AMERICANA. - Lot 271

AMERICANA. [Suite gravée]. Paris, (Impr. de F. Chardon ainé, ca 1865). In-folio (41 x 29 cm). Leaves, in publisher's red half cloth folder, titled in gilt on upper cover (laces missing, folder faded with hole in spine, some foxing, sustained on one plate; no title page or table, possibly lacking). Fine album of views of America, published in France. Composed of 27 plates, 2 portraits and 25 views of buildings or landscapes, engraved on steel in black by Outhwaite, Willmann, Colin, Lalaisse, Aubert, Delannoy, Nargeot, Foulquier after Lebreton, Noël, Fichot, Willmann and Janet. Among the views, 12 are of North America: Canadian Cataracts, Louisville, New Orleans, Memphis, Hudson River, Lasso Hunting; 6 are of Central America: Havana, Montevideo, Veracruz; 7 are of South America: Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Buenos-Aires, Valparaiso. Subjects measure ca. 17 x 11 cm. The work also includes full-length portraits of Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (pl. 26), and of H.M. Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil.