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The Serpent and The Rainbow
de Davis Wade
In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis -- people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti --... Leer más sobre este artículo
The Traveller's Tree
de Patrick Leigh Fermor
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was an intrepid traveler, a heroic soldier, and a writer with a unique prose style. After his stormy schooldays, followed by the walk across Europe to Constantinople that begins in A Time of Gifts (1977) and continues through Between the Woods and the Water (1986), he lived and traveled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. His books Mani (1958) and Roumeli (1966) attest to his deep interest in languages and remote places. In the Second World War he joined the...
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The Cuban Story
de Herbert L Matthews
A personal interpretation of the Cuban revolution and its impact on the United States and on Latin America by the noted New York Times correspondent and editor.
Caribe Libros & Coleccionables
Carte de l'isle de la Barbade
de Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
[Paris: Jean-Baptiste Croisey, n.d., 1764. Engraved map hand-colored in outline, approx. 12¼" x 9¼" overall (image size 8" x 5¾"); very good. Map no. 98 from Tome I, extracted from Bellin's Le petit atlas maritime, 1764. Relief shown pictorially.
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![Counter-Revolutionary Agent. [Diary of the Events Which Occurred in Cuba Between January and July 1961. [Bay of Pigs Invasion]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/513/054/1514054513.0.b.2.jpg)
Counter-Revolutionary Agent. [Diary of the Events Which Occurred in Cuba Between January and July 1961. [Bay of Pigs Invasion]
de Hans Tanner
London: G.T. Foulis & Co., Ltd. (1962). Illustrated. Near fine in a very good lightly-rubbed and lightly-soiled dustwrapper, not price-clipped. First edition, first impression. Publisher's review copy of this illustrated "diary of the events which occurred in Cuba between January and July 1961." The author positions himself as one of the leaders of the ill-fated CIA-sponsored brigade to oust, without success, Fidel Castro from power: "'El Suizo' by which name Mr. Tanner is known and hunted by the...
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A historical account of St. Thomas, W.I., with its rise and progress in commerce; missions and churches; climate and its adaption to invalids; geological structure; natural history, and botany; and incidental notices of St. Croix and St. Johns; slave insurrections in these islands; emancipation and present condition of laboring classes
de Knox, John P., Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church, St. Thomas, W.I
New York: Charles Scribner, 145 Nassau Street, 1852. 12mo, pp. xii, [1], 14-271, [1]; tinted lithograph frontispiece of Charlotte Amalie, folding map of the island by H. B. Hornbeck, M.D. in Danish; original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine; cloth cracked along the upper joint, spine a bit dull, one gathering extended, and the map miscreased; all else good and sound. This copy with a whacky reader's extensive annotations on the preliminaries and also a number of pages within. Starting on...
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EUR 706.09
Cuba and the wrecked Maine. With introduction and descriptive text, reproductions of photographs
Chicago: Belford, Middlebrook & Co, 1898. Oblong 4to, pp. [84]; 3 full-page maps, numerous photographs, mostly full-page, including some of the destruction and salvage of the Maine; original pictorial white cloth stamped in brown and green; old Xmas gift inscription, some soiling of the binding, otherwise very good.
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EUR 54.31
![Freaks of the Jagüey, from nature [envelope title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/156/461/1362461156.0.b.jpg)
Freaks of the Jagüey, from nature [envelope title]
de Brownell, Charles D'Wolf
Providence: [the author], 1871. 4to (envelope approx. 9½" x 7¾") containing 6 lithograph illustrations (each present in 2 copies on 2 different types of paper), and accompanied by a sheet of letterpress (approx. 6½" x 8¼") descriptive of the jagüey tree, "known in Jamaica as 'The Scotchman hugging the Creole;' also as the 'Parricide-Tree.' It is a species of Banyan, or Indian Fig ... The accompanying sketches were taken on the Island of Cuba." Only edition of this botanical work. Brownell was a...
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El General de Brigada His Majestys of Sweden ordinance and edict about fees for awards, decrees, and other writings, contracts, and attestations relating to the Office of Justice in the island of St. Bartholomew in the West Indies. Given at the palace of Stockholm in the 2 of May 1797
Stockholm: Tryckt i Kongl. Tryckeriet, 1797. Folio broadside, approx. 21" x 17", text in triple column in Swedish, French, and English; previous folds in quarters, else near fine. A handsome folio broadside in three languages concerning the administration of the Island of St. Bartholomew, a Swedish colony between 1785 and 1878 (the Swedish West India Company was founded in 1786). Comprises fees for different awards, citations, donations, certificates, translations, "journeys into the country," "entering...
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EUR 706.09
Dictionary of Jamaican English ... Second edition
de Cassidy, Frederick G., & R. B. Le Page
Cambridge University Press, 1997. Reprint edition, 8vo, pp. lxiv, 509, [1]; text in double column; original red cloth, gilt-stamped spine; fine. Bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian.
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![An account of the expedition to the West Indies, against Martinico, with the reduction of Guadelupe, and other the [sic] Leeward Islands; subject to the French King, 1759 ... The third edition](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/526/781/870781526.0.b.jpg)
An account of the expedition to the West Indies, against Martinico, with the reduction of Guadelupe, and other the [sic] Leeward Islands; subject to the French King, 1759 ... The third edition
de Gardiner, Richard
Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville, for G Steidel, 1762. 4to, pp. [6], 91, [1]; 4 engraved copperplates (2 folding); bound with, as often: the French version of the same: Relation de la Expedition... Birmingham, 1762, pp. [6], 91, [1]; together in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, red morocco labels on spine, edges stained yellow; very good, sound copy. An uncommon Baskerville production, first published in London in 1759. The last copy at auction was that from the Library of the Earls...
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Geographical, statistical, and historical map of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1822. Hand-colored engraved map approx. 17½" x 22½" overall, the engraving itself approx. 11½" x 18½", with 4 columns of text beneath; central fold; very good. Extracted from a later edition of Carey & Lea's American Atlas. English (red), Danish (green), and Spanish (yellow) possessions indicated by color.
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EUR 488.83
Children of Colonial Despotism: Press, Politics, and Culture in Cuba, 1790-1840
de Jensen, Larry R
University Press of Florida, 1985-04-01. Hardcover. Clean & Unmarked /Like New. 9x5x0. Clean and tight in like dust jacket. 211 pp.
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EUR 14.17
Ley y reglamento de la abolicion de la esclavitud de 13 de febrero de 1880. Comentados, explicados y anotados para su mejor inteligencia y facil aplicación. Seguidos de dos apéndices: 1o. la ley (Môret) de 4 de julio de 1870. 2o. el reglamento de 5 de agosto de 1872
Habana: Casa Editora La Nueva Principal, 1880. 8vo, pp. 74, [2]; original printed brown wrappers; small cracks starting at the extremities of the wrapper joints, some dustiness; all else very good. Title page with the ownership stamp of George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; a surgeon and medical inspector, from 1861-1894 whose naval duties took him to many locations around the world. Slavery was long an established institution in Cuba, providing labor to support the sugar cane plantations. Cuba stopped...
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Rampspoedige water-togt door Franciscus de Porras, met eenige muitelingen van Jamaica naa Hispaniola vrugteloos ondernoomen, in 't jaar 1504. Verhalende niet alleen des ammiraal Kolumbus zeldzaam wedervaren met gemelden de Porras, maar ook zyne verdere togten, en wederkomst in Kastilien tot aan zyn dood. Beneffens de zee-togt van Ferdinandes Cortes, in 't zelve jaar gedaan naar Hispaniola
de Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de
Leyden: Pieter van der Aa, 1706. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 43, [5]; engraved vignette on title page, tail-pieces and initials; 2 folding engraved plates; very good and sound in 20th-century marbled wrappers. Exerpt and translation of the author's Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos, first printed Madrid, 1601, and later reissued in Pieter van der Aa's Naaukeurige versameling, Leyden, 1707 (see Alden, European Americana, 707/2). Alden, European Americana, 706/113; John Carter Brown...
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Vue de l'isle St. Thomas
[Paris]: C. de Lasteyrie, r[ue] du Bac no. 58, 1821. Early lithograph view by Brocas after Edouard de Montulé of the harbor of Charlotte Amalie, approx. 11" x 13¼" overall (image approx. 6" x 9"); light wrinkles, very good. Plate no. 7 extracted from Montulé's Voyage en Amérique, en Italie, en Siciel et en Égypte, pendant les années 1816, 1817, 1818 et 1819 (Paris, 1821). Charles Philibert du Saillant, Comte de Lasteyrie was a lithographic pioneer, draughtsman, printer and publisher. Trained in...
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![St. Thomas Negroes - A Study of Personality and Culture. [Psychological Monographs, Vol. 55, No. 5]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/741/572/1321572741.0.b.0.jpg)
St. Thomas Negroes - A Study of Personality and Culture. [Psychological Monographs, Vol. 55, No. 5]
de Albert A. Campbell [Albert Angus Campbell]; John F. Dashiell, editor
Evanston, Ill.: The American Psychological Association, Inc., 1943. [1], [1], v, 90pp. Serial. 10 x 7 inches. Gray printed wrappers; side stapled. Inscribed by the author on upper cover: "To Dr. Arthur Roper with regards of the writer." Filing annotation in ink on upper cover; upper wrapper and preliminary leaves lightly creased at bottom corner; very good. A psychological and sociological study of African Americans living in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The text discusses slavery, the...
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![Partie occidentale de l'isle de la Guadeloupe, appellée la Basse Terre. [With:] Partie orientale de l'isle de la Guadeloupe, appellée la Grande-Terre](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/352/812/1432812352.0.b.jpg)
Partie occidentale de l'isle de la Guadeloupe, appellée la Basse Terre. [With:] Partie orientale de l'isle de la Guadeloupe, appellée la Grande-Terre
de Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
[Paris: Jean-Baptiste Croisey, n.d., 1764. Two engraved maps hand-colored in outline, each approx. 12¾" x 17¾" overall (image size 8¾" x 14"); previous central folds, all else very good. Map nos. 87 and 88 extracted from Bellin's Le petit atlas maritime, 1764. Relief shown by hachures, depths shown by soundings, oriented with north to the left.
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The Negro and the Post-War World, A Primer
de Rayford Whittingham Logan (1897-1982)
Washington, D.C.: The Minorities Publishers, 1945. viii, [1], 95pp. First Edition. Sm. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth; dust jacket. Near fine in a good dust jacket with age toning, chips and short tears along edges, and front flap clipped; lettering rubbed on cloth spine. Immediate post-World War II survey of the plight Blacks in Africa, the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States by Howard University professor, author, and Pan-Africanist, Rayford Whittingham Logan (1897-1982). Published by the...
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The official dancehall dictionary: a guide to Jamaican dialect and dancehall slang
de Francis-Jackson, Chester
[Kingston, Jamaica: LMH Publishing Ltd, 2004. Third printing, 12mo, pp. xxvi, [2], 72; fine in original pictorial wrappers. Cover and illustrations by Patrick Foster.
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![An address to Christian ministers of every denomination; also, to religious professors, who are in any way connected with West-Indian slavery. (Extracted from the Review of Buddicom's Christian Exodus, in the Christian Observer, for April, 1827.) [Drop title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/778/083/1325083778.0.b.jpg)
An address to Christian ministers of every denomination; also, to religious professors, who are in any way connected with West-Indian slavery. (Extracted from the Review of Buddicom's Christian Exodus, in the Christian Observer, for April, 1827.) [Drop title]
Bristol [England]: T. D. Clark, printer, St. Michael's Hill, 1827. Bifolium (approx. 13" x 7¾"), pp, [3]; last page blank except for a docket: "Joanna Buffinton's paper." Split at previous folds, with neat repair; all else very good. Not found in Afro-Americana. McGill only in OCLC.
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Beautiful Havana. Habana Bella
de [Unkwn.]
Havana, Cuba: Published C. Jordi. Box 2334, c.1929. [18] leaves of plates. View Book. 8¼ x 10¼ inches. Color printed wrappers; stapled. Color illustrations on rectos and versos captioned in English and Spanish. English-language text on front endpaper; Spanish-language text of rear endpaper. Wrappers separated at lower spine with short tear to upper cover at staple; brief wear at fore-edge; otherwise, very good. Vibrant souvenir color view book of Havana, Cuba with over 50 illustrations depicting the...
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Cancion Cruzada. Prologo de Emilio Ballagas
de Acacia Hernández Jiménez and Aída Hernández Jiménez; Prologue by Emilio Ballagas
[La Habana (Havana), Cuba:] La Verónica, (1940). [Colophon: "Viñeta de Ernesto González: Puig"]. 67pp. 6¾ x 5 inches. Stiff printed wrappers. Ownership initials and date on half title. Bookseller's rubber stamp on endpaper: "Libreía 'La Palabra' Reina 210 - Habana." Covers with soil; spine expertly mended; good. A joint collection of poetry by Acacia and Aída Hernández Jiménez, with a foreword by Emilio Ballagas. OCLC returns only University of Miami and two copies in Spain.
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Miralda, das Negermädchen, oder die schwarze Nachtigall der Habana
de Herchenbach, Wilhelm (1818-1889)
Regensburg: Verlag von Georg Joseph Manz, 1862. Small Octavo. 156, [4] pages + four inserted plates. Original quarter leather and papered boards; rubbed and worn with small corner stress fracture to lower cover; two leaves with loss affecting eight words; lacks rear free endpaper. Second edition of this 19th century tale about Miralda, a 12-year old girl of mixed racial identity, and the "black nightingale of Havana." In "What's in a name? A historical source for William Wells Brown's Miralda," scholar...
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![Welcome. Retain this Invitation... [Advertisement Card for Tropical Beer of Cuba]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/769/572/1321572769.0.b.0.jpg)
Welcome. Retain this Invitation... [Advertisement Card for Tropical Beer of Cuba]
de [Nueva Fabrica de Hielo]
[Habana, Cuba]: [Nueva Fabrica de Hielo, ca. 1930s?]. Color lithographic trade card printed on thick card stock. Approx. 5 x 3 ½ inches. Fine condition. Trade card for the Cuban brewery, Nueva Fabrica de Hielo, makers of Tropical Beer. Their trade card offered an invitation to the company's tropical gardens with a promise of entertainment and "Free Beer!" guaranteeing a "permanent smile and everlasting pep you'll only find in cristal [sic] beer". We imagine this pitch card was geared towards American...
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Behind the Lianas. Exploration in French Guiana
de Larsen, Henry, and May Pellaton
Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1958. First English edition, 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], photoreproductive plates; full blue cloth, gilt title on spine, fine in dust jacket with some soiling and closed tears at folds.
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EUR 21.73
Carte de l'isle de Sainte Lucie
de Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
[Paris: Jean-Baptiste Croisey, n.d., 1764. Double-page engraved map hand-colored in outline, approx. 12¼" x 17½" overall (image size 8" x 12"); central fold, else very good. Map no. 95 from Tome I, extracted from Bellin's Le petit atlaas maritime, 1764. Relief shown pictorially.
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