- Some very vague soiling in lower right corner.
Idem. "Giullia". Gelatin silver print, 30x30 cm., signed "Paul Blanca", titled, dated "2013(?)", "For Giullia" and "A.P." in silver pen.
- One photograph w. some vague stains. = Part of a larger series.
= From a rare large series showing nudes of the photographer's mother. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LI.
- Small brown stain in upper blank margin.
- Small scratch in lower part centre, with sm. area of the surface around it sl. rubbed.
= One of Blanca's most iconic and fragile photographs.
- One trifle soiled in right margin (just touching the image); the other lacks two sm. portions of outer blank margin.
- Margins unevenly browned and sl. frayed.
AND ±40 others, all but a few (group)portraits, ±1880-1950 (mostly before 1930), various techniques, i.a. by Scholl (Chicago), Aug. Bleyse (Hoboken, Antwerp), Gustave Buyle (Antwerp), Ch. Parmentier (Verviers), Petros Moraïtes (group portrait of female students of the Arsakeion of Athens) and an anonymous group portrait of actors ("Woodland Players 1889, 'As you like it") taken at Ryde, Isle of Wight.
= Photographers include i.a. Kryn Taconis and John Schaepman.
- Upper pastedown loosening; (sl.) foxed. Backcover 1 cornerpiece broken; gilding sl. worn.
= Dedicated to "den Hoogwelgeboren Heer Jonkheer H. Strick van Linschoten van Rhijnauwen, hoogheemraad van den Lekdijk Bovendams bij gelegenheid van zijn Vijfentwintig jarig Lidmaatschap van het Collegie van den Lekdijk Bovendams".
WITH a (sl. rubbed/ scratched) mounted carte-de-visite portrait, w. "Johan Herman Strick van Linschoten. 1e Luitenant der Jagers. 's Hage. Juni 1907." in pen and ink on verso.
= I.a. Prince Frederick (i.e. Willem Frederik Karel van Oranje-Nassau), Prince Frederick with Pincess Louisa, Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna (2x), Princess Friedrich Carl von Preussen, Prince Galitzin, Crownprince Albert von Sachsen, Empress Maria Alexandrovna Romanov of Russia, Princess Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (2x), Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa Queen of Prussia, Prince Hendrik of the Netherlands, Napoleon III, Oscar Carré, Graf Karl Wasiljewitsch Nesselrode (Russian diplomat), Lord Robert Montagu (English conservative politician), General Antoine Henri Jomini, Henry Lord Brougham, Alexei Fiodorovitch Orlov (Russian general and diplomat), Pavel Dmitrievitsch Count Kisseliov, general Franz Eduard Ivanovitch Totleben and Count Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy (2x).
- Occas. sm. imperfections/ defects.
= Some photographers: W.H. Brummitt (Pontiac), O. Schaub (Des Moines), Delos L. Ayers (Preston), Grotecloss (New York), Black (Boston), Leisensing (Fort Dodge), N. Jenks (Boonville), J.G. Ellingwood (Manchester), Owen's Gallery (Scranton), C. Heinberger & Son (New Albany), A. Algerson (Elgin), S. Merrill (Lexington), G.E. James (Galena), J. Boycott (La Crosse), Burgess (Holland), Fenwick (Bloomington).
AND ±45 cartes-de-visite by i.a. German/ Luxemburg/ Belgian/ Swedish photographers. - ADDED: 10 cartes-de-visite showing i.a. ships near Scheveningen and the Pier.
- Occas. sm. imperfections/ defects.
AND ±65 others, all portraits of historical figures, by i.a. Neurdein, Charlet & Jacotin and E. Desmaisons (Paris; mostly w. owner's annots. on verso).
- The first 4 prints listed below are (sl.) faded. Album sl. worn.
= Portraits many of the main German and French generals active in the wars of the second half of the 19th century, i.a. Marshal Helmuth Von Moltke, Wilhelm I, Napoleon III, Von Bismarck, Jules Favre (French Statesman), prince Friedrich Carl of Prussia, General Von Steinmetz, Marshal François Certain de Canrobert, General Bourbaki, General Van Roon, General Charles Cousin-Montauban Comte de Palikao, General Julius von Bose, General Charles Frossard, General Jean Jacques Uhrich, General Kuno Vogel von Frankenstein, the Duke of Mecklenburg, Friedrich Franz II Grand-duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Ernst Duke of Saxe-Coburg.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LII.