![Capitolio Nacional. Habana-Cuba [cover title]. Cuba](/pictures/thumb/McBRB537_01.JPG?v=1553977607)
Havana: Imp. “Ninon, [1930]. [24]pp. Oblong quarto. Original green pictorial wrappers, string-tied. Cuban Revolution stamp affixed to front cover. Pictorial souvenir of the Capitol Building in Havana, which was inaugurated May 20, 1929. Each image has bilingual descriptive text in English and Spanish on the verso. Images include the exterior..... More
Havana: Molina et Cie, 1936. Folding map, approximately 18 x 29 inches. Original pictorial wrappers. Lower corners of wrappers chipped. A couple of short separations along fold lines. Light toning. Scarce issue of this map of Havana, also published with the Blue Guide to Cuba, which began annual publication in..... More
Havana: C. Jordi, [1929]. [68]pp. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial printed covers, string-tied. Minor wear and soiling. With original transmittal envelope. Handsome pictorial souvenir of Havana, with brightly-colored photomechanical illustrations showing local landmarks and street scenes, as well as regional landscapes and events. Text is printed in Spanish and English. Though..... More
[Key West? ca. 1935?]. Broadside, 18 x 8 inches. Printed on pink paper, slightly faded. Old folds, minor wear. Broadside advertising a steamship cruise offered by Price Tours from Key West to Havana during Carnival, with additional sightseeing itineraries available once on the island. The cruise is a five-day all..... More
Havana. 1900. Three typescript letters, [4]pp. total. Previously folded, light chipping at edges. Evenly tanned. An interesting series of three letters from the Adjutant General W.V. Richards at U.S. Army Headquarters in Havana after the end of the Spanish-American War, during the period of American military government. On February 28..... More
Havana: Viuda de Barcina y Comp. 1863-1864. Twenty-three issues, each approximately 32pp. No. 11 with folding chart, lacks pp.25-32. No. 13 lacking last few leaves. With title page and half title at start of each volume. Original quarter calf and boards, spine gilt. Spine ends chipped and worn, some crude..... More
![Adicion al Correo de Trinidad. Lunes 27 de Octubre de 1834 [caption title]. Cuba, Newspapers,...](/images/noimage.png)
Trinidad, Cuba: Cristobal Murtra e Hijos, 1834. Broadside, 10.5 x 6.5 inches. Previously folded, with light darkening along old fold lines in places; one small patch of staining at upper left; faint, scattered foxing. An unrecorded broadside newspaper extra that prints an optimistic proclamation concerning the first documented cholera epidemic..... More
![Contemporary Manuscript Records for an 1865 Slave Auction House in Santiago de Cuba]. Cuba, Slavery](/pictures/thumb/McBRB974.JPG?v=1574860804)
[Santiago de Cuba: 1865]. [10] leaves. Removed from a larger volume and restitched. Minor wear and one small area of worming at edges. Light tanning and foxing. Accomplished in several legible hands. A fantastic set of manuscript records for a slave auction house, the General Slave Depository in Santiago de..... More
![Manuscript Document Listing Chinese Slaves in Guanabacoa, Cuba]. Cuba, Slavery](/pictures/thumb/McBRB734.JPG?v=1565995289)
Guanabacoa: 1875. Manuscript broadside, 8.25 x 12 inches. Previously folded; light wear along old folds, two short separations at lower edge. A few small wormholes, minimally affecting text. Contemporary ink stamps. Light tanning and dampstaining. A brief, but detailed list of Chinese slaves in an area east of Havana, Cuba..... More
![Manuscript Documents Relating to an 1885 Legal Claim by a Cuban Slave for His Manumission]. Cuba,...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB809_01.JPG?v=1569688754)
[Guanabacoa: 1885]. Nine manuscript documents totally [14]pp. Stitched, with printing cover form completed in manuscript. Moderate chipping at edges. Tanned, brittle paper; occasional light dampstaining. A fascinating file of manuscript legal documents which chronicle a March 1885 case heard by the local authorities in Guanabacoa, Cuba, in which a slave..... More
![Manuscript List of Chinese Laborers on a Plantation and Their Payments]. Cuba, Slavery](/pictures/thumb/McBRB735.JPG?v=1565995291)
[Cuba]: 1876. Single manuscript sheet, 12 x 8.5 inches. Removed from a bound volume, with small perforations at left edges. Previously folded. Small paper stamp affixed at lower center of sheet. Light tanning and foxing. Manuscript sheet that lists Chinese laborers and their salaries at a plantation in Cuba. The..... More
![Manuscript List of Cuban Slaves on One Plantation Who Contracted Cholera in 1868]. Cuba, Slavery](/pictures/thumb/McBRB736.JPG?v=1566783590)
[Guanabacoa: 1868]. Manuscript broadside, approximately 13.75 x 11.5 inches. Folded horizontally. A few worm holes, marginally affecting text. Light tanning and dampstaining; a bit of offsetting. A manuscript table that records incidents of cholera amongst the slaves on the plantation of Don Joaquin de Peñalver in Guanabacoa, Cuba, during the..... More
![Manuscript Rules for 1860s Slave Auctions in Santiago de Cuba]. Cuba, Slavery](/pictures/thumb/McBRB973.JPG?v=1580680445)
Santiago de Cuba: 1864. [4]pp., on two disbound folio leaves. Stab holes at gutter margins of leaves, light wear at edges. Light tanning and foxing. A fascinating set of manuscript regulations that dictated procedures for holding and documenting slave auctions the the Deposito General de Esclavos in Santiago de Cuba..... More
Springfield, Oh. Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1898. 121pp. Folio. Original orange printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling, spine chipped with some glue repair. Ink ownership inscription at top of front cover. Minor internal soiling, several leaves with tape repairs at edges. Extensively illustrated souvenir publication of the Spanish-American War. Images..... More
![Album of Photographs of Cuba from Just Prior to the Spanish-American War]. J. T. Long](/pictures/thumb/McBRB280_01.JPG?v=1550754527)
Des Moines: J.T. Long & Son, [1898]. Twenty-one mounted photographs on twenty leaves; five more loose and unsigned. All but one photo approximately 6 x 8 inches; first photo 4.75 x 4 inches. Loose images approximately 3.75 x 2.75 inches. Oblong quarto. Original green cloth boards, cover gilt; tied with..... More
[Norfolk; New York; West Indies; Washington, D.C.; California; Hawaii: 1935-1938]. Photograph album with 664 original photographs. Oblong folio. Original leatherette covers, string tied. Light wear to edges of covers and album leaves. Photos in corner mounts; manuscript captions on leaves. A few photographs missing, several overexposed, but the preponderance of..... More