Filadelfia (Philadelphia): Carey, Lea, and Carey, 1829. Original Edition.
Fine binding. Full embossed decorated green leather, with gold medallion at the center of the boards, all edges gilt. Small octavo (5 x 7-5/8 inches), 32 text pages, 32 full page steel engraving with tissue guards.

A spanish language volume consisting of 32 engraved plates, each plate followed by a short uncredited poem with the same title as the plate. Several of the poems are by the Cuban poet José María Heredia. Some of the poems may be translations from the English originals

According to E. R. Moore (José María Heredia in the United States, Modern Language Notes, vol. 65, no. 1), several of the poems in this volume are by José María Heredia; they are probably taken from Heredia's Poesías, which was published in New York in 1825. The poems are entitled Cascada de Montmorency, La Cascada de Trenton, Niagara (from Torrente Prodigioso), and Atenas, which are extracted from the 1825 Heredia's book, some with variant readings found nowhere else.
Heredia appears to have at least known of this publication because in the 1832 edition of his Poesías he refers to their publication in Philadelphia. .
Illustrated with fine engraved plates, mostly with captions in English, Spanish, and/occasional also in French, of pastoral and other scenes including some notable American views. Among the American scenes: Delaware Water Gap by Thomas Doughty, Fort Ticonderoga by William Guy Wall, view of New York by W.G. Wall, Falls at Catskill by T. Doughty, and the Schuylkill by T. Doughty. Both Wall and Doughty were important landscape painters, precursors of the Hudson River School. Other plates show European scenes , historical and fictional persons.