcentration campaign; "Cutting sugar cane Montego Bay Jamaica W.I." records cane labor in a colony where emancipation had not ended plantation dependency; and "Harvesting Coconuts Porto Rico" likewise frames Caribbean land through export work rather than local life. Other views extend that economic framing through cacao and coffee scenes while the paired Havana cards shift into urban leisure and public display including "Beautiful Central Park Havana Cuba" and "Holiday in Havana Cuba" the latter with both Cuban and American flags visible a telling image of the new imperial order after 1898. The disaster views from Martinique and the Lesser Antilles show how stereoview publishers also turned Caribbean destruction into consumable spectacle. the Morne Rouge card is accompanied on the reverse by the grim printed text "Dead bodies which were to be seen in Morne Rouge." while the wider context is the 1902 eruptions of Mount Pelée in Martinique and La Soufrière on Saint Vincent two catastrophes that killed roughly 30000 and 1600 people respectively and devastated local communities and agriculture.<br /> <br /> Some corner wear light toning scattered surface and edge wear. Overall very good condition. This collection gives direct visual representation of Caribbean history Atlantic slavery and emancipation plantation labor and U.S. imperial expansion in the circum-Caribbean preserving the transition from slavery to post-abolition labor. unknown
1900202981900. Photographers unknown. Cuban rural photographs early 20th century. This group documents agricultural labor family life and rural landscapes in Cuba prior to the Cuban Revolution recording work practices and domestic environments tied to farming economies that shaped the island's social structure. The images show ox-driven cultivation tobacco production and multi-generational presence within agricultural settings providing visual evidence of how rural Cuban communities organized labor and daily life before the political and economic transformations of the mid-twentieth century. Inclusion of a Havana harbor view further situates these rural scenes within a broader geographic context connecting countryside production with national infrastructure.<br /> <br /> Four original black-and-white silver gelatin photographs mounted on black mats with manuscript captions measuring approximately 4.75 x 6.75 inches to 7.5 x 10 inches. Images include oxen tilling soil in tropical farmland with workers riding wooden-wheeled wagons while family members stand near a thatched dwelling surrounded by palm trees. One photograph shows six children standing atop an ox cart drawn by two animals with hemp fields extending into the background and adult workers and dogs in the foreground. Another image depicts a laborer standing before a large tobacco crop covered with protective cloth with palm trees and huts visible behind. A landscape view of Castillo del Morro overlooks the entrance to Havana Harbor connecting agricultural life with a major coastal landmark.<br /> <br /> These photographs align with the structure of rural Cuban economies in the early twentieth century when agriculture particularly tobacco and related crops relied on manual labor and animal power within plantation and smallholder systems. Visual documentation of fieldwork transport methods and domestic settings provides primary evidence for the study of labor organization family roles and environmental conditions in pre-revolutionary Cuba. The combination of agricultural scenes and a Havana harbor landmark situates local labor within wider economic and geographic networks. Minor surface wear; mounts and photographs remain intact with clear imagery and legible captions. Overall very good condition. unknown
185487325Havana: Imprenta de la Real Audiencia Pretorial por S.M. 1854. First Edition. hardcover. very good. 3 folding tables. 2 volumes bound in one. 8vo 1/2 contemporary black morocco tear in a table with no loss of text. Habana: Imprenta de la Real Audiencia Pretorial por S.M. 1847 1854. Very good.<br/> <br/> Imprenta de la Real Audiencia Pretorial por S.M. unknown
18963188Guanabacoa: Imprenta el Progreso 1896. About very good. Broadside approximately 17 x 12.5 inches. Previously folded. Some biopredation at left edge not affecting text. Otherwise faint foxing light tanning and dust soiling. Two contemporary manuscript rubrics. Unrecorded broadside that orders the presentation of privately-owned horses and pack animals in the town square of Guanabacoa for requisition by the Spanish army in January 1896 at the outset of the Cuban uprising that would eventually lead to the end of Spanish colonial rule. This bando states first that "Todos los que posean dichos animales sin excepción alguna se presentarán con ellos en la Plaza del Recreo de esta Villa desde las 8 á las 10 de la mañana á partir de mañana 8 con objeto de que reconocidos por la junta al efecto queden requisados." Following these initial voluntary presentations inspections would be made of homes and farms and those found not to have handed over usable animals would be guilty disobeying army orders during a time of war. At this point Spain had 100000 troops on the island and another two years of fighting the insurrection incited by José Marti would pass before the intervention of the United States. Not in OCLC. Imprenta el Progreso unknown
18984079Puerto Principe 1898. Good plus. Thirteen photographs each approximately 4 x 5 inches on original card mounts. A few images rather faded. Light edge wear to mounts. Some photo credits in negatives; each with manuscript caption on mount verso. An interesting group of thirteen photographs taken by an amateur military photographer while deployed to Cuba during the Spanish-American War. The photos are centered around Puerto Principe now Camaguey in Central Cuba an unusual location for photos of this genre and focus on natives local architecture and natural views. Crude credits in the negatives of several images attribute the photographs to "Woodward" or "W.D.W" of the "15th U.S.I.B" i.e. 15th U.S. Infantry Battalion . Each image is also captioned in manuscript on the rear of its mount as follows:<br /> <br /> 1 Rail Road Bridge Near Puerto Principe Cuba<br /> 2 Same Bridge Different View<br /> 3 Natives in Cuba<br /> 4 Military Headquarters<br /> 5 Soldier Camp in Cuba<br /> 6 Cuban Prison<br /> 7 Cemetery in Puerto Principe Cuba<br /> 8 Water Wagon in Cuba<br /> 9 Plaza in Puerto Principe Cuba<br /> 10 Residence in Cuba<br /> 11 Cuban Carriage<br /> 12 Summer Resort in Cuba<br /> 13 Military Headquarters Inside. unknown
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