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
![Apuntes para la historia de las letras, y de la instruction publica de la isla de Cuba [Three Volumes in One]. Antonio Bachiller y. Morales.](/pictures/thumb/39690.jpg?v=1434441051)
Habana: Impr. de P. Massana / Impr. del Tiempo, 1859-61. 225, 2 pp.; 220, 4 pp.; 247, 1 pp. 8vo. Modern quarter speckled calf over green marbled boards, four raised bands, red morocco spine label titled in gilt, marbled endpapers. First edition. "The most important work published by Bachiller y.... 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 very good. More
Rio Piedras, P.R. University of Puerto Rico, 1936. 57 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w photo. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. Richard Pattee, foreword. The University of Puerto Rico Bulletin. Series VII.- No. 1 September 1936. A series of four lectures delivered in the University of Puerto Rico under the... 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
![[Manuscript on Filibuster Operations in Cuba's Guerra de los 10 años] Mision á Colombia: Projecto. Francisco Javier Cisneros, Miguel Aldama.](/pictures/thumb/43794.jpg?v=1537463086)
[New York, Colombia, Panama]: 1870. 70 pp. Folio. Disbound. Manuscript transcripts of 21 (perhaps 22) letters, most, if not all, are in Cisneros hand. Nine of the letters, making up over three quarters of the text, are from Cisneros reporting on his work in organizing units totaling nearly 1000 volunteers... 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
![[Print] General View of Santiago, Cuba. Cuba, C. Barclay.](/pictures/thumb/44157.jpg?v=1537463605)
[London]: c. 1890. 1 sheet. 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Matted. Hand-colored engraving. Originally printed in "The Universal Geography" by Élisée Reclus, edited by A.H. Keane, published by J.S. Virtue & Co., London, 1890. The image appeared in the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1893, item 25 of the... 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
![The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies [Two Volumes]. Bryan Edwards.](/pictures/thumb/43145.jpg?v=1476370118)
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
Habana: Sociedad Columbista Panamericana, 1956. 76 pp. Illus. with 3 color plates, b/w plates and numerous in-text drawings. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. Illus. by Hurtado Mendoza. Enrique Calbó Gay (1889-1977) was a writer, lawyer and Cuban historian. The work illustrates the legal uses of the Cuban national symbols... More
San Juan, P.R. Estacion Experimental Insular, 1930. 58 pp. Illus. with 13 b/w photos and in-text drawings. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. Gobierno de Puerto Rico. Departmento de Agricultura y Trabajo. Estacion Experimental Insular. Boletin No. 36. Institutional stamp and date on front wrapper, else fine. 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
![Loi Relative aux moyens de secourir la Colonie de Saint-Domingue. Donnée à Paris, le 29 Juin 1792, l'an IV. de la Liberté. Consignée dans les registres du Départment de la Meurthe, le 24 Juillet suivant. [No. 1412]. Haiti.](/pictures/thumb/43209.jpg?v=1476370121)
Nancy [France]: Chez Haener, Imprimeur du Départment de la Meurthe, 1792. 4 pp. Illus. with a woodcut headpiece. Sm. 4to. Self wrappers. First edition. Signed (illegible). Law authorizing negotiation with the United States minister to obtain food and construction materials in the amount of 4,000,000 livres, to be paid by... 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
London: L.B. Seeley and Son, 1827. xvi, 416 pp. Illus. with folding frontispiece with a view of Cape Francois, St. Domingo. 8vo. Original publisher's tan linen over brown paper covered boards. First edition. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by the author. William Woodis Harvey (1798-1864) provides an early account of the Haitian... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1890). 431 pp. + [adv.] 6 pp. Illus. with 44 b/w engravings. 12mo. Cloth. First edition. "A series of light, amusing, and evocative sketches of Martinique at the end of the nineteenth century," Griffin, p. 450. A very good or better copy, spine sunned with... 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