(CUBA) Pair of interesting documents in which Esteban José B

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(CUBA.) Pair of interesting documents in which Esteban José Boloña attempts to secure an official monopoly of government printing. [2], 13, [1]; [4] printed pages. Folio, disbound; foxing, dampstaining, the second document a bit worn at folds. Havana: Esteban José Boloña, 1814 and 1821

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In 1787, after a ten-year ban on printing in Cuba, Esteban José Boloña was the first to be granted permission to establish a press in Havana, but others followed. This lot includes two documents printed by Boloña on his own behalf. The first one was issued just after the 1814 re-establishment of the Spanish crown: 'Documentos Justificativos de los Meritos y Servicios de Don Esteban Jose Boloña.' It describes Boloña's honorable service as printer for the Navy and the tobacco revenue office, and states that he produced 300 copies of a clandestine newspaper during the regency of Napoleon I. It then requests that the competing printing licenses of José Soler and José Arazoza be rescinded. The shorter 1821 document titled 'Publico Benevolo' warns of the economic power amassed by Boloña's rivals Arazoza and Soler, and offers to perform printing services at a third of the rate currently charged by Arazoza and Soler.