Sep 28, 2023 - Sale 2646

Sale 2646 - Lot 302

Price Realized: $ 1,430
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BERMUDA.) Album of Bermuda views and botanical samples from an 1887 visit. 18 photographs (each about 7 x 9 inches) mounted directly on album leaves; 3 leaves of engraved views advertising the Princess Hotel; and 27 leaves of mounted botanical samples, most captioned with their name or location where collected. 4to, original gilt cloth pictorial album by Marcus Ward & Co., minor wear; light wrinkling to photo leaves, minor foxing. Bermuda, April 1887 per inscription
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3 of the photographs are identified in the negative as the work of Bermuda photographer Nicholas E. Lusher. Each is captioned in the negative or in manuscript. Titles include "Islands from Gibbs Hill"; "Hamilton, from Paget"; "On the North Shore"; "Hamilton Harbor by Moonlight"; "Princess Hotel"; "Gibbs Hill Lighthouse"; "Cedar Avenue"; "Cut in the Road near the Governor's"; "Royal Palms"; "Devonshire Church"; "A Mangrove Swamp"; "A Native Team"; and more.