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We present a rare manuscript signed and handwritter by the famous "Prince of Peace" Manuel Godoy. On very good condition Year 1803 First Secretary of State of Spain Place: Aranjuez (Spain) Spanish Language. Manuel Godoy y Álvarez de Faria, Prince of the Peace, 1st Duke of Alcudia, 1st Duke of Sueca, 1st Baron of Mascalbó (May 12, 1767 – October 4, 1851) was First Secretary of State of Spain from 1792 to 1797 and from 1801 to 1808. He received many titles, including príncipe de la Paz ("Prince of the Peace"), by which he is widely known. He is best known for his diplomacy with Napoleon.[1] He came to power at a young age as the favorite of Charles IV and Queen María Luisa. Despite multiple disasters, he maintained power. Many Spanish leaders blamed Godoy for the disastrous war with Britain that cut off Spain's Empire and ruined its finances.[2] Crown Prince Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias led an attempt to oust Godoy in 1807. His unpopularity culminated in the Tumult of Aranjuez which and exile.
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Título: Tambourines to Glory
Editorial: The John Day Co, New York
Date: 1958
Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket: Good
Edition: First edition 1st
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Original VERY RARE Dr. Seuss GREEN EGGS and HAM -1ST PRT SIGNED!BOOK ON VERY GOOD CONDITION.Dust Jacket with some wear.Inscribed w/o personalizing and SIGNED on title page.FROM PRIVATE COLLECTION.All items are guaranteed to be 100% authentic.Returns: 14 day money back guarantee if item is Unsatisfactory to Buyers standards.
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First book about production of the SUGAR in CUBA. Printed year: 1797 Title: Memoria sobre el mejor mode de fabricar el azucar que en junta celebrada sociedad patriotica havana 1797 First Cuban book about SUGAR FABRICATION. Super very rare Cuban Book and one of the more importants. Cuba has a long-established scientific history which could be considered to have started with the publication in 1673, in Spain, of the first scientific tome written in Cuba by Lazaro de Flores, a physician. The first scientific paper published in Cuba itself was in 1714 and was on astronomical observations. The founding of the Real y Pontificia "Universidad de San Gerónimo? in Havana in 1728 for the study of medicine formally established medical scientific investigation and this was followed by the founding of the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País based in the scientific output of the universities, in 1793. The year 1797 is considered the year of scientific explosion because of the number of scientific papers emanating from La Habana. They included "Disertación sobre algunas plantas cubanas", "Oración inaugural en elogio de la cirugía", "Disertación sobre la fiebre maligna llamada vulgarmente vómito negro"," Discurso sobre las buenas propiedades de la tierra bermeja para el cultivo de la caña"," Memoria sobre el mejor modo de fabricar azúcar and, in July that year, the first defense of the theories of Copernicus was published. By 1826 there had developed a significant life-sciences scientific establishment which was evidenced in part by the launching of the Medical Journal of Havana in 1840 and the creation of the Real Academia de Ciencias Médicas, Físicas y Naturales de la Habana in 1861. In 1867 the Academia de Ciencias in Havana was founded, followed by the Sociedad Para Estudios Clínicos in 1879, representing the first multi-disciplinary health sciences organization in Cuba.From our extensive bibliographic inventory.All items are guaranteed to be 100% authentic.Returns: 14 day money back guarantee if item is Unsatisfactory to Buyers standards.
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Title: El Gran Zoo Author: Nicolas Guillen First edition Signed by Nicolas Guillen. El pasado año se celebró el 20º aniversario de la muerte del poeta cubano Nicolás Guillén, símbolo de la lírica antillana junto con José Martí. Ahora, con este motivo, se recupera en España uno de sus libros más singulares, 'El gran zoo', un bestiario irónico y crítico con ilustraciones de Arnal Ballester.Publicado por Libro del Zorro Rojo, 'El gran Zoo' es un objeto libro con unas impresionantes ilustraciones en color que ha dibujado el catalán Arnal Ballerter, Premio Nacional de Ilustración en 2008, y que acompañan a cada uno de estos poemas plagados de humor y que en ocasiones se convierten en fábulas con moraleja. Unos textos en los que Guillén (Camagüey, 1902-La Habana,1989), cuya vida estuvo marcada por el fuerte compromiso social y político, se torna jovial, irónico y mordaz para construir un zoo como metáfora del mundo. Aunque algunos críticos lo señalan como la metáfora de Cuba y de los cubanos. Nicolás Guillén, la voz de la poesía negra y mulata, comenzó a escribir los primeros poemas de 'El Gran Zoo' en 1958, durante su exilio en Buenos Aires, y los publicó sueltos un año más tarde en la revista 'Lunes de Revolución'. Finalmente, en 1967 fueron reunidos en un volumen, publicado por el Instituto Cubano del Libro. Considerada obra clave de la poesía del siglo XX, el propio Guillén dijo que era el vínculo que le unía a las figuras elegidas, amigos, enemigos o conocidos.
Para Selena Millares, en 'El Gran Zoo' "se alternan los grandes espacios, el de los agentes del bien y del mal, respectivamente; naturaleza y civilización. El primero identifica un mundo primigenio de inocencia ultrajada que se quiere recuperar, y el segundo, toda una plaga de maldiciones, que habla de represión, racismo y miseria.
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A nice original historical photo of the King Haile Selassie. Good condition. Size 21 cm x 15 cm Haile Selassie I (Ge'ez: ቀዳማዊ ኃይለ ሥላሴ, romanized: Qädamawi Haylä Səllasé, Amharic pronunciation: born Ras Tafari Makonnen; 23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975) was the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. Prior to his coronation, he had been the Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia from 1916. He is a defining figure in modern Ethiopian history. He was a member of the Solomonic dynasty who traced his lineage to Emperor Menelik I. Selassie attempted to modernize the country through a series of political and social reforms, including the introduction of Ethiopia's first written constitution and the abolition of slavery. He led the failed efforts to defend Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and spent the period of Italian occupation in exile in England. He returned to lead Ethiopia in 1941 after the British Empire defeated the Italian occupiers in the East African campaign. He dissolved the Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea, which was established by the UN General Assembly in 1950, and integrated Eritrea as a province of Ethiopia while fighting to prevent their independence. His internationalist views led to Ethiopia becoming a charter member of the United Nations. In 1963, he presided over the formation of the Organisation of African Unity, the precursor of the African Union, and served as its first chairman. He was overthrown in a 1974 military coup by a Marxist-Leninist junta, the Derg. Selassie was murdered by the junta on 27 August 1975. Among some members of the Rastafari movement, Haile Selassie is referred to as the returned messiah of the Bible, God incarnate. This distinction notwithstanding, Haile Selassie was a Christian and adhered to the tenets and liturgy of the Ethiopian Orthodox church. The Rastafari movement was founded in Jamaica in the 1930s and its followers are estimated at between 700,000 and one million. He has been criticized by some historians for his suppression of rebellions among the landed aristocracy (the mesafint), which consistently opposed his reforms; some critics have also criticized Ethiopia's failure to modernize rapidly enough. During his rule the Harari people were persecuted and many left the Harari Region His regime was also criticized by human rights groups, such as Human Rights Watch, as autocratic and illiberal.
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A HISTORICAL BOOK SIGNED BY THE WORLD CHAMPION JOSE RAUL CAPABLANCASOLD Very important HISTORICAL BOOK ABOUT CHESS SIGNED by JOSE RAUL CAPABLANCA. TITLE: GLORIAS DEL TABLERO. On good condition of conservation, check the photos. A very historical piece about the life and thought of the human machine of chess RAUL CAPABLANCA.FROM PRIVATE COLLECTION.All items are guaranteed to be 100% authentic.Returns: 14 day money back guarantee if item is Unsatisfactory to Buyers standards.
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Excellent original art work frame by the famous Cuban painter CIRO QUINTANA. Oil on canvas. Size 78 x 60 inches. Big size. Title: "Pride and Prejudice on the Cuban Art" Ciro Quintana (b. Havana, Cuba, 1965). Founder of Puré Group, Quintana is one of the most iconic Cuban artists of the 80s. Throughout his career, his work has been exhibited at solo and group exhibitions in Cuba, the United States, Mexico, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Peru, Venezuela, among other countries. Since 1993 he resides in Miami, Florida.
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Title: The Little PrinceYear: 1943Description: A very nice and rare Second English edition.Hardback. Very good indeed in a very good, slightly worn and rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket with slight edge-tears and chippingFROM PRIVATE COLLECTION.All items are guaranteed to be 100% authentic.Returns: 14 day money back guarantee if item is Unsatisfactory to Buyers standards...
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Original photo signed by Marcos Perez Jimenez.Autographed Signature President of VenezuelaGelatin silverSize 8 x 10 inches.On good condition.
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MIALHE, Pierre Toussaint Frederic (1810-1881) - TORRE, Jose de la - MAY, Bernardo.Plano Pintoresco De La Habana with Mapa Historica Pintoresco Moderno de la Isle De Cuba. Berlin: B. May y CA, 1853.One fine folding tinted lithographed map ( 18 x 23 inches)This scarce pair of maps of Cuba and Havana, surrounded by views and historic scenes of the island, were originally published in Pierre Toussaint Frederic Miahle's (1810-1881)Viaje pintoresco al rededor de la Isla de Cuba, ca 1848, which was subsequently pirated by Bernardo May as Album Pintoresco de la Isla de Cuba in the 1850. In 1853 both Mialhe had unsuccessfully sued May for breach of copyright and demanded "the sequestration of the May-plagiarized albums, notification to the press to stop advertisements of said views,and 20,000 pesos as damages".May denied plagiarism on the grounds that ". after all, ladies in carriages, street sellers, churches, monuments, and landscapes were all there in full view to any artist who cared to paint them". The maps of Cuba and Havana were also copied from an 1847 map by Jose M. de la Torre. Following the failed lawsuit May reissued his volume in 1855On good condition.FROM PRIVATE COLLECTION.All items are guaranteed to be 100% authentic.Returns: 14 day money back guarantee if item is Unsatisfactory to Buyers standards.
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Original oil canvas by famous artist CIRO QUINTANA CUBAN ART POP MODERN ART US MIAMI “Centauro del museo Cubano”
Excellent original art work frame by the famous Cuban painter CIRO QUINTANA. Oil on canvas. Size 78 x 56 inches. Big size. Title: “Serie Visita al museo Cubano Centauro” Ciro Quintana (b. Havana, Cuba, 1965). Founder of Puré Group, Quintana is one of the most iconic Cuban artists of the 80s. Throughout his career, his work has been exhibited at solo and group exhibitions in Cuba, the United States, Mexico, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Peru, Venezuela, among other countries. Since 1993 he resides in Miami, Florida.
