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1864981Havana: Viuda de Barcina y Comp 1864. Good. Twenty-three issues each approximately 32pp. No. 11 with folding chart lacks pp.25-32. No. 13 lacking last few leaves. With title page and half title at start of each volume. Original quarter calf and boards spine gilt. Spine ends chipped and worn some crude glue residue; hinges solid. Boards heavily worn. Light toning and wear to text light scattered worming throughout. A rare run of the first two years of the first Cuban pharmacological magazine and one of the island's earliest medical periodicals. La Emulacion was published from 1863 through 1867 with the present sammelband containing all issues published in 1863 and 1864 a total of twenty-three issues. Their mission statement that heads the first issue here reads in part: "Animados del deseo de ser útiles al pais -- en cuanto nuestras fuerzas lo permitan-- hemos resuelto dar à luz en esta ciudad un periódico que ocupándose preferentemente de todo lo relativo à la Farmacia no descuide por eso la quÃmica é historia natural médicas y la toxicologÃa ciencias de que no pueden prescindir ni los Médicos ni los Farmacéuticos y cuya importancia en el dia pocos podrán desconocer. Procurarémos pues que en nuestro periódico hallen cabida las producciones originales de los que en Cuba cultivan la Farmacia la quÃmica é historia natural médicas y la toxicologÃa; mas no olvidarémos por eso que léjos de nuestro suelo existen los mas célebres y laboriosos de los cultivadores de esas ciencias y que La Emulacion no llenarÃa la mision que nos proponemos si no hiciéramos figurar en ella lo que se dé à luz en Europa y merezca la sancion de las personas ilustradas." The resulting publication contains numerous original articles by Cuban pharmacists doctors and scientists as well as important work published outside of Cuba. Additionally the issues include biographies of significant figures in the field accounts of local scientific societies including the Real Academica de Ciencias de la Habana and publication of new pharmacological formulas discovered in Cuba or "adapted for the needs of the country." As a result the periodical forms an important record of medical and pharmacological developments and thought on the island in the mid-19th century. We locate only one run of this pioneering periodical at the National Library of Cuba with only the present set of issues appearing in auction records. Bound between Volumes I and II is a pamphlet by Fernando Paez "Manual de farmacia practica" Havana 1864 possibly incomplete at 8 pages; no examples of this pamphlet appear in OCLC. Viuda de Barcina y Comp unknown books
196626557Havana: Ministeres des Affaires Etrangers 1966. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Stapled illustrated wrappers. 33 pp. Text in French. Not dates but from 1966. Includes some grainy black and white photographs. A close to fine copy. Author not stated but from other sources we know that Carlos Rafael Rodriguez was involved. Ministeres des Affaires Etrangers paperback books
197724673Cuba: Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos ICAIC 1977. Poster in colors for La Ultima Cena The Last Supper 1976 Tomas Gutierrez Alea film. A77 printed in bottom left corner;. Approx. 20" x 30" size; strongly-printed screened image of candelabra color bleed-through on reverse; some edge-creasing and edge-wear; in very good condition. Poster. Not Bound. Very Good. Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) Paperback books
86443Havana: El Siglo XX. First Edition. hardcover. very good. 9 volumes in one. Very thick 4to 1/2 polished green calf stiff original printed wrappers bound in. Habana: El Siglo XX 1924-1932. Very good .<br/><br/> DIHIGO Y MESTRE Juan Miguel et al.<br/><br/> El Siglo XX unknown books
195993985Havana: Office of the Prime Minister of Cuba 1959. 32p. one photographic reproduction soupkitchen: "This is why Cuba needs the land reform" 8.5 x 5.5 inches wraps of substantial white paperstock decorated with the Cuban coat-of-arms rendered in 3 colors staplebound. wraps mildly soiled minor handling wear. Dated from internal declaration on p.31 over Urrutia Lleo's name; "Enacted in la Plata Sierra Maestra on May 17 1959 'Year of the Liberation.'" Also suggestive that 1959 date is correct is professional presswork and cover color work sophisticated by standards that in a year or two will be much lower as money and professionals run out. Office of the Prime Minister of Cuba unknown 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
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
199167620Coral Gables Florida: Elite Fine Art José Martínez-Cañas 6 Dec - 21 Dec 1991. 23x23cm. 24 pages color plates catalogue biography/chronology bibliograpic references pages 23-24 color pictorial wrappers PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Essay "Nature at the Sensual Extreme: Mario Bencomo's Paintings" by Donald Kuspit Elite Fine Art José Martínez-Cañas unknown books
18641312Cienfuegos: Imprenta del Ferro-Carril 1864. About very good. 20pp. plus seven tables two folding. Original green cloth blind stamped and gilt lettered. Light wear at edges and spine ends; minor rubbing to boards. Manuscript letter laid in. Separation along fold and short closed tear at gutter of one plate. Light tanning. A rare annual report on the railroad that connected Cienfuegos to Santa Clara in the central portion of Cuba during the mid-1860s. The text gives details of the company's revenue and shipping totals passenger services work and improvements undertaken and levels of employment including discussion of indentured Chinese labor. The tables at the rear provide more complete statistics on the amount of products shipped number of passengers carried types of repairs carried out and the number of accidents and hospitalizations amongst employees and laborers. This copy was presented to a Señor Enrique Gatke likely a Havana investor in the company with his named lettered in gilt on the front board and with a letter from the company secretary Pedro Fernandez de Castro laid in. A scarce and detailed account of railroad operations in central Cuba during the mid-19th century. We locate only one example of any edition of these reports outside of the National Library of Cuba a copy of the 1862 report at the New York Public Library. Imprenta del Ferro-Carril 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
18491647030th Cong. 2nd Sess. SED33. Washington 1849. 33 pp. Disbound scattered foxing. Good. unknown books
18511368131st Cong. 2d Sess.: SED41. 1851. 90pp Disbound light soil. Very Good. SED41. unknown books
1397523pp disbound and stapled. One small margin tear no text affected. Lightly tanned. Good. unknown books
18701438441st Cong. 2d Sess.: SED99. 1870. 5pp Disbound Very Good. SED99. unknown books
18701700741st Cong. 2d Sess.: SED113. 1870. 24pp disbound. Very Good. SED113. unknown books
1890LIST110Havana: R. Testar 1890. Albumen photograph on cardstock mount image measuring 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches on 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inch mount. A view of an American warship in Havana harbor likely taken prior to the outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Spain in early 1898. The photographers Leach and Patterson of Calle San Rafael published several views of Cuba at this time mostly of bucolic scenes around Havana and its environs. The American cruiser is similar in design to the U.S.S. Maine with slight differences - two smokestacks instead of three. An excellent example with minor wear to mount and fine image. R. Testar 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
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
200370922La Habana Cuba: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. 3 al 5 noviembre del 2003. 27cm. 171xviip bios. wrps 31 essays by curators art historians critics and promotors of the arts present the theorical side of the bienal theme of Art and Life. The program was divided into 5 sections: Arte y Vida Cotidiana Nuevas formas de exhibir el arte Más allá de regionalismos y localismos: "lo glocal"; Curadores y exposiciones; Bienales internacionales de arte. SPANISH TEXT WITH ENGLISH SUMMARY. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes... unknown books
1940442581940. Very good with some foxing soiling to the edges and some fading at the corners. 1 sheet. 9 1/4 inches by 50 inches. Mounted to card stock. Built in 1939 to resemble an old Spanish fortress and now part of a UNESCO World Heritage site the Police headquarters and the Radio Patrol had just been outfitted with the latest two-way FM radio system when this image was taken. This new communication technology only adopted by its first police department the Connecticut State Police that same year was invented by an American radio engineer Fred Link 1905-1998 who appears as the white clad figure at the center of this panorama of the fortress fronted by dozens of police cars and officers. Signed by six important Cuban officials including President Federico Laredo Brú 1875-1946 and police chief Bernardo Garcia who has warmly inscribed it Garcia would be ousted by Batista who became president in October less than a year later. Dated Havana 18 June 1940. The picture had hung in Link's office See Dan Bishop "Fred M. Link Goodwill Ambassador" in Proceedings of the Radio Club of America 72:3 Fall 1998 pages 8-13. Original frame available. 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
1980211912Havana: Editorial Orbe 1980. hardcover. very good-. Many Illus. some in color. Square 8vo pictorial cloth rubbed. La Habana: Editorial Orbe 1980.<br/><br/> Profiles of Cuban culture for the year 1978. Text in Spanish.<br/><br/> Editorial Orbe 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
19012221928<p>First edition. Small octavo. Illustrated with b/w photos by V.K. Van De Venter Robin H. Ford John H. Rising L.E. Mayo and W.G. Spiker. Original grey pictorial cloth stamped in gilt black and green. No dust jacket. Very good small crack at rear joint. 220 pages 3 pages of ads. No signatures or bookplates. Scarce.</p> The Rumford Press hardcover 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
