May 22, 2007 - Sale 2115

Sale 2115 - Lot 229

Price Realized: $ 1,838
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(BUENOS AIRES)
Album entitled "Vistas De Buenos Ayres," with 46 photographs by Boote, comprising 40 large views of architecture, street scenes, live stock farms, and river scenes, and 6 smaller portraits of natives. Albumen prints, approximately 2 1/4x3 1/2 to 6 1/4x8 1/2 inches (5.5x9.2 to 16x21.3 cm.) and the reverse, some with photographer's credit and title in the negative, each with pencil notations on mount, one unmounted. Folio, gold stamped green boards, front hinge split, first section disbound.

Additional Details

with--A charming album of Sydney, New South Wales comprising 18 images of street scenes, architecture, and harbor life. Albumen prints, approximately 6x8 inches (15x20 cm.) and the reverse, mounted, with photographers credit blind stamp on recto, and written captions, on mount recto. Oblong 4to., leather boards, spine cover missing, front cover detached, foxing throughout. Circa 1880.