A significant collection of assorted photographs. Four photo - Lot 346

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A significant collection of assorted photographs. Four photo - Lot 346
A significant collection of assorted photographs. Four photo albums, circa 1870–1910. The first album (measuring approximately 16 x 13 x 6 cm) contains about fifty visiting cards—albumen prints mounted on cardboard—with identified photographers (examples: Bulla Frères, JULIO MICHAUD Mexico, or BISSON Frères), featuring various subjects: architecture, a bridge, Fontainebleau, Graudenz, Stettin, Riffel’s Matterhorn, Panorama of Thunn, Sion, the Mont Blanc Range, Sixt Valley, the Chamonix Valley, the Lion of Lucerne, Lausanne, the Crevasse, Fribourg, Les Bossons, horizontal scale models, mountain hikes, reproductions of works of art, etc., sizes approximately 10 x 6.5 cm. A second small album of portraits and architecture, including the Château de Chambord (full album dimensions approximately 16 x 12 x 4 cm), consisting mainly of about thirty visiting cards, as well as albumen and silver gelatin prints mounted on cardboard. A third large album (with numerous foxing spots and warping) containing more than sixty prints—mostly albumen prints—mounted on cardboard, depicting castles, circa 1880–1900, with full image sizes ranging from approximately 15 x 9 cm to 25 x 19 cm (examples of subjects: Jersey, Allevard-les-Bains, Grenoble, the Trient Gorges, Mont Saint-Michel, Château de Chenonceau, Azay-le-Rideau, Blois, Amboise, Chaumont, and Chambord). A final album containing more than forty images of reproductions of erotic drawings, paintings, and/or engravings (album dimensions approximately 24 x 21 x 6 cm).
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