CASTRO, Casimiro (1826-1889).
Album mexicano, collección de paisajes, monumentos, costumbres y ciudades principales de la Republica.
Mexico: Debray Sucs, C. Montaurol, [ca 1855 or later]., 1855.

Oblong folio (9 2/8 x 13 inches). Lithographed title-page. 28 chromolithographed or tinted lithographed plates by Casimiro Castro, A. Gallice, M. Mohar, E. Perez and J. Albarez with captions in English, Spanish and French (a little toned, one or two marginal stains). Original black cloth backed, pictorial paper boards (extremities worn with minor loss, covers with one or two stains).

An important and beautiful work illustrating Mexico City and environs. Originally published in parts to subscribers from 1855 with an ever increasing number of plates. Subjects of the scenes and birds-eye views include the Cathedral of Mexico, National Palace of Mexico, Plaza of Santo Domingo, Veracruz Railroad Station, Plaza of Guadalupe, Tacubaya, Toluca, Cathedral of Puebla, a bird's-eye view of Puebla, a view of Querétaro, the Cathedral at Guadalajara, and Guanajuato. While most of the lithographs in this album are by Gallice, many are by the celebrated Casimiro Castro, a Mexican painter, draftsman and lithographer and generally considered one of the greatest Mexican landscape artists and lithographers of the 19th century. He is best known for his work on this album and his subsequent depiction of the Mexican railway "Album of the Mexican Railway. A Collection of Views taken from nature by Casmiro Castro", 1877. Abbey, Travel in Aquatint Lithography 672; Sabin 48590; Colas 547; Lipperheide 1624; Mathes, Mexico on Stone, p. 30.

Seller Inventory # 72lib1000