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"Santiago de Cuba"

By: N/A

Price: $1,000.00

Seller ID: 004490

Binding: Box

Condition: Very Good

Extraordinary group of ten original "postcards" with mixed media artwork depicting the sights of Santiago de Cuba. N.d., 1950s. With each folk art-y depiction of a monument, building or the like there is a combination of wafer thin pieces of wood pasted down and watercolors and pen and ink applied directly to the card. On to the wood is applied inkwork as well. The sights include the Jose Marti monument, the Abel Santa Maria monument, the cathedral, the Moncada, the Pdre Pico stairs, the Castello del Morro, the Diego Velazquez balcony, the Plaza de la Revolucion Antoni Maceo, the Granjita S...
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Standard Guide to Havana. A Complete Handbook for Visitors, With Maps, Illustrations, Historyu, and an English-Spanish Manual of Conversation

By: N/A

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Havana and New York, Foster & Reynolds: 1907

Seller ID: 004603

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 19 by 12.5 cm. 144, 70 pp. With many photos of sights and people of Cuba, and a fold-out map. Also an abundance of ads for Cuban businesses and services as well as mainland U.S. hotels. Wear to the spine, with lower two inches of it missing. Internally tight and clean. Fold-out map in lovely condition.
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Hotel Trotcha. "The Hotel of Many Attractions". In Vedado. Havana's most aristocratic and salubrious suburb. Cuba.

By: N/A

Price: $275.00

Seller ID: 006584

Binding: Brochure. Wraps.

Condition: Very Good

Scarce brochure from a historic Cuban hotel, where among other things, the country was ruled briefly following the expulsion of Spain in the wake of the Spanish-American War. No copies found on OCLC. 8vo. 20 by 10 cm. Unpaginated, 40 pp., plus fold up map of Havana. Many photos of hotel and tourist attractions. Besides a description and history of the hotel, information on the tourist sites, the brochure provides useful info to tourists such as currency exchange info, public carriage rate schedules, and very importantly, a Spanish English word and phrase glossary. Seven pages of adverti...
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Our Artist in Cuba. Fifty Drawings on Wood. Leaves from the Sketch-Book of a Traveler, During the Winter of 1864-5

By: Carleton, George W.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Carleton: 1865

Seller ID: 004598

Binding: Pebbled Cloth

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 16.5 by 11 cm. viii, 50 pp., each with a comical illustration or two. Charming, if arguably Rascist. Probably capturing very well the common impressions of the tourists of the era, with noisome insects, heat and other afflictions sabotaging the pleasure of the visit. A clean, fresh copy, with the lightest of wear.
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Spectacular Whimsical Album of Cuban Cigarette Cards and Die-Cuts, 1869 to 1871

By: de Dios Yvaez y Valera, Juan (?)

Price: $9,500.00

Publisher: Habana (Havana, Cuba),

Seller ID: 005937

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

Oblong, 23 by 34 cm. 142 leaves, with cards and surrounding decoration only on rectos. Containing a total of 547 chromolithographic cards, plus countless pieces of chromo die-cuts and cut-outs which provide most of the elaborate decoration, and which crucially make this album an extraordinary, unique work of "folk art". The paramount value of this album is its artistic pizazz as a piece. This is not to minimize the value of the collection of cigarette cards printed in Cuba. We believe a collection of cards this extensive is in all probability a rarity, but we can not so represent ...
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Category: Cuba

"Santiago de Cuba"

Standard Guide to Havana. A Complete Handbook for Visitors, With Maps, Illustrations, Historyu, and an English-Spanish Manual of Conversation

Hotel Trotcha. "The Hotel of Many Attractions". In Vedado. Havana's most aristocratic and salubrious suburb. Cuba.

Our Artist in Cuba. Fifty Drawings on Wood. Leaves from the Sketch-Book of a Traveler, During the Winter of 1864-5

Spectacular Whimsical Album of Cuban Cigarette Cards and Die-Cuts, 1869 to 1871