New York: [1892]. Folding lithograph map, 11 x 28 inches. Original quarter cloth and pictorial paper boards. Minor wear and soiling to boards. Contemporary ownership inscription on front board. One pinhead-sized loss at fold point and light tanning to map. An attractive and unrecorded map of Bermuda, showing major driving..... More

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

[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: 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

[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

[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

[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

[Havana: 1854]. [16]pp., on folio leaves. Previously stitched. Some wear at gutter margin. Old horizontal folds. Occasional iron-gall ink burn. Evenly tanned. An outstanding manuscript that provides a detailed enumeration of slaves in Cuba in 1854, organized by region and town. The gathering of data was apparently commissioned by the..... More

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

Havana: Book Store Obispo, 1899. 96pp., plus two folding maps and fourteen leaves of advertisements. Oblong 12mo. Original cloth wrappers, gilt lettered. Wraps fading at edges, with some light wear; spine ends chipped. Text block and maps detached. Some separations along map folds, with several verso tape repairs. Light tanning..... More

Puerto-Principe: Imprenta del Fanal, 1861. 17pp. Leaves loose. Light wear, one ink correction to text. A rare Cuban work outlining the necessity of a railroad between Puerto-Principe and Santa Cruz. The many benefits of the plan are detailed herein, with numerous charts. Miguel Rodriguez Ferrer (1815-1889) was a Spanish author..... More