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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BICYCLING GRAND TOUR) Album containing 175 photographs shot and sequenced by an enterprising Scottish cyclist-cum-photographer, who traveled solo from Edinburgh to England, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium in the summer and fall of 1907. Silver prints, each is 3 1/4x5 1/2 inches (8.3x14 cm.), and the reverse, generally mounted on recto, most with a caption, in white ink; with a thank you note from a Swiss mountaineer with whom he climbed Mt. Breithorn; with 9 albumen prints of cathedrals. Oblong 4to, covers perished, a few pages detached; edges chipped; photographs clean. 1907
The accomplished photographs by this unidentified amateur photographer suggest an intelligent traveler who eagerly sought out interesting people and sensitively captured local scenes. Many of the photographs depict picturesque areas throughout France, including wonderful views of Paris; others depict our unidentified traveler with his rucksack, camera and bike, and a couple show him enjoying lunch at a beautiful repast at a local café, which begs the question, How did he manage to drink and drive?
