MIALHE, Pierre Toussaint Frédéric (1810-1881)

An exceptionally rare collection of lithographic views of 19th-century Cuba. Frédéric Mialhe was a French painter and draughtsman who lived and taught in Havana from 1838-1854 on the invitation of the Real Sociedad Patriótica to document the island. This work is considered the finest pictorial record of daily life in Cuba in the 19th century