Image Rare Books De revolutionibus orbium coelestium De revolutionibus orbium coelestium [On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres]. 6, 196 numbered leaves, tables, diagrams. View Item
Image Rare Books Juragua Iron Company mine photographs, 1914 The Juragua Iron Company was the first American company to become interested in iron mining in Cuba. The mines were located in the province of Santiago at the eastern end of Cuba. The Santiago province climate is hot but not affected by fevers or malaria. The company first went to Cuba in the early 1880s to begin iron ore mining. Its capital stock was controlled by the Bethlehem Iron Company of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Steel Company of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It shipped its first iron ore out of Cuba in 1884. View Item