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1874 Matanzas Cuba Travel Pass Salvoconducto for a Free Man of Color Illustrating Colonial Racial Surveillance

1874réf. 0012125Matanzas Havana Cuba. Good with no dust jacket. 1874. Non-Book. On offer is a striking colonial-era Cuban salvoconducto an official internal passport authorizing the movement of a free man of color during the turbulent decade of the Ten Years War. Issued in Matanzas on June 6 1874 the document is written on official blue papel sellado printed SELLO 8.º AÑO DE 1874 2 PESETAS 50 CÉNTIMOS and bears serial number No. 085.894. The handwritten header at upper left denotes the registry number and date of issue boldly penned in brown ink beside the embossed seal of the Gobierno Político y Militar de Matanzas. The certificate is signed by José Benítez y Cobos Inspector de Vigilancia del Distrito del Sur de esta Ciudad confirming that Francisco Hernández a 25-year-old pardo free man of color se halla en este puerto salvo de castigo is free of punishment and is permitted to travel to Sagua la Grande. The left margin records a detailed physical description: "Edad 25 años; color pardo; pelo crespo; frente regular; ojos pardos; nariz ancha; boca regular; barba poca Age 25; brown complexion; curly hair; regular forehead; brown eyes; wide nose; regular mouth; sparse beard. The text further notes that Hernández carries the approval of his Comandante General and a corresponding travel permit issued by Sub-Lieutenant Bustamante. This manuscript illustrates colonial racial surveillance in late 19th-century Cuba when free Afro-Cubans were still required to carry travel passes closely resembling the older slave papeletas de registro. Issued in the final years of the Ten Years War 18681878 it reflects the administrative continuity that would soon transform into the Patronato system 18801886 under which freed people remained bound to their former masters under the guise of apprenticeship. The document remains fully legible and complete written in brown ink on a single folio leaf approx. 8½ × 12½ in. with the embossed government seal printed fiscal heading and all signatures intact. Minor age toning and light handling wear; otherwise very good condition. An exceptionally well-preserved salvoconducto representing the bureaucratic intersection of race labor and mobility in colonial Cuba during one of its most politically charged decades. Overall G. One page 8½ × 12½ in. ink on official papel sellado Sello 8.º Año de 1874. Toning and bends present and heavy text in the upper left corner slightly torn through. Appropriate to age. Spanish language. Translation completed by online software. ; Manuscripts; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1 pages; Signed by Author . unknown

Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc. · Canada625,99 $US≈ 558,17 €

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A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill Collected by Horace Walpole provenance: Sir John Charles Robinson

1842réf. 002328London: Smith and Robins 1842. Hardcover. Very Good -. xxiv 250 p.: 1 leaf of engraved portrait of Horace Walpole in-text illustrations; 29 cm. Later 19th-century brown cloth spine with original boards. Engraved cover title: A Catalogue of the Contents of Strawberry Hill. Engraved title page. George Robins the auctioneer advertised the sale to begin on April 25 1842 and continue for 24 days. However the original plan to sell some of the prints drawings and illustrated books in large lots was altered so the contents originally proposed for the seventh and eight days of the sale were withdrawn recatalogued in smaller lots and sold later. As many as 7 editions of the catalog are known. This edition includes descriptions of contents through day 24 omitting days 7 and 8; the 6th day concludes with lot 160 omitting the Waldegrave manuscripts originally lots 161- 187. It does not include the "Names of purchasers and the prices" sometimes found on 58 pages at the end. Inscription on p. xxi dated Jan. 7 1855 by John Robinson who relates taking nuts from the chestnut trees at Strawberry Hill said to have been planted by Horace Walpole at the time of the sale and planting the resulting trees in Kinnington Park. Part of the last line of the inscription was lost when the pages were trimmed during the later 19th-century rebinding. Robinson's name is also written on the front board. He is identified by Sotheran as Sir John Charles Robinson 1824-1913. with documents from the 2002 sale of the catalog by Henry Sotheran London. Gift inscription on front free endpaper from Guy Lacy Schless to Nancy Schless 2002. In Very Good- Condition: boards are stained; upper righthand corner of portrait dampstained; occasional foxing including portrait and title page; occasional soiling. Smith and Robins hardcover

Classic Books and Ephemera · États-Unis979,00 $US≈ 872,94 €

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