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Cuba. COLLECTION OF EIGHTEEN AUTOGRAPH AND CONTEMPORARY SCRIBAL MANUSCRIPTS OF EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CUBAN POPULAR SONGS, SIGNED BY THE COMPOSERS, INCLUDING GUARACHAS, MONTUNOS, CANCIÓNS, RUMBAS, SÓNS, CONGAS, BOLEROS, BAMBUCOS AND CAPARICHOS CUBANOS, BY ROSENDO RUIZ, ÑICO SAQUITO AND OTHERS written in brown ink, with texts, on one- and two-stave systems, including items signed (often over the music, sometimes on each page), by Patricio Ballagas ("Timides Canción Gitana", stamps registered Havana, 12 April 1916), Rosendo Ruiz (autograph manuscript of "Las Flores" and signed manuscript of "Tápame que tengo frio, rumba", 1926), Gerardo Martinez Rivero ("Recuerdos del Pasado, Són", 3 pages, oblong 4to, 2 August 1926) , Felipe Cabrera ("Són, Dame un Besito aqui"), 4 pages, stamped "Sextetto Habanero", 1928, Carmelina Delfín ("Una Ofrenda, canción", 6 pages, "copiado por Ma Caridad Stable"; "Recuerdos de un Amor...", 6 pages"), Silvestre Mendez (autograph manuscript of "El telefonito, guaracha"), Miguel Matamoros ("Conciencias, blue-són"), Jesus Guerra ("A mi que, guaracha", printed and signed), Juan Pablo Miranda ("Que Difícil, bolero", corrected by the composer) , Antonio Fernández, Antonio Fernández Arbelo, and Graciano Gomez ("Conga bruja", 1940; "Cuando al conjuro, bolero"), 18 items, folio and oblong folio, with publishers' numbers added in blue and orange crayon, stamps of "Instituo de secunda enseñanza", "Ministero de educacion", Havana, 1915-1957