- A few w. sm. defects; mostly fine. = Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- A few w. sm. defects; mostly fine.
= Extensive collection, comprises many very early postcards and subjects such as "strandvermaak", "Zandvoortse typen", "De omroeper", "De passage", many street views, the electrical tram and the demolition of the watchtower by the German army in 1943. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- Mount sl. waterstained in upper margin, just touching 1 cm. of upper right corner of the print.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLV.
Anonymous (late 19th cent.). (Zulu intombi (young girls)). Albumen print, 15,4x20,2 cm., laid down on mount (sl. faded in left margin). Anonymous (late 19th cent.). (Four Swahili girls). Albumen print, 14,5x20 cm., laid down on mount (sl. faded). - AND 8 others similar, mainly of Zulu people, all mounted, all late 19th cent., i.a. monogrammist "J.E.M.", "Zulu girls dressing hair" (sl. dampstained in upper margin); G.W. WILSON, "Curiosity - Zulu Children" (monogrammed and titled in the print. Sl. faded) and IDEM, "Zulu Boys at mid-day meal - mealy pap" (monogrammed and titled in the print. Sl. faded along borders). - ADDED: 30 small photographs of Congolese native peope and landscapes (±1910-1920, between 6x8,5 and 16x11 cm., mostly (previously) mounted).
- Four leaves loosely inserted in the album. Binding of album dam.
= Most prints w. manuscript identification below on mount. Mainly streetviews and views of Algerians at home, mostly in the province and the town of Biskra, i.a. "Village de Geddeha", "Sidi-Okba", "Vieux Biskra" and photographs showing encampments of Bedouins, Bedouin marriage festivities and a Bedouin caravan.
ADDED: 16 albumen prints and gelatin silver prints (incl. a few press photo's) (mainly) of Lebanese/ Syrian interest, i.a. (St. Paul's Wall in Damascus) (albumen print, 22,1x28 cm.) and (The Temple of the Sun at Baalbek) (albumen print, 27,9x21,9 cm.).
- Incl. a few sl. dam. albumen prints.
= Interesting collection, incl. streetviews, full-length portraits, harbour views, monuments and landscapes.
WITH 9 press photos, dating from the years 1961-1963 (the final phase of the French-Algerian war that led to independence of Algeria; incl. photographs of Ben Bella and Boumedienne, Krim Belkacem, and streetviews).
- One mount sl. dam. in lower margin.
= Views of the celebrations during the festivities in 1887, on occasion of the 70th birthday of king Willem III.
ADDED: 4 anonymous mounted photochrome albumen prints of Paris (i.a. "Musée de l'Hotel de Cluny", "Pont au Change & Palais de Justice" and "Le Louvre")
= Provenance: the collection of Eli Content.
- First print sl. foxed; final print waterstained in image (the 4 preceding prints sl. waterstained in lower margin of mount); a few prints sl. faded; otherwise contents fine. Upper hinge split; covers stained.
= Rich visual source of this very succesfull "exposition universelle" celebrating the 100th anniversary of the French revolution and providing the world with its grand legacy of the Eiffel Tower. SEE ILLUSTRATRATION PLATE XLVI.
= The play Oidipous Oidipous by Harry Mulisch was staged at the Holland Festival of 1972, directed by Lodewijk de Boer.
= Interesting collection of portraits, views and press photos, i.a. 4 gelatin silver prints of Belgrade (i.a. "Rue St Michel", "Rue Ste Sophie", "La Citadelle" (all laid down, all 15x22,5 cm.)); ±25 cabinet photographs and cartes-de-visite and ±25 press-photos i.a. of scenes after the earthquake in Skopje in 1963, and a photo of "General Koca Popovic, Chief of staff of Marschal Tito's army, (...) pictured here on the speakers' rostrum during the March, 4 election in Belgrade's public square (...)". Also incl. a small number of photographs relating to Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
- Ticket w. surface dam. (silverfish), affecting signature etc. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVI.
Idem. "Joke". Set of 2 C-prints, both 45x30 cm., signed "Paul Blanca", titled and "2015(?)" in silver pen.
- One photograph w. some vague stains. = Part of a larger series.
AND 1 similar gelatin silver print by the same (25x25 cm., signed, titled "Mamma" and dated "2018(?)").
= From a rare large series showing nudes of the photographer's mother.
- Small brown stain in upper blank margin.
AND 1 other by the same: (Red poppy) (C-print, signed "Paul Blanca", "Joke Verschoor" (the artist's mother) and dated "2016" in silver pen. Tiny cut in left edge of the image).
= Identified on verso in pencil: "Serie: Miserere: Situatie: Sevilla Heilige Week 1977".
AND 2 others by the same from the same series, both with photographer's stamp on verso (1x also w. pencil annot. on verso "Boetebedevaart Andùjar - Spanje 1979".
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.
- Incl. one duplicate.
= Attractive atmospheric night views of Rio de Janeiro and including 4 prints made for the "Exposição Nacional" of 1908 and the "Exposiçao" of 1922 in Rio de Janeiro. Some captions: "Praia de Ipanema", "Resaca na Gloria", "Avenida Niemeyer (..)" (2 copies), "1° Centenario da Independencia do Brasil Exposição Nacional", "Exposição 1922", "Exposição. Navios em Fiesta", "Theatro municipal" and "Pão de Assugar". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVII.
Anonymous (1st half 20th century). Series of 14 similar (partly toned) gelatin silver prints, all daylight views in and around Rio de Janeiro, all approx. 17x21,5 cm., all w. caption and number in the print.
= I.a. "Caminho aero pao d'Assucar", "Paqueta Rio de Janeiro" (2 diff. prints), "Avenida Rio Branco" (2 diff. prints), "Copacabana", and "Jardim Botanico, Bambus".
AND 5 other early 20th cent. photo. views of Brazil (all smaller size).
= The portrayed couple is most likely the photographer and his wife Cornelia Frederika van Wijk.
AND 1 gelatin silver print of the same couple by EDOUARD KUTTER (with his atelier stamp on verso).