- Laid down on mount. Fine copy. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVIII.
Anonymous (late 19th cent.). "Grindelwald (Oberes Eismeer & Strahlegg)." Albumen print, 21,5x27,8 cm., titled in the print.
- Laid down on mount. Fine copy.
Anonymous (late 19th cent.). "Glacier du Rhone et le Galenstock, 3597m." Albumen print, 20,6x26,7 cm., titled in the print.
- Laid down on mount. Fine copy.
AND 11 others, incl. sl. smaller mounted prints, almost all anonymous, all Alpine views, i.a. "Mürren" (albumen print, 21x27 cm., Photoglob. Laid down on mount); "Simplon l'Hospice" (albumen print, 21x27 cm., Photoglob); "Stilfserjochstrasse" (albumen print, 21,2x27 cm., Photoglob. Laid down on mount) and O. NIKLES, "Jungfraubahn. Station Eismeer. Oberes Eismeer. Schreckhorn & Lauterahrhorn" (collotype, 20,5x27 cm., signed and titled in the print below image, laid down on mount).
- Formerly mounted (traces on verso). Otherwise fine. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIX.
Anonymous (late 19th cent.). "Airolo". Albumen print, 21,2x27 cm., titled in the print in lower right corner.
= Nice panorama.
Anonymous (late 19th cent.). "Route du Simplon. Gallerie d'hiver." Albumen print, 21x26,3 cm., "Éd. Photoglob" and titled in the print in lower margin. - AND 29 others, almost all albumen prints, almost all of similar size, i.a. "Pontresina" (laid down on mount); "Lago di Lugano (Morcote)" (laid down on mount); (Panorama St. Moritz); "Lugano, le Monte Salvatore" (Éd. Photoglob); "Luzern und Pilatus" (Éd. Photoglob); "Fluelen" (Éd. Photoglob); (A view of Chamonix); "Lac de Thoune et le Niesen vus de la Heimwehfluh"; Giorgio SOMMER, "Lugano. Panorama" (signed and titled in the print in lower margin) and A. COUTTET, "Chamonix. Place de l'Eglise" (signed and titled in the print in lower margin. Sl. faded).
= Fine photographs by an unnamed photographer, showing i.a. the fair grounds, various animals and ceremonial parades of inhabitants of the 11 provinces in local costume.
= Provenance: the collection of Johan Deumens.
- Vague pen stroke on top of the box. = Provenance: the collection of Johan Deumens.
= Provenance: GALERIE FIFTY ONE. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
= Provenance: the consignor's mother-in-law received the photograph directly from the photographer. She worked together with Witkin during the nineties in Mexico City, where he resided during that time.
= Provenance: the consignor's mother-in-law received the photograph directly from the photographer. She worked together with Witkin during the nineties in Mexico City, where he resided during that time. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVIII.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVIII.
- One drawing with dam. upper left corner, w. sl. loss of the image; one w. sm. tear (±1,5 cm.) in upper edge; one w. tiny hole; occas. w. handling creases in upper corners/ part; a few soiled spots/ areas/ few vague sm. waterstains along left edge. One drawing unframed.
= Splendid Chinese export watercolours showing the various activities on a Chinese tea plantation, including the transport. The Wellcome collection holds a similar series of 9 scenes (albeit slighty more naive). In 2022 Christie's Paris (collection of Hubert de Givenchy) sold a set of 24 slightly bigger gouaches of which several with almost the exact same composition or very similar to this lot (including mirrored compositions). Besides various small differences (mostly seen in the details), the human figures in our lot seem to be more precise and European, especially in their faces. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIX.
- Various repaired/ restored spots/ areas.
- Wrappers creased and sl. worn; one vol. w. new string, other vol. string broken.
= Two vols. of very delicate ills. of plants and animals, and some people.
Anonymous (late 19th cent.). Kachô manga (Picture Book of Flowers and Birds). N.pl., publ. unread, 1888, signature unread, 18 lvs. of col. (double-p.) woodcut ills., bound as a blockbook, orig. wr. w. hashira title and col. woodcut Japanese (paper) sleeve.
- Contents very fine. Wr. trifle nibbled, otherwise fine; col. woodcut sleeve sl. rubbed and corners creased.
- Paper browned; doubled w. thin Japanese.
= Depicts legendary seventh-century scholar-physician Shōki (Chinese: Zhong Kui) with a sword, scholars robes and hat, and his characteristically large eyes and bulbous nose. Denied first rank in the Chinese civil service, he committed suicide. When the emperor heard his story he was buried with honors. In gratitude, Shôki appeared to the emperor in a dream vowing to defeat disease-causing demons. Shôkis story became popular in Japan during the Edo period.
ADDED: two col. ink drawings (A man on a horse with a dog; Mt. Fuji).
= Collection of mon or family crests and heraldic devices.
- Both with central fold and sm. binding- and wormholes along left and right edge; one sheet w. paperflaw in robes of samurai figure.