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197232549Moscow 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. unknown books
19015653Havana 1901. Paperback. Very Good. 116p. Original lightly worn wrapper. <br/><br/> paperback books
1991159359Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales 1991. vii 187p. 11x8.5 inch hardcover in dj pages evenly toned else good condition in a lightly worn and soiled dj. Editorial de Ciencias Sociales unknown books
1997155987Havana: Editora PolÃtica 1997. vi 65p. 4.75x8 inches text in Spanish wraps lightly worn and soiled else very good slim trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Editora PolÃtica unknown books
19301540Havana 1930. 63pp. Small quarto. Original green cloth front board lettered in silver. Cloth and pastedowns separating from boards. Boards lightly rubbed some wear to corners and spine. Scarce issue of the constitution and by-laws of the Havana Country Club printed in Spanish and English on facing pages published in 1930. The country club was established in 1911 after the purchase of a 127-acre property La Finca Lola just outside of the city proper and operated until it was forced to close by the Revolution. Information on the realty company formed to purchase the land and house rules of the club are also printed at the rear. We locate a single copy of a 1937 edition in OCLC. unknown books
1850WRCAM51706Havana 1850. 4pp. on a bifolium 15 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches. Printed in three columns. Previously folded with some short separations along fold lines and a closed tear to top edge. Somewhat tanned with some dust soiling in upper portion of first leaf recto. Good plus. Bifolium printing of twenty-four directives intended to govern the operation of vessels in the port of Havana. They include provisions for the arrival and departure of ships their docking and mooring the storage of gunpowder while in port fire prevention and penalties for carrying firearms or other deadly weapons ashore. The document is printed in three columns which provide versions of the regulations in Spanish English and French. Daniel Warren mentioned here as the port officer in charge of preventing desertions and illegal transfers of men from ship to ship is also named as Havana shipping master in an 1858 letter from the American Consul Thomas Savage to the Governor of Havana included in a contemporary United States Senate report on foreign trade. "As early as 1828 Irish migrant Daniel Warren established 'a deposit for foreign sailors and artisans' in Havana providing an initial place for them to stay while looking for work"- Curry-Machado. A very rare piece of Cuban maritime ephemera with OCLC noting only one copy at the Harvard Law Library. OCLC 81408661. Curry-Machado CUBAN SUGAR INDUSTRY p.74. 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
1834WRCAM51022Havana 1834. 2pp. plus blank integral leaf. Bifolium. Minor edgewear and toning. Offsetting. Good. Manuscript document written by John Morland acting consul in Cuba relaying the details of the voyage of the ship "Hunter" travelling from New York to New Orleans. The ship ran into trouble partway through the voyage with seven passengers saved from the "disastrous" situation. The letter does not detail how many if any perished. The seven passengers continued their journey on two other ships one being a Spanish vessel. unknown books
18611229Puerto-Principe: Imprenta del Fanal 1861. Good. 17pp. Leaves loose. Light wear one ink correction to text. A rare Cuban work printed outside of Havana outlining the necessity of a railroad between Puerto-Principe modern Camaguey and Santa Cruz. The many benefits of the plan are detailed herein with numerous charts. Miguel Rodriguez Ferrer 1815-1889 was a Spanish author and administrator but is best known for his work on the nature and culture of Cuba particularly his "Naturaleza y Civilizacion de la Grandiosa Isla de Cuba." He served in a number of civil administrator positions including mayor of San Antonio de los Baños and advisor to Puerto Principe. We locate a single copy at the National Library of Spain. Imprenta del Fanal 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
1950244442Republic of Cuba: Published by the Cuban Tourist Commission A Government Department 1950. First item on a 9x11.5 inch leaf of semi-alkaline paperstock printed smallpoint in black folded twice to make an upright 9x4 inch brochure this hand-folded again transversely; rather dust-soiled and handled a fair to good copy. Second item single leaf 11.5x17.5 inches machine-folded three times to make an upright 9x3.7 inch promotional brochure printed color both recto and verso displaying 19 happy snapshots captioned e.g. "Improve your rhumba where the rhumba was born". Item has a little creasing a pinpoint hole at a fold intersection a good to very good exemplar. The two together. Published by the Cuban Tourist Commission, A Government Department unknown books
196448796Havana: Republic of Cuba Foreign Ministry Information Department 1964. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's green staplebound wrappers; 71pp. & seven leaves of photographs. Wrappers a bit toned and slightly soiled short closed tear to rear wrapper fore-edge pp. 15 & 16 misbound after p. 71; still Very Good and sound overall. Republic of Cuba Foreign Ministry Information Department unknown books
1992253366New York: Cuba Information Project 1992. 8p. 8.5x11 inches self-wraps secured by folding very good condition. Single issue of the short-lived newsletter. Two fliers laid in one titled "Legislative Update" the other titled "Organizing Resources to Help End the Caribbean Cold War from the Cuba Information Project" with a list of other publications by the Cuba Information Project and an order form. Cuba Information Project 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
189144433Habana: Imprenta "La Razon" 1891. Paperback. Very Good. table 35p. Wrapper. 22cm. Slight vertical crease and slight wrinkling throughout. Cuban institutional stamp on title-page. Spanish text. Tariffs and taxes on Cuban export commodities mainly sugar and tobacco. <br/><br/> Imprenta "La Razon" paperback books
1865974Santiago de Cuba 1865. Very good. 10 leaves. Removed from a larger volume and restitched. Minor wear and one small area of worming at edges. Light tanning and foxing. Accomplished in several legible hands. A fantastic set of manuscript records for a slave auction house the General Slave Depository in Santiago de Cuba dating to January 1865. Santiago along with Havana and Cienfuegos was one of three major sites for slave sales on the island during the 19th century. The first leaf of the document provides a statement that the documents were assembled in accordance with the rules established for slave auctions which had been updated and approved at the end of the previous year. The second two documents lay out mortgage agreements and financial obligations between the slave house and the Real Sociedad Economica de Amigos de Pais of the city in which the auction owners acknowledge debts and forthcoming payments on the order of several thousand pesos. Following these are two leaves containing a "Relacion de los esclavos ecsistentes en el deposito de esta Ciudad en el dia de la fecha" that is a list of slaves at the depository on the day of the auction and their owners and renters which perhaps were a part of the collateral for securing the loan. A total of twenty-nine slaves are listed and the leaf that follows certifies that the list is correct according the to the director and the auctioneer of the depository. The final two leaves provide official recognition of the loan from two distinct government offices. All documents are signed by the relevant parties and government officials involved in the agreement. In all the present group of documents provides a detailed assessment of debts and human assets of the slave auction house in Santiago de Cuba in the mid-1860s and is a fascinating and valuable document of the bureaucracy and regulation surrounding the financial realities of selling slaves in Cuba during this period. unknown books
1813WRCAM46891Havana 1813. 1p. plus integral blank. Folio. Old fold lines. Moderately chipped and worn at edges. Evenly tonned. Contemporary manuscript notations. Good. A rare Havana imprint. As Spanish power in the New World was waning its grip on Cuba was threatened by domestic and foreign intruders. This decree issued by Fernando VII on June 17 1813 and printed on September 20 orders the annulment of all criminal cases. This amnesty policy extended to other areas of New Spain as well sought to placate opposition forces. It calls on all levels of government to announce and enforce the decree. It is endorsed in manuscript. unknown books
1813WRCAM46892Havana 1813. 1p. plus integral blank. Folio. Old fold lines. Moderately chipped and worn at edges. Lightly and evenly toned. Contemporary manuscript notations. Good. A rare printed decree from Cuba at the beginning of the 19th century as Spanish power in the world was waning but Spain's grip on Cuba was still quite firm. This decree issued by the King on June 14 1813 and printed on September 20 announces new laws regarding the rights to vote and to be elected to hold government positions for professors and scholars from certain universities collegiums and seminars. The decree forbade these rights to the Knights of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem as well as members of the four military orders of Santiago Calatrava Alcantara and Montesa. It is endorsed in manuscript with the imprint and header also written in by hand. Early Caribbean imprints are rare. 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
1875WRCAM56107Cuba 1875. Twenty-two partially-printed forms on folio sheets completed in manuscript in a variety of hands. Most printed and accomplished on the recto only though a few with print or manuscript on the verso as well. Some with old folds chipping and small tears to edges of most documents one document with the upper right corner cut away. Occasional foxing tanning and ink offsetting and bleedthrough. Several documents with additional manuscript annotations. About very good overall. An important collection of contracts documenting Chinese indentured servitude in Cuba two signed in Chinese. All but one are from various municipalities in the Matanzas Province usually attested to with an ink or blind stamp from a local official one with paper tax stamps affixed. Each contract stipulates the term of service for the "colono" - one or two years along with wages to be paid food and clothing issued duties and hours to be worked and so forth. The laborers are identified in the contracts by their assigned Spanish names with no surnames though some forms have a section for their "nombre nacional" and place of origin as well. There are provisions for what happens if the servant cannot complete their term of service due to illness pending agreement with the "patrono" and a section on options for contract renewal. The latest of these contracts dated May 24 1875 bears the laborer's signature in Chinese. He is described as "al asiatico José" aged 30 of Macao and is contracted to work for Ignacio de Cardenas for six years. Another contract from Bejucal in the Mayabeque Province is also signed in Chinese this one by "Antonio" "natural del pueblo de Leo Chao en China." This is also the only document in the collection with a signature area labeled: "Firma del interpréte ó de dos personas de confianza del colono ó dos testigos." <br> <br> Formal slavery continued in Cuba until it was abolished by Spanish royal decree in 1886; it was accompanied however by a significant population working in indentured servitude. As sugar exports rose in the mid to late 18th century there was a dramatic increase in the need for enslaved workers. "One of the explicit goals of Spanish reformist policy in the last third of the eighteenth century became the need to emulate other European nations' success with slave plantation development in the Caribbean. Partly because of this slave-based coffee and sugar estates sprang up in increasing numbers in portions of Cuba especially around Havana Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico. An expanded slave trade was a necessary condition of such growth. In Cuba alone approximately seventy thousand slaves were imported between 1763 and 1792 and another three hundred twenty-five thousand were brought in between 1790 and 1820.For the entire nineteenth century imports to Cuba amounted to about seven hundred thousand persons." - Drescher. <br> <br> The abolition of slavery in the British West Indies however meant that from the 1830s onward a new source of labor was necessary. It is this gap that indentured servitude filled. Unlike the earlier waves of European immigrants who travelled to the New World as indentured servants Asia was now the primary source. Between 1848 and 1874 125000 Chinese indentured servants arrived in Cuba alone - a figure outstripped only by the number who indentured themselves in California. "Some contemporaries and later historians.have condemned the servitude of the Asians as a thinly disguised revival of slavery. These critics have pointed to a variety of abuses to which the Asians were subjected both legally - with severe laws governing absenteeism vagrancy and insufficient work - and illegally in the form of harassment by vicious masters. Yet other observers have defended the system as a boon to the Asian workers. Voluntary reindenture at the end of their terms was common among the migrants suggesting that many Asians judged the system to be beneficial to them" - Drescher. <br> <br> Voluntary or not a large number of Chinese migrants were laboring in Cuba in the 19th century; for most of them these contracts are the only existing records of their work if not of their lives. Seymour Drescher & Stanley L. Engerman editors A HISTORICAL GUIDE TO WORLD SLAVERY New York 1998 pp.140-42 239-42. hardcover books
38527Washington: Government Printing Office n. d. 1st edition presumed. ca. 1901. Black leather boards gilt stamped lettering to spine. Boards stamped in blind. Glossy marbled endpapers. All boards and spines rubbed chipped and soiled. Vol IX missing boards and spine Vol XI & I boards and spine detached from textblock Vol II boards & spine detaching. Spines and hinges loose. A few leaves and 2 unfolding maps detached soiled or chipped library "Property of Michigan Commandery Loyal Legion" blue stamping throughout volumes. A Good set. Individual volumes divers paginations within each volume. Many inserted plates of b/w images fold-out maps and charts / tables & portraits housed within all volumes. 9-5/8" x 7" <br/><br/>OCLC records 7 institutional holdings of this set. Contents as stated in front pages of Vol. I: Vol I: Personal Report of General Wood Report of Lieutenant McCoy Aide-de-Camp Financial Exhibits accompanying same. Vol II: Civil Orders and Circulars issued during 1900. Vol III: Report of the Secretary of State and Government Reports of the various Civil Governors. Vol IV: Report of the Chief Sanitary Officer Report of the Chief Surgeon of the Department Report ofthe Superintendent Department of Charities. Vol V: Report of the Secretary of Finance Report of the Treasurer of Cuba Report of the Auditor for Cuba Report of the Chief of Customs Service Report of the Director General of Posts. Vol IX: Report of the Secretary of Public Works. Vol X: Report of the Secretary of Public Works continued Report of the Special Commissioner of Railroads Report of the Chief of the Light-House Board Report of the Captain of the Port Havana. Vol XI: Report of the Chief Engineer for the Fiscal Year ending June 30 1900. Vol XII: Report of the Chief Engineer for the six months ending Dec. 31 1900. Wood born on October 9 1860 in Winchester New Hampshire graduated Harvard Medical School in 1884. After working in private practice in Boston for two years he secured a job as army assistant surgeon with the rank of first lieutenant in January 1886. Routine successes and close relationships with political giants Wood formed a close friendship with Theodore Roosevelt and helped Roosevelt organize the 1st Volunteer Calvary Regiment for service in the Spanish-American War in May 1898 allowed for a quick advancement in his military service which eventually aroused some controversy. "Promoted to brigadier general and in December of that year he was promoted again to major general of volunteers and named military governor of Cuba. During his term in that post great strides were taken in improving internal conditions notably through the sanitation work of Maj. William C. Gorgas. Modern school police transportation and communications systems were established and a new constitution and body of laws were drawn up." Webster's American Military Biographies p. 488. In May of 1902 Wood stepped down from his executive position in order for the popularly elected President Tomas Estrada Palma to take over. "Aggressive ambitious and self-righteous Wood was not an easy man to work with; his change from medical doctor to fighting soldier and his rise from captain to brigadier general in the space of five years 1898-1903 aroused considerable distrust and hostility in and out of the army. his single-inded advocacy of the Plattsburgh Idea later to resurface as the ROTC contributed greatly to US readiness in World War I; unquestionably one of the greatest U.S. soldiers." -The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography p.807. (Government Printing Office) hardcover books
1930537Havana: Imp. "Ninon 1930. 24pp. Oblong quarto. Original green pictorial wrappers string-tied. Cuban Revolution stamp affixed to front cover. Pictorial souvenir of the Capitol Building in Havana which was inaugurated May 20 1929. Each image has bilingual descriptive text in English and Spanish on the verso. Images include the exterior of the building as well as specific locations within such as the Office of the President of the Senate the Reception Hall the Statue of the Republic and the Marti Library. A sticker on the front cover has a border of small Cuban flags around the text "Our Revolution is NOT Communist. Our Revolution is Humanist. The Cubans only want the right to an education the right to work the right to eat without fear the right to PEACE JUSTICE FREEDOM." Presumably affixed to this earlier souvenir after the start of the Cuban Revolution in 1953. An interesting addition to this piece of promotional literature. OCLC locates six copies. Imp. "Ninon unknown books
1910WRCAM55308Havana: American Photo Co. 1910. Panoramic photograph image 7 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches on sheet 10 x 49 inches. Printed caption title below image. Publisher and date written in negative at lower right corner; in the lower left corner is written: "#5 2d Regiment U.S. Atlantic Fleet Deer Point Camp Guantanamo Bay Feb. 13 1910. 'Minnesota' 'New Hampshire' 'Mississippi' 'Idaho.'" "Printed in Germany" printed below image at lower left. Some light soiling minor fading to right side of photo some rumpling from previous rolling. Very good. An impressive view of sailors and marines from the United States' Atlantic Fleet assembled on the parade grounds of Deer Point Camp Guantanamo Bay. Well over five hundred officers seamen and marines are in formation with encampments on both sides of the grounds. In the background looking out into the harbor nineteen ships are visible in the water including the four listed on the photo: MINNESOTA NEW HAMPSHIRE MISSISSIPPI and IDAHO. One camp building with a wide veranda is behind and to the left of the sailors. <br> <br> U.S. forces with their Cuban allies first occupied Guantanamo Bay in 1898 during the Spanish American War creating a forward- operating base in their effort to wrest Spanish control of the island. In 1903 the U.S. leased forty-five square miles of land and water at Guantanamo Bay from the newly- independent Cuban government and built the Deer Point Camp to support naval operations in the Caribbean. The American facilities at Guantanamo Bay are in use to this day. The American Photo Company advertised itself as "the best equipped commercial photographers in Cuba." It established a commercial network in Havana that distributed images of Cuba on a worldwide scale. <br> <br> This photo is rare. We found no records of it at auction and no copies in OCLC however the Naval History and Heritage Command lists a copy in their collections. "US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Cuba" UA 571.45 copy of this image Washington Navy Yard D.C.: Naval History and Heritage Command Naval Heritage Foundation accessed online. American Photo Co. unknown books
191386818Havana: Rambla 1913. hardcover. very good. illus. 134pp. 4to modern cloth orig. front wr. bound in. Habana: Rambla Rouza 1913. Very Good .<br/><br/> Rambla unknown books
197147663Miami: Ediciones Universal 1971. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 263pp. Light shelf wear tiny dampstain to bottom fore-edge corner of textblock else Near Fine. Account of present-day Cuba by the exiled Cuban journalist who nearly twenty-five years earlier was nominated Vice President by the Socialist Revolutionary Movement with twenty-two-year-old Enrique Ovares as President. According to the author biography on the rear cover: "Ni un sólo minuto de sa vida no está dedicado a Cuba. Nadie lo aventaja en la lucha constante contra el régimen castrista y contra los malandrines que ofenden la dignidad nacional. Ediciones Universal unknown books
