Feb 15, 2018 - Sale 2466

Sale 2466 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 1,105
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(EUROPEAN ROAD TRIP)
A meticulously compiled album containing approximately 413 artfully made photographs by a single photographer documenting a lengthy trip throughout Europe, bravely undertaken in an early automobile.
With photographs highlighting every aspect of the trip, from roads traveled, local people encountered, and beautiful classical architecture, to the natural awe-inspiring spectacles and wooded picnic location choices. Silver prints, many panoramic in format, measuring 2 3/4x3 3/4 to 2 3/4x7 1/2 inches (7x9.5 to 7x19.1 cm.), mounted recto/verso to grey pages, each with detailed captions, in ink, identifying the location, and in some cases, the distance traveled. Oblong 4to, cloth-covered boards, with a gilt-stamped title on the spine. 1911

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