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MIALHE, Pierre Toussaint Frédéric (1810-1881)

Isla de Cuba Pintoresca

Havana
Real Sociedad Patriótica
1839-1842

€1.800 - €2.400

Oblong folio (265 x 360 mm). 31 full-page lithographic plates (light spotting, heavier on about 10 plates). Titles only in Spanish. There was no title page. With 23 views of Havana, 4 views after drawings of Alexandre Moreau, 2 views of Matanzas, 2 views of Güines. Loose, no cover or binding

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

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