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[MARITIME -- SPANISH OCEAN LINE CUBA TO SPAIN]. LOPEZ, [Don Claudio B (Owner).]Biblio.com

Compania Trasatlantica Barcelona Antes A. Lopez y Cia: Lineas de las Antillas de Mejico de New-York y de Colon.

1887réf. 64748Barcelona Spain: Campania Trasatlantica Espanola S.A. C.T.E. 1887. 8vo. 72 pp. With 2 large double-page colour maps 5 large folding engraved colour deck plans for CTE ocean liners. Red cloth-backed colour chromolithograph boards cover art of CTE liner in port at Gibraltar CTE Barcelona insignia on back cover minor scuffing edgewear minor soiling front cover slightly shaken 2 deckplans w/ very minor closed tears still a VG- copy. First edition of this very rare transatlantic guidebook timetable and deck plans for the Campania Trasatlantica Espanola S.A. Barcelona CTE ocean liner service between Spain Cuba Mexico New York & Colombia. Ports of call after New York included Boston Philadelphia Baltimore Georgetown Charleston Savannah and New Orleans with stops in various ports in Cuba Puerto Rico Jamaica Veracruz Mexico as well as several in Colombia and the Guiana’s. Deck plans engraved by Hermenagilda Miralles Bailan in Barceolna include those for the 8600 ton Reina Ma Cristina 9850 ton Buenos Aires 5450 ton Veracruz 6720 ton Ciudad de Santander and finally the 9700 ton Alfonso XII. Founded originally in 1850 by Spanish businessman and slave trader Don Antonio L. Lopez in 1850 to feed African-American slaves into both Havana as well as Mobile AL & New Orleans LA prior to the Civil War and headquarters was established in Barcelona after the marriage of Lopez to Luisa Bru Lassus. After 1883 Don Claudio B. Lopez took charge of the company and by 1887 had reached over 30 steamships and ocean liners many of which were used by the Spanish Navy following the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. Campania Trasatlantica [Espanola S.A.] (C.T.E.), hardcover

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