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[email protected] 1. CUBA / FINE BINDING / HAVANA IMPRINT Of great interest, is data from the 1841 Cuban Census (second section, p. 87), which shows that of the island’s population of around 1 million, 42% were white, 15% were free blacks and 43% were GOVERNMENT OF CUBA. slaves. Of interest to bibliophiles is information on the island’s printing industry (second section, pp. 94-7), which notes the government press (established in 1747), several other well-established Guía de forasteros en la siempre fiel isla de Cuba, y calendario manual para el año de 1848. presses, as well as the proliferation of presses and newspapers founded only in the 1830s and 1840s, owing to the easing of the censorship laws, as well as a boom in the island’s economy. Havana: Del Gobierno y Capitanía General y Real Sociedad Economica, [1847]. The section on Cuba’s railway system (p. 331), first opened in 1837, is also intriguing. A Note on Rarity A deluxe example of a mid-19th Century almanac for Cuba, featuring a vast wealth of information on the island during its last sugar boom, published by the government printer in The first almanac of Cuba was printed in Havana in 1781 under the supervision of Diego de la Havana, and contemporarily bound in a sumptuous red and green morocco binding with Barrera (1746-1802), an esteemed journalist and writer.