Sale: 366 / Rare Books including Marine Art, May 17./18. 2010 in Hamburg Lot 44

 
Fotografie - Reise-Erinnerungen. 2 Alben. 1880-1899.


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Fotografie
Reise-Erinnerungen. 2 Alben. 1880-1899.
Estimate:
€ 1,500 / $ 1,605
Sold:
€ 1,440 / $ 1,540

(incl. surcharge)
Fotografie. - Reise-Erinnerungen (Deckeltitel). 2 private photo albums with ca. 275 mounted orig. photographs. Germany 1880-1899. Orig. cloth with gilt- and blindtooling. Folio. 50; 49 ll.Comprehensive private travel album with partly magnificent large-sized views. The private photographs, partly inscribed and dated, sizes ranging from 6 : 11 up to ca. 20 : 25,5 cm, show impressions from private journeys through Europe and Russia, among them views of Germany (Hamburg, Berlin, Bayreuth, Regensburg, Heidelberg, Baden-Baden, Cologne, Nuremberg, Oberammergau Passion Play, Neuschwanstein Castle et al), Sweden and Denmark (Stockholm, Copenhagen), Austria and Switzerland (Innsbruck, St. Moritz, Geneva, Basle, Lugano, Gotthard railway), Italy (Meran, Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples, Palermo, Pompeji, Milan, Amalfi), France (Paris, Nice) and Greece (Athens, Korfu, Patras). Particularly remarkable are the photographs of Russia, with15 large-sized shots with interior and exterior views of the Moscow Kremlin (2 complete views as well as views of churches, ball rooms and living quarters, 1883) as well as 5 private photographs (size 19-21,5 : 27-28 cm) of Nicholas II., Tsar of Russia and his wife attending a parade (around 1894), also with 9 photographs of the Pawlowsk Park near St. Petersburg. - With slight isolated foxing, 1 l. detached, 1 photograph detached. Bindings slightly rubbed.



44
Fotografie
Reise-Erinnerungen. 2 Alben. 1880-1899.
Estimate:
€ 1,500 / $ 1,605
Sold:
€ 1,440 / $ 1,540

(incl. surcharge)