290* Cuban Ship Sinking. A manuscript letter from the Mexican Consulate in Havana, to the Captain General and President of Cuba, 21st September 1851, concerning the sinking of the British schooner ‘Union’, commanded by Captain Chisholme that sank on a cay off the coast of the Island of Pina, while en route to Manzanillo, continuing to discuss a young boy of eight or nine years of age on board, from Yucatan, forcibly taken from his country, and asking the President of Cuba to have the boy returned to his place of origin, written in a clear fair hand, engraved consular letterhead crest upper left, some spotting, 1p., 4to (1)
£200-300
Lot 293
291* Cuban Slavery. Formal Declaration of Freedom given to a Slave in an Assembly in Havana, 8 March 1861, manuscript legal document registering the payment of 200 pesos to obtain the freedom of a one-year-old black slave, paper uniformly browned, worming to inner margin, 2 pp. plus integral blank, folio (1)
£300-500
292* Engravers and Engraving. A small group of letters and ephemera, late 18th/early 20th c., including a letter from Baron Rivers, re post of King’s Engraver, 1783, a letter from Samuel Mitan, engraver (died 1843), a list of proofs &c for an illustrated volume (watermarked 1818), a letter from a Birmingham print seller (with illustrated head), 1904, assorted bookplates, small engravings, etc. (approx. 20)
£150-200
293* French legal documents. A group of four manuscript documents, 17th & 18th c., all on paper, two earliest relating to a lease dispute in Saumur, 1672, both 4 pp., plus a document relating to the sale of some land near Toulouse in 1768, 4 pp., plus a copy of the registration, 1770, 2 pp., the four documents expertly arranged as display items in three frames, the later two documents overlapping, framed and glazed, frame sizes 56 x 42cm and sl. smaller (3)
Lot 295
£70-100
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