[RAILROAD]. CASTRO (Casimiro). ALBUM DEL FERROCARRIL MEXICANO. Coleccion de vistas Pintadas del natural por Casimiro Castro. Con una descripcion del camino y de las regiones que recorre. Por Antonio Garcia Cubas - ALBUM OF THE MEXICAN RAILWAY. A collection of views taken from nature by Casimiro Castro. With a description of the line and the country through which it passes. By Antonio Garcia Cubas. Mexico, Victor Debray y CA., 1877. Small Italian-style in-folio (35.5 X 49 cm), publisher's decorated green cloth, smooth mute spine, gilt edges (Binding of the period); (2) blank ff., (2) faux-title ff., color illustrated title, 56 pages of 2-column text (Spanish-English), 24 color plates, double-page map, (1) title and 18 pages of French text, (1) f. bl. Binding wet and soiled, golds partly faded, corner of 1st board nicked, corners dulled, first 2 blank ff. partly pastedown, light foxing to plates I to IV, muted serpents browned, some torn or missing. ORIGINAL EDITION of this BEAUTIFUL trilingual WORK (Spanish, English and French) published to commemorate the inauguration of the first railroad line linking the port of Veracruz to Mexico City. MAGNIFICENT COLOR ILLUSTRATION comprising A TITLE, 24 VIEWBOARDS painted from life by Mexican painter and lithographer Casimiro CASTRO (1826-1889) and chromolithographed by A. Sigogne and C. Castro, as well as a double-page MAP. The French text has been translated from Spanish by G. Gostkowski. The publisher's binding is badly faded, but the body of the book is in good condition. ¶ Palau, 48628.