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1908réf. ZB573260Habana: Rambla y Bouza printers last two volumes with libreria 1908-1919. 40 volumes all issued; text browning especially at margins needs rebinding. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Habana: Rambla y Bouza, printers last two volumes with libreria unknown
1584réf. 53607Antwerpen, Plantin 1584. Orig.- Altkolor. Kupferstichkarte 36 x 50 cm. (Blattgröße 54 x 56 cm.) Unter Passepartout. Gleichmäßige Papierbräunung. Gut erhalten.
réf. PD19Oblong Folio album ca. 285x36 cm. 49 black paper album leaves. With ca. 260 mounted gelatin silver photographs of various size including ca. 20 large photos from ca. 245x32 cm 9 ½ x 12 ½ in to ca. 155x225 cm 6 x 8 ¾ in and 21 panoramas ca. 85x29 cm 3 ¼ x 11 1 /2 in or slightly smaller. The rest of the photos are from ca. 12x17 cm 4 ¾ x 6 ¾ in to ca. 4x6 cm 1 ½ x 2 ¼ in; most photos are ca. 8x14 cm 3 ¼ x 5 ½ in. No captions. About twenty photos with period ink notes “D.K.M. 10” in the corners. Period style black half morocco with cloth boards; decorative gilt-tooled borders on both boards and spine. Album leaves brittle several with tears and losses on extremities two large photos with tears and losses on extremities two small photos with losses of one corner each one photo has been apparently previously removed a few photos smildly faded or with mild silvering but overall a very good album of interesting photos. Historically significant album with lively amateur snapshots and original studio photos taken and collected by a family of American tourists during a Caribbean cruise in the early 1910s onboard the steamship “Moltke” of the Hamburg America Line Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Aktien-Gesellschaft or HAPAG. Launched in 1901 S.S. “Moltke” went on regular cruises around the Caribbean and the Mediterranean until it was seized by Italy in 1915 in the course of WW1. Her Caribbean or West Indies cruises departed from New York and included stops in Cuba Puerto Rico Jamaica Panama Canal Venezuela Trinidad Barbados Martinique St. Thomas Dutch West Indies Bermuda & Bahamas. The album opens with several large views and panoramas of Havana harbour and waterfront featuring Castillo del Morro the iconic building of Lonja del Comercio commodities and stock exchange and S.S. “Moltke.” The other photos show Havana streets and passers-by the interior of a Catholic church &c. Over twenty photos are the views of the city and harbour of Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas Island – then the capital of the Danish West Indies since 1917 the U.S. Virgin Islands. The images show the city harbour from the distance and close-up a sign of “St. Thomas Bay & Rum Co.” is seen on one of the photos the statue of King Christian IX erected in the Emancipation Garden in 1909 removed in 2021 streets residential neighbourhoods on sloping hills a local market an official residence with the waving Danish flag garden of a Catholic convent with one of the monks posing alone and with a young tourist &c. Over thirty identified views of Puerto Rico a U.S. colony since 1898 a Commonwealth controlled by the U.S. since 1952 show San Juan: Plaza de Armas with the City Hall completed in 1842 Palacio de la Real Independencia now housing the Department of State of Puerto Rico Castillo San Felipe del Morro in the San Juan Bay Plaza Colon with Christopher Columbus monument San Juan harbour city streets and shops building of the “Hotel y Banos” a passenger train with the travellers walking at the front native cart drivers passers-by &c. A large group of photos ca. sixty depict the French Island of Martinique with a series of views of Fort-de-France: statues of Empress Josephine erected in 1859 destroyed in 2020 and Victor Schloelcher erected in 1904 removed in 2020 St. Louis Cathedral with the spire still under construction city streets and harbour “Hotel de l’Europe” distinctive cliffs on the coast near Fort-de-France &c. The views of Martinique include over twenty images of the ill-fated town of St. Pierre which perished during Mount Pelee’s eruption in May 1902. The photos include one view of St. Pierre before the destruction as well as general views of the ruins and desolation with posing tourists. Several images show the ruins of the Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of Assumption the downtown core with a grid of destroyed buildings and charred trees wrecked ships in the harbour a surviving bridge and the remains of the victims. A couple of images feature the top of Mount Pelee with a distinctive lava spine or the “Needle of Pelee” which was formed in October 1902 and collapsed in March 1903. Among the identified photos of Nassau Bahamas are the views of the famous silk cotton tree St. Matthews Anglican church completed in 1802 and the interior of Fort Charlotte. The other images show sugar cane plantations and native workers Caribbean residences streets and markets ports the American coastal steamer “Colonia” a series of scenes from a street carnival procession portraits of local market goers families diving children &c. Several images portray the tourists on board the S.S. Moltke including a group portrait with a lifebuoy of “Moltke Hamburg”. Overall a historically significant visual source on the history of American tourism to the Caribbean in the early 20th century with interesting views of the aftermath of the destruction of St. Pierre by the volcanic eruption. hardcover
1856réf. 0006868New York: D. Appleton 1856. First edition. Hardcover. fine. 12mo xii 412 pages original light brown embossed cloth. These observations are related in a series of 61 letters. These were originally composed in Spanish then translated into English by Joseito. "I have thereby been enabled to impart entirely new data and reliable information instead of merely copying from books already known. . I applied myself to natives who besides an intimate knowledge of affairs in general possessed a sound judgment and an investigating disposition. It has beeen indeed a very happy incident to have found them. . That part of my work which treats on judicial matters and the secrets of the management of the tribunals will especially attract the attention of my readers. - Introductory Letter." Sabin 17816; Treiles BIBLIO. CUBANA vo. 4 p.17. D. Appleton hardcover
1903réf. 6457V.p. 1903. 36 postcards all completed in manuscript generally very good or better with some wear and rounded corners. A fascinating assemblage of cards written by Pre-Castro intellectuals to a Maria de Serra though a few are written to other women. It is difficult to pin down de Serra though we do know she was highly educated and very well-known and connected. It makes sense to us that she is perhaps the Maria de Serra mentioned by William Wells Brown in his important work The Rising Son or the Antecedents and advancement of the Colored Race 1874. On pg 260 Brown writes: "The free blacks in Cuba form an important element in her population and these people are found in all the professions and trades. .one of the best young ladies' academies at present existing at Havana is personally conducted by an accomplished negro woman Maria de Serra to whom many a lady of high rank owes her social and intellectual accomplishments." Further research may be fruitful in retrieving more information on this Maria de Serra. It goes without saying that the sentiments and signatures are the most appealing part of this collection. Many of the cards appear to contain original verse and all are quite legible and well preserved. Equally as lovely are the cards themselves many being of exceptional beauty as they were all chosen by artists and intellectuals. All in all a remarkable set worthy of further research. The correspondents are as follows: Diego Vicente Tejera; one of the most famous turn-of-the-century Cuban poets but also known as a short story writer orator and political activists. Nestor Cargonell; famous poet and writer. His son went on to become a Hollywood star. Conde Kostia pseudonym of Aniceto Valdivia; writer journalist poet critic lecturer dramatist founder of newspapers and Cuban diplomat. Rafael Maria Merchain; very influential poet and philosopher Enrique Fontanills; very prominent Cuban journalist. Florimel: great Cuban journalist writer and poet who died early in life. Manuel Raul Blanco Belmonte; Cuban poet. Ramon Meza; One of the most important Cuban writers of his time. Many of his books are considered classics and remain in print. Aurelio Cancio; Cuban journalist who founded "La Discusion" newspaper. Manuel Serafin Pichardo; one of the most popular Cuban poet of the 1900s. Frederico Mendes Cobos; a Cuban politician who became a a senator in 1902. Juan Maria Alberti: influential Cuban politician. Manuel Marquez Sterling; fine writer and politician. Jose Manuel Govin; journalist and director of the popular newspaper "El Munto" Cesar Cancio; Very popular Cuban poet born in St Spiritus. Pablo Bonachea; great Cuban journalist and director of "La Discussion" newspaper for one year. Jose Ernesto Trian; Cuban writer with political connections. Was ambassador to Venezuela. Manuel Tierso; Romantic Cuban poet Alvaro de la Iglesia. revered Cuban writer who penned the great "Cuban Traditions" Frederico Ledesma Balsunde: journalist and editor at "El Lucero." Fabio Fiallo; a leading Dominican writer poet and politician. He died in Cuba. Dulce Maria Borrero de Lujan; the most important Cuban woman writer and poet of her time. Frederico Hermida; author of any Cuban novels in the 1900s. Mariana Comas; Cuban essayist Joaquin Lopez Sena; renown Cuban poet and a politician from the 1900s to the 1920s. Eliseo Giberga; a very powerful and influential Cuban politician of the early 1900s. Manuek Coronado; an important Cuban journalist. Antonio San Miguel; Cuban writer and journalist. Pablo Santi Rois; Poet and respected journalist. Armando Celorio; One of the finest Cuban poets. Jose Maria Carbonell; famous Cuban poet and writer. Marcos Trazivark; famous Cuban writer and Musician. Esteban Joven; Cuban writer poet and essayist. Narciso de Puso; famous poet well entrenched in Cuban high society. Eduardo Mencis Capote; Cuban journalist popular among the elite. Lorenzo Frau Marsal; respected Cuban journalist . unknown
1903réf. 6457V.p. 1903. 36 postcards all completed in manuscript generally very good or better with some wear and rounded corners. A fascinating assemblage of cards written by Pre-Castro intellectuals to a Maria de Serra though a few are written to other women. It is difficult to pin down de Serra though we do know she was highly educated and very well-known and connected. It makes sense to us that she is perhaps the Maria de Serra mentioned by William Wells Brown in his important work The Rising Son or the Antecedents and advancement of the Colored Race 1874. On pg 260 Brown writes: "The free blacks in Cuba form an important element in her population and these people are found in all the professions and trades. .one of the best young ladies' academies at present existing at Havana is personally conducted by an accomplished negro woman Maria de Serra to whom many a lady of high rank owes her social and intellectual accomplishments." Further research may be fruitful in retrieving more information on this Maria de Serra. It goes without saying that the sentiments and signatures are the most appealing part of this collection. Many of the cards appear to contain original verse and all are quite legible and well preserved. Equally as lovely are the cards themselves many being of exceptional beauty as they were all chosen by artists and intellectuals. All in all a remarkable set worthy of further research. The correspondents are as follows: Diego Vicente Tejera; one of the most famous turn-of-the-century Cuban poets but also known as a short story writer orator and political activists. Nestor Cargonell; famous poet and writer. His son went on to become a Hollywood star. Conde Kostia pseudonym of Aniceto Valdivia; writer journalist poet critic lecturer dramatist founder of newspapers and Cuban diplomat. Rafael Maria Merchain; very influential poet and philosopher Enrique Fontanills; very prominent Cuban journalist. Florimel: great Cuban journalist writer and poet who died early in life. Manuel Raul Blanco Belmonte; Cuban poet. Ramon Meza; One of the most important Cuban writers of his time. Many of his books are considered classics and remain in print. Aurelio Cancio; Cuban journalist who founded "La Discusion" newspaper. Manuel Serafin Pichardo; one of the most popular Cuban poet of the 1900s. Frederico Mendes Cobos; a Cuban politician who became a a senator in 1902. Juan Maria Alberti: influential Cuban politician. Manuel Marquez Sterling; fine writer and politician. Jose Manuel Govin; journalist and director of the popular newspaper "El Munto" Cesar Cancio; Very popular Cuban poet born in St Spiritus. Pablo Bonachea; great Cuban journalist and director of "La Discussion" newspaper for one year. Jose Ernesto Trian; Cuban writer with political connections. Was ambassador to Venezuela. Manuel Tierso; Romantic Cuban poet Alvaro de la Iglesia. revered Cuban writer who penned the great "Cuban Traditions" Frederico Ledesma Balsunde: journalist and editor at "El Lucero." Fabio Fiallo; a leading Dominican writer poet and politician. He died in Cuba. Dulce Maria Borrero de Lujan; the most important Cuban woman writer and poet of her time. Frederico Hermida; author of any Cuban novels in the 1900s. Mariana Comas; Cuban essayist Joaquin Lopez Sena; renown Cuban poet and a politician from the 1900s to the 1920s. Eliseo Giberga; a very powerful and influential Cuban politician of the early 1900s. Manuek Coronado; an important Cuban journalist. Antonio San Miguel; Cuban writer and journalist. Pablo Santi Rois; Poet and respected journalist. Armando Celorio; One of the finest Cuban poets. Jose Maria Carbonell; famous Cuban poet and writer. Marcos Trazivark; famous Cuban writer and Musician. Esteban Joven; Cuban writer poet and essayist. Narciso de Puso; famous poet well entrenched in Cuban high society. Eduardo Mencis Capote; Cuban journalist popular among the elite. Lorenzo Frau Marsal; respected Cuban journalist . unknown books
1838réf. 5957Sancti Spiritus 1838. Good plus. Broadside measuring 12.5 x 17.5 inches. Previously folded. Light wear to edges and along old fold lines with a few small chips at edges. Moderate toning and soiling. An unrecorded broadside that prints statistics relating to agricultural production for the region of Sancti Spiritus in central Cuba during the late 1830s. For each municipality the broadside prints the number of property owners; ranches; land-grant farms; slaves; white employees; animals including mules donkeys cows and sheep; distances to transport and shipping hubs; and several other figures. In the bottom third of the broadside are printed the census figures from 1836 with the population totaling just over 40000 people and split into Black and white groups. Rather pointedly the figures for the white population are divided by gender while the figures for the Black population are divided by status free or slave. A very interesting statistical snapshot of a smaller rural region in colonial Cuba in 1838. Not in OCLC. unknown
1838réf. 5957Sancti Spiritus 1838. Good plus. Broadside measuring 12.5 x 17.5 inches. Previously folded. Light wear to edges and along old fold lines with a few small chips at edges. Moderate toning and soiling. An unrecorded broadside that prints statistics relating to agricultural production for the region of Sancti Spiritus in central Cuba during the late 1830s. For each municipality the broadside prints the number of property owners; ranches; land-grant farms; slaves; white employees; animals including mules donkeys cows and sheep; distances to transport and shipping hubs; and several other figures. In the bottom third of the broadside are printed the census figures from 1836 with the population totaling just over 40000 people and split into Black and white groups. Rather pointedly the figures for the white population are divided by gender while the figures for the Black population are divided by status free or slave. A very interesting statistical snapshot of a smaller rural region in colonial Cuba in 1838. Not in OCLC. unknown books
1974réf. 88452Havana: Casa de las Americas 1974. First Edition. First Impression one of 18000 copies. Narrow octavo 22.75cm; original pictorial card wrappers; 67-4293pp; illus.; text is entirely in Spanish. Inscribed by Guillen on the title page to Puerto Rican editor translator and literary critic Roberto Márquez: "Para Roberto Márquez / con el fraternal cariño de Nicolas / La Habana Feb. 74." Signed directly beneath by an unknown figure and below that by Afro-Cuban poet and journalist Marcelino Arozarena 1912-1996. The opposing page is inscribed for Márquez in verse with a small drawing by an undetermined poet signed "David Feb.74." The verso of the half-title page is warmly inscribed by Cuban poet and critic Nancy Morejón who has written the foreword to this volume: "Para mi queridísimo Roberto Marquez / la admiracion y el cariño immenso de Nancy / La Habana / 19 de feb. de 1974." Directly beneath this is another warm year of publication inscription by an underemined individual. This volume has been extensively marked-up by Márquez whose contribution "Introducción a Guillén" appears on pp.127-138. Some wear to extremities a few nicks and tears to spine ends with some creases to wrappers; Very Good. A key volume of critical texts on Guillén 1902-1989 the national poet of Cuba by many of his contemporaries like Mirta Aguirre Angel Augier Roberto Fernández Retamar Nancy Morejón Alejo Carpentier Pablo Neruda Ciro Alegría and others. This copy bears a number of contemporary inscriptions to Márquez a Guillén scholar who has written extensively on his work and has translated several of the poet's works faithfully from Spanish into English. 88452. Casa de las Americas unknown
1910réf. 55308Havana: American Photo Co. 1910. The Early American Presence at Guantanamo Bay 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. 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. 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. Panoramic photograph image 7¼ x 47¼ 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. "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 online. unknown
1910réf. 55308Havana: American Photo Co. 1910. The Early American Presence at Guantanamo Bay 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. 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. 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. Panoramic photograph image 7¼ x 47¼ 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. "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 online. unknown books
1901réf. 3191Havana 1901. About very good. Broadside 12.5 x 9 inches. Light wear and soiling. Backed with tissue. Broadside outlining the celebrations planned for the adoption of the Cuban Constitution of 1901 following the eviction of both Spain and the United States from the country. Four days of celebrations were planned for May 19 20 21 and 22. Events including the singing of the National Anthem orchestral concerts fireworks dancing and other diversions. We find no record of this broadside in OCLC. An ephemeral piece commemorating Cuban independence. unknown
1901réf. 3191Havana 1901. About very good. Broadside 12.5 x 9 inches. Light wear and soiling. Backed with tissue. Broadside outlining the celebrations planned for the adoption of the Cuban Constitution of 1901 following the eviction of both Spain and the United States from the country. Four days of celebrations were planned for May 19 20 21 and 22. Events including the singing of the National Anthem orchestral concerts fireworks dancing and other diversions. We find no record of this broadside in OCLC. An ephemeral piece commemorating Cuban independence. unknown books
1845réf. 5307Havana: Imprenta del Gobierno y Capitania General por S.M. 1845. Good. 684pp. Disbound. Some insect damage to gutter of title page ample staining throughout mostly minor foxing. A very rare mid-19th century Cuban imprint translating into Spanish a work by German philosophical historian Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann entitled Manual of the History of Philosophy. Tennemann originally published the work in 1812 as a much-abridged history of philosophy after authoring a massive multi-volume work on the subject. According to the translator's note at the beginning of the text the present work was produced in order to provide a text in Spanish for those studying the history of philosophy "at the Royal Academy and in the private schools of the island of Puerto Rico." The translator also notes that the history of philosophy is "one of the subjects.of the general plan of education that must be taught." The work itself is organized as a series of lectures detailing the history of philosophy chronologically from ancient Eastern and Egyptian times through the Greeks Pythagoras Socrates Plato Aristotle and many others concluding with modern thinkers such as Descartes Espinosa Hume Kant Hegel and others. The work ends with an Index and an Errata page. "Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann 1761–1819 German historian of philosophy was born at Erfurt. Educated at his native town he became lecturer on the history of philosophy at Jena in 1788. Ten years later he became professor at the same university where he remained till 1804. His great work is an eleven-volume history of philosophy which he began at Jena and finished at Marburg where he was professor of philosophy from 1804 till his death. He was one of the numerous German philosophers who accepted the Kantian theory as a revelation. In 1812 he published a shorter history of philosophy which was translated into English in 1852 under the title Manual of the History of Philosophy" - Encyclopedia Britannica. No copies located in the United States. Three copies found in OCLC -- two in Chile and one in Spain. Imprenta del Gobierno y Capitania General por S.M. unknown
1845réf. 5307Havana: Imprenta del Gobierno y Capitania General por S.M. 1845. Good. 684pp. Disbound. Some insect damage to gutter of title page ample staining throughout mostly minor foxing. A very rare mid-19th century Cuban imprint translating into Spanish a work by German philosophical historian Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann entitled Manual of the History of Philosophy. Tennemann originally published the work in 1812 as a much-abridged history of philosophy after authoring a massive multi-volume work on the subject. According to the translator's note at the beginning of the text the present work was produced in order to provide a text in Spanish for those studying the history of philosophy "at the Royal Academy and in the private schools of the island of Puerto Rico." The translator also notes that the history of philosophy is "one of the subjects.of the general plan of education that must be taught." The work itself is organized as a series of lectures detailing the history of philosophy chronologically from ancient Eastern and Egyptian times through the Greeks Pythagoras Socrates Plato Aristotle and many others concluding with modern thinkers such as Descartes Espinosa Hume Kant Hegel and others. The work ends with an Index and an Errata page. "Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann 1761–1819 German historian of philosophy was born at Erfurt. Educated at his native town he became lecturer on the history of philosophy at Jena in 1788. Ten years later he became professor at the same university where he remained till 1804. His great work is an eleven-volume history of philosophy which he began at Jena and finished at Marburg where he was professor of philosophy from 1804 till his death. He was one of the numerous German philosophers who accepted the Kantian theory as a revelation. In 1812 he published a shorter history of philosophy which was translated into English in 1852 under the title Manual of the History of Philosophy" - Encyclopedia Britannica. No copies located in the United States. Three copies found in OCLC -- two in Chile and one in Spain. Imprenta del Gobierno y Capitania General por S.M. unknown books
1685réf. 37907Amsterdam, van Keulen (ca.1685). Altkolor. Kupferstichkarte im Format 51 x 58 cm. unter Passepartout. Gut erhalten.
1913réf. List3218Brooklyn New York: The Albertype Co 1913. Photo album of twenty-five 12 ½ x 10 inch pages containing fifty 8 x 6 inch photographs with cardstock cover. Cover and pages worn with marginal damage; pages mostly detached from string binding; photos with captions on negative; Near Fine with Fine contrast. Overall excellent to Near Fine. After the Spanish American War the Isle of Pines now Isla de Juventud in Cuba was contested territory because the 1901 Platt Amendment had specifically left ownership of the island up to a future treaty; the 1904 Hay-Quesada Treaty recognizing Cuban sovereignty over the island failed to be ratified by the US until 1925. American citizens controlled ninety-five per cent or more of the island’s land and were strongly in favor of American annexation. Offered here is a 1913 photo album exhibiting the island’s lush scenery productive farmland and luxurious American residences and resorts. The American property owners are identified by name and include American Residents and Property Owners’ Association President T.J. Keenan who in 1902 described the island under default administration by the Cuban government as “on the verge of anarchy . American interests are absolutely unprotected”1; H.A. Christy Vice President of the Cincinnati Richmond & Muncie Railroad; coal and coke businessman John F. Atcheson and other elites. There are also shots of a number of hotels; grapefruit banana and pineapple farms belonging to the settlers; and recreation by both automobile and boat. Two photographs are not of American ventures: one of the home of José Sarda which housed José Martí before his exile to Spain labeled merely “Nueva Gerona Sarda Homstead”; and one of a house labeled “San Juan Native Homestead” showing a family standing on the porch of their thatched-roof home with an oxcart before them. We find four copies of this photo book on OCLC. Of interest to historians of US imperialism in Cuba following the military withdrawal. 1 “The Isle of Pines President Orders Investigation of Affairs There” The Press-Herald November 15 1902 2. The Albertype Co unknown
1913réf. List3218Brooklyn New York: The Albertype Co 1913. Photo album of twenty-five 12 ½ x 10 inch pages containing fifty 8 x 6 inch photographs with cardstock cover. Cover and pages worn with marginal damage; pages mostly detached from string binding; photos with captions on negative; Near Fine with Fine contrast. Overall excellent to Near Fine. After the Spanish American War the Isle of Pines now Isla de Juventud in Cuba was contested territory because the 1901 Platt Amendment had specifically left ownership of the island up to a future treaty; the 1904 Hay-Quesada Treaty recognizing Cuban sovereignty over the island failed to be ratified by the US until 1925. American citizens controlled ninety-five per cent or more of the island’s land and were strongly in favor of American annexation. Offered here is a 1913 photo album exhibiting the island’s lush scenery productive farmland and luxurious American residences and resorts. The American property owners are identified by name and include American Residents and Property Owners’ Association President T.J. Keenan who in 1902 described the island under default administration by the Cuban government as “on the verge of anarchy . American interests are absolutely unprotected”1; H.A. Christy Vice President of the Cincinnati Richmond & Muncie Railroad; coal and coke businessman John F. Atcheson and other elites. There are also shots of a number of hotels; grapefruit banana and pineapple farms belonging to the settlers; and recreation by both automobile and boat. Two photographs are not of American ventures: one of the home of José Sarda which housed José Martí before his exile to Spain labeled merely “Nueva Gerona Sarda Homstead”; and one of a house labeled “San Juan Native Homestead” showing a family standing on the porch of their thatched-roof home with an oxcart before them. We find four copies of this photo book on OCLC. Of interest to historians of US imperialism in Cuba following the military withdrawal. 1 “The Isle of Pines President Orders Investigation of Affairs There” The Press-Herald November 15 1902 2. The Albertype Co unknown books
1880réf. 2592Havana: September 8 1880. Very good. Partially-printed broadside 6.5 x 8.25 inches completed in manuscript in Spanish and Chinese. Small marginal wormhole mild edge wear light toning. Ink stamp of the Consulado General at bottom-center. A scarce certificate issued in 1880 by the Chinese Consulate in Havana authenticating the registration and details of a Chinese laborer in Cuba. The printed form is completed in manuscript with the name of the recipient his age place of origin occupation and place of residence. The present examples were completed for a sixty-year-old laborer from Canton being called Pedro Pulido who was going to work and/or live at 48 Calle Figueroa in Havana. The printed text states that "El Cónsul General de China en la Habana certifica que blank ha hecho constar en este Consulado General ser súbdito de S.M. el Emperador de la China y como tal se halla inscrito en el Registro de dicho Consulado General segun número y filiacion anotados al márgen." The certificate is dated September 8 1880 and is stamped with the seal of the consulate in red and with the rubberstamped signature of the Consul General Lin Liang Yuan. The form are also bears two ink signatures in Chinese in the left margin a rare occurrence. An excellent document of the bureaucracy surrounding imported Chinese labor to Cuba in the last quarter of the 19th century. September 8 unknown
1880réf. 2592Havana: September 8 1880. Very good. Partially-printed broadside 6.5 x 8.25 inches completed in manuscript in Spanish and Chinese. Small marginal wormhole mild edge wear light toning. Ink stamp of the Consulado General at bottom-center. A scarce certificate issued in 1880 by the Chinese Consulate in Havana authenticating the registration and details of a Chinese laborer in Cuba. The printed form is completed in manuscript with the name of the recipient his age place of origin occupation and place of residence. The present examples were completed for a sixty-year-old laborer from Canton being called Pedro Pulido who was going to work and/or live at 48 Calle Figueroa in Havana. The printed text states that "El Cónsul General de China en la Habana certifica que blank ha hecho constar en este Consulado General ser súbdito de S.M. el Emperador de la China y como tal se halla inscrito en el Registro de dicho Consulado General segun número y filiacion anotados al márgen." The certificate is dated September 8 1880 and is stamped with the seal of the consulate in red and with the rubberstamped signature of the Consul General Lin Liang Yuan. The form are also bears two ink signatures in Chinese in the left margin a rare occurrence. An excellent document of the bureaucracy surrounding imported Chinese labor to Cuba in the last quarter of the 19th century. September 8 unknown books
1888réf. 3032Guanabacoa 1888. About very good. Broadside approximately 12 x 17 inches. Previously folded. Contemporary manuscript rubric and small ink stamp. small patch of ink burn causing separation along rubric line. A few tiny wormholes slightly affecting text. Light tanning minor foxing. An otherwise unrecorded 19th-century Cuban broadside decree announcing the rules for celebrations in Guanabacoa during "las fiestas de su Patrona" taking place on August 14 & 15 1888. The patron saint of Guanabacoa then a small town just outside Havana and now an outlying district of the city is Our Lady of the Assumption and August 15 is the Feast of the Assumption. This broadside prints eight articles the first of which allow games and "diversiones públicas" but prohibit games of chance and gambling of any kind and authorize the erection of food and drink stalls in public places that do not impede public traffic. Permission must be obtained from the municipal magistrates for balls and parties in private houses; shooting guns rockets and fireworks is still strictly forbidden but the lighting of torches is allowed during the saint's procession. Other rules regulate vehicular traffic cafés and restaurants horse races ball games and theatrical performances. A very interesting document of municipal regulation for popular religious events in Cuba during the late-19th century. unknown books
1894réf. 1064651894. Pamphlet format 70 pp. Illustrations; map. 14.3x11.8 cm 5½x4½" pictorial wrappers. Some light staining and wear to wrappers spine a little worn very good overall. Rare tourists' guide book produced under the auspices of the Grand Hotel Macotte with much on Havana transportation options sights to see including bull fights prices a Spanish vocabulary etc. with numerous advertisements for Cuban and some Florida businesses and other hotels. One advertisement features cigar maker La Corona. They even include an illustration of Christopher Columbus. OCLC/WorldCat lists only one copy at the California State Library Sutro Branch. J. Carbonell and P. Montero, Proprietors.
1894réf. 1064651894. Pamphlet format 70 pp. Illustrations; map. 14.3x11.8 cm 5½x4½" pictorial wrappers. Some light staining and wear to wrappers spine a little worn very good overall. Rare tourists' guide book produced under the auspices of the Grand Hotel Macotte with much on Havana transportation options sights to see including bull fights prices a Spanish vocabulary etc. with numerous advertisements for Cuban and some Florida businesses and other hotels. One advertisement features cigar maker La Corona. They even include an illustration of Christopher Columbus. OCLC/WorldCat lists only one copy at the California State Library Sutro Branch. J. Carbonell and P. Montero, Proprietors. books
1903réf. 6144Guanabacoa: Imprenta "El Progreso 1903. Good. 24; 12pp. One small pamphlet in original printed wrappers plus a bifolium stitched together with four small broadside flyers. Previously folded. Some moderate creasing and wear with a few scattered short closed tears. Light dust soiling and toning. An assemblage of six individually printed poems composed in the early 20th century by obscure Cuban poet Anastasio Orozco y Etienne. The first poem "Apologia de la Caridad." is in its own wrappers and dedicated to Susan Hammond Barney the noted prison reformer Christian writer evangelist and world traveler. She is one of the founders of the Prisoners' Aid Society of Rhode Island and for many years was the President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Rhode Island. The second lengthier work titled "Otro Lamento" is printed on a bifolium and also carries religious themes. Stitched with this bifolium are four small broadside poems printed from 1901 to 1903. One of these is a tribute to President McKinley following his assassination and is dated the day of his death September 14 1901. The titles of the broadside poems in full are as follows: 1 A MacKinley sic. La Gloria Es de los Redentores. 2 El 10 de Octubre. Reminiscencia. 3 En Memoria del Pundonoroso Capitán Don Federico Capdevila. 4 Al Rev. H.B. Someillán. Su Regresso. OCLC records an 1882 work by Orozco y Etienne Emblema de las Flores y de los Colores en Prosa y Verso but not the later ephemeral works collected here. Interesting literary printing from a small newspaper press in Cuba just after the Spanish-American War. Imprenta "El Progreso unknown
1903réf. 6144Guanabacoa: Imprenta "El Progreso 1903. Good. 24; 12pp. One small pamphlet in original printed wrappers plus a bifolium stitched together with four small broadside flyers. Previously folded. Some moderate creasing and wear with a few scattered short closed tears. Light dust soiling and toning. An assemblage of six individually printed poems composed in the early 20th century by obscure Cuban poet Anastasio Orozco y Etienne. The first poem "Apologia de la Caridad." is in its own wrappers and dedicated to Susan Hammond Barney the noted prison reformer Christian writer evangelist and world traveler. She is one of the founders of the Prisoners' Aid Society of Rhode Island and for many years was the President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Rhode Island. The second lengthier work titled "Otro Lamento" is printed on a bifolium and also carries religious themes. Stitched with this bifolium are four small broadside poems printed from 1901 to 1903. One of these is a tribute to President McKinley following his assassination and is dated the day of his death September 14 1901. The titles of the broadside poems in full are as follows: 1 A MacKinley sic. La Gloria Es de los Redentores. 2 El 10 de Octubre. Reminiscencia. 3 En Memoria del Pundonoroso Capitán Don Federico Capdevila. 4 Al Rev. H.B. Someillán. Su Regresso. OCLC records an 1882 work by Orozco y Etienne Emblema de las Flores y de los Colores en Prosa y Verso but not the later ephemeral works collected here. Interesting literary printing from a small newspaper press in Cuba just after the Spanish-American War. Imprenta "El Progreso unknown books
