Habana: Oficina del Faro Industrial, 1845. 133, [3] pp., plate. Illus. with 1 folding map and in-text engravings. 8vo. Later half marbled calf over brown cloth boards, four raised bands, red and brown morocco spine labels titled in gilt, decorative endpapers, original wrappers bound in. First edition. Folding engraved map..... More
New York / Kingston: Walbridge / A. W. Gardner, 1890. xi, 243 pp. Illus. with 42 b/w plates, photos, drawings, and 2 folding maps. 12mo. Decorated pebbled red cloth. First edition. Spine darkened, front board scuffed, free front endpaper detached, first and last blank partially detached, leaves browning, still about..... More
La Habana: Revista Cubano de Derecho, 1950. 96 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Includes "Antecedentes del impuesto sobre las rentas y entradas personales en la legislacion e historia cubanas," by Juan M. Menocal y Barreras. A very good unopened (uncut) copy, light soiling on wrappers. More
El Ferrol: Imprenta de "El Correo Gallego," 1899. 218 pp. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Pascual Cervera y Topete (1839-1909) was admiral of the Spain's Caribbean Squadron during the Spanish-American War. Ordered to Cuba, after a two year exile and before he prepared the navy properly for battle against the United..... More
New York: n.p., 1823. iv, [5]-64 pp. Sm. 8vo. Disbound. First American edition. Clarkson was the leading British abolitionist of the early 1800s, and in this work laid out the "theoretical agenda of the resurgent British antislavery campaign in the 1820s." (See Lambert: White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity During..... More
Habana: n.p., 1959. 11 pp. Sm. 4to. Stapled self wrappers. First edition. Special issue devoted to publication of the First Agrarian Reform Law of Cuba (Ley de reforma agraria) signed into law on May 17, 1959. It confiscated all properties over 420 hectares and re-distributed them. Prior to the enactment..... More
1940. 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..... More
New York: Burt Franklin, (1971). vi, 83 pp. 8vo. Cloth with gilt titles. Reprint. A near fine copy. No dust jacket as issued. More
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1916. 126 pp. Sm. 4to. Cloth. First separate printing. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for October, 1916. The standard reference work. A very good copy with light scuffing at head of spine. More
Boston: Dunbar, Waters & Co., 1871. 8 pp. 23" x 16" Self wrappers. First edition. Two articles concerning the annexation of the Dominican Republic, one on Sumner's Policy, Sumner just having been removed as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for opposing Grant's pro Annexation policy, and a printing..... More
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London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1793-1794. xxxvi, 24, 494 pp.; 520 pp.; + plates. Illus. with b/w 16 plates and maps, 3 of which are folding (1 map in 2 sheets, both folding). Sm. 4to. Tree calf bordered in gilt, rebacked with original spines laid down, new labels, gilt title..... More
Paris: De L'Imprimerie du Patriote François, 1792. 15 pp. Sm. 8vo. Cloth with gilt titles. First edition. Caption title: Faits Relatifs aux Troubles de Saint-Domingue presentes au Comite Colonial, en Vertu d'un Decret de I'Assemblee nationale, par M. Bore, citoyen et planteur de Saint-Domingue. Date supplied in manuscript. Memoirs of..... More
Paris: Patriote Françoise, 1792. 114 pp. Sm. 8vo. Modern silk with gilt titles. First edition. Covers the slave insurrections in Haiti. OCLC shows only nine copies. Title page torn and repaired affecting a few words of the statement of responsibility and the quote below it, small inked numeral, foxing on..... More
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, (1971). frontis, xvi, 205 pp. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. A very good copy with small, neat scattered pencil marginalia, in a very good somewhat worn and sunned dust jacket. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. 54 pp. Illus. with 1 plate and 1 folding map. Sm. 4to. Cloth. First edition. One of 675 copies, printed at the Riverside Press in Cambridge (Mass.). A fine unopened (uncut) copy in very good chipped original glassine dust jacket but for a few chips, in..... More
La Habana: n.p., 1970. 132 pp. + index. Illus. with color maps. Folio (19.25 x 15 inches). Cloth. First edition. A very good copy, boards rubbed, edges worn, name on free front endpaper else interior clean, crisp, unmarked, maps fine. More
La Habana: (1957). 22 pp. 16mo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. OCLC shows only a single copy. A near fine copy. More
Habana: P. Ferández y Cía, 1950. 135 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Pages 59-72 and 73-121 are devoted to the work and a bibliography of the manuscripts of Anselmo Suárez y Romero (1818–1878) the important Cuban writer known best for this novel "Francisco," the first anti-slavery novel in the..... More
Norman: Univ. Oklahoma Press, (1974). xix, 408 pp. Illus. with 134 color and b/w photos and figures, and 15 b/w maps. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Civilization of the American Indian Series. George Kubler, foreword; Irving. Owner's name else a near fine copy in a very good somewhat sunned dust jacket..... More
Gainesville: Ediciones Anuario Bibliografico Cubana, 1962. 144 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Inscribed by the author to the book dealer and Latin American scholar Maury Bromsen. A very good copy. More
México: Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia, 1962. xv, 394 pp. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Comisión de Historia 106; Historiografías 7. Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia. Publicación no. 262. A valuable survey... with intensive documentation.... particularly useful for the manifestations of political unrest in Cuba during the [first..... More
London: John Snow, 1843. xvi, 487 pp. Illus. with 16 engravings (10 full page plates, 6 others). Sm. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. [Phillippo's"... book aimed to unite a missionary's story with a history and topography of Jamaica. It drew on the long tradition of Christian writing associated with conversion, together..... More
Habana: Imprenta la Antilla, 1862. xvii, 281 pp. Sm. 4to. Half black morocco over marbled boards, five raised bands, one comparmtnet titled in gilt, others paneled in blind, gilt decorations to head and tail, marbled endpapers. Tercera edición notablemente aumentada y corregida. First published anonymously, Matanzas, 1832 and again, Matanzas..... More
Habana: Imprenta del Gobierno, Capitania general y Real, 1861. xvii, [1], 281 pp. 8vo. Modern half red morocco over red cloth boards, five raised bands, gilt titles and rules. Tercera edition, notablemente aumentada y corregida. First published anonymously, Matanzas, 1832 and again, Matanzas, 1836 according to Sabin. A good regional..... More
New York: New York Times, 1954. 20 pp. 4to. Self wrappers. First edition. Advertisement. Section 10. Many photographs. Folded, else a very good copy. More