4356 - 4627 FINE ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHS
= Incl. quite a few small series w. one and the same number featuring one and the same model in various positions.
= Incl. quite a few small series w. one and the same number featuring one and the same model in various positions.
- Small rubbed spot on frontcover, otherwise fine.
= One of 10 Roman numbered épreuve d'artiste copies. A photographic documentary of the filmed performance by Fabre in which he is seen carefully dropping the words (created in neon blue coloured glass(?)) of the sentence 'Hé wat een plezierige zottigheid" into the Scheldt. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.
- Trifle spottes. Binding sl. worn along extremities.
= Petros Moraïtes (±1835-1905), photographer to the Greek royal family. Each photo w. contemp. manuscript caption in French below image giving the region of the dress shown.
- Upper joint splitting.
- Some sl. spotting; one card portion of lower corner broken off.
= Portraits of people mostly in regional dress, a few in costumes typical for certain occupations in life, e.g. "Braband du Nord. Bois le Duc", "La Hollande du Nord. Zandvoort", "Un prieur d'enterrement d'Amsterdam" (3x diff. portrait) and "Orphelin(e) bourgeois(e) d'Amsterdam". Otherwise costumes of Ameland, Beijerland, Leeuwarden (2x), Krommenie, Marken, Middelburg, Nijkerk, Scheveningen (3x), Urk (2x) and Volendam.
- Some sl. marginal wear; sl. nibbled by rodents in lower margin; lower left corner sl. dam.
- Some sl. marginal wear (sm. tear in right margin); verso soiled/ stained.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.
- Some sl. marginal wear; upper right corner nibbled; verso sl. soiled.
- Some stains in outer right margin; 4 sm. tears in left margin; some sl. marginal wear; verso soiled along margins.
- Sl. stained along upper and left margin; some sl. marginal wear; soiled (mainly verso).
= Jean-Claude Lemagny (b.1931), former curator of modern photography at the Bibliothèque Nationale.
- Stained/ mouldy and sl. dam in upper (blank) margin; soiled; mount damaged (partly nibbled by rodents) in margins.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.
- Some sl. marginal wear; verso w. remnants of former tipping in on corners and sm. rubbed spot in centre.
- Small stain in upper margin; sl. soiled (especially verso).
- Sm. stain in lower margn; some sl. marginal wear. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.
- Some sl. marginal wear and soiling/ stains (mainly verso).
- Mouldy/ stained along left margin w. small damage; some sl. marginal wear (sm. tear in upper and lower margin), also sl. affecting the title; verso soiled/ stained.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION ON FRONTCOVER.
- Trifle yellowed/ foxed. Binding trifle rubbed/ soiled/ stained.
= Nice (street)views, incl. views of the park Buttes-Chaumont (built late 1860s). Paris before the Eiffel Tower (finished in 1889).
- Blank margins foxed, a few images sl. affected. Binding rubbed.
= Two panoramic views of pre-Eiffel tower Paris and views of important buildings and monuments (incl. the chateau of Versailles).