Title: Album pintoresco de la isla de Cuba.
Authors: Mialhe, Frédéric,; B. May y Ca.,; Storch & Kramer,
Date: 1850
Publisher: B. May y Ca.,
Physical description: [29] leaves of plates (some folded) : chiefly col. ill., 2 maps ; 25 x 35 cm.
Language: Spanish
LC classification: F
Abstract: Color plates (chromolithographs) show Havana and other areas of Cuba, including general city views, historic sites, street scenes, and rural settings.
Contents: 1. Morro y entrada puerto de la Habana -- 2. Vista de la Habana -- 3. Vista de la Habana, parte de Estramuros -- 4. Haban -- 5. Habana -- 6. Habana -- 7. Plaza de Armas -- 8. Puertas de Monserrate -- 9. Teatro de Tacon y parte del Paseo de Isabel II -- 10. Fuente de la India en el Paseo de Isabel IIa. -- 11. Alameda de Paula -- 12. El quitrin -- 13. El pandero y el malojero -- 14. El casero -- 15. Valla de gallos -- 16. Dia de reyes, the holy kings day -- 17. El zapateado ... (national dance) -- 18. Matanzas -- 19. Morro y entrada del puerto de Santiago de Cuba -- 20. Vista genl. de la cuidad y montañas de Baracoa -- 21. Cercanias de Baracoa -- 22. Vista de la iglesia major y de la Ermita del Buen Viaje -- 23. Vivienda de los pescadores de esponjas -- 24. Trinidad -- 25. Corrida de toros -- 26. Vista de una casa de calderas -- 27. Vista de una vega de tabaco.
Notes: First published in Havana in 1847-1848 as Viaje pintoresco alrededor de la isla de Cuba, by Federico Mialhe. It was pirated twice in the next decade by the Berlin publisher Bernardo May, who succeeded in defending himself against a breach of copyrigt suit by Mialhe and his Havana publisher Louis Marquier. Includes illustrated title page and two maps: Mapa historico pintoresco moderno de la isla de Cuba and Plano pintoresco de la Habana. Palau 5395 and Le bibliophile americaine / Librairie Ch. Chadenat, no. 20 (1897), both describe editions containing 26 ill. rather than the 27 contained here. Palau dates his ca. 1840; Chadenat, 1853. NUC pre-1956 calls for 2 maps, as does Chadenat.
Subject headings (LCSH): Cuba--Pictorial works.; Cuba--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.