Description

The work presented here, Tarifa general de precios de medicinas (General price list of medicines), dates from 1723. Produced by Cuba’s first printer, Carlos Habré, an immigrant from Ghent, Flanders, it long has been considered the earliest surviving printed document in Cuba. However, recent studies have demonstrated that it was preceded by a Novena made by Habré in 1722. This copy of the Tarifa is the only one known to exist from the single edition printed by Habré. It was written by Francisco Tenesa (also seen as Francisco de ...