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Auction Date
November 07, 2024 - November 07, 2024
Page Size: 539 items in 22 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
227 Serrano, Francisco

Circular regarding the requirement for monthly reports about Chinese indentured laborers to be sent to the Superior Government in Cuba to ensure their departure at the end of their contract

Habana, Cuba 5 de Marzo, 1860 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 562.50
228

Ship Manifest from the Spanish Ministry of War listing Chinese laborers bound for Havana, Cuba

Macao 1861 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
229

Ship's manifest listing Chinese indentured servants transported to Cuba

Macau, China 1864 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 237.50
230

Ship's manifest listing Chinese laborers / indentured servants being embarked for transportation to Cuba

Macau, China 1 de Noviembre de 1864 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
231

Document recording the transfer of two slaves into the "Patronato" system during the final stages of slavery in Cuba

Cuba February 7, 1882 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
232

Document relating to the arrival in Cuba of a group of emancipated slaves and what to do with them

Havana, Cuba May 31, 1848 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
233

Edict regarding how to manage the use of slaves for state service in Cuba

Havana, Cuba March 17, 1874 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
234

File of manuscript documents regarding the full slave complement of a plantation rebelling and refusing to work because in was raining

Cuba 1878 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
235

Legal file relating to a manumitted slave who is not being supplied proper documents or a promised stipend - with the slave's original receipts for payment in gold

Cuba 1880 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
236

Manuscript account document for a "Deposito de Bosales" in Cuba, a holding area for slaves who had not been assimilated into hispanic culture

Puerto Principe (present-day Camaguey, Cuba) August 31, 1857 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
237

Manuscript list of hundreds of slaves that were baptized with dates of most baptisms, with a very early - 1846 - appearance of a Chinese slave in Cuba

Cuba c.1846-1854 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
238

Six manuscript documents relating to escaped African slaves in Cuba

Cuba 1845-1854 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,250.00
239

Two documents relating to compensation to Cuban slave owners for impressment of their slaves into the Spanish forces to fight rebels during the Ten Years' War in the struggle for Cuban independence

Cuba 1874 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
240

Album de la Revolucion Cubana: 1952-1959

Havana, Cuba c.1960 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.25
241

Expediante (legal file) regarding the the trial and sentencing of a free black ("el negro libre") for causing injury ("lesiones") to a Chinese ("asiatico")

Havana, Cuba 1875 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
242

Manuscript statements or letters about prostitution dens in Matamzas

Cuba c.1890 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
243

Police file (Expediante) of a freed slave who seems to have become a criminal con artist, or confidence man

Cuba 1873 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
244 Reyes, Juan Justo

Manual de Prosodia y Ortografia, compuesto en obsequio de las personas que se dedican al noble ejercicio de la pluma...

Habana 1838 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 562.50
245 Degrand, P. P. F.

Proceedings of the Friends of a Rail-Road to San Francisco, at Their Public Meeting, Held at the U.S. Hotel, in Boston, April 19, 1849. Including an Address to the People of the U. States; Showing that P. P. F. Degrand's Plan is the Only One, as yet Propo

Boston 1849 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 312.50
246 Dutton, C.E.

Report on the Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah...

Washington 1880 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
247 Dye, John S., editor

Government Counterfeit Detector

Philadelphia 1879; 1881 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 200.00
248 Eckfeldt, Jacob Reese & William E. Du Bois

New Varieties of Gold and Silver Coins, Counterfeit Coins, and Bullion, with Mint Values

Philadelphia 1850 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
249 Ellis, Albert H.

The Oklahoma Territory Pioneer

1936 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
250

Photograph of Arthur Gooch, about to be hung for his part in kidnapping two police officers

No place 1936 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
251 Fisher, Irving

Elementary Principles of Economics

New York 1915 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
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