Havana: [ca. 1950]. 389pp., plus [33]pp. of ads. Original red publisher's cloth, stamped in black. Dampstained at edges and spine, extremities worn; rear cover soiled. Contemporary inscription on front pastedown. Foxed, some scattered soiling. An interesting bilingual Cuban cook book, with recipes in English and Spanish on facing pages. The..... More

Havana: 1931. 150pp. Stiff black cloth covers, printed paper label on front board. Front cover vertically creased, light wear to boards; remnants of glassine stuck to covers. Contemporary inscription on front flyleaf. Internally clean. In a custom clamshell box. First edition of the first Cuban cook book published in English..... More

Habana: [ca. 1965]. [16]pp. Oblong pamphlet in original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Light wear and toning at wrapper edges, with a few faint creases. Internally clean. A visually rich pro-Casto and pro-Communist pamphlet that highlights the history and core activities of Cuba's Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), neighborhood-based..... More

Guanabacoa: Imprenta el Progreso, 1896. Broadside, approximately 17 x 12.5 inches. Previously folded. Some biopredation at left edge, not affecting text. Otherwise, faint foxing, light tanning and dust soiling. Two contemporary manuscript rubrics. Unrecorded broadside that orders the presentation of privately-owned horses and pack animals in the town square of..... More

Habana: Impresas por D. V. de Torres, 1845. 53,[3]pp. Contemporary plain blue wrappers, separated at spine. Stitched, as issued, with additional small stabholes at gutter where previously bound into a sammelband. Light foxing and dust soiling. A seemingly unrecorded architectural pamphlet that prints the first comprehensive building code for Havana..... More

Havana: January 5, 1822. Broadside, 11.5 x 8 inches. Foxed, faint signs of folding, a few small wormholes, not affecting text. An apparently unrecorded broadside order from the captain general of Cuba, Nicolas Mahy, directing all able-bodied men under the age of fifty to join up with their local militias..... More

Havana: Imprenta del Gobierno y Capitania General por S.M., 1845. 68,[4]pp. 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..... More

[Havana: November 14, 1889]. 19pp., on ten sheets of sealed paper, each 12½ x 8½ inches. Stitch holes at gutter margin. Uneven toning and staining, scattered worming. Tape reinforcement at edges. Contemporary and later ink stamps. Accomplished in a legible, secretarial script. A complete set of rules and regulations for..... More

Havana: 1861, 1863. Two partially printed broadsheets, completed in manuscript, 13 x 9 inches. Old folds, wear at edges; some light worming, slightly affecting text. Lightly soiled. A pair of documents recording the indenture of a Chinese national in Havana. The present documents contract the "Asiatico Francisco" as a cook..... More

Macau: April 6, 1867. [6]pp., on large folio partially-printed forms, printed in two columns, completed in manuscript. Old folds with minor losses at a few spots along the horizontal fold. Five hundred and fifty Chinese laborers bound for Cuba aboard the Spanish galley "Cervantes" are listed by name, with their..... More

[Various locations, mostly in Cuba and Florida: March 5 to April 1, 1909]. [21] leaves, illustrated with 235 photographs, all with typed captions. Oblong folio. Contemporary full dark brown cloth, brad bound. Moderate staining and coiling to covers, some edge wear. Bottom corners of all leaves chipped, not costing content..... More

[Various places in Cuba, including Bejucal, Havana, Matanzas, & Sagua la Grande: 1862-1869]. Sixteen broadside, broadsheet, and bifolium forms, completed in manuscript. Previously folded, with some short separations along old folds; one longer closed tear from lower left corner of one form. Some chipping and wear at edges, not affecting..... More

[N.p. ca. 1910]. 11pp. of folio typescript, totaling around 3,000 words, with a handful of manuscript corrections. Old folds, minor marginal stains from old paper clips. An anonymously-written typescript promotional and business prospectus touting the Isle of Pines (Isla de la Juventud) off the southern coast of Cuba in the..... More