Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1859. Brown pebble grain cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt lettered, brown endpapers. pp [2], viii, (9)-288, 16 May, 1859, ads, [2]. Just a little leaned, text paper a little toned, tiny chip to fore edge of front free endpaper, else a fine copy. BAL 44417. In 1859, while the U.S. Senate was considering whether the United States should try to annex the Spanish possession of Cuba, Dana traveled there and visited Havana, a sugar plantation, a bullfight, and various churches, hospitals, schools, and prisons, a trip documented in his book To Cuba and Back." - Wikipedia. ; 12mo