Boston: February 20, 1862. 4pp. on a single sheet of newsprint. Folded, split along top central vertical fold lines of both leaves with minimal loss, bottom portion of spine fold also split, some edge darkening and minor chipping. A rare surviving issue of The Pine and Palm, an abolitionist newspaper..... More

New York: 1911. Folding lithograph map, handcolored, 11 x 27.5 inches. Original printed pictorial boards with cloth spine. Light wear and chipping to spine, light wear to boards. Advertisements on front pastedown. Light wear to map at some folds, but generally clean and fresh. An attractive map of Bermuda, showing..... More

[Havana: 1960]. [42] leaves, printed rectos only. Oblong 12mo. Original black printed wrappers, string tied. Minor chipping to wrapper corners, costing the original metal tips at the corners, moderate rubbing and abrading to wrappers. Minor dust-soiling and ink stamp to title leaf, small dampstain to bottom corner of last two..... 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

Havana: Imprenta del H. Teodid, 1874-1875. 204;268pp., plus two portrait plates tipped onto front endpapers. 4to. Contemporary quarter sheep and paste paper boards, spine gilt. Moderate wear at edges and spine ends; boards scuffed in places. Front hinge split, with plates and initial leaf loose. Light toning and faint foxing..... More

[Playa Varadero: 1960]. Two printed forms, completed in manuscript. Previously folded. Moderate wear and occasional soiling. A pair of printed forms filled out in manuscript that comprise an agreement for a woman of Asian, probably Chinese, descent named Josefa Lam Chang to rent property in the beach town of Varadero..... More

[Various places in Cuba, including Havana, Matanzas, Coral Nuevo, Pinar del Rio, and others: ca. 1860-1881]. Ninety-one documents, varying sizes, totaling about [150]pp. Some chipping and wear at edges. Moderate tanning and foxing. Occasional worming, not seriously affecting text. A large group of over ninety printed and manuscript items that..... More

Havana, Cuba: 1901. Original three-color ink artwork on light brown cloth, 7.25 x 19 inches. Light soiling, minor staining on verso. An elaborate piece of Christmas-time trench art created by Harry W. Loud, Sergeant of the 22nd Company of the Coastal Artillery while stationed in Havana, Cuba in the wake..... More

Habana: 1884. [2],496 [i.e., 498]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf, gilt, a.e.g.; rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners repaired with later black buckram; boards scuffed, spine chipped. Hinges cracked, repaired with later cloth and renewed endpapers. Minor scattered foxing and toning to text. Accomplished in a neat, highly legible hand. A..... More

[Havana & Puerto Principe: 1834-1846]. Two letters, totalling [23]pp., plus four printed forms completed in manuscript, each measuring approximately 12 x 8.5 inches. Letters previously folded, with small stab holes at left margin where previously bound. Contemporary ink stamps. Moderate, even tanning; scattered light foxing. Accomplished in a neat, legible..... More

Havana: 1872. Manuscript form, approximately 8.5 x 6.25 inches. Minor wear at edges; a few small worm holes. Contemporary ink stamp. Light tanning and offsetting. This 1872 manuscript form from a Havana jail, the Celaduria de la Punta, notes the death there of an "Asiatico," a Chinese indentured servant, with..... More

[Havana]: 1799. [6]pp. on five small folio leaves. Stitched. Some worming and iron gall ink oxidation causing minor losses to text, but not affecting sense. Light tanning and foxing. Accomplished in several legible scripts. A very interesting record of late-18th century maritime trade between the United States and Cuba. In..... More

[Various locations in Virginia and Cuba]: 1910-1911. [30] leaves, illustrated with eighty-five mounted sepia-toned photographs and fifteen mounted cyanotypes, plus nineteen photographs laid in. Oblong octavo. Contemporary leather. Binding significantly chipped and rubbed, spine perished. First leaf detached, a couple of removed photos, otherwise nice internally. An intriguing collection of..... More