[France]. [Photography]. YVON-ABEL (Michel Pierre Yvon, dit) - Lot 37

[France]. [Photography]. YVON-ABEL (Michel Pierre Yvon, dit) Album of monuments and views of France, including the Loire castles, ca. 1870. Photographs. Oblong folio album (54 x 40 cm) comprising 61 albumen prints (14 x 8 cm to 36.5 x 24.5 cm.), some by Yvon-Abel, 2 by ND Phot and some captioned below the image, burgundy half chagrin with corners, initials "E S" on upper cover. Loches: Collégiale Saint-Ours, Hôtel de ville and Porte Picois, panorama with the keep, Porte des Cordeliers overlooking the Indre, Fontainebleau, Sémur-en-Auxois, Arles: Cloître St Trophime, bull run, Dijon palace of the Dukes of Burgundy, Reims cathedral, interior of the nave, Château de Blois, fireplace with coat of arms of François 1er, Loire castles, Chambord, Chaumont, Amboise, Chenonceau, Biarritz. After starting out in Paris, Yvon-Abel (1835-1918), a member of the Société Française de Photographie, set up his photography studio at 7 rue des Ponts in Loches in 1870. Some of the very large-format photographs of Loches in this album were published as cabinet cards.