- Lacks issues no. 143-208, 218 and 273; a few textpages sl. dam. Bindings rubbed/ sl. worn along extremities.
= Very rich photographic source of many of the famous public figures of 19th cent. France. Contains portraits of i.a. Sarah Bernhardt, Adelina Patti, Rosine Bloch, Jean Baptiste Prosper Bressant, Anna Judic, Charles Lecocq, Laurence Grivot, "les frères Lionnet", Emma Albani, Alfred Dieudonné, Léon Melchissedec, Charles Garnier, Ambroise Thomas, Charles Gounod, Hyacinthe, Lesueur, Erckmann-Chatrian, Alphonse Daudet, Ch.F. Daudet, Emile Zola, Alexandre Cabanel, Jules Grévy, Léon Gambetta, Ernest Renan, Fernand de Lesseps, Arsène Houssaye, Charles Lepère, Jules Massenet, Georges Sand. Some names of the photographers: Carjat, Dupont, Liebert, Nadar, Lemercier and Quinet. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.
= Inspired by the novel Zuyderzee by Jef Last, published in French by Gallimard in 1938, Roger Parry travelled to the Netherlands to make a series of photographs documenting life in the Dutch polders and in the villages around the Zuiderzee (now IJsselmeer). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.
- The greater part sl. warped; occas. a few small defects. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.
= Portraits of the German tattoo legends Karlmann Richter and Herbert Hoffmann (1919-2010).
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AND 6 miscell. others, i.a. by E.P. VAN ZACHTEN.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIX.
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- Small inkstain in upper margin.