Yankee Travels Through The Island Of Cuba;: or, The Men and Government, The Laws and Customs of Cuba, as Seen by American Eyes.
by Philalethes, Demoticus, pseudonym. Ignacio Franchi Alfaro (attributed to)
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New York: D. Appleton, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. fine. 12mo, xii, 412 pages, original light brown embossed cloth.
These observations are related in a series of 61 letters. These were originally composed in Spanish, then translated into English by Joseito. "I have thereby been enabled to impart entirely new data and reliable information, instead of merely copying from books already known. ... I applied myself to natives who besides an intimate knowledge of affairs in general, possessed a sound judgment and an investigating disposition. It has beeen indeed a very happy incident to have found them. ... That part of my work which treats on judicial matters and the secrets of the management of the tribunals, will especially attract the attention of my readers. - Introductory Letter." [ Sabin 17816; Treiles, BIBLIO. CUBANA, vo. 4, p.17].
These observations are related in a series of 61 letters. These were originally composed in Spanish, then translated into English by Joseito. "I have thereby been enabled to impart entirely new data and reliable information, instead of merely copying from books already known. ... I applied myself to natives who besides an intimate knowledge of affairs in general, possessed a sound judgment and an investigating disposition. It has beeen indeed a very happy incident to have found them. ... That part of my work which treats on judicial matters and the secrets of the management of the tribunals, will especially attract the attention of my readers. - Introductory Letter." [ Sabin 17816; Treiles, BIBLIO. CUBANA, vo. 4, p.17].
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- Title
- Yankee Travels Through The Island Of Cuba;
- Author
- Philalethes, Demoticus, pseudonym. Ignacio Franchi Alfaro (attributed to)
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- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fine
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- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1856
- Keywords
- Cuba, customs, law, judiciary, tribunals, funerals, funerary, caleseros, carriages, coaches, courtship, railroads, sugar plantations, judiciary, slaves, slavery, cock fighting, tobacco, tobacco plantations, tobacco plantations, cocuyos, bullfights, Cuban
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Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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