This tinted-lithograph map of Cuba is framed by a pictorial border of sixteen vignettes that reflect the wealth of mid-nineteenth century Cuba. The highly detail map (13.5 x 9.6") shows towns, ports, railroads and roads and includes an inset that charts the distances between cities in Cuba. The surrounding vignettes include some of the most important early views produced by its first lithographer, Pierre Toussaint Frederic Mialhe. They include a coffee plantation, a sugar mill, tobacco fields, a cock fight, a dance scene (el zapateo), the taking of El Morro by British forces in 1762, the town and sanctuary of El Cobre, and the hurricane of 1846.
A clean and bright example, issued folding, now flattened with professional repairs to some small worm holes, primarily in blank areas of the map and in the vignettes at left, with the image skillfully replaced in facsimile. There are also professional repairs to a chip at bottom, with 1" of neatline replaced in facsimile, and to a tear at top right that enters 2" into map. Backed in thin Japanese tissue.