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16º. Original binding in blue velvet; goffered with plant motifs and shield in the center.Attractive Cuban piece documenting the array of religious activities in the country at the time. Of particular note is the elegant original velvet binding. # Worldcat (Libraries in USA: No copiesNineteenth Century Cuban Calendar- Attractive Original Binding in Velvet -

"Petit" Cuban Calendar For 1864
12vo; fine contemporary Cuban binding in full calf, with gilt decorations on both covers.
This small Cuban calendars, nicely printed in Havana by the best printers of the city, are much sought after by collectors.
# WorldCat: NO copies.

Breve compendio de la carpintería de lo blanco y tratado de alarifes con la conclusión de la regla de Nicolás Tartaglia y otras cosas tocantes a la geometría y puntas del compás dedicado al…
4to; pergamino.
Suplemento o adiciones a el compendio de la carpintería de lo blanco y tratado de alarifes de el maestro Lopez de Arenas. Lo escribe Don Santiago Rodriguez de Villafañe, professor de mathematicas, quien lo dedica al mismo glorioso patriarcha Sr. San Joseph, esposo de la Santissima Virgen, tutelar y patrono de el arte de la carpintería. Sevilla, Manuel de la Puerta, Impressor de la Universidad, 1727.
RARE SPANISH TRACT ON CARPENTRY, SECOND EDITION. Diego López de Arenas, carpenter, builder and "alarife" in seventeenth-century Seville was a master in the art of carpentry. His compendium of carpentry is followed by some notions of geometry because according to the Royal Ordinances of the Kingdom of Seville, the "Alarife has a precise obligation to be wise in geometry" ; a treaty of… Read More

Amphitheatro sagrado, desde cuyas tres órdenes de asientos se pueden vèr sin zozobra, y con gusto los espectaculos celebres, y magnificos, que ofreciò à los ingenios, y à los ojos el maximo colegio cordobès de la Compañia de Jesus para aplaudir, en su canonizacion, a los dos nuevos astros de su milicia, S. Luis Gonzaga, y S. Estanislao Kostka. Impresso en Cordoba: En casa de Juan de Ortega, y Leon, mercader de libros por Acisclo Cortès, Diego de Valverde, y Juan de Pareja, [1728].
4th; Plate with the coat of arms of the Marquis of Las Escalonias, signed by Bernabé Orbaneja in Córdoba (1728); contemporary vellum.
First edition. List of the celebrations that the Jesuits of the Colegio de la Compañía de Jesús de Córdoba organized in 1753 to celebrate the canonization of two young members of the order, Luis Gonzaga and Estanislao Kostka. Signed by Pedro Clemente Valdés, pseudonym Pedro del Busto, secretary of the poetic contest (JE de Uriarte, Catálogo razonado de obras anónimas y… Read More

View Album(s) of Chicago.
Columbus, Ohio. Published by Ward Brothers. 1892/1893.
3 vols; oblong 8vo, with photogravure plates (88 views); original decorated dark green gilt block title on the upper cover.
A FINE SERIES OF 3 ALBUMS CONTAINING CHICAGO VIEWS. Reproduced from original photographs from J.W. Taylor's American Photographic Series, Chicago, Illinois. (Title page). Some of the views relate to the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 including a bird's-eye view. (RF 604).

Collection of 23 original edicts (February 1896-September 1898) by the Captain Generals of Cuba (19 by General Valeriano Weyler, 4 by General Ramón Blanco, the last Spanish Captain General of Cuba.). The edicts concern the attempts by the Spanish authorities to control the insurrection. They range from Weyler's efforts to concentrate the population in fortified encampments, a measure often considered the precursor of concentration camps, to Blanco´s establishing of a ceasefire in 1898.
23 ORIGINAL EDICTS; some manuscript annotations and the stamp of the Army of Cuba on some communiqués. The collection includes three items of related ephemera.
Notable collection of original edicts from Spanish authorities who participated in the Cuban War of Independence and attempted unsuccessfully to end the insurrection. The Cuban War of Independence (the War of 1895) is the name given to the final Cuban war against Spanish domination. It is one of the last American wars against the Kingdom of Spain. The war… Read More

"República de Colombia o noticia de sus límites, extensión, montañas, ríos, producciones, comercio, población, habitantes, educación, leyes, religión, e historia. Publicada en la setima edición de la "Enciclopedia Británica", traducida al Cast." Bogotá, Imprenta de N. Lora, 1837.
12vo; large contemporary leather binding, richly decorated; provenance: inscribed in the verse of the first blank sheet: "Offer to Senior General Santander President Della Nova Granada ill 31 Marco 1837";
First edition, apparently prepared for the inclusion of the Republic of Colombia in the seventh edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" published in 1842. This edition includes a foreword by Santander, president of Nueva Granada, with interesting data on the political situation at that time.
In Latin America, Bolívar is revered as a hero, visionary, revolutionary, and liberator. During his lifetime, he led Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia to independence, and helped lay the foundations of democratic… Read More