Search Results: Titles starting with L from LIBRERIA DE ANTANO

Rare Floridiana * Group of 19th Century Stereoviews * Including One of "Uncle Jack, the Oldest Inhabitant"
37 stereoview photographs on original mounts, about 4 x 7 inches.

AN ATRACTIVE GROUP OF ORIGINAL STEREOVIEWS FROM FLORIDA IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. 28 of these were published by George Barker of Niagara Falls. Almost all depict St. Augustine, including the Ponce de Leon Hotel and nearby Fort Marion. Other subjects include a "cracker house with mud chimney," and a less condescending than usual "race" scene showing a celebration of "New Year's Day in the Sunny South." Another series of 9 on different mounts by an uncredited photographer also focus on St. Augustine, and include an elderly African-American man named "Uncle Jack, the Oldest Inhabitant," as well as the obligatory alligator

Military Uprising in Puerto Rico
8vo; 86 p, 1 h; contemporary calf.
Andrés García Camba y de las Heras (Monforte de Lemos, Lugo, 1793 - Madrid, 1861) was a Spanish soldier, politician and writer, a native of Galicia. The memoirs that he wrote about his performance in the war of the Independence of Peru have been a source widely used by historians. On October 17, 1854, he was appointed Captain General of Puerto Rico and took office on January 31, 1855, a position from which he was removed a few months later, after an uprising by the military in San Juan de Puerto Rico. In this rare pamphlet he recounts that episode.

# WorldCat: 5 copies in US Libraries (AZ, Berkeley,Harvard, Puerto Rico, Austin).

Rare Mexican Imprint with a Biography of a Jesuit Priest
On the Road for Sainthood
Broadside (305 x 210 mm). Copper engraving and letterpress on laid, watermakred paper.
Excellent condition, strong impression. This extremely rare broadside celebrates the life of Francesco de Geronimo (1642 - 1716), an Italian Jesuit priest who was beatified by the Vatican in 1806; published in Mexico City by Francisco Gordillo, a Spanish-born engraver who is best known as the Chief Assayer of the Mexico City mint. A fine frontal portrait of Francesco de Geronimo in his vestments of ominates the broadside with Gordillo's imprint appearing near the bottom of the platemark. The detailed letterpress text below recounts aspects of the priest's life and accomplishments. While Francesco de Geronimo never stepped foot in the Americas, his tireless and selfless life of work assisting destitute people in Southern Italy was well known in Mexico.
Like virtually all Mexican colonial broadsides, which tended to have been… Read More