Sale 2432 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, November 17, 2016

333 ● (BRAZIL.) Pela Communicação . . . com que os Francezes, e especial- mente a Chefe delles, o Imperador Napoleão. 3 pages, 12 1 / 4 x 7 1 / 2 inches, on one folding sheet, addressed to the Bishop of Tlaxcala in Mexico; manuscript completions and annotations, minimal wear. Rio de Janeiro, 20 January 1810 [500/750] A circular letter on Napoleon Bonaparte’s conflicts with the Catholic Church. An early example of Brazilian printing, which did not begin legally until 1808. None traced in OCLC or at auction. 334 ● (CUBA.) Rivas, Manuel de. Colonias Annamitas en Cuba: proyecto presen- tado al gobierno de España. 12 pages. 4to, modern calf gilt; foxing, worming, top edge of title slightly cropped, closed tear and old paper repair to final leaf. Havana: Imprenta el Pensamiento, 1871 [500/750] A proposal to bring sugar plantation laborers from Annam, Tonkin, and Cochinchina (which now comprise Vietnam). Rivas advocates that they be brought in family groups and settled in ethnic enclaves. Palau 270003. 2 copies in OCLC, and none known at auction. 335 ● (CUBA.) Ruiz de Apodaca, Juan. Documents on the election of deputies to the Cortes in Cuba and the Floridas. 4, 7, 1 pages. 3 unbound documents, 12 x 8 1 / 4 inches; stitch holes, moderate worming and foxing. Havana,August 1812 [400/600] The first document is captioned “Instalacion de la Junta preparatoria, para eleciones de diutados en las Córtes ordinarias,” and orders the formation of an electoral council for the Province of Cuba, including representatives from the Philippines, and from St. Augustine and Pensacola in Florida.The second is captioned “Directorio de las operaciones que habrán de practicar los gefes políticos de las ciudades . . . de la provincia isla de Cuba.” It specifies that each Catholic parish should have a political leader who shall discuss local affairs after each Sunday mass.The final document is a printed cover letter, signed in type by Ruiz de Apodaca and others. None of these have been traced in OCLC or Palau. 336 ● (CUBA.) Testimonio de la información, buena vida y costumbre de Don Feliz del Rey, clerigo de menores ordenes. 14 manuscript leaves plus manuscript title page. Folio, 12 1 / 4 x 8 1 / 2 inches, stitched; minor wear. Havana, 2 August 1758 [400/600] Certification of the blood purity of a Cuban clergyman Feliz de Rey, a native of Laguna in Tenerife, including on leaf 11 that he was free of “de toda mala raza, de moros, judíos, indios, negros ni mulatos y que no es de los nuevamente convertidos a nuestra santa fe católica” (all bad races, Moorish, Jewish, Indian, black or mulatto, and is not a convert to our Catholic faith). 337 ● (CUBA.)Villate y la Hera, Blas de, Conde deValmaceda. Lengthy report advocating German immigration to Cuba. Letter Signed, [10], [40] manuscript pages. 4to, mounted on cloth stubs and disbound; minor worming and browning, laminated, inked number stamps on each leaf. Havana, 4 August 1871 [400/600] The heart of this letter is a transcription of a long letter from Juan Antonio Rascón, the Spanish envoy in Berlin, dated Berlin, 15 May 1871. Rascón notes the great benefits of mass German emigration to the United States and Brazil, and hopes that Germans might eventually help to replace slaves as a labor force in Cuba. Longstanding commercial ties could help speed the process, as well as Spanish subsidies for the trans-Atlantic voyage. Rascón’s letter is prefaced by a 10-page retained Letter Signed by Blas de Villate y la Hera, Conde de Valmaceda, Governor of Cuba, dated 4 August 1871, also extolling the virtues of Germans as industrious immigrants.