Album pintoresco de la isla de Cuba.
Contributors: B. May y Ca.,; Storch & Kramer,
Publisher: B. May y Ca.
Published: 1855
Place of publication: [Havana]
Language: spa
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Cuba -- Pictorial works; Cuba -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Description: Color plates (chromolithographs) show Havana and other areas of Cuba, including general city views, historic sites, street scenes, and rural settings.
Notes: Includes illustrated title page and two maps: Mapa historico pintoresco moderno de la isla de Cuba and Plano pintoresco de la Habana.
No text except for the captions for the 27 numbered plates, which are in Spanish. A few have English translations.
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.
Incomplete copy in Rare Book; lacks 1 map.
Copy in Prints & Photographs forms part of the Gilbert H. Grosvenor collection of photographs from the Alexander Graham Bell family.
"Dr. Bell thought this book might have been presented by Mr. Graham [?] in 1858"--inscribed on front leaf, P&P copy.
Table of contents: title: 1. Morro y entrada puerto de la Habana; title: 2. Vista de la Habana; title: 3. Vista de la Habana, parte de Estramuros; title: 4. Haban; title: 5. Habana; title: 6. Habana; title: 7. Plaza de Armas; title: 8. Puertas de Monserrate; title: 9. Teatro de Tacon y parte del Paseo de Isabel II; title: 10. Fuente de la India en el Paseo de Isabel IIa.; title: 11. Alameda de Paula; title: 12. El quitrin; title: 13. El pandero y el malojero; title: 14. El casero; title: 15. Valla de gallos; title: 16. Dia de reyes, the holy kings day; title: 17. El zapateado ... (national dance); title: 18. Matanzas; title: 19. Morro y entrada del puerto de Santiago de Cuba; title: 20. Vista genl. de la cuidad y montañas de Baracoa; title: 21. Cercanias de Baracoa; title: 22. Vista de la iglesia major y de la Ermita del Buen Viaje; title: 23. Vivienda de los pescadores de esponjas; title: 24. Trinidad; title: 25. Corrida de toros; title: 26. Vista de una casa de calderas; title: 27. Vista de una vega de tabaco.