Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 406

Price Realized: $ 5,635
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(CUBA.) Album Pintoresco de la Isla de Cuba. 28 chromolithographic plates including frontispiece, plus 2 folding maps of Cuba and Havana. Oblong 4to, publisher's cloth gilt, rebacked, faded and worn at corners; lacking front free endpaper, frontispiece and last map loose and other leaves starting, minor foxing and soiling on some plates, closed tears slightly affecting images on plates #9 and #12. Berlin: B. May, [1855?]
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An album of handsome Cuban views, complete with all plates and both maps. This was the first edition in chromolithograph form, with subjects ranging from harbor views of Havana to country festival scenes and a vivid bullfighting image. Palau states that they were adapted from Federico Mialhe's earlier Viage Pintoresco al Rededor de la Ilsa de Cuba. The maps are printed without illustrated borders, and are dated by Cueto as circa 1855. Cueto's Cuba in Old Maps 82 and 199, Palau 5421 and 167989, Sabin 17748.