[Sugarcane] Ensayo sobre el cultivo de la caña de azucar

D. Alvaro Reynoso. Habana, Imprenta del Tiempo, 1862. Halfleather, title on spine in gilt stamping, half title, title with small vignette, XIII,310,(2) pp., front board rubbed, front endpaper with stain, else a very good copy of this first edition.

Reynoso Valdés, Álvaro was an agriculturist and chemist. This work saw various editions in Spanish, Dutch (1865) and Portuguese (1868). Many of his recommendations were realised on the sugarcane plantations of Java, but barely so in Cuba.