- Before mounting the panorama,it had apparently been folded differently (two of the prints have a sharp fold near centre); mounts sl. soiled, otherwise fine.
= Impressive anonymous panorama. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.
AND 3 other albumen prints: "Rangoon", (Rangoon Harbour) and (Shipping of the river) (all 18,5x23,5 cm., all laid down on mount).
= Family album of the British/ Australian Thackell family. Some photographers: W.G. Lewis (Bath); T.F. Chuck (Melbourne) and A.G. Rider (Southampton).
= Netherlands (±50x): i.a. portraits of artists B.J. Blommers, Josef Israels, Jacob Maris, the cellist Adrien-François Servais; United Kingdom (±100x): mostly unidentified, i.a. a portrait of a young Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland (politician and economist) and Alice Rhodes (partner of Louis Staunton, both suspects in the so-called Penge Murder Mystery case) and prince Edward (later king Edward VII); Belgium (±40x, mostly portraits), Austria (±40, portraits and views); France (±60), portraits and views (i.a. Cannes, Monaco).
ADDED: numerous photographs, 19th-20th cent., mostly views, i.a. Germany, France and Netherlands.
= With photographs of (people working in) laboratories, photomicrographs (i.a. of borophosphate, tungsten and thorium carbonate) and chemical/ physical experiments (i.a. "Onderzoek invloed chemicalien op technische waterstof" (1933); "Apparaat voor N.V. Ned. Research Centrale Electrische geleiding van olien" (1934); "Montage model graanelevator" (1936)). Also includes various mounted business cards.
ADDED: 2 other private Dutch albums, 1st half 20th cent., w. ±70 real photographs and ±190 picture postcards.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLVIII.
= One of 5 numb. "Künstlerexemplaren". Contents: 1. Im Theater; 2. Schaufensterpuppe; 3. Toilette im Hause Rietwald; 4. Morgens; 5. Modell; 6. Estella; 7. Franz Osborn; 8. Jos Silleves; 9. L. Moholy-Nagy; 10. Alannah. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LI.
= I.a. "Ansicht v.d. Rudolfsanlagen aus", "Graben" (2 different views), "Judenfriedhof", "Die Karlsbrücke a.d. Kleinseite", "Altst. Brückenturm" and "Pulverturm". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIX.
- Six prints (sl.) faded (2x also sl. dam.).
= Fine views, i.a. of "Graben" (busy streetscene), "Moldau", "Friedhof" (Jewish cemetary; sl. faded), "Karlsbrücke", "Domkirche", "Pulverthurm", "Niklaskirche", and "Hradschin". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIX.
- Lacks the left hand print of the panorama (the prints are numb. "2"-"5" in pencil on verso). = Fine panorama.
AND ±30 other albumen prints, almost all 22x27 cm., i.a. ZANGAKI BROTHERS, "Phare sud des Lacs amers" (signed, titled and numb. [Illegible] in the print); IDEM, "Vue de Port Said" (signed, titled and "No. 31" in the print); IDEM, "Manora au Chantier (...) (signed, titled and numb. in the print); IDEM, "Port de Port Said" (signed, titled and "N.141" in the print); IDEM, "Jaroba a la courbe d'El Guirsh" (signed and titled in the print); Pascal SEBAH, "Caire. Vue panoramique" (signed, titled and "226" in lower margin in the print) and PERIDIO & GORGILADA[?], "Port de Port Said" (signed, titled and "N. 141" in the print).
- Including several yellowed prints.
- Sl. frayed along upper and lower margin; sharp fold along outer right margin.
AND 9 other albumen prints, mainly showing scenes from daily life, i.a. ZANGAKI BROTHERS, "Chamaux de mariage arabe" (22x27,5 cm., signed, titled and numb. "No.517" in the print); IDEM, "Bord du Nil Egypte" (21,5x28 cm., signed, titled and numb. "No.170" in the print. Sl. faded and yellowed); IDEM, "Inundation au Pyramides" (22x28 cm., signed, titled and numb. "No. 175[?]" in the print) and Pascal, (A man holding a board while standing in a river) (26,5x34,5 cm.).
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE L.
Idem. (Two men in front of the colonnade of the Temple of Edfu). Albumen print, ±1870, 25,2x35,5 cm., signed in lower right margin in the plate. Idem. (Ptolomy gateway of the Temple Medinet Habou). Albumen print, ±1870, 35,7x25,6 cm., signed in reverse in left margin of the print. - AND 9 other albumen prints by the same, all signed in the plate and of similar size (incl. a sl. yellowed print), all showing (details of) Egyptian temples, i.a. of the Temple of Edfu, The remains of the statue of Ramses II at the Ramesseum Medinet Habu, The ruins of Karnak Temple, three views of the temple of Luxor, and a view of the Temple of Hathor at Denderah.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE L.
Idem. (A view of the central colonnade of Karnak). Albumen print, 26x20,2 cm., signed in the print. Sébah, Jean Pascal (1872-1947). (Valley of the Kings), Albumen print, 27,2x21 cm., (illegibly) titled (and signed?) in the plate. Idem. "Mosq. Sultan Hassan". Collotype(?) print, 20,4x26 cm., signed and titled in the print. Anonymous (late 19th cent.). "Alexandrie. Église anglaise". Mounted albumen print, 21x27,4 cm., titled in the print. - WITH (on verso of mount): Reiser, Andreas D. (1840-1898). "Catacombes de Mex." Albumen print, 21,1x27,5 cm., signed and titled in the print. - AND 10 others similar, all of similar size, i.a. Gabriel LEKEGIAN, "Interieur de la Mosquée Amir" (sm. portion of lower right corner torn off); Antonio BEATO, (The colonnade of the Temple of Isis); ZANGAKI BROTHERS, "Quai de Port Said" and ANONYMOUS (late 19th cent.), "Fontaine de la Reine Victoria au Quai de Port Said".
- Bookplate on upper pastedown. A few tiny rubbed spots on binding. A fine copy.
= Interesting series of photographs showing two women having coffee in a room comparing themselves to a classical statue of two nude women in the background, starting by undressing themselves and then more or less copying the postures of the women shown in the statue, gradually more freely so.
- Lacks 1 gelatin-silver photograph. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LI.
= Comprises views of (the surroundings of) Luchon (Pyrenees), i.a. "Vallée d'Ouil", "Porte de Vénasque, L'Auberge, La Maladetta", "Montée de Vénasque", "Cirque et Vierge du Lys" and "Le Val d'Aran".