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Cuba/ Cuban Revolution. MAUCCI, M. [Barcelona: Maucci, 1896.] Mapa Ilustrado De La Isla De Cuba. Color lithograph. 29 ½ x 41 inches (75 x 104 cm) Mounted on linen as issued; chipping along edges, some splits at folds, light water staining in upper border, still overall good to very good. At top center is the coat of arms of Havana. The map itself is extremely well-detailed with hundreds of place names as well as delineating shipping lanes and navigational hazards. Cueto 137/ 394.
A very rare (only one OCLC listing), separately issued, large-format map of Cuba, published early in Cuba’s War of Independence, 1895-1898, with Spain. It is particularly valuable for its 46 portraits of figures, both major and secondary, from both sides of the struggle. Former slaves played a major role in Cuba’s three wars of independence, so it is not surprising to see several Afro-Cuban figures in the central vignette and among the portraits of revolutionaries. At the lower left corner, Antonio Maceo, second-in-command of the Cuban Army of Independence, who was killed in December 1896, is shown on horseback. Other revolutionary leaders depicted are Jose Quintin Bandera Betancourt and Maximo Gomez, the overall leader, at lower right. The war ended in the defeat of the greatly outnumbered revolutionary forces, and it wasn’t until after the Spanish-American War that Cuba achieved a restricted form of independence, in which the United States retained great latitude in influencing the affairs of the nation.
OCLC: U. of FL
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