Our latest cataogue is devoted to works from and about Cuba, primarily from the 19th century. It includes unusual and rare imprints -- many of them unrecorded -- not only from Havana, but also Guanabacoa, Cienfuegos, Puerto-Principe, and Matanzas, as well as manuscript material and photography. Highlights include a rare Cuban cook book illustrated with plates; a rare bilingual guidebook published in Havana in 1899, with a handsome map; an archive of mining photographs featuring local people and scenery; the archive of a Cuban planter from the early 19th-century; a photographically illustrated work on the Cuban Revolution published in 1872; a rare annual guide to Cuba from 1809 located in one other copy; and many more interesting pieces. Enjoy!
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Havana: En la Imprenta de la Capitania General, [1808]. 200 [i.e., 201]pp. plus folding map and two folding tables. 16mo. Contemporary green morocco with onlaid red morocco border, gilt tooled, edges tinted yellow. Light wear to binding, slightly heavier at edges and joints. Short, closed tear to map at right..... More
Havana: 1930. 63pp. Small quarto. Original green cloth, front board lettered in silver. Cloth and pastedowns separating from boards. Boards lightly rubbed, some wear to corners and spine. Scarce issue of the constitution and by-laws of the Havana Country Club, printed in Spanish and English on facing pages, published in..... 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: 1916. Eight parts in two volumes. Original half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Calf scuffed at spine ends; light wear to corners and edges; boards rubbed. Rear board with a dime-sized chip at lower fore-edge. Slightly later pencil ownership inscriptions to initial title pages of each volume. Small..... 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
Cienfuegos: Imprenta del Ferro-Carril, 1864. 20pp., plus seven tables, two folding. Original green cloth, blind stamped and gilt lettered. Light wear at edges and spine ends; minor rubbing to boards. Manuscript letter laid in. Separation along fold and short closed tear at gutter of one plate. Light tanning. A rare..... More
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[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
![Compliments of Cuban Tours and Transportation Co. Incorporated [cover title]. Cuba, Travel](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1489_01.jpg?v=1596894948)
Havana: [ca. 1928]. [60]pp. Oblong 12mo. Original printed pictorial wrappers, stapled and tied with ribbon. Minor wear and soiling, contemporary ink stamp on rear cover. Internally clean. A handsome promotional booklet for the island of Cuba, provided by the Cuban Tours and Transportation Company and extensively illustrated. After the opening..... 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
Matanzas: Aurora del Yumiri, 1882. 36pp. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Spine mostly perished, but wraps holding. Some edge wear and toning. Contemporary ink stamp on title page. An unrecorded instructional booklet on the history of Cuba for use by schools on the island, printed in Matanzas in 1882. The text..... More
Guanabacoa: Imprenta, 1864. 73,[2]pp. Small octavo. Contemporary red quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Corners and spine ends lightly worn, binding rubbed. Internally clean. Rare volume of poetry by Antonio Hurtado del Valle (1842-1875), journalist and poet of the Cuban independence movement during the mid-19th century. He wrote for..... More
Havana: 1854-1855. Four volumes in one. xlxi,155; 272; 356; 200pp. 20th-century calf, spine gilt. Rear cover detached, spine ends chipped, corners and hinges rubbed. Text lightly tanned, a few pencil notations, minor wear. A detailed geographical survey of Cuba with an enormous amount of data on topography, water resources, minerals..... More
New York: Rowntree Press, 1901. viii,224pp., plus two folding maps. Small quarto. Original pictorial stiff wrappers, neatly rebacked. Light wear and dust soiling to wraps. Scattered contemporary pencil annotations. Light tanning. Several separations and tape repairs to folding maps. A finely detailed guide principally devoted to Havana, with numerous photographic..... More
Havana: Miguel de Villa, 1881. 88pp. plus folding table. Grey printed wrappers. Chipping and wear to top of spine, light soiling to wrappers, minor wear. Some minor foxing and toning. An educational work on the geografia of Cuba, defined here as "la ciencia que se ocupa de la descripcion de..... More
Puerto-Principe: Imprenta del Fanal, 1861. 17pp. Leaves loose. Light wear, one ink correction to text. A rare Cuban work printed outside of Havana, outlining the necessity of a railroad between Puerto-Principe (modern Camaguey) and Santa Cruz. The many benefits of the plan are detailed herein, with numerous charts. Miguel Rodriguez..... More